Litquake's Epicenter: Peter Coyote with Phil Bronstein
Organization:
Litquake Literary Festival
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
5/26/2015
End Date:
5/26/2015
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
9:00 PM
Event
Info:
Litquake is proud to present the San Francisco launch of Peter Coyote's latest release, The Rainman's Third Cure: An Irregular Education. This spiritual biography explores the competing forces of the transcendental, inclusive, and ecstatic world of love and the competitive, status-seeking world of wealth and power. Coyote will be in conversation with Phil Bronstein, a journalist, editor, and executive chair of the board for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Audience Q&A, and book sales and signing to follow. Co-presented by Green Apple Books.
Expanding his frame beyond his wild ride through the 1960s counterculture that occupied so much of his lauded debut memoir, Sleeping Where I Fall, Coyote provides readers intimate portraits of mentors who shaped him-a violent, intimidating father a bebop bass player who teaches him that life can be improvised a Mafia consiglieri who demonstrates to him that men can be bought and manipulated a gay dancer in Martha Graham's company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuana and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice.
Ordained practitioner of Zen Buddhism, activist, and actor, Peter Coyote began his work in San Francisco street theater and political organizing. In addition to acting in 120 films, Coyote has won an Emmy for narrating the award-winning documentary Pacific Century, and has co-written, directed, and performed in the play Olive Pits, which won the San Francisco Mime Troupe an Obie Award. He lives in Mill Valley, California.
Phil Bronstein is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, was (nearly) seduced by Imelda Marcos, has won many journalism awards, ran a shrinking metropolitan newspaper (until he grew tired of the shrinking part), and is now executive chair of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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