THE CABIN

TJ Klune is coming back to Boise!

We’re thrilled to welcome bestselling, award-winning author TJ Klune to The Egyptian Theatre as part of The Cabin Presents series.

Join us Thursday, March 4 for an evening with Klune as he discusses his life, writing career, and new novels, Murmuration and The Stars Look Like Home.

Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek series, The Extraordinaries series, and more.

As a q***r author, Klune champions the importance of positive, authentic LGBTQ+ representation in literature.

📍 The Egyptian Theatre | Boise, Idaho
📅 Thursday, March 4, 2027

📚✨ Literary Trivia is back! ✨📚

Join The Cabin for our semi-annual Literary Trivia Night at White Dog Brewing in Boise! Gather your fellow book lovers, spooky-season enthusiasts, trivia nerds, and show up in your best costume.

And who knows? There may even be a couple of surprises lurking around the corner...

When in doubt, always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by the garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender for luck. And play trivia whenever you can! That’s how the saying goes, right?

Come test your literary knowledge, embrace the weird, and maybe summon a little good luck while you’re at it.

Can't wait to see you there! Sign up here: https://www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/literary-trivia-oct-29

“Reading won’t change the world but readers will.” - R.F. Kuang

Last Thursday readers across Idaho came together to see, learn, and hear from R.F. Kuang on her newly released coming of age novel, Taipei Story.

She spoke about her writing process and how up to now her characters had reflected where she was in her life. With Taipei Story, she revisited what it felt like to be freshly off your first year of college. It can be disorienting and frustrating but absurdly you think you are the very first person who has lived a life and what a better way to approach this story than by choosing to write a coming of age novel.

Kuang views genre not as a limitation, but as a tool for building the stories she wants to read and write. Genre can give readers a way into complex ideas, helping us connect with and better understand deeper issues through the stories we encounter.

It was a wonderful night to remind ourselves not to spend too much time worrying about making a mistake, but instead to make the connections, take the chances, and seekout the stories we might otherwise miss.

✨ A new chapter is here!

After years of dreaming, planning, and building, the fences are finally down and The Cabin is ready to open the doors to its newly renovated home — and we want YOU to come celebrate with us!

Join us Thursday, October 15, from 5–7 PM for an evening of stories, community, and celebration.

Come explore the renovated Cabin and Henry’s Storytelling Grove, enjoy food trucks and refreshments, hunt for treasures, snap a photo, grab a free book (or some really cool Cabin swag!), and help us celebrate with a ribbon cutting.

📍 The Cabin | 801 S. Capitol Blvd.
🗓️ Thursday, October 15 | 5–7 PM
🎟️ Free & open to everyone

Join The Cabin and the Boise Philharmonic for an unforgettable evening with NPR host and classically trained pianist Lara Downes and New Yorker writer and author Adam Gopnik!

Part concert, part conversation, America in Pursuit explores the musical kaleidoscope of America—from Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" to Irving Berlin’s "Blue Skies" and "Over the Rainbow". Together, Downes and Gopnik trace the songs, stories, hopes, and struggles that have shaped our shared American soundtrack.

📅 Wednesday, January 13
🕖 7:00 PM | Doors at 6:00 PM
📍 Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise

Presented by The Cabin in partnership with the Boise Philharmonic as part of our The Cabin Presents Series.

Purchase tickets here: www.thecabinidaho.org/all-events/downes-gopnik-sounds-like-america

We are excited to announce that writers Matthew Denton-Edmundson and Natanya Biskar have been selected as the 2026-27 Boise City Writers-in-Residence.

Learn a bit about our writers:

Matthew Denton-Edmundson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Boise State University. He grew up in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where much of his writing takes place. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and got a degree from Florida State University, before he moved to Boise. His debut novel, Reclamation is forthcoming from Doubleday and will also be released in the United Kingdom and France. Denton-Edmundson’s writing has been published in The New York Times, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, The American Scholar, The Hedgehog Review, Raritan, and Hobart. He was the winner of the 2024 Jeffery E. Smith Editors’ prize and his essay, How to Love Animals, was anthologized in the 2025 Best American Essays.

Natanya Biskar is a fiction writer based in Boise, Idaho. She earned her MFA in fiction from Boise State University, where she served as Associate Editor for The Idaho Review. Her work has appeared in Subtropics, The Indiana Review, and SELF. Born and raised in San Francisco, Natanya taught elementary school for more than ten years across the Pacific Northwest. She is currently at work on her first novel.

Meet them on September 29 as they share the stage with our 2025-26 writers, Kim Cross, Don Zancanella, and Idaho Writer in Residence, Mitch Wieland at The Cabin.

Programming will begin this October with Matthew.

Join Don Zancanella for his last workshop of his residency.

Writers have long shared thoughts about writing that can inspire, challenge, irritate, or completely reframe how we approach our work.

Guided by Don, participants will read and discuss a selection of remarks from a range of writers and consider how these perspectives resonate (or don’t) with their own creative practices.

Together, the group will explore how reflecting on others’ ideas about writing can spark new questions, affirm instincts, or encourage writers to experiment with new approaches. This workshop is designed to be thoughtful, conversational, and generative for writers at any stage.

No registration is required, but space is limited. This workshop is geared toward writers of all levels and genres. Please bring writing materials, such as a notebook and pen.

September 19 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
At The Cabin

📣 Heads Up!

We’ll be taking a little time off in observance of Labor Day for some much-needed rest and renewal. We’ll be back September 15th, refreshed and renewed!

Thank you for your continued support, and we hope you take some time to rest and recharge, too.

Happy Labor Day!

📚 Tickets are going fast! Don’t miss R. F. Kuang at the Egyptian Theatre in Boise.

Join one of contemporary literature’s most electrifying voices for an evening of conversation surrounding her upcoming book, Taipei Story, on Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM.

The event will be moderated by local writer Natalie Disney, and each ticket includes a copy of Taipei Story.

Egyptian Theatre | 700 W. Main Street, Boise, ID
Thursday, September 24
7:00 PM | Doors at 6:00 PM

If you love Rebecca F. Kuang, contemporary fiction, fantasy, dark academia, author events, or literary events in Boise, this is one to have on your calendar.

Grab your tickets before they’re gone:
thecabinidaho.org/all-events/rebecca-f-kuang