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Since When: A Memoir in Pieces Book launch and reading
January 11, 2019 @ 5:45 pm - 8:00 pm
FreePlease join Spare Room, the Cooley Gallery, and the family of Bill Berkson as we celebrate the publication of Since When: A Memoir in Pieces, out now from Coffee House Press.
There will be a reception at 5:45 pm, with readings to begin at 6:30.
Copies of the memoir will be available for purchase.
Readers will include:
Connie Lewallen Nina Lewallen Hufford
Léonie Guyer David Abel
James Yeary Paul Maziar
Jen Coleman Lisa Radon
Sam Lohmann Chris Ashby
Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. Since When gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of bold-face names, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote’s Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother’s escort, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle, witty, and eternally generous, this is Bill, and a particular moment in American history, at its best.
[from the Spare Room website]
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