From jims at greens.org Wed Sep 16 15:17:08 2009 From: jims at greens.org (Jim Stauffer) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:17:08 -0700 Subject: [Sosfbay-news] Green Playwright Publishes Memoir Message-ID: <4AB163E4.2080706@greens.org> What follows is an ad for a new book by Glenn Hopkins. I'm forwarding this just because Glenn is such a joy to have around, being one of the most entertaining (and sometimes exasperating) Greens in the state. His original subject line for this message was: Fwd: homophobia still #1 reason for U.S.teen suicide so PLS REQUEST in libraries & bookstores Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sept.15, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT Ernest Harding, Publisher Donatello Press Slim Volume Heartfelt, whimsical, tough writings framed in a person journal, Labor Day, 2004 through Easter, 2005 by Glenn Hopkins Philadelphia, PA ? Xlibris in cooperation with Donatello Press is pleased to announce the publication of *Slim Volume, *Trade Paperback; 219 pages; 978-1-4363-4870-6 Cloth Hardback; 217 pages; 978-1-4363-4871-3 Bisexual Los Angeles playwright, Green Party activist, muck-raker, educator, Methodist and ?Radical Faerie? Glenn Hopkins struts his stuff in a memoir first started in Austin, Texas forty years ago. Explosively controversial research on the deliberate origin of AIDS, loving tributes to his father and mentors Ernst Bulova, Ray Bradbury, and Mort Sahl, songs, poems, play excerpts, lovingly 'outing' a U.S. First Lady */Mrs. Roosevelt/* (a one-woman 30 minute play now also available in French, Spanish, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, and Czech and the basis of a new feature film, the first to be made from Hopkins two dozen plays, */Mrs. Roosevelt /*) ...all this comes to the reader along with politics and fervent prayer within the framework of a real-time journal kept from Labor Day, 2004 to Easter Sunday, 2005. The quick-witted, but sentimental avante-guarde memoir features several alternative beginnings, yet gets its work done in 219 pages. You'll probably feel like Gerry Gardner of radio KCME, who said in her broadcast review of Hopkins' internationalist play *...all in the same boat *in 1989: /"...moments of genius...I can't stop thinking about it!"/ Hopkins? writing for the stage has been: ?outrageous...refreshing... intriguing... important...worthwhile.? *?The Daily Bruin * ORDER A COPY NOW! *ISBN13 (TP) *978-1-4363-4870-6* * *ISBN13 (HB) *978-1-4363-4871-3* * www.Xlibris.com Copyright ? 2009 Slim Volume - Glenn Hopkins All Rights Reserved. Designed by xlibris . We are seeking reviews, reissue, use of excerpts, orders, entrance to competitions, sale of movie rights. Ernest Harding Co-publisher and Artists' Representative (310) 478-7379 Please forward with same subject line.