Join DL21C'ers as we welcome Academy-award winning filmmaker and NYTimes #1 bestselling author Michael Moore on Wednesday, September 14 for a conversation and book signing, for the release of his memoir, "Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life".
Over the past 20 years, Moore has been one of the most visible, fearless, passionate and controversial figures on the American Left. He is the director and producer of nine films, including "Bowling for Columbine" (for which he received the 2003 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature), "Capitalism: A Love Story", "Sicko", and "Fahrenheit 9/11", the highest grossing documentary of all time.
Doors Open 7pm
Location: Midtown Manhattan, Location TBD and announced very soon
Books available for purchase and signing on-site
Free for DL21C Annual Members; $10/everyone else
NOTE: Online Tickets are now closed. You may buy your ticket at the door--doors open at 7pm and Mr. Moore is expected by 8. Arrive before 8 to best guarantee entry. See you tonight!
Mark your calendars - this is certain to be an unforgettable evening!
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About "Here Comes Trouble":
#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Moore returns with his most personal book to date. A blend of personal reminiscences, history, and politics that only Michael Moore could write, HERE COMES TROUBLE is a sort of anti-memoir. Moore breaks the autobiographical mode as he hilariously presents a collection of far-ranging, irreverent vignettes from his own life.
Moore, an Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation's unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forrest Gump.
Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he's an eleven-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he's inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Fast-forwarding to 2003, he stuns the world by uttering the words "We live in fictitious times... with a fictitious president" in place of the expected "I'd like to thank the Academy."
Capturing the zeitgeist of the past fifty years, yet deeply personal and unflinchingly honest, HERE COMES TROUBLE takes readers on an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners ride through the life and times of Michael Moore. No one will come away from this book without a sense of surprise about the Michael Moore most of us didn't know. Alternately funny, eye-opening, and moving, it's a book he has been writing-and living-his entire life.
from the starred Publishers Weekly review:
True to form, Moore doesn't pull any punches, but he's grown as a writer, with more discussion and fewer extended rants than in his previous books. With the book's emotional highs and lows, and self-deprecating, empathetic style, Moore triumphs. Regardless of which side of the political fence readers are on, they're sure to find this collection enlightening, engaging, and occasionally enraging.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
more: http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780446532242
from Kirkus Reviews:
Filmmaker and progressive activist Moore comes roaring back with his first new book since Dude, Where’s My Country? (2003)…Think of it as a memoir turned slightly on its side. Whatever the case, it’s vintage Moore, beginning with a highly satisfying tale of redemption (and gloat-free revenge) in the wake of his condemnation of George W. Bush at the Academy Awards ceremony…Fast-forward a few years, and Moore is, if not a hero, at least no longer persona non grata, now that the rest of country has caught up with the dissimulations and deceptions of the Bush administration...Indeed, Moore considers himself a patriot; as he writes, if you see his movies, “you will instantly know that I deeply love this country.” This spirited, most welcome book is more evidence of that affection.
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/non-fiction/michael-moore/here...
About Michael Moore:
Michael Moore is the author of the New York Times bestselling books Dude, Where’s My Country? (2003) and Stupid White Men (2002). He is also the Academy Award-wining director and producer of Capitalism: A Love Story (2009). His films Sicko (2007), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), and Bowling for Columbine (2002) are three of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. Bowling for Columbine won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2003. Sicko was nominated for the same award in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as “Moore’s funniest film to date.” Moore lives in Michigan.