The Town Hall Presents | Bleak Creek: Conversations with Rhett & Link

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T H E T O W N H A L L P RESE N TS

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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek is published by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, October 29, 2019

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“I cannot think of a more exciting novel to read—and share with my sons—than The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek! Thank you, Rhett and Link, for this gem about friendship, courage, and adventure, which is touched by your humor, wit, and intelligence with each twist and turn!”

—Mayim Bialik, New York Times bestselling author of Boying Up

In This Special, Limited, Event Series, #1 New York Times Bestsellers Rhett & Link Discuss Their New Novel, The Lost Causes Of Bleak Creek, Live On Stage!

It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a history of putting unruly youths back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious deaths that have occurred there over the past decade.

At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told: that the students’ strange demises were all just tragic accidents, the unfortunate consequence of succumbing to vices like Marlboro Lights and Nirvana. But 3 | @TownHallNYC

when the shoot for their low-budget horror masterpiece, PolterDog, goes horribly awry—and their best friend, Alicia Boykins, is sent to Whitewood as punishment—Rex and Leif are forced to question everything they know about their unassuming hometown and its cherished school for delinquents.

Eager to rescue their friend, Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school graduate Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest imaginations—one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core.

“I tore through all 324 pages of this book in one sitting—and I still didn’t want it to end! I would have been willing to read as many as 325 pages, or possibly even 326. Though if I’m being totally honest, they probably could have stopped at 323. Either way, I loved this creative book.”

“Stranger Things meets the South.

Chilling, hilarious, and suspenseful— I loved it!”

— Felicia Day

—Jimmy Fallon, host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon About

Rhett & Link Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, raised in North Carolina and best friends since the first grade, are a comedy duo known for creating the Internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning; their award-winning weekly podcast Ear Biscuits; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality. They share an office at Mythical Entertainment, the company they cofounded, but live separately with their respective wives, children, and dogs in Los Angeles.

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