Litquake's Paragraphs on the Rocks w/Andrew Sean Greer & Daniel Handler

Litquake Presents: Paragraphs on the Rocks with Andrew Sean Greer & Daniel Handler

Join these two bestselling authors for a rollicking evening with cocktails, as they dive deep into favorite paragraphs from literary history, sharing enthusiasm for language and storytelling with the audience, from a 1970s overhead projector. Proceeds to benefit Litquake 2022 programming. Amado’s is located in the heart of the Mission District, and features a full bar. Capacity is limited, reserve your seats now!

Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in San Francisco and Milan. His next novel, Less Is Lost, will be out this coming September.

Daniel Handler is the author of eight novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts, Bottle Grove, and most recently, Poison for Breakfast. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the 13-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.

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