FRAGILE is pleased to announce a reading by Calla Henkel of her new book SCRAP.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 20th to celebrate the release of SCRAP, the new heartbreak thriller by Calla Henkel. Join us for a drink and a post-reading conversation, with writer Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

There was something about the unspooling of a sociopath over computer speakers that enabled me to fall into my deepest state of concentration while binding books. Someone is always guilty – this is the intrinsic propulsion of true crime, and after countless hours I was an expert on cell phone towers, cadaver dogs, rogue psychics, genealogists, fibers and credit card trails. I could recognize a psychopath from speech patterns and I was deeply familiar with the sparked flint of a serial killer’s eye. Now that I look back, it was almost as if I’d been preparing for Naomi’s murder, lifting the metaphorical weights, readying myself to unwind my red ball of yarn and trace her life on my wall.

Calla Henkel is a writer, playwright, director and artist. Together with Max Pitegoff, she currently operates a theatre in Los Angeles, US, called New Theater Hollywood. Henkel’s previous novel Other People’s Clothes was released in 2022. 

Hengameh Yaghoobifarah is a Berlin-based writer, editor and DJ. Since 2014, they work as an editor for Missy Magazine and co-founded the literary magazine Delfi in 2023. Their publications include the novel Ministerium der Träume (2021, Blumenbar) and the essay collection Habibitus (2023, Blumenbar). Together with Fatma Aydemir, they co-edited the essay collection Your Homeland Is Our Nightmare (2019, Ullstein Verlag).