Eli Gottlieb, author of several critically acclaimed novels, including the 2008 Indie Next pick Now You See Him, reads from and discusses his new novel Best Boy, a September, 2015, Indie Next pick. Written astonishingly in the first-person voice of an autistic adult man, Best Boy is a piercing, achingly funny, shattering novel no reader will forget.
Jena Lee Nardella, accompanied by Dan Haseltine, the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning band Jars of Clay, discusses her memoir One Thousand Wells: How an Audacious Goal Taught Me to Love the World Instead of Save It, in which she shares how her passion for saving the world grew into a humbler long-term calling of loving the world in all its brokenness.
Alex, the storyteller in Forget Me Not unfurls the multicolored banner that is his family history. In vivid and rich narration, from his grandfather’s bull fighting ranch in Mexico and his father’s chiropractic education in Iowa, to his own search for self and the women he cannot forget, Alejandro is both guide and lost soul.
Through three generations and across four continents, this tale of yearning, searching, loss and forgiveness grabs the reader on every level and yanks you through turmoil, depravity, tenderness and awakening.
Acclaimed for his satire, humor, and surprisingly deep characters, Christopher Moore is the author of fifteen novels, including the international bestsellers Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. Moore discuss his new novel Secondhand Souls, the eagerly anticipated sequel to A Dirty Job.
Scott Ian discuss his new book I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax, his fast-paced, humorous, and revealing memoir of the band that proved to the masses that brutality and fun didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. I’m the Man is a blistering hard rock memoir, one that is astonishing in its candor and deftly told by the man who’s kept the institution of Anthrax alive for more than thirty years.