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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Jesse Katz:  book signing and discussion\nEvent Url
 : http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/32259/Jesse_Katz_book_signing_and_
 discussion\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-11-19\nEvent Date End: 2009-11-19\n\nBr
 azos Bookstore is pleased to present Jesse Katz\, who signs and discusses 
 his book\, The Opposite Field: A Memoir.\n&ldquo\;You need two things to m
 ake a fine\, fine book: a story and a teller. The Opposite Field brings th
 em together\, like young love. It's a story about fathers and sons\, and g
 ood love and failed love\, and baseball. If that isn't by God a book I don
 't know what is....But the best thing about this book is the teller. This 
 guy can flat-out write.&rdquo\;\n&mdash\;Rick Bragg\, author the New York 
 Times bestseller All Over but the Shoutin'\n'A love letter from a father t
 o his son\, The Opposite Field is also a hymn to baseball\, the new Los An
 geles\, the joy and pain of modern parenting as well as one man's journey 
 into wisdom and clarity\, and Jesse Katz shapes this material in such a wa
 y that he makes it as dramatic as a movie. I never would have thought a bo
 ok about a Little League team could be this compelling\, or that so much c
 ould be at stake\, or that La Loma could become--and it does in Katz's buo
 yant prose--the stuff of legend.'\n&mdash\;Bret Easton Ellis\, author of L
 ess Than Zero\, American Psycho and Lunar Park\nHere is one of the most re
 markable\, ambitious\, and utterly original memoirs of this generation\, a
  story of the losing and finding of self\, of sex and love and fatherhood 
 and the joy of language\, of death and failure and heartbreak\, of Los Ang
 eles and Portland and Nicaragua and Mexico\, and the shifting sands of pla
 ce and meaning that can make up a culture\, or a community\, or a home.\nF
 aced with the collapse of his son's Little League program&ndash\;consistin
 g mostly of Latino kids in the largely Asian suburb of Monterey Park\, Cal
 ifornia&ndash\;Jesse Katz finds himself thrust into the role of baseball c
 ommissioner for La Loma Park. Under its lights the yearnings and conflicts
  of a complex immigrant community are played out amid surprising moments o
 f grace. Each day&ndash\;and night&ndash\;becomes a test of Jesse's judgme
 nt and adaptability\, and of his capacity to make this peculiar pocket of 
 L.A.'s Eastside his home.\nWhile Jesse soothes egos\, brokers disputes\, c
 hases down delinquent coaches and missing equipment\, and applies popsicle
 s to bruises\, he forms unlikely alliances\, commits unanticipated errors\
 , and receives the gift of unexpected wisdom. But there's no less drama in
  Jesse's complicated personal life as he grapples with a stepson who seems
  destined for trouble\, comforts his mother (a legendary Oregon politician
 ) when she's stricken with cancer\, and receives hard lessons in finding&n
 dash\;and holding on to&ndash\;the love of a good woman.\nThrough it all\,
  Jesse's emotional mainstay is his beloved son\, Max\, who quietly bests h
 is father's brightest hopes. Over nine springs and summers with Max at La 
 Loma\, Jesse learns nothing less than what it takes to be a father\, a son
 \, a husband\, a coach\, and\, ultimately\, a man.\nThis is an epic book\,
  a funny book\, a sexy book\, a rapturously evocative and achingly poignan
 t book. Above all it is true\, in that it happened\, but also in a way tha
 t transcends mere facts and cuts to the quick of what it means to be alive
 .\nJesse Katz is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a former staffer at 
 the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine. From 1994 to 1998\, he was
  the Houston bureau chief for the LA Times and wrote dozens of stories abo
 ut Texas arts and politics and vices\, including the murder of Tejano star
  Selena\, the controversy over novelist Sandra Cisneros's purple house\, a
 nd the record number of executions on death row. He has also written for T
 exas Monthly and lived in Houston's Willowbend neighborhood. He now lives 
 with his son\, Max\, in Monterey Park\, California.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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SUMMARY:Jesse Katz:  book signing and discussion
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