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DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David 
 Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for 
 over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers, The 
 Devil's Chessboard, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for 
 the first time, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this 
 intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke, a 
 year that turned his life upside down, and ultimately, saved him.\n\nIn 
 short chapters that had their genesis on Facebook, Talbot recounts a year 
 of recovery, upheaval, and transformation following the stroke that almost 
 killed him. He also reflects on the pace of the stress-filled career that 
 brought him to this precipice, in his mid-60s, while he was still trying to 
 navigate his way through considerable Hollywood challenges in attempting to 
 bring his books to the screen. As the hard-charging CEO and editor-in-chief 
 of Salon, he championed progressive investigative journalism at a time when 
 the industry was heading toward a financial abyss. “I believed then that 
 Salon was worth dying for. We were caught up in history’s hurricane,” 
 he writes. “My stroke did not just change my life,” he writes. “It 
 saved my life.”\n\nBy necessity, he slowed down, he lost a lot of weight, 
 and he pared his existence down to the essentials and became focused on 
 what really matters. He made his peace with death and learned to “live 
 each moment like it’s your last." These are the sort of sentiments upon 
 which countless self-help books are constructed, but Talbot demonstrates 
 the conviction of someone who has been there and back and now knows what is 
 really at stake.\n\nIn his signature voice and with powerful storytelling, 
 Talbot examines the physical, emotional, and psychological impact his 
 stroke has had on his identity. Along the way Talbot offers readers insider 
 stories on the wild early days of Internet journalism, insights into the 
 new tech culture, the down and dirty of Hollywood, and much more. This is 
 an illuminating, often humorous, portrait of how a health crisis can truly 
 shift one's perspective on life and purpose.\n\n“A deeply affecting 
 examination of mortality, ambition, and the priorities of a man who dodged 
 death to live better days.”\n—Dave Eggers, bestselling author of The 
 Circle, Zeitoun, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius\n\n“What 
 makes this book so special is the complete absence of resentment and 
 self-pity. This is a story beyond catharsis—it’s a rebirth, a 
 celebration, a hallucinatory and joyous examination of the aftermath of 
 illness with love and gratitude infused on every page.”\n—Susannah 
 Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire and The Great Pretender\n\nWith special 
 guests including Joe Talbot and Jimmy Fails, director and star of the film 
 The Last Black man in San Francisco; former SF Supervisor, CA State 
 Assembly member, AND comedian Tom Ammiano; Gary Kamiya; current SF 
 Supervisor Hillary Ronen. \n\nEvent begins at 7pm, doors 6:30.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/02/18829400.php
SUMMARY:David Talbot Reads From His Near-Death, New Life Memoir
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\n3rd Floor Loft\n1687 Market Street\nSan 
 Francisco, CA  94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/02/18829400.php
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