In conversation, Emma Straub is as charming, easy going and accessible as her writing—and like her writing, she can be sly and wry and almost sneakily profound. Straub is not only the New York Times-bestselling author of four compulsively readable novels and a short story collection. She is also the owner of Books Are Magic, an independent book store in Cobble Hill. Her fifth book, “All Adults Here,” is newly out in paperback, one year after its release in the early months of the pandemic. We’ll discuss what the last year has been like for Straub, from running the store and raising kids to carving out a successful writing career. Plus she gives us a hint of what she’s working on next.

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