LOVE IS IN THE ATMOSPHERE: Jersey City and Chicago Events Inspired by Taylor Jenkins Reid's Novel
This February, ATMOSPHERE (Ballantine Books), Taylor Jenkins Reid’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, will be celebrated with two unforgettable, immersive experiences in Chicago and Jersey City.
From planetarium experiences and cosmic light shows, these events invite readers to celebrate love, science, and storytelling this Valentine’s season.
CHICAGO: LOVE IS IN THE ATMOSPHERE
Adler Planetarium | Saturday, February 7, 2026 | 7–10 p.m. CT
Join us at the Adler Planetarium for a special Valentine’s-themed after-hours experience celebrating ATMOSPHERE in one of Chicago’s most iconic spaces.
Each ticket includes a hardcover copy of ATMOSPHERE and two drink tickets (with additional drinks and snacks available for purchase), plus exclusive access to a full evening of celestial programming.
Learn more here! (Please note: this event is currently sold out, but stay tuned to OurHouse in case more tickets become available.)
JERSEY CITY: LSC AFTER DARK: LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Liberty Science Center | Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 6 p.m. ET
Celebrate Valentine’s Day early at Liberty Science Center’s adults-only LSC After Dark. The experience will feature music, science, and dancing. A few highlights include a Sabrina Carpenter Laser Show, Lovers of the Cosmos Planetarium Show, and an ATMOSPHERE cosmic pop-up.
Whether you’re single, taken, or somewhere in between, you don’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind event.
Learn more here!
ABOUT ATMOSPHERE
From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.