Page to Table: The Midnight Show | Fri June 19 | 6PM
Page to Table: The Midnight Show | Fri June 19 | 6PM
Discover new books and enjoy thoughtfully curated meals inspired by each book in our Page to Table Series in partnership with Twyl.
Reserve your spot at our cocktail party, you may also add on a purchase of the Midnight Show book.
| The Midnight show | |
| About | Twyl’s Pages to Table Series presents Lee Kelly as she discusses and signs her new book, The Midnight Show, an immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the 1980s male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears. |
| Menu | A cocktail party with bites inspired by New York's New American Cuisine of the 1980’s drawing influence from Restaurants like Le Cirque, The Rainbow Room and The Quilted Giraffe in addition to the emerging Asian influence on the city’s high end dining. Be on the look out for sun-dried tomatoes, bell pepper confetti, and fresh goat cheese! |
Lee Kelly is the author of the acclaimed speculative fiction novels City of Savages, A Criminal Magic, and With Regrets. With Jennifer Thorne, she is also the co-author of The Antiquity Affair, The Starlets, My Fair Frauds, and The Midnight Show. Lee’s short fiction and essays have appeared in a variety of publications, and she holds her MFA degree from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. An entertainment lawyer by trade, Lee has practiced law in Los Angeles and New York. She lives with her husband and two children outside Philadelphia, where you’ll find them engaged in one adventure or another.
ABOUT THE MIDNIGHT SHOW
In the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv comedians gets the chance to join a new late-night show, it’s Lillian Martin who stands out. The new show was called The Midnight Show and it would air every Friday night, live from New York, and change the landscape of TV and comedy forever.
But first it would change Lillian’s and her friends’ lives. The show is a runaway hit and the cast is thrown into the spotlight. Suddenly, they’re skipping the line at the city’s hottest clubs and posing on the cover of Rolling Stone. Lillian, in particular, seems destined for big things—until one winter night in Lower Manhattan, she vanishes, leaving nothing behind but questions. Was Lillian a victim of her own excesses? Was it a mugging gone wrong? Or could she have been killed by someone in her own inner circle?
Forty years later, Lillian’s disappearance has never been solved. But when a budding journalist looking to examine Lillian’s story from a modern lens begins asking questions, she stirs up decades-old drama—as well as tightly-held secrets some comedy legends would much rather stay buried.
A propulsive story of fame and friendship, The Midnight Show takes readers behind the scenes of the cutthroat world of comedy in 1980s New York and asks if the rush of getting a laugh is all it’s cracked up to be.