Phillip Lopate

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.

Join us on Tuesday, November 4th at 7pm for a converation and reading with Will Boast and Zyzzyva editor Oscar Villalon in celebration of Boast's new memoir, Epilogue.

Facebook RSVP encouraged, but not required.

Praise for Will Boast and Epilogue:

"Don’t let the title of Will Boast’s magnificent memoir fool you. Epilogue is about beginnings as much as endings, discovering as much as losing family. It’s honest, heartbreaking, gorgeously written, and hands down the most moving book I’ve read this year." -- Anthony Marra, author of A constellation of vital phenomena

"Family tragedy leads to almost unbearable darkness but also renewal and hope for a young man in this excellent memoir… Boast writes with unsparing clarity, in precisely observed domestic scenes that reveal mountains of unspoken feeling… A finely wrought, wrenching yet lyrical study of a family that lives on past its seeming end." -- Publishers Weekly starred review

"This remarkable memoir is written with extraordinary care, intelligence and honesty. Though the material is powerful to begin with, what makes it work so well is its authorial voice: a rare combination of rawness and restraint, probing and delicacy, self-laceration and tenderness toward others. In short, it's fully alive." -- Philip Lopate, author of Portrait Inside My Head

Location: Street: 1231 9th Ave. City: San Francisco, Province: California Postal Code: 94122 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Poets and admirers of Harvey Shapiro (1924-2013) gather to read from his work and share memories of the man who prompted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to pen the monumental “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and counted E.E. Cummings, George Oppen, and Louis Zukofsky among his friends. Concurrent with his 43-year career at The New York Times, his poetry spans the political and historic, local and international, always seeking the human significance of an issue. Shapiro’s many publications include 2009's The Sights Along the Harbor, which draws from five decades of poetry - with Greg Delanty, Kimiko Hahn, Michael Heller, Robert Hershon, Kathryn Levy, Phillip Lopate, D. Nurkse, Maggie Paley, Harold Schechter, Grace Schulman, Sue Shapiro, Susan Wheeler, Bill Zavatsky & Others (rmharris)… (more)

Director of Columbia’s nonfiction-writing program and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate is our modern Montaigne. Portrait, his new collection, features his impeccable narrative style applied to topics from sibling rivalry to Virginia Woolf’s views of theater, ball games to high tea. For those inspired to follow in this master’s footsteps, Lopate offers the nuts-and-bolts of crafting essays in To Show and to Tell.

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)