The Music Hall Loft presents Writers in the Loft with Brad Gooch
Date and Time
Thursday Feb 2, 2017
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM EST
Thursday, February 2, 2017
7:00 PM
Location
The Music Hall Loft
131 Congress Street
Portsmouth, NH
Fees/Admission
$43 ($41, members). Includes reserved seat, book (RUMI’S SECRET: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love, hardcover, $28.99), bar beverage, author presentation, Q+A, and book signing meet-and-greet.
Website
Description
The New York Times bestselling biographer (Flannery, City Poet) explores the life and writing of Rumi, the 13th-century Persian Sufi whose work has captured the hearts and minds of contemporary western readers including Madonna, Deepak Chopra, and Oliver Stone. Join Brad Gooch in his travels through the Middle East in search of the true story of this religious leader and professor turned poet and whirling mystic.
Don’t miss the first-ever biography for the general reader of the religious leader whose work has captured the hearts and minds of contemporary Western readers.
Brad Gooch is the author of Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s and the 80s and Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller. His previous books include City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara; Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America; as well as three novels, a story collection, a volume of poems, and two memoirs. A Guggenheim fellow in biography, he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a Furthermore grant in publishing from the J.M. Kaplan Fund.
