Michael Largo

From the dawn of civilization, man has looked for the meaning of existence. The big questions like where did we come from, how should we live, and where do we go when we die, have always captured our imagination and attention. Each generation has been eager to see the disparate ways that divine forces ... (more)might manifest and come to offer guidance, help, or even harm. The roads taken to find certain truths were varied, ranging from the ridiculous, or horrific and strange, to the sublime. God's Lunatics chronicles the lives of celebrated mystics, martyrs, wizards, shamans, cult leaders, founding fathers of Utopian experiments, victims of demonic possession, and originators of New Age movements who dedicated their lives to seek answers and explain the unknown secrets of the universe.

Largo, dubbed "the Capote of kaput" by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and "the curator of death" by Esquire, for his irreverent books on human mortality, takes on religious fanaticism in his new release, God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, ... (more)Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine. His latest work examines celebrated mystics, martyrs, wizards, shamans, cult leaders, founding fathers of Utopian experiments, victims of demonic possession and the originators of New Age movements. The novel presents a composite image of the ways communities have sought to know the unknowable. Largo is also the author of Genius and Heroin, The Portable Obituary and the Bram Stoker Award-winning Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die. The Miami-based former editor of New York Poetry, Largo was previously the researcher/archivist for the film company Allied Artists in Atlanta. If you cannot attend the reading, but would like a signed copy of God's Lunatics, you may reserve it at http://acappellabooks.com/ev_largo2.a....