A Different Light Event: Book Signing & Reading w/ Robert Julian

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In But the Show Went On, (the prequel to his best-selling memoir, Postcards from Palm Springs) author Robert Julian revisits 17 essays, interviews, and feature stories he created for the San Francisco Sentinel over 20 years ago. Each entry is illuminated by a new backstory that provides a perspective only made possible by the passage of time. With the same take-no-prisoners attitude that propelled thousands of readers through Postcards from Palm Springs in one sitting, Robert Julian once again establishes the value of a smart mouth, sharp eye, and snappy rejoinder.

Amazon: But the Show Went On

Robert Julian moved from Detroit to San Francisco after finishing graduate school in 1974. He was one of the first actors at Theater Rhinoceros, the nation’s oldest gay/lesbian theater company. In the mid-1980s, Julian began working as a freelance journalist, first as a columnist and entertainment features writer for the San Francisco Sentinel. He later served as entertainment editor and film critic for the Bay Area Reporter. Julian is the author of hundreds of articles that have appeared in publications like The Advocate, Christopher Street, SF Weekly, LA Weekly, Frontiers, and Palm Springs Life. In 1994, he was the co-author and co-photographer (with Patrick McGrew) of Landmarks of Los Angeles.

After becoming a full-time Palm Springs resident in January, 2006, Julian immediately began work on his memoir, Postcards from Palm Springs. It appeared in late 2007 and became a succés de scandale. The book was featured in magazines and newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, the Desert Sun, Instinct, the Bottom Line, and In magazine and the author was a guest on many television and radio talk shows.

In But the Show Went On - San Francisco 1987-1988, the prequel to Postcards from Palm Springs, the author establishes how he came to be viewed as a 1980s gay male version of Sex and City’s Carrie Bradshaw – a decade before Candace Bushnell penned that successful novel.

Robert Julian is now working on a sequel to Postcards from Palm Springs with the working title: Hollywood or Lust - More Postcards from Palm Springs. When not writing, Robert Julian performs with the Palm Springs improvisational comedy troupe, Joe and Mustard.

More information: http://www.buttheshowwenton.com/

BOOK: Postcards from Palm Springs & But the Show Went On
AUTHOR: Robert Julian
DATE: Tuesday, October 20
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco