Robin Sloan

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Robin Sloan visits Skylight to read and sign his debut novel! The fictitious Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore -- from Sloan's delightful book of the same name -- is pretty different from Skylight Books. For one thing, most of the books are written in code; for another, no one ever buys anything (a thought that makes us shudder). But it's also the San Francisco home of a super secret organization that goes back centuries. The novel has adventure, puzzles, computer wizardry, romance, and how can we forget to mention that much of it is set in a bookstore? Robin Sloan grew up near Detroit and now splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet. He graduated from Michigan State with a degree in economics and, from 2002 to 2012, worked at Poynter, Current TV, and Twitter. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is his first novel. You can learn more at www.robinsloan.com and follow along at @robinsloan. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 19, 2012. Copies of the book from this event can be purchased here: http://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780374214913