An Evening with Author Cal Hoffman in Conversation with Mike Garand

Author Cal Hoffman joins us to talk about latest book, Easy to Slip. Following the talk, there will be time for Q&A with the audience and book signing.

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About the book:

Sam Kovner reads messages on walls and hears voices in the hall, and wonders: if you find yourself losing your mind, how do you get well?

Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early admission Sam Kovner walks the New York streets, sleepless thirty-six hours. Through the radiant specificity of memory, he reckons with a hard-driving father, a caring, sometimes careless mother, a generous, self-involved uncle who's just become a movie star, and star-struck grandparents. Sam fears the undertow of feelings: he's not quite spent the night with someone he's fallen for. Home for high-school graduation, a prom night affair reminds Sam of how he once knew love, freeing him to face his encroaching psychosis. Entering a hospital, he confronts traumatic, repressed memories with unflinching courage. With irrepressible humor and pathos, Easy to Slip recalls an era when youth mattered and people healed from psychiatric illness.

About the author:

CAL HOFFMAN is a writer, educator, and actor. He graduated from Catholic University and attended Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the MFA Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University. He has taught English and creativewriting to children of immigrants, private school students, and young people in foster care. As an actor, he has performed in regional theater across the country and starred in the acclaimed New York revival of Jules FeiIer’s “Elliot Loves.” Cal lives with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, and their son, Harry, in Washington, DC.

About the conversation partner:

Mike Garand is a Canadian-born independent writer, filmmaker, and composer. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Filmmaking in 2010 and has since utilized his passions to create enlightening and entertaining visual media that focuses on advocating for social justice and mental health awareness. He currently resides in the city of Pittsburgh with his lovely daughter, Melody.

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