Reminder: Release Party for "Boneyard" & "Why Aren't You Smiling?" ... @ Sun Nov 6 3pm - 5:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Release Party for "Boneyard" & "Why Aren't You Smiling?" at Diesel Books, Oakland Diesel Bookstore 5433 College Avenue Oakland, CA Alvin Orloff's latest novel, Why Aren't You Smiling? follows the ill fated spiritual quest of Leonard, a 14-year-old misfit. As he falls under the sway of Buddhism, Johnathan Livingston Seagull, the high school burnouts, and a barefoot Jesus-freak, we see the 1970s portrayed in all their ludicrous but heartrending glory. "Everyone knows that all you need is love. Alvin Orloff's swell new novel asks what to do when you want something more" – Daniel Handler. Stephen Beachy's newest book is Boneyard. In this unusual "collaborative novel," Jake Yoder, a precocious boy caught between Amish culture and the modern world, sits in his middle-school classroom writing stories at the behest of a stern but charismatic teacher. "This house of mirrors is also a house of cards, which the author brings gleefully crashing down upon himself with baroquely entwined storylines reminiscent of the best work of Bo Huston or James Purdy" – Matthew Stadler. When Sun Nov 6 3pm – 5:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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