We sold 11 tickets, so The Last Bookstore canceled the event. Then Amy, Erica, and Jen Hitchcock, from Book Show LA stepped in to host us on May 10, 7:30 at their store on 5503 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles. No ticket. No purchase necessary. Full refunds offered by The Last Bookstore. Win
So check out Amy Dresener and Erica's Garza's sand if you are interested buy them. (use your refund money too)
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The Last Bookstore presents three authors, in recovery, and all with remarkable stories, on how they lived. Dresner,
My Fair Junkie - A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, and Garza,
Getting Off, are well known for their memoirs, while in Gager's
Every Day There is Something About Elephants, he uses his tools of recovery in the craft and subjects matter of his flash fiction writing.
My Fair Junkie A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean - In the tradition of
Blackout and
Permanent Midnight,
a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year
battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she
finally emerges on the other side.
Getting Off - A
courageous account of one woman’s unflinching and ultimately hopeful
journey through sex and porn addiction. A fixation on porn and orgasm,
strings of failed relationships and serial hook-ups with strangers,
inevitable blackouts to blunt the shame – these are not things we often
hear women share publicly, and not with the candor, eloquence and
introspection Erica Garza brings to
Getting Off.
Every Day There is Something About Elephants -
Gager's book consists of 108 flash fictions, ranging from 72 to 1,159
words. Every story has appeared previously in print or on the web. The
stories show the range within the form of flash fiction, from narrative
poem, shorter short story, to trips to bizarro-world where strange
events evoke solid meaning and metaphor. Timothy has had over 500 total
works features and these 108 are the best of the best.
Amy Dresner is a former professional stand-up comic, having appeared
at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Improv. Since 2012, she
has been a contributing editor of the online addiction and recovery
magazine TheFix.com. She’s also written for the Good Men Project, The
Frisky, Refinery 29, and has been a regular contributor to Addiction.com
and PsychologyToday.com, where she has her own addiction blog entitled
“Coming Clean.”
My Fair Junkie is her debut book. Visit her website:
www.amydresner.com
Born
in Los Angeles to Mexican parents, Erica Garza has spent most of her
adult life traveling and living abroad. She currently lives in Los
Angeles with her husband and daughter. Erica’s essays have appeared in
Salon, Narratively, BUST, Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Bustle, Alternet, Vivala, HelloGiggles, the
Los Angeles Review, and Australia’s
Mamamia and
The Motherish.
She has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4, Thom Hartmann’s The Big
Picture, and August McLaughlin’s Girl Boner Radio. In 2010, she earned
her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia University. Her memoir on sex
addiction,
Getting Off, is her first book.
Timothy Gager is the author of fourteen books of short fiction and poetry.
Every Day There Is Something About Elephants,
a book of 108 flash fictions, selected by over fifty-five editors, was
released by Big Table Publishing in 2018. He's hosted the successful
Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 2001 and was the
co-founder of The Somerville News Writers Festival. He has had over 500
works of fiction and poetry published and of which thirteen have been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has been read on National
Public Radio.
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