Skylight Books Podcast Series

Members of the King Middle School Writers Club With Steve Abee

The students from the Thomas Starr King Middle School Writers Club will be sharing their work with the world with author/teacher Steve Abee.  It is an inspiring evening of young poets and artists telling it like it is. Steve Abee was born in Santa Monica, California and began writing after high school when he held a job as an orderly at St. John’s Hospital. His mind started to unfold itself and he thought if he was going to save it he better start writing things down. “I saw the fragility and blessedness of lives and started to come apart in the wonderment of it all.” He is the  author of the new poetry collection, Great Balls of Flowers out now with Write Bloody books, and the upcoming novel Johnny Future with MacAdam/Cage; also he authored the Los Angeles underground classic The Bus: Cosmic Ejaculations of the Daily Mind in Transit (Phony Lid Books), and the  collection of short stories and poems King Planet (Incommunicado). He lives and teaches in Los Angeles. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 9, 2010.

Michael Kearns and Andrea Richensin

What I Would Tell Her: 28 Devoted Dads on Bringing Up, Holding on to and Letting Go of Their Daughters (Harlequin)

Editor Andrea Richesin and contributor Michael Kearns will read from and sign the new anthology What I Would Tell Her. Andrea N. Richesin is the editor of four anthologies, What I Would Tell Her, Because I Love Her, The May Queen, and Crush (forthcoming in summer 2011). Her anthologies have been excerpted and praised in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Parenting, among many other publications. She lives in the San Francisco bay area with her husband and daughter. For more information please visit www.nickirichesin.com. Michael Kearns is an award-winning writer-performer who lives in Los Angeles with his daughter, Tia. He is the author of six theatre books (all published by Heinemann), more than a dozen produced plays, numerous solo performance pieces, and his work is widely anthologized. As an actor-writer-director-producer-fundraiser-journalist-teacher, his work surrounding HIV/AIDS—spanning more than a quarter of a century—is encyclopedic in its comprehensiveness, including work as an actor in film and television. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 12, 2010.