[Sosfbay-news] Green Playwright Publishes Memoir

Wed Sep 16 15:17:08 PDT 2009

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
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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
<http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=47124>

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.