Meet I'm Carolyn Parker Producer Daniel Wolff in-person during a nine-city book and screening tour beginning on Thursday, August 16, 2012, in New Orleans and ending in Woodstock, NY, on October 13, 2012.
Wolff's new book, The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back (Bloomsbury, Aug. 7, 2012), is about citizens returning to New Orleans and rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward; it is another aspect of the ongoing project he is producing with Jonathan Demme that includes I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful.
For a complete event schedule, see below.
August 16, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.
Garden District BookshopThe Fight for Home reading
2727 Prytania Street · New Orleans, LA 70130
August 17, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
Ashé Cultural Arts Center (in partnership with New Orleans Film Society)I'm Carolyn Parker screening
1712 Oretha C Haley Boulevard · New Orleans, LA 70113
August 18, 2012 at 2 p.m.
Community Book CenterThe Fight for Home reading
2523 Bayou Road · New Orleans, LA 70119
August 19, 2012 at 2 p.m.
Brazos BookstoreThe Fight for Home reading
2421 Bissonnet Street · Houston, TX 77005
August 19, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Museum of Fine Arts (in partnership with the Houston Cinema Arts Society)I'm Carolyn Parker screening
1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX 77005
August 21, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
San Diego Public Library - Valencia Park/Malcolm X BranchThe Fight for Home reading
5148 Market St, San Diego, CA 92114
August 22, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Vroman's BookstoreThe Fight for Home reading
695 East Colorado Boulevard · Pasadena, CA 91101
August 24, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Book PassageThe Fight for Home reading
51 Tamal Vista Boulevard · Corte Madera, CA 94925
August 25 at 4 p.m.
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD)I'm Carolyn Parker screening
685 Mission Street · San Francisco, CA 94105
September 13, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Princeton Public LibraryI'm Carolyn Parker screening
65 Witherspoon Street · Princeton, NJ 08542
September 18, 2012 at 7 p.m.
The StrandDaniel Wolff & Jonathan Demme in conversation
828 Broadway · New York, NY 10003-4805
October 13, 2012 at 5 p.m.
Woodstock LibraryThe Fight for Home reading
5 Library Lane · Woodstock, New York 12498
Daniel Wolff, Producer
Daniel Wolff was executive producer on Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist, has published poetry in The Paris Review, Partisan Review and The Threepenny Review and is the author of a number of nonfiction books, including the recent How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them. A Grammy nominee and winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for his biography of Sam Cooke, Wolff has collaborated with sculptor Robert Taplin, musician Steve Elson and choreographer Marta Renzi, mother of his two children.
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