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Andrew Sean Greer in Conversation with Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon - Michael Chabon was born in 1963, in Washington, D.C. and was raised mostly in Columbia, an attempted utopia in the Maryland suburbs. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, and received an MFA in Creative Writing at UC Irvine. His first novel, a bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) was originally written as his master’s thesis. Michael has spent most of the past fifteen years in California, with brief sojourns in Washington State, Florida, and New York State. Since 1997 he has been living with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children, in Berkeley.

Random House published his third novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, in September 2000. It followed The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys(1995), as well as two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories (1988) and Werewolves in their Youth (1999). He has also written articles and essays, and a number of screenplays and teleplays. His story Son of the Wolfman was chosen for the 1999 O. Henry collection.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It also was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Notable Books of 2000 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal.

Michael has lectured widely on topics including the art and craft of writing, the tradition of Jewish fiction, children's literature, and Vladimir Nabokov, to name a few. He has appeared before audiences all over the United States and in Russia, Finland, the Ukraine, Italy, France, Great Britain, Germany and Canada. He has spoken to the creative teams at Pixar Animation Studios about fantasy and childhood, to the employees of Industrial Light and Magic about the art of storytelling, and to many different literary, Jewish, and corporate organizations about a wide variety of topics.

Andrew Sean Greer - The Washington, DC-born son of two scientists, Greer has always written stories infused with wonderment and discovery. The Confessions of Max Tivoli tells the life story of a man born with a peculiar ailment where he begins life as an elderly man and ages backward toward infancy as linear time progresses. His stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Zoetrope, among other publications. Andrew Sean Greer has written two previous works of fiction, the novel The Path of Minor Planets and a short story collection, How It Was for Me.

Brian Gruber - Brian Gruber is Founder and Executive Chairman of FORA.tv. Gruber has twenty years experience successfully building and marketing media enterprises. As the senior marketing officer for a range of respected media institutions, he has managed billion dollar revenue budgets and large and small marketing teams. As the first marketing director for C-SPAN, he built its affiliate sales and marketing organization, launching C-SPAN II with the largest subscriber base ever for a cable network at launch. As director of marketing for News Corp's FOXTEL, he helped build the cable television brand in Australia, going from number three to number one in cable subscriptions, brand equity and consumer awareness. As the head of marketing of the largest urban divisions of 3 top ten cable companies (MSO's), he turned flat or negative subscriber growth into substantial gains. And as president of g/media and Principals.com, he has helped more than twenty new media companies develop brands, marketing strategies, and consumer products. He also acted as the media adviser and new media producer for the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the nation's most prolific presenter of quality world affairs events.

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01.: Misremembering History

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02.: The Relevance of an Author

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03.: Breaking Down Genre Barriers

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04.: Backstage Interview

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05.: Writing from a Different Perspective

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06.: The Atmosphere of San Francisco in 1953

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07.: Researching Corsets

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08.: America

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09.: Shifting Perspectives on Marriage

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10.: Researching at the New York Public Library

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Partner:: City Arts & Lectures
Location:: City Arts & Lectures
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 12.15.08
Speakers:: Michael Chabon,; Andrew Sean Greer,; Brian Gruber

Summary: After the critical acclaim lavished upon Andrew Sean Greer's second novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, the young San Francisco writer has followed four years later with a more straightforward tale, deeply rooted in history, in The Story of a Marriage.

The Washington, DC-born son of two scientists, Greer has always written stories infused with wonderment and discovery. The Confessions of Max Tivoli tells the life story of a man born with a peculiar ailment where he begins life as an elderly man and ages backward toward infancy as linear time progresses.

His stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Zoetrope, among other publications. Historical forces frame The Story of a Marriage, and Greer tells the story of his main character, a young wife and mother named Pearl Cook living in the Sunset district of 1950s San Francisco.

The novel has a very modern feel, with complicated intertwining love stories, complimented by all the lush detail that makes Greer a master of the period piece.

Andrew Sean Greer has written two previous works of fiction, the novel The Path of Minor Planets and a short story collection, How It Was for Me - City Arts & Lectures

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