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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Stranger than Fiction:

Nonfiction writers discuss
the art of the first-person narrative through
essay, anthology, memoir and journalism.

Featuring:
David Henry Sterry, author of Chicken
Phyllis Theroux, author of The Journal Keeper
Candace Walsh, editor of Ask Me About My Divorce: Women
Open Up About Moving On

With special host, Slash Coleman

david henry sterryDavid Henry Sterry is an author, performer, book doctor, activist, and a man who hasn’t worn matching socks in 20 years. David is the author of 12 books, including the best-selling Chicken, which is being made into a TV series by Showtime. He made a one- man show out of the book, and when it premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Independent named it the number one show in the UK. His latest book, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys, was featured on the front page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review. “Eye-opening, astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny… unpretentious and riveting — but also graphic, politically incorrect and mostly unquotable in this newspaper.” Prior to becoming an author, David was a professional actor, comic and screenwriter. www.davidhenrysterry.com

phyllis therouxPhyllis Theroux is an essayist, columnist, teacher and author. Born in San Francisco, California, she is the critically acclaimed author of a memoir, California and Other States of Grace (William Morrow & Co, 1980), two collections of essays, Peripheral Visions (William Morrow & Co , 1981) and Nightlights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark (Viking Adult, 1987) and an anthology, The Book of Eulogies (Scribner, 1987). Her first children's book, Serefina Under the Circumstances, was recently published by Greenwillow Press. She has also been a contributing essayist on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and her columns, op-ed pieces, reviews and feature stories appear in various newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune. www.nightwriters.com


candace walshCandace Walsh has edited two anthologies, Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On (Seal Press, June 2009) and Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men for Women (Seal Press, October 2010), and co-founded and edited Mamalicious magazine. She is also the features and poetry editor at Mothering magazine. Her articles have appeared in Travel + Leisure, Sunset, Food + Wine, Natural Solutions, Newsday, New York, Blender, and Details. She also wrote, with John Morris, the book Stone Design for the Home (Gibbs Smith, 2008). Candace lives in Santa Fe, NM with her two irrepressible young children. www.askmeaboutmydivorce.com

slash colemanThe son of an eccentric sculptor and a grandfather who was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, Slash Coleman is a professional storyteller who is best known for his award winning PBS special, “The Neon Man and Me.” www.slashcoleman.com

Thursday, March 25, 2010
6:30-8:30 pm

The Pavilion Room
The Children’s Museum
2626 West Broad Street, Richmond

$10 in advance
$12 at the door
$5 students at the door

Sponsored by:

Richmond Times-Dispatch children's museum of richmond

 

The Writing Show, sponsored by James River Writers, is held on the last Thursday of the month.

The Writing Show brings published authors and other literary professionals together in one place for an insider's look at the craft and the business of writing.

In every genre, for every kind of writer, The Writing Show offers inspiration, motivation, and thought-provoking conversation all in a lively, entertaining format.

Entertaining, interactive, The Writing Show is ...

... Inside the Actor's Studio meets the New York Times bestseller list.

... The Tonight Show meets the art of writing.

It's inspiring. It's fun. And it's only happening here, live in Richmond.

Click here for a history of all writing show speakers.