Join Bruce Handy, Daniel Pollack‑Pelzner and Todd Purdum for a lively look at the creative leaps that reshaped TV, film and stage, from Broadway’s turn to hip‑hop to teen stardom and the Cuban bandleader who helped invent the modern sitcom. Follow the unexpected choices that turned bold ideas into pop-culture history.
| Where: | UA Mall Tent (Seats 250)    |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Central Mall (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction |
| Moderator: | Jonathon Crider |
| Sponsor: | Session made possible courtesy of Pepper Viner Homes |
Bruce Handy is a journalist, critic, humorist, and children’s author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. His book "Wild Things: The Joys of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult" was published in 2017....
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner has written about theater and contemporary culture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. Born and raised in Oregon, he teaches theater history at Portland State University and is the scholar-in-residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project....
Todd S. Purdum worked at The New York Times, covering politics and later served as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. Besides being a staff writer at Vanity Fair, Politico, and The Atlantic, he authored "Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution" and "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964....
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