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The California Leg of the Tour
Today begins the California part of the West of Sunset tour. To start things off, here are two photos from an event last year. They were taken at Musso and Frank Grill, which is one of the locales that makes an appearance in West of Sunset. Next to the restaurant was Stanley Rose’s bookstore (in operation from 1935 to 1939), where folks like Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, John O’Hara, and William Faulkner went to talk and drink in the back room!
In attendance: Stewart O’Nan, Holly Watson, Sales rep Tom Benton, Sales Rep Amy Comito; Booksellers Ed Conklin, Chaucer’s (Santa Barbara); Allison Hill, Vroman’s and Book Soup; Adrian Newell, Warwick’s (San Diego); Julie Slavinsky, Warwick’s (San Diego); Steve Salardino, Skylight (LA).
From left to right: Ed Conklin, Adrian Newell, Holly Watson; Julie Slavinsky, Tom Benton, Steve Salardino, Allison Hill. Photo credit: Amy Comito.
Left to right, seated: Steve Salardino, Stewart, Allison. Left to right, standing: Tom Benton, Julie Slavinsky, Adrian Newell, Ed Conklin, Amy Comito, Holly Watson.
Stewart will be in the great state of California this coming week, starting tonight at Rakestraw Books. Come on by!
Danville, CA
Rakestraw Books, 1/23/2015
http://www.rakestrawbooks.com/upcoming-events
Sonoma, CA
Reader’s Books, 1/24/2015
http://readers.indiebound.com/
Berkley, CA
Books, INC, 1/26/2015
http://www.booksinc.net/event/2015-01
Los Angeles, CA
Diesel Books (Brentwood), 1/27/2015
http://www.dieselbookstore.com/brentwood-staff-recs-events-bestsellers-and-more
Pasadena, CA
Vroman’s Books, 1/28/2015
http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event
San Diego, CA
Warwick’s, 1/29/2015 7:30pm
http://warwicks.indiebound.com/event/stewart-onan
Photo from Common Good Books
A fantastic reading at Common Good Books in St. Paul, Minnesota on 1/21!
Photos from St. Paul, Minnesota
Stewart was in St. Paul, Minnesota yesterday, the birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald. A few pictures from his visit follow. Photos courtesy Tim Hedges of Around the Town Agency.
Stewart O’Nan chats about F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘West of Sunset’
From the L.A. Times:
Stewart O’Nan chats about F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘West of Sunset’
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legacy has become synonymous with the glamour of the Jazz Age and the success of “The Great Gatsby.” His complicated life with wife Zelda has become the stuff of myth, portrayed in numerous biographies and novels.
However, during the last three years of his life, Fitzgerald was a troubled man in poor health, his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruin. It was also during this period in time that Fitzgerald strove to make a new start as a Hollywood screenwriter.
Stewart O’Nan’s novel “West of Sunset” (Viking, 304 pp., $27.95) offers a glimpse into this time in Fitzgerald’s life as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, struggles with his addiction to alcohol, works on “The Last Tycoon” — all while trying to maintain a semblance of family normalcy with Zelda and their daughter, Scottie.
O’Nan chatted about the book by phone from his Pittsburgh home. He will be discussing his book at Diesel Bookstore in Brentwood on Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. and at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m.
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