Iowa City native and bestselling author of Descent, Tim Johnston will read from The Current,  which has been a New York Times, USA Today, and Indie national bestseller.   "I would have taken a break long before 2:00 a.m. last night were it not for Johnston's masterly ability to rummage inside the heads of his various characters, revealing the frayed fabric of small-town life in the process and showing us the stand-up grit of a handful of women and men . . . We need a little hyperbole if we're going to adequately describe how much we love a Tim Johnston novel." — Bill Ott, Booklist

Tim Johnston is the author of the New York Times bestseller Descent, which has now been optioned for film. He has also published the prize-winning story collection Irish Girl and a young adult novel, Never So Green. He lives in Chicago.