06/20/2026
Join us as we welcome Courtney Kocak to Three Avenues Bookshop!
We are thrilled to host an evening celebrating Courtney Kocak’s debut memoir, Girl Gone Wild! The event will feature a conversation with and ! An author meet & greet and book signing to follow.
When: Sunday, June 28th at 5:30 pm (doors open at 5:15 pm)
Where: Three Avenues Bookshop - 3009 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Copies of Girl Gone Wild will be available for purchase during the event, and participants will have the opportunity to get their books signed by the author.
📚About the Book: Girl Gone Wild
The Hollywood Misadventures of a Small-Town Girl
Tales of ambition, delusion, drugs, s*x, and misogyny... including selling T-shirts on the Girls Gone Wild bus
GIRL GONE WILD is a collection of exploits and delusions about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon and what happens when their pursuit becomes a new kind of trap. In this memoir-in-essays, Kocak takes readers along on her heady metamorphosis from girl to woman and from dreamer to professional artist, as she is transformed in this unwitting feminist coming-of-age. It’s a wild, cringeworthy, and often heartbreaking tale, but with Kocak’s wry wit and clear-eyed accounting, it’s nothing short of captivating.
📝About the Author
Courtney Kocak is a writer, podcaster, and comedian who splits time between Austin and Los Angeles. She wrote for the Emmy-winning animated series Danger & Eggs and Netflix’s Know It All. She’s produced a slew of highly-ranked podcasts and currently hosts three of her own with over two million downloads to date. Her bylines include The New York Times, The Cut, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, Slate, Business Insider, and more. Her debut memoir, Girl Gone Wild, with Trio House Press, is out now! For more, check out her website at courtneykocak.com.
