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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 (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.
Video from our Anne Rice event is now posted. Enjoy, Share…
Video from our event with Anne Rice in conversation with Christopher Rice is now posted in our video channel. It went live on Vimeo yesterday afternoon and has already been viewed in 23 countries. Enjoy, share…
How Anne Rice’s latest novel got set in the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA…more from our Q&A…
Anne Rice’s Of Love and Evil is the second in the ‘Songs of the Seraphim’ series and is set at the Mission Inn in Riverside. The inspiration came to her when she moved from New Orleans to Rancho Mirage in 2006 and stayed at the Inn. From an article in the Press-Enterprise:
“We came and I fell in love,” Rice said during an interview in the Keeper of the Inn suite at the historic hotel. “I thought right away, I’m going to put my hero here. That’s a great thing for a writer … when you see a place sparks your imagination.”
Mission Inn owners Duane and Kelly Roberts had no idea the makings of a book were going on under the Inn’s roof until it was a completed product.
While researching and writing the first two novels, Rice spent a great deal of time in the Inn’s Amistad Suite, which is where most of the book’s action takes place. The suite already bears a dedication to Canadian author Anne Cameron, and the owners decided to surprise Rice with a similar dedication on the other side of the suite’s entrance.
“They’ve been very gracious,” Rice said. “I’m so honored.”
We asked Anne Rice about the Mission Inn. Here’s the video. Enjoy, share….
More Anne Rice Q&A, New York Times review of her book…
Another video clip from our interview with Anne Rice. We asked her about her reading regimen — is it fiction or non fiction, news, etc….Also here’s an excerpt from the New York Times review of her new book, Of Love and Evil.
“Of Love and Evil” arrives in the wake of Rice’s well-publicized rejection of Roman Catholicism. Her struggle with a bruised faith seems to bristle on every page.”