Author Event with Rex Pickett - Celebrating 20 Years of Sideways!

Name: Author Event with Rex Pickett - Celebrating 20 Years of Sideways!
Start: 2024-10-22T18:00:00-07:00
Location: 1625 2nd St, Napa, CA, United States, California 94559

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

1625 2nd St, Napa, CA, United States, California 94559 | Napa, CA

This is a free event, but we appreciate your RSVP at the ticket link as that helps us plan for your attendance.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sideways is the story of two friends— Miles and Jack—going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: Pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez Valley wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles—who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career, and has lost his passion for living—the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future, and himself. A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rex Pickett is the author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted into the award winning film of the same title. Sideways won over 350 plaudits from various critics and film awards organizations, capturing five Academy Award and seven Golden Globe nominations, capturing one Oscar and two Golden Globes, as well as six Indie Spirit Awards.
Rex is the author of three Sideways sequels – the IPPY Gold Medal award-winning Sideways Oregon, Sideways 3: Chile, and Sideways New Zealand: The Road Back. He is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York, which won the 2000 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.
Rex has written and staged his Sideways play numerous times, most prominently with 3 time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys) at La Jolla Playhouse, where it broke all attendance records for a nonmusical in 2013. It is currently in repertory at the New Riga Theatre in Riga, Latvia in their 500-seat Great Hall. Rex recently signed a deal with his publisher Blackstone Publishing for a post-Sideways New Zealand trilogy, with the first book to be a road novel set in California. Blackstone recently re-issued Sideways in hardcover (for the first time ever) and Rex is on a national tour with the book, and the film, hosting events at wineries, wine festivals, bookstores, etc.
A southern California native, the Rex Pickett Papers are currently enshrined at Geisel Library on the campus of his alma mater UCSD, a yearlong archival process that formed the inspiration for his 2019 novel The Archivist (from Blackstone Publishing).