Mar
4
6:30 PM18:30
Mar
10
6:30 PM18:30
In Conversation with Pamela Hutchinson at Lewes Depot (followed by American Graffiti)
Hosted by author, Guardian critic and film historian Pamela Hutchinson.
The talk will last about an hour from 6:30pm. Tickets are £7 for non-members and £5 for members of the Depot.
The Depot is then screening George Lucas’s American Graffiti, beginning at 8pm.
Tickets and more information at https://lewesdepot.org/film/book-talk-coppola-lucas-spielberg?fbclid=PAdGRleAP9s5lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafeEHiEC1HWs84E_23EaJSCM1uqqcBF7DLvNIzTH6b84RLoefG5KM9YAXTKXA_aem_tEIj7sP_Q8C7apbgLIY9ig
Mar
11
7:00 PM19:00
Talk + Book Signing @ Books on the Rise, Richmond
Join us for an author talk and book signing at Books on the Rise, an independent bookshop and record store on Hill Rise in Richmond — home to Richmond Deer Park and one of the best views in London. Tickets from £4.99 at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-last-kings-of-hollywood-spielberg-coppola-lucas-tickets-1981706281835.
Apr
28
7:00 PM19:00
In Conversation with Irfan Shah @ Leeds Central Library
IN-PERSON EVENT begins at 7:00 PM GMT
📍Leeds Central Library, Local and Family History, Second Floor, Leeds, LS1 3AB
In 1888 in Leeds, Louis Le Prince shot what many now consider to be the world’s first films. Film-maker and researcher Irfan Shah will be talking to writer Paul Fischer about his ground-breaking new biography of Le Prince and trying to discover the truth about the many myths surrounding the man behind the camera.
£5.00 - standard admission, with a complimentary drink on arrival.
Apr
21
7:00 PM19:00
In Conversation with Dean Jobb @ The Mark Twain House (virtual)
VIRTUAL EVENT BEGINS AT 7:00 PM EASTERN TIME
The Mark Twain House & Museum welcomes returning author Paul Fischer to discuss his new book THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES: A TRUE TALE OF OBSESSION MURDER AND THE MOVIES, a page-turning history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it—detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. Paul is joined in conversation by award-winning true crime author Dean Jobb.
FREE virtual event, although donations are gratefully accepted. REGISTER HERE.
Copies of THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES signed by the author are available for purchase through the Mark Twain Store; proceeds benefit The Mark Twain House & Museum. Books will be shipped after the event. We regret that we are NOT able to ship books outside the United States as it is cost-prohibitive to do so.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Dean Jobb is an award-winning author and journalist and a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. He specializes in true crime and writes a monthly column on the genre, “Stranger Than Fiction,” which appears in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Jobb’s articles and book reviews appear in CrimeReads, Inside History magazine, the Chicago Review of Books, and the Washington Independent Review of Books. During his 35-year career as a newspaper staff writer and freelance journalist he has written features and commentaries on an array of subjects – history, current events, law, business, politics, media ethics, science, travel, and the craft of nonfiction.