Actor, Author Garrett M. Brown will be doing a reading from his latest book, with Q&A to follow.

Garrett M. Brown is an actor, writer, playwright, and visual artist. His poems have been read at Ensemble Studio Theatre LA and published in the Valyermo Chronicle; his plays have been produced in Los Angeles and New York City; his drawings and paintings have been exhibited around the United States—in fact, one of his pieces is on display at The Whitney Museum of Art in New York City (a doodle he did at the Whitney bistro was admired by the café manager—it's hanging in her office!); and three of his stories are in the recent Lagoon House Press anthology, Three Writers/One Photographer, published in 2023. Tin Sea, A Memoir Gone Rogue, debuted in September, 2024. He’s married to the writer and poet, Marie Pal-Brown. They live in Long Beach, and like his creative comrades of Lagoon House Press, he, too, was mentored by the beloved writer and poet, Holly Prado Northup.

The Book Synopsis:
It’s the summer of 1971: just out of college in the Northeast and determined to become a visual artist, Garry Brown is invited to join his best friend selling dictionaries door to door in Tennessee. But dictionaries soon become hay bales, library books, and paintings when Garry is hired by a haying crew and befriended by the local librarian who believes in his gifts as an artist. Sleeping under the stars beside Old Hickory Lake, not far from the Grand Ole Opry, he longs for his college sweetheart as he gradually begins to understand the ethos of an artistic and spiritual calling—not to mention the intrigues of an invisible rabbit. Funny, poignant, picaresque, it is a mis-adventure that finds its curiously mysterious way.

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