Renowned Blue Highways author William Least Heat-Moon celebrates the release of his debut novel CELESTIAL MECHANICS: A Tale for a Mid-Winter Night (Three Rooms Press, April 2017) with a presentation and discussion of the book at Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, on Thursday, May 4 at 6:30 pm.

Co-sponsored by renowned Kansas City independent bookstore Rainy Day Books, “An Evening with William Least Heat-Moon” will feature the award-winning author discussing concepts that drive his first work of fiction, which the American Library Association journal Booklist hailed as “An entrancing journey toward deeper insight into the cosmos, an exploration readers will share and savor with every masterfully crafted sentence.” CELESTIAL MECHANICS has received high praise in the months leading up to publication. Foreword Reviews praised it as “imaginative work about a man’s quest for true connection.” Library Journal notes it is “definitely for fans of philosophical novels and Least Heat-Moon’s nonfiction.”

William Least Heat-Moon, pen name of William Trogdon, is of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. In addition to CELESTIAL MECHANICS, he is the best-selling author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth, River-Horse, Roads to Quoz, Here, There, Elsewhere, and Writing Blue Highways.

Copies of CELESTIAL MECHANICS will be available for purchase and signing at the event. For additional information, please contact Three Rooms Press at info@threeroomspress.com