Join us Friday, June 15th, at 7:00 P.M. at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E Main St.) for a reading by novelist Randall Klein and a performance by musical duo Bird and Mantis (Lilly Bird and Matt Wyatt). There will be parking validation for the Water Street Parking Garage. This event will be free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Randall Klein is an editor and author living in Charlottesville, Virginia, since 2017. Prior to Charlottesville, Randall lived in New York for thirteen years, where he worked in publishing, editing authors across all genres. Little Disasters is his first novel.

Bird and Mantis is a musical collaboration between songwriter/singer Lilly Bird and producer/multi-instrumentalist Matt Wyatt. Outside of Bird and Mantis, Lilly is a yoga instructor and writer currently pursuing her MFA in Poetry from the Warren-Wilson in Asheville. Matt Wyatt is the owner/operator of Free Union Studio as well as a collaborative songwriter with the musical project Frontier Diplomacy. He also performs locally with the band Beleza. Their full-length, debut album, Bird and Mantis, will be out later this year.