--PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT!-- A writer who, like Kevin Sampsell earlier in the month, works in small press publishing (here, Small Beer Press), Jedediah Berry visits with the paperback of last year's well-received debut, the literary mystery The Manual of Detection (Penguin). "An unlikely sleuth anchors an unlikely investigation in Berry's fantastical melding of Kafka, Hitchcock, and The Man Who Was Thursday. For 20 years Charles Unwin has toiled as a clerk to Detective Travis T. Sivart. Now he's been plucked from his assignment shadowing a mysterious young woman in a plaid skirt and catapulted to the rank of detective himself ... Berry's debut is a coldly inventive deconstruction of Cartesian metaphysics, the criminal-justice system, and the well-oiled detective story." – Kirkus Reviews. "Berry's ... smooth and sympathetic narration make the bizarre twists perfectly logical and sensible. He also provides homage to the hard-boiled staples ... The strength of the story and the talent of the writer mesh beautifully." – Publishers Weekly.