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Gaithersburg
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May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Julian Voloj

Latest Title: Not A New York Love Story
Not A New York Love Story
Not a New York Love Story by Julian Voloj

Is this a dream or reality? He can feel her presence. He knows she’s there… But she isn’t. She takes him on a trip around New York. In all the places he wouldn’t go before. Before the accident. From Coney Island to the Lower East Side, he’s turning the pages of his life with the one he loved. The one he lost. NOT A NEW YORK LOVE STORY is a tale of emotions, grief and a love letter to a city like no other in the world.

Dream or reality? Julian Voloj’s tale plays tricks on your mind and your emotions but never loses his way through a powerful but simple story about two people forever intwined.

Andreas Gefe’s art brings a mix of fine art and raw expressiveness with a muted color palette that puts New York at the center of the story.

NOT A NEW YORK LOVE STORY is not a romantic comedy. It’s a drama, a tale of two lost souls with “the Big Apple” as its witness.

The kind of story you’ll need to read twice to peel its many layers!

About Julian Voloj

Julian Voloj is an award-winning writer and photographer. Born to Colombian parents in Germany, where he studied literature and linguistics, Julian moved to New York in 2004. The city and its inhabitants are often subjects of his graphic novels, for instance in “Ghetto Brother” (with Claudia Ahlering, NBM, 2015), “Joe Shuster” (with Thomas Campi, Papercutz, 2018), “Basquiat” (with Soren Modal, SelfMadeHero, 2019), “Clayton: Godfather of Lower East Side Documentary” (various, Post Hill Press, 2022) and most recently “Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer” (with Wagner Willian, Abrams, 2023). He will be presenting his latest book, “(Not) A New York Love Story” (illustrated by Andreas Gefe, FairSquare Comics).

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Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Ogden Nash Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

4:15 pm

Presentation End Time:

5:05 pm

Signing Time:

5:15 pm

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