[Cwgrad-announcements] Half Price Tickets To The Next Three Writers Bloc Events

[Tod Goldberg]

The good people at the Writers Bloc (writersblocpresents.com) are offering half price tickets to any UCR Creative Writing students who mentions my name when reserving tickets for any (or all) of three very cool events. Simply mention Tod Goldberg when reserving your seats at reservations at writersblocpresents.com and tickets will only be $10.

Here's the list of events:

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at Temple Emanuel, 300 North Clark Drive, Beverly Hills, at 7:30 p.m.

Paul Auster in conversation with Michael Tolkin
  
Paul Auster's new novel, "Man in the Dark," is an elegy to America before our war with Iraq. Auster's gripping new novel is an examination of ageing, death, and confronting one's dreams and nightmares. Author of such great works as "Brooklyn Follies," "Leviathan," and "New York Trilogy," Auster is one of the great voices in contemporary American literature. Michael Tolkin is the author of "The Player" and "The Return of the Player." These novels are profoundly more than Hollywood Novels—his books are contemporary morality tales, stories that are bitingly satirical, funny, and completely engrossing.


Friday, September 19, 2008 at the ICM Screening Room, 10250 Constellation Blvd., Century City, at 7:30 p.m.

Christopher Buckley in conversation with  Paul Slansky
   
Christopher Buckley is the author of such greatly satirical and comic novels as "Thank You For Smoking," "The White House Mess," and "God Is My Broker: A Monk Tycoon Reveals the 7 1/2 Steps of Spiritual and Financial Growth." Buckley's new target is the Supreme Court and its nominating process, in "Supreme Courtship"—and his Supreme Court nominees include a reality show participant, and a one who didn't jump on the "To Kill A Mockingbird" bandwagon. Paul Slansky writes the Presidental Quizzes in The New Yorker's "Shouts and Murmers" pages, and is the author of several books, including "The George W.Bush Quiz Book," and "Idiots, Hypocrites, Demagogues and More Idiots: Not-So-Great Moments in Modern American Politics
 
 
Thursday, October 2, 2008 at Temple Emanuel, 300 North Clark Drive, Beverly Hills, at 7:30 p.m.

Julian Barnes in conversation with Jonathan Gold

English novelist and great short story writer Julian Barnes' new book, "Nothing To Be Frightened Of," is a medition on ageing. It is funny, compelling, and a profound relief to those of us who think about—and worry about—growing older. Barnes is the author of the bestselling and cult favorite, "Flaubert's Parrot," as well as "Arthur and George," "Love,etc" and "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters." Julian Barnes' stories appear frequently in The New Yorker. Jonathan Gold is the first restaurant critic to win a Pulitzer Prize. Gold writes for Gourmet as well as for LA Weekly, and is the author of "Counter Intelligence: Where To Eat In The Real Los Angeles."

 



 
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