Reminder: Free reading: T. Cooper at City Lights @ Tue Jul 13 7pm - 8:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Free reading: T. Cooper at City Lights http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=989 Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, Columbus and Broadway T. Cooper reading from The Beaufort Diaries illustrated by Alex Petrowsky published by Melville House with a special appearance by Daniel Alarcon and a musical performance by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore. A polar bear tries to go green-in Hollywood-with Leonardo DiCaprio-in an outrageous tale that includes equally outrageous full-color illustrations. It may sound like a familiar story-boy goes to Hollywood,boy befriends big star, boy gets almost as famous as big star, boy finds fame tricky-but T Cooper's first illustrated novel is subversively different. For one thing, the "boy" is a polar bear. For another thing, the "big star" is Leonardo DiCaprio. And together, they decide to make an action movie...about the environment. It's a story that's both wacky and edgy, as readers have come to expect from T Cooper (Lipshitz Six or Two Angry Blondes, Some of the Parts). But in this case, Cooper has pushed the envelope even further by enlisting illustrator Alex Petrowsky to help tell the story. Petrowsky's poster-like, full color images combine photos with cartooning and painting for an arresting effect that's both wildly humorous and hypnotically otherworldly. It is, in short, a compelling tale with an edgy charm and a persevering conscience. And it's all in a lush package, as if T Cooper's gifts for wisdom and humor and social commentary had been boiled down to their essence for a devoted following, then blown up like fireworks for a much wider audience to ooh and aah over. PRESS AND REVIEWS "It's a sad state indeed when polar bears have nowhere to go but Hollywood after being forced from their rapidly-diminishing natural habitat. With any luck, Beaufort's epic, instructional journey will help make him the last bear on Earth to have to work for food and survival in the bear-eat-bear film industry." —-Tea Leoni, actor About T Cooper's previous book, Lipshitz Six: Or Two ANgry Blondes "This Novel is more than just a smart, stylish page turner; you'll find some of the most audacious thinking in America today between covers." —-Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy "T Cooper is our new Don DeLillo." —Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh T. Cooper is the author of several novels including, Some of the Parts (Akashic Books, 2002) and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (Penguin 2006). Cooper is also co-editor of the anthology A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing (Akashic Books, 2006). Cooper's fiction has appeared in the New Yortk Times, The New Yorker, The Believer, Poets & Writers, OUT Magazine, and Punk Planet. T. Cooper is also a founding member of The Backdoor Boys performance Troup. When Tue Jul 13 7pm – 8:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry Bob Roberts - creator

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