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Am I Alone Here?: Peter Orner’s San Francisco Book Launch
Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner’s AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott at Booksmith, Wednesday, November 2nd, 7:30pm. Join us!
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“This book, thank god, defies any category. It’s partly an ode to reading, partly a memoir of Chicago and family, partly a travelogue, and often it’s all of these things in one four-page essay. Orner reads Cheever in Albania, thinks about Salinger in Haiti, salutes his father from a taqueria in San Francisco. Although some will want to dive in randomly and skip around, reading these exquisite essays in order allows the book to develop a momentum and cumulative power that sneaks up on you and knocks you back.” —Dave Eggers
“Orner, a distinguished fiction writer, appears here as a devoted book lover, inviting the reader to an intimate and friendly book group of two. . . . Readers will be delighted to join him, grab one of the stories he delves into, and enjoy his company.” —Publishers Weekly
“AM I ALONE HERE? [is] the most beautiful, moving book I’ve read in a very long time, and I’ll use any opportunity to mention it. . . . I encourage anyone who loves reading, I mean who truly loves reading, to immediately go to a bookshop and demand a copy.” —Alexander Maksik, author of SHELTER IN PLACE, in THE HUFFINGTON POST