Join us on Saturday, January 31 for a reading celebrating the release of The King’s Evil, a novel by Will Heinrich, published by Thousand Horsemen Press (UK).
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-kings-evil/will-heinrich/berk-etin/9781068209703
Date: Saturday, January 31, 2026
Time: 6-10 pm
Location: 257 Nassau Avenue, Sunview Acropolis, Greenpoint
Free. Drinks, books, dinner will be provided by donation.
About the Book
A contemporary fairy tale about the inextricable relationship of good and evil, The King’s Evil begins with the narrator’s formative visit to a Mondrian retrospective and goes on to narrate his meeting, later in life, with a precocious, increasingly dangerous orphan who appears out of an endless pine forest.
“Will Heinrich has written a dark fable about the boundaries of humanity. Set in a world not quite our own. The King’s Evil is an uncompromising story of two characters locked in a life-and-death struggle over the everyday minutiae of existence. Heinrich deftly examines the roots of power, evil, and love―the things that make us human, the things that separate us from inhumanity.”
―Adrian McKinty
“A thriller, a fairy tale, a love story, a treatise on art and disease―this small book, somehow, becomes all of these. This is a book you will pick up and read through the night like you did as a child.”
―Andrew Sean Greer
About the Author
Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. He reviews gallery shows, museum exhibitions, and art fairs for the New York Times, as well as writing artist obituaries, and has also written for the New Yorker, the New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Jewish Currents and the Nation. His novel The King’s Evil, published by Scribner in 2003, won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004, and his most recent novel, The Pearls, was published in 2019 by Elective Affinity. He has a BA in Japanese from Columbia and an MFA from Bard College.
