Cal Hoffman, EASY TO SLIP

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In Cal Hoffman's riveting debut novel, 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.

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 creative writing 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 Feiffer’s play, Elliot Loves. Cal lives with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, and their son, Harry, in Washington, DC.

Peter Riegert is an American actor best known for his roles as Donald "Boon" Schoenstein in Animal House, oil company executive "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero, pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey, Lt. Mitch Kellaway in The Mask and recurring character Ronald Zellman in The Sopranos.

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