At Czech Center New York:

Czech author Štěpánka Jislová presents her English edition of her acclaimed graphic novel in conversation with Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos.

How does falling in love really work—and who (or what) is behind it?Is love written in our DNA, shaped by the relationships we witnessed growing up, or is it an unpredictable force entirely outside our control? Join us for a provocative conversation exploring gender, identity, and intimacy through the lens of comics autobiography. This Bookend Event of the Brooklyn Book Festival features graphic novelists Štěpánka Jislová and Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos in a discussion moderated by scholar and critic Tahneer Oksman.

This evening also celebrates the English-language launch of Heartcore(Graphic Mundi, 2025), the acclaimed new graphic novel by Štěpánka Jislová, originally published in Czech as Srdcovka (Paseka, 2023).