Reminder: Reading: Benediction at A Different Light @ Sat Nov 21 7:30pm – 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Reading: Benediction at A Different Light BOOK: Benediction AUTHOR: Jim Arnold DATE: Saturday, November 21 TIME: 7:30 p.m. LOCATION: A Different Light Bookstore, Castro near 18th. http://adleventscastro.blogspot.com/2009/07/saturday-november-21-reading-book.html Gay Filmmaker Battles Cancer, Sarcastic Ghosts and Double-Crossing Coworkers in Jim Arnold's new novel, Benediction. Ben Schmidt cannot sleep. At forty-four, he fears aging, despite the vitality of his frequent love affairs with numerous attractive men. And when Ben is diagnosed with prostate cancer, he embarks upon a soul-searching journey for love and survival. Benediction is a dark-comedy that anyone middle-aged, gay or straight, will appreciate. Rather than another novel about a gay man with AIDS, Ben's prostate cancer embraces a larger male audience, showing a human and universal side to a gay man. Ben's romantic escapades are the gay equivalent of heterosexual male characters with healthy sexual appetites out of the pages of Philip Roth or John Updike. The novel's humor and use of the supernatural add spice and a surreal vision to questions of life, love and death. Brutally honest yet beautifully insightful, Benediction is a debut novel to be read, remembered, and read again. Jim Arnold is the author/director of feature film screenplays and teleplays including the documentary short "Our Brothers, Our Sons," about generational differences around HIV/AIDS in gay men. Jim has written for "Frontiers," "Variety," "Prime Health & Fitness" and other periodicals and fiction anthologies. He began his career in musical theatre and holds a BA in journalism and film from Marquette University. He has studied film production/writing in the MFA program at the University of Southern California, the Writers Program at UCLA, and at Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. Jim lives in Los Angeles. Benediction is his debut novel. When Sat Nov 21 7:30pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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