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David Henry Sterry: Telling & Selling Your Life Story

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Berkeley Arts and Letters

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Partner:: Berkeley Arts and Letters
Location:: First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Event Date:: 10.15.08
Speakers:: Alan Black,; David Henry Sterry
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Summary: Find out what it takes to write, read and sell your life story from writers who've actually done just that.

Listen as memoirists read from their own work, then discuss the process of writing a memoir.

Making a narrative of events of your own life, dealing with issues of privacy and family, figuring out how to navigate the stormy seas of the publishing world, and bringing your story to life as you read it before an audience will be among the topics addressed by this panel of three memoirists - First Congregational Church of Berkeley

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Alan Black

Alan Black is a bartender by trade and co-founder of the Scottish Cultural and Arts Foundation in 1995.

In 1996, he produced the American premiere of the hit stage play version of Trainspotting. His involvement with the Scottish literary renaissance in the nineties allowed him to introduce to an American audience many of the new writers emerging as part of that influential wave. He has worked with major U.S. publishers in promoting writers at the Edinburgh Castle Pub in San Francisco.

In 1999, he was around for the formation of the annual Litquake Festival, San Francisco's biggest writers' festival. He sits on the Executive Committee of Litquake.

David Henry Sterry

David Henry Sterry is a best-selling author and award winning actor/comic. He is both writer of and performer in the one-man show 'Chicken', based on his bestselling memoir Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (ReganBooks/HarperCollins: 2002). In addition that book has been translated into ten languages, and is being made into a series by Showtime. His latest is Master of Ceremonies: a True Story of Sex, Drugs, Rollerskates and Chippendales (Grove Atlantic/Canongate, 2008). This was preceded by Putting Your Passion into Print (Workman Publishing, 2005), based on the class he taught at Stanford University for four years. His first book was an American Library Association pick-of-the-year, Satchel Sez: The Wit, Wisdom & World of Leroy Satchel Paige (Crown/Random House, 2001). His first YA title, (written under the name Henry Johnson) is Travis & Freddy's Adventures in Vegas(Dutton/Penguin, April, 2006).

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01 hr 11 min 32 sec

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01.: Alan Black Introduction

00 min 55 sec

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02.: Black Reading About Childhood From 'Kick the Balls'

08 min 28 sec

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03.: David Henry Sterry Introduction

00 min 54 sec

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04.: Sterry Reading From 'Master of Ceremonies'

06 min 46 sec

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05.: Excerpt About Chippendales Show

04 min 36 sec

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06.: Writing Memoirs

05 min 41 sec

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07.: Writing Comedic Memoirs

05 min 08 sec

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08.: Writing Fiction Versus Non-Fiction: Struggling with Telling the Truth

05 min 38 sec

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09.: Self-Discovery Through Writing Process

04 min 49 sec

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10.: Reading Your Works

02 min 54 sec

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11.: Promoting Books

02 min 51 sec

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12.: Unpredictable Success of Certain Books

05 min 06 sec

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13.: Sterry's Success of 'Chicken'

03 min 15 sec

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14.: Changes in Publicity Machine Since Loss of Small Bookstores

05 min 19 sec

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15.: Obscure Spoken Word Authors at Edinburgh Castle

01 min 19 sec

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16.: Privacy Issues in Writing About Personal Lives

07 min 42 sec

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The Evolution of the Modern Memoir

05 min 37 sec

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Memoirists David Sterry and Alan Black sketch the history of the memoir genre from Winston Churchill to YouTube.

They agree that the contemporary memoir speaks to the personal life of the author, but also to the role they play in modern society.
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01 hr 11 min 32 sec

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