# Event Details - **Event Name**: AUTHOR EVENT | Annabelle Gurwitch: The End of My Life is Killing Me - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Author Annabell Gurwitch discusses her book The End of My Life is Killing Me in conversation with Corey Roskin.About this EventTHE END OF MY LIFE IS KILLING ME is a mordantly funny and unsentimental memoir that lives at the intersection of personal experience, social zeitgeist, and health care policy. Granted a temporary reprieve from death, actress, activist, New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch offers an invitation to curiosity, and ultimately an ode to joy.“I didn’t want to adopt a performative indefatigability or accomplish heroic feats that would turn me into someone’s idea of a cancer warrior. I vowed to be an underachiever. A cancer slacker.”Over the course of her career, Gurwitch has earned high praise for her wringing humor, from pathos and locating sublimity in absurdity on the fault lines of contemporary confusions. Readers have eagerly followed her dispatches on parenting, aging, the gig economy, downward mobility and her droll incisive takes on consumer culture. “Gurwitch manages to find humor in any setback" Tara Parker Pope wrote in the New York Times of her "surprisingly upbeat” You're Leaving When?. Now, she outdoes herself as she tackles nothing short of the eternal and the essential.6PM Conversation | Free Event7PM Book SigningANNABELLE GURWITCH is an actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author of six books and a two-time finalist for the Thurber Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, and Haaretz, amongst other publications. The long-time co-host of Dinner & A Movie on TBS, the most popular cable show on Friday nights during her stint, a regular commentator on NPR, heracting credits include Seinfeld, Dexter, Better Things, and movies Daddy Day Care, The Shaggy Dog, and Ambulance. A long-time activist, she is a frequent contributor to the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, founded by her friend and mentor Barbara Ehrenreich. She is a breast and lung cancer survivor. Along with her advocacy in the cancer world, she leads writing workshops for The Campfire Project providing therapeutic arts programming for young migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. She lives in Los Angeles.COREY ROSKIN has been programming and co-producing literary events for 23 years including the West Hollywood Book Fair, Lambda Lit Fest, Omega Sci-Fi Awards and Palm Springs Pride on the Page. For 29 years he also worked for the City of West Hollywood, most notably coordinating special events and projects as part of the City’s Social Services Division. Roskin currently serves on the Board of the Palm Springs Public Library Foundation and on the special events team at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. He also dabbles in writing fiction and personal stories and has volunteered for a variety of social services and cultural arts programs for almost 40 years.Agenda🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:45 PMCONVERSATION🕑: 06:45 PM - 07:30 PMBOOK SIGNING - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/palm-springs/author-event-|-annabelle-gurwitch-the-end-of-my-life-is-killing-me/100001985941186549 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, theatre, entertainment, festivals, it, health-wellness, dog, sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 17.85, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Palm Springs - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Palm Springs Cultural Center - **lat**: 33.81996 - **long**: -116.52124500000002 - **full address**: Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: AUTHOR EVENT | Annabelle Gurwitch: The End of My Life is Killing Me - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/a640ca7abffdc4bbecad51daf6ff3a794827970a8cf112ae5546578b5bca0354-rimg-w1200-h600-dcd7cdf6-gmir.jpg?v=1774477938 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is AUTHOR EVENT | Annabelle Gurwitch: The End of My Life is Killing Me being held? - **A:** AUTHOR EVENT | Annabelle Gurwitch: The End of My Life is Killing Me takes place on Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Sat, 13 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Palm Springs Cultural Center, 2300 E Baristo Rd, Palm Springs, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for AUTHOR EVENT | Annabelle Gurwitch: The End of My Life is Killing Me? - **A:** Tickets for AUTHOR EVENT | Annabelle Gurwitch: The End of My Life is Killing Me are priced at USD 18 per person. 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