Mean Streets: Ryan Gattis & Patrick Hoffman

Ryan Gattis and Patrick Hoffman

Mean Streets: Ryan Gattis & Patrick Hoffman

Ryan Gattis and Patrick Hoffman

3:30pm

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Join us for an afternoon of gritty crime fiction as we welcome American authors Ryan Gattis and Patrick Hoffman for a discussion on their latest works, The System and Clean Hands. With expert storytelling and vivid descriptions, Gattis’s The System takes readers through every moment of a harrowing crime – told from perspectives of the guilty, the innocent and everyone in between. Hoffman’s intricate plotting and complex characters bring to life a world with dirty lawyers, black-market traders, Russian criminals and extra-judicial actors that make it impossible to put Clean Hands down. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the authors about the challenges of writing about crime and justice.

Moderator: Roland Gulliver

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 3 at 3:30pm ET
Where: Brigantine Patio at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Available with a MOTIVE Day or Weekend Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Please note, there was a change of venue for this event. It will now take place on the Brigantine Patio at Harbourfront Centre.

Conversation

Join us for an afternoon of gritty crime fiction as we welcome American authors Ryan Gattis and Patrick Hoffman for a discussion on their latest works, The System and Clean Hands. With expert storytelling and vivid descriptions, Gattis’s The System takes readers through every moment of a harrowing crime – told from perspectives of the guilty, the innocent and everyone in between. Hoffman’s intricate plotting and complex characters bring to life a world with dirty lawyers, black-market traders, Russian criminals and extra-judicial actors that make it impossible to put Clean Hands down. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the authors about the challenges of writing about crime and justice.

Moderator: Roland Gulliver

Event Info:
Date & Time: June 3 at 3:30pm ET
Where: Brigantine Patio at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Available with a MOTIVE Day or Weekend Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Please note, there was a change of venue for this event. It will now take place on the Brigantine Patio at Harbourfront Centre.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Ryan Gattis (ryangattis.com) is the author of Safe, Kung Fu High School, The System, and All Involved—which won the American Library Association’s Alex Award, the Lire Award for Noir of the Year (France), and has been named one of the all-time “13 Most Essential L.A. Crime Books” (L.A. Times, 2023). He lives and writes in South Los Angeles, where he is a member of art collective UGLARworks, and a PEN America Prison Writing Mentor.

Read more about Ryan Gattis

Patrick Hoffman is the author of Clean Hands, Every Man a Menace and The White Van. He's been a private investigator for nearly twenty years. He lives in Brooklyn.

Read more about Patrick Hoffman

3:30pm

Saturday, June 3

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