MARTIN PERLICH at BOOK SOUP – Reading from and signing “The Self-Pity Chronicles”
The Self-Pity Chronicles
“A Humorous Novel of Depression, Suicide and Public Radio”
Saturday November 12, 2011 4:00 PM at BOOK SOUP in Los Angeles
BOOK SOUP 8818 Sunset Blvd. W. Hollywood CA 90069
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The Self-Pity Chronicles (Empty Press 2011) is the latest installment in Martin Perlich’s series of novels “The Adequacy Quartet.”
In this “humorous tale of depression, suicide, and public radio,” Perlich continues the story of fictional anti-hero Mitch Hertz as he navigates the backstairs of broadcasting politics, privatized mental institutions, and his slowly disintegrating mind. Structured as a journal, The Self-Pity Chronicles unravels in real-time, recounting the downfall of a played-out writer and disenchanted social revolutionary in all it’s gut-wrenching, bell-laughing, cringe-inducing detail.
Novelist and underground radio pioneer Martin Perlich, has also worked as a cabdriver, warehouse worker, labor activist and Sales Manager for Pasquini Espresso Company. He has developed and produced film (Lion’s Gate Films, Film Four London, American Playhouse) Network and Public TV (NBC-TV; KCET-TV). His archive of Arts Interviews, and new Web-series CONVERSATIONS IN NEW MUSIC is available on the UCLA Digital Network. Martin’s novels (The Wild Times, The Perfect Fool and The Self-Pity Chronicles are composites of his many life and career experiences.
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