BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Ebell of Los Angeles. - ECPv4.9.10//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Ebell of Los Angeles. X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ebellofla.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Ebell of Los Angeles. BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T193000 DTSTAMP:20240329T120259 CREATED:20211222T175832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211222T175832Z UID:33237-1642530600-1642534200@ebellofla.org SUMMARY:Book Chamber DESCRIPTION:January is award-winning fiction.  Here’s a Pulitzer Prize winner. \nJennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar\, an aging former punk rocker and record executive\, and Sasha\, the passionate\, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts\, the reader does\, in intimate detail\, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs\, over many years\, in locales as varied as New York\, San Francisco\, Naples\, and Africa. \nWe first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties\, on her therapist’s couch in New York City\, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later\, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage\, then as a runaway living in Naples\, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle\, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage\, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life — divorced\, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son\, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house — and then revisit him in 1979\, at the height of his youth\, shy and tender\, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang — who thrived and who faltered — and we encounter Lou Kline\, Bennie’s catastrophically careless mentor\, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou’s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. \nA Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music\, about survival\, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint\, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both — and escape the merciless progress of time — in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly\, startling\, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers. \n URL:https://ebellofla.org/event/book-chamber-jan-2022/ CATEGORIES:Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ebellofla.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/BC_SQUARE-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR