Join the 92nd Y On-Demand program: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jayne Anne Phillips discusses her highly anticipated 2026 memoir, Small Town Girls—an intimate coming-of-age story and love letter to her Appalachian roots.

In an evening presented with Lit Girl, Phillips will read from the book, deliver a short lecture inspired by the syllabus “Hell Is a Teenage Girl,” and explore the complexities of girlhood, memory, place, and the cultural forces that shape young women’s lives.