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See “Read Me” at the Orlando Film Festival

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I saw “Read Me” at the Orlando Film Festival, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I laughed and cried and walked out feeling uplifted and humming the original score; what more can you ask from a feature film?  The really great news is that it’s playing again on Saturday, October 22nd at noon in Theater 10 at the Cobb Plaza Cinema Cafe, 155 South Orange Avenue, Orlando.  Written and directed by Fred Zara, and produced by Aviva Christie, “Read Me” tells the story of Clark, who can’t read words, but can read people. His special gift touches everyone he becomes involved with, and changes lives for the better. See this movie, and bring a friend.

Here’s the trailer. Enjoy!

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Haunting the Kerouac House

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Regular readers of this blog know that I was the 19th writer in residence at the Jack Kerouac House, and most of our friends know that I also met my husband Brad Kuhn at a party there; heck, we were married on its front porch.  But a lot of you haven’t heard the story of how another Kerouac House writer, Sion Dayson, and I met when I was selling copies of my novel, Sewing Holes at an authors fair at Bookmark It, or that within 5 minutes of our first hello, Sion and I had arranged a road trip (what else would two Kerouac devotees do?) from Orlando to New Orleans to start the day her residency ended, to visit our mutual friends from Paris. Sion’s boyfriend, French filmmaker Frederic Monpierre, who had just finished shooting raw footage of her at the K-house, gamely climbed into the backseat of Ruby, our trusty red Lexus, and with Brad acting as chauffeur, we were on the road.

Now we’ve come full circle, as Monpierre’s 15 minute documentary, Haunting the Kerouac House, starring Dayson, makes its Orlando debut at the Orlando Film Festival on Friday, October 21st at 7 p.m. in Theater 9.  Join us!  Here’s the teaser.

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Monster TREK: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot, by Joe Gisondi

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Full disclosure: author Joe Gisondi and I once worked together in the sports department of the Orlando Sentinel. I like the guy, so I was predisposed to like his book. He has been a serious journalist for over twenty years, and he is now a professor of journalism at Eastern Illinois University, so you may be wondering, as I did, why in the world he would pick such an esoteric topic on which to write a book.

The answer to the question is at once simple and complex.

The simple answer is: he just wants to know. Traveling with Bigfoot hunters as diverse as the well-known Moneymaker, Meldrum, and Barackman, as well as with unknown teachers, engineers, and bankers, Gisondi treks into remote forests, mountains, swamps, and parks, as well as a backyard or two, seeking that elusive prize: a face-to-face encounter with a mythical creature that has been reported as sighted in every state except Hawaii.

The more complex answer is that Gisondi is seeking, through contact with people who truly believe in something both unexplainable and larger than themselves, a faith in the mystical that has eluded him since he was a child. It’s a privilege and pleasure to accompany him, through the pages of his book, on his quixotic quest.