HARVEY PEKAR
Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave.

One of the foremost practitioners of graphic, illustrated nonfiction narratives makes this welcome appearance, occasioned by the publication of a major new work. This would be Harvey Pekar, he of American Splendor renown, here tonight with Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story (Ballantine). "The dean of nonfiction comics tells the story of a guy who is just becoming tolerable at the end of the book, when he snares a job developing a show for VH-1 and gets an all-smile button. Michael Malice has his excuses...But he is a jerk who boasts about his flair for verbal cruelty, gloatingly recalls every time he was right but suppressed (by his lights), and cuts no slack for anybody else's attempted diplomacy, fears and mediocrity...For Malice, it's me, me, me, and I'm better than everyone else...One thing's for sure: Pekar isn't resting on his laurels." - Ray Olson, Booklist. Tickets are $5, available in advance at Elliott Bay starting March 25. Town Hall Seattle is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (8th & Seneca). For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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