THANK YOU to Annabelle Gurwitch, Heather Havrilesky, Strawberry Saroyan, Jian Huang and Susan Hayden for a very special Father’s Day salon at The Last Bookstore! It was hot! (Literally!) And poignant, funny and very real.

The audience was mesmerized by Annabelle Gurwitch’s hilarious and deep tales of her larger-than-life father and reading from her memoir, WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE THEY ARE, followed by a captivating Q&A with Heather Havrilesky on fathers, book writing and more.

Readings by Strawberry Saroyan, Jian Huang and Susan Hayden were full of breathtaking twists, turns and surprises, including an appearance by Ron Jeremy. (He came up twice at the event, if that says anything.)

Signings and frolicking in the bookstore followed the event, which was emceed by AFLW co-founder Michele Raphael.

Huge thanks to everyone who was there!

WATCH the FaceBook Live video of the event.

READ an excerpt from Annabelle Gurwitch’s WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE THEY ARE, published in Angels Flight • literary west.

VIEW more photos of the event.

Photos courtesy of David Franco.

Video courtesy of Honor Media’s David Tenenbaum.

Special thanks to Keith Martin for his impromptu help setting up and pouring the wine! And to Rebecca Schultz and The Last Bookstore for hosting us!

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RSVP for our final salon of the summer, featuring Julia Fierro (THE GYSPY MOTH SUMMER) and Anthony Breznican, at Clifton’s, Sunday, July 30, 4-6 p.m.