BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T014700 CREATED:20210227T054000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T054000Z UID:250011-1617735600-1617735600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Between the Lines: Joshua Mohr & Daphne Durham DESCRIPTION:“Beat-poet cool” writer Joshua Mohr and editor Daphne Durham discuss the blood\, sweat\, and strikethroughs of bringing Mohr’s latest\, harrowing memoir\, Model Citizen\, into the world. \nClick the “Tickets” link to RSVP to this free event. \nAbout Model Citizen\n\nAfter years of hard-won sobriety\, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter\, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five—his third\, it turns out—which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl\, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart\, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work? \nTold in stunning\, surreal\, time-hopping vignettes\, Model Citizen is a raw\, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life\, throwing the wild joys\, tragedies\, embarrassments\, and adventures of his past into bold relief. His story is heartbreakingly real and yet unreal\, which he captures in vivid\, uncanny imagery\, waking hallucinations that imagine hearts as hot air balloons\, drug cravings as wry Nazi doctors\, secrets as emaciated second selves. \nAnd yet Mohr’s memoir pulses with humanity and humor\, capturing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the dark pit of his past\, learning to love and be loved\, while never letting go of those experiences that shaped him and broke him. A darkly beautiful\, funny\, incisive confession\, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience\, drawing the universal and human out of every moment.” \nAbout the Speakers\n\nJoshua Mohr is the author of the memoir Sirens and of several novels\, including Damascus\, which The New York Times called “beat-poet cool.” His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial. \n\n \nDaphne Durham is Executive Editor at MCD Books\, a division of Farrar\, Straus & Giroux. She came to FSG after more than fifteen years at Amazon.com. During her tenure there as Editorial Director in Books\, her team developed and curated the Best Books programs and launched the blog Omnivoracious. In her roles as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher for Amazon Publishing\, Daphne launched and developed core genre imprints\, managed acquisitions across all categories\, including genre\, literary fiction\, and children’s books\, and created Amazon’s first digital literary journal\, Day One. She publishes Ryan Gattis\, Liska Jacobs\, Araminta Hall\, Kristi Coulter\, Shirley Barrett\, Katrina Carrasco\, Rachel Selfon\, Andy Davidson\, and Sara Sligar\, among others. Daphne was born in New York\, but lives in Seattle and works in New York. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/between-the-lines-joshua-mohr-daphne-durham/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR