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5000 + attend our Tina Fey/Steve Martin event
A couple write ups from our event with Tina Fey in conversation with Steve Martin. Thanks to all who came out to the Nokia Theatre for an amazing event — over 5000 attended. There were attendees who came from quite a distance, including a gentleman from Denmark!
Here’s the Los Angeles Times write up. And here’s the UK’s Daily Mail review of the event.
Reviews of Tina Fey’s Bossypants. Fey is at Live Talks April 19
Here are links to various review of Tina Fey’s new book, Bossypants. Tina Fey is interviewed by Steve Martin on April 19 at our event at the Nokia Theatre. We have sold our allocation of tickets but there are still tickets available thru Ticketmaster.
From the New York Times:
“….dagger-sharp, extremely funny new book for which even the blurbs are clever. (“Totally worth it.” — Trees.)…Bossypants” isn’t a memoir. It’s a spiky blend of humor, introspection, critical thinking and Nora Ephron-isms for a new generation….
From the Los Angeles Times:
People will buy [“Bossypants”] in hopes that it is funny, and that it is, my friends, that it is. Amazingly, absurdly, deliriously funny. Everything you would hope for from this book — it’s impossible to put down, you will laugh until you cry, you will wish it were longer, you can’t wait to hand it to every friend you have — is true.
From NPR reviewed by Janeane Garofalo:
Bossypants is not so much a memoir as it is a sort of here’s-what-happened-and-why-I think-this kind of book. It’s honest and intimate, without any maudlin tales of childhood sorrow, no extraneous snark or hit-and-run tell-all gossip. It’s just a great read from a mature thinker.
From USA Today:
It’s not every day you read something that makes you laugh out loud every other page. Then again, Tina Fey doesn’t write a book every day. Maybe she should.
See Tina Fey live at the Nokia Theatre in conversation with Steve Martin April 19th, 8pm. Get your tickets here.
Steve Martin to interview Tina Fey at Live Talks Los Angeles, April 19
Tina Fey, Steve Martin
Tickets are on sale to see Tina Fey interviewed by Steve Martin, April 19 and Nokia Theatre. The Los Angeles Times‘ Jacket Copy says “…It’s a literary event not to be missed.” Thanks to Steve Martin who will be interviewing Tina Fey. Be sure to check out his new banjo CD that launches this week, March 15, Rare Bird Alert. From the book blurb for the Tina Fey book, Bossypants:
Tina Fey, one of the most influential and beloved women in entertainment, brings sharp wit and uncanny observational skill to everything she does, from television to major motion pictures. She’s managed to be known as both the thinking man’s sex symbol, and every woman’s alter-ego/imaginary best friend. Now, for the first time, Fey takes her writing talent off-screen and into the pages of a book…..From her lifetime pursuit of the perfect Beauty Routine to the oversold joys of breastfeeding, from her whirlwind tour of duty as the Other Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” to her early days in the comedy trenches – Tina Fey puts her unique and endlessly funny mark on modern life, work, marriage, and motherhood.
We hope to see you on April 19. Enjoy, share…
T.C. Boyle interview in the Wall Street Journal…
Fun interview with T.C. Boyle in the Speakeasy column in the Wall Street Journal. T.C. Boyle joins at Live Talks Los Angeles at Track 16 in Santa Monica this Thursday, March 3. Hope to see you there…Here’s an excerpt:
What made you want to write a historical novel with such a similar setting?
I’m trying a realistic novel because I haven’t done it before. I just don’t want to bore myself and, by extension, my readers, by repeating myself. Readers get very passionate about one book or story or mode, and they’re always on my Web page saying why don’t you write more stories like “Descent of Man”? And I’m saying, if I did nobody would be reading them, because we would have both shot ourselves from boredom. The artists whom I most admire are constantly stretching themselves and doing different things. Like the late John Updike. He wrote in many modes.
T.C. Boyle review in LAT and video short for his new book…
The Los Angeles Times has a review of T.C. Boyle’s new book by Richard Rayner. An excerpt…
Mudslides, earthquakes, floods, fires — nothing quite gets T.C. Boyle’s juices going like a natural disaster putting his characters through the wringer. His new novel, “When the Killing’s Done,” opens with an action set piece that is unusually fraught and tense even by the author’s nearly apocalyptic standard…..This novel, his 12th, like a previous one, “The Tortilla Curtain,” is based on real events and conflicts. That’s to say, rats did populate Anacapa as described here, and the National Parks Service did provoke a brouhaha after dropping rat poison on the island in 2001. Boyle is, in this respect, a traditional, even old-fashioned writer, determined, as Dickens was, to entertain and bring the news. His jazzy, slangy, iridescent style could scarcely be more of the moment….whether flexing his muscles in the delirious sprints that are his short stories, or in the intricately plotted and sometimes slightly schematic marathons of novels like this one; he writes lyrically, beautifully — about the ocean, the land, about California history and its pitfalls and perils…… Boyle makes us laugh and wonder at his dazzling gifts but his comedy is a dark business.
And here’s the video short. T. C. Boyle reads at Live Talks Los Angeles on March 3 at Track 16. Get your tickets here.
T.C Boyle (March 3 at Live Talks)…NYRB review of When the Killing’s Done
Here’s a review of When the Killing’s Done in the New York Review of Books. An excerpt…
T. Coraghessan Boyle’s new When the Killing’s Done falls in nicely with the mood of Margaret Atwood’s vatic sci-fi tales or Jonathan Franzen’s recent, naturalistic Freedom with its impassioned defense of birds. Though he’s been writing for a long time about America’s problems, Boyle usually does so more covertly, in a comic voice with comedy’s concealed agenda. Here, though, there’s the note of the preacher in despair that has surfaced sometimes in past novels, notably The Tortilla Curtain (1995), his admired book about illegal Hispanic immigrants in L.A.’s Topanga Canyon.
T.C. Boyle will read from When the Killing’s Done at Track 16 on March 3. Join us.