MCLS Book Festival Featured Speaker - Ken Jaworowski In-Person
Join our Book Festival guest speaker, Ken Jaworowski, to learn how years in the boxing ring helped shape his writing life. A New Jersey–based novelist and longtime New York Times editor, Jaworowski draws on lessons learned while absorbing—and avoiding—punches to show how facing your fears can sharpen both craft and character. He brings the same discipline and clarity to his fiction, including What About the Bodies. The result is a candid, funny, and deeply human look at creativity under pressure. Sponsored by the Friends of the Lawrence Library. No registration required. As space permits.
* What About the Bodies has been released in paperback as of Tuesday, Sept. 1. Here's a free link to the NYT review. Ken Jaworowski ‘s third novel, 'The Beautiful Burn,' will be released on March 9, 2027. This thriller will be the final one set in that rough-and-tumble town of Locksburg, Pa. Click here for a sneak peek at the cover. You can even preorder at the link.