PATTERSON READS FRIDAY AT 7:30 PM!
On Friday, October 22nd, at 7:30 PM James J. Patterson will read from his new book, BERMUDA SHORTS, at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is free and there’s meter parking across the street. Patterson will be joined by Joanna Biggar, author of the newly published THAT PARIS YEAR, and Linda Watanabe McFerrin, with her new book, DEAD LOVE! There’ll be music, video, and a terrific party with FREE BOOZE & FOOD at the Writer’s Center after the show, so come one, come all! This will be a gas!
Come One Come All!
The writer’s Center is located at 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda, MD, 20815.
ABOUT BERMUDA SHORTS “Some of the essays are the literary equivalent of the Buddhist meditation on the skull, which is meant to use the sense of impending death as an impetus to love the juicy, impermanent life at hand. How fortunate for the reader that life, for this author is music…” Dr Katherine Williams
“This is classic Jimmy, a steely mix of W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx, and Adlai Stevenson all hanging at the bar. I think it’s my round.” – Willy Porter
ABOUT THAT PARIS YEAR “If you’ve been to France, this novel is a delicious joy ride, the next best thing to a return ticket. If you haven’t, it may get you packing. It is, above all, an extended love song to a city the author knows intimately and in exquisite detail.” – Christine Berardo
“In this age of the compressed image and the truncated novel, what a pleasure to read the expansive and luminescent work of Johanna Biggar…Here is a book that hurtles our understanding into the midst of a brilliant adventure –one with a succulent sense of time and place. Surely this is a poet writing prose. Let me say, it may be the novel of the year.”
– Grace Cavallieri, NPR
ABOUT DEAD LOVE “Who would have thought a book about a semi-dead, sexually active, globe hopping, hot Zombie girl and the ghoul who stalks her would be such a good read. Oh, I guess anyone interested in sex, the supernatural, and an engrossing plot with really fine writing. Dead Love is like reading a dark candy with a juicy center while having a glass of blood-red wine.” -Sync
“I was pleasantly surprised by the humor in this book. Clément, the ghoul, is a gas and this extremely well crafted character alone is worth 5 stars! He really just has one thing on his mind (and it’s not what you think). From the high-rise opulence and back alleys of Tokyo, to the Red Light District of Amsterdam and deep into to the jungles of Malaysia, this intriguing thriller delves into the highest of highs and the lowest of lows of (barely) human existence and delivers! Kudos to an author who is making her mark on the world! -T. Lang
Also that evening we’ll debut Jimmy’s new Book Trailer, a terrific video produced by BeetRoot Productions!
More later!