‘Dr. Mütter’s Marvels’ author returns to Brooklyn for book talk
Brooklyn BookBeat
In celebration of the paperback release of The New York Times bestselling nonfiction book “Dr. Mütter’s Marvels,” author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz will return to the Morbid Anatomy Museum on Sept. 28 for a conversation about life, death and writing with writer/director/actress Amber Tamblyn, author of the recently released “Dark Sparkler.”
The event will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. (424 Third Ave.)
With “Dr. Mütter’s Marvels,” Aptowicz uncovers the true story of Thomas Dent Mutter, a surgeon who specialized in reconstructive surgery on the severely deformed in a time before anathema. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Aptowicz “rescued Mütter the man from undeserved obscurity, recreating his short life and hard times with wit, energy and gusto… a reminder that the courts of human suffering and the progress of medical science are often messy, complex and stranger than be imagined.”