{"id":68706,"date":"2020-05-02T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=68706"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:26:55","slug":"michael-zadoorian-book-launch-may-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2020\/05\/02\/michael-zadoorian-book-launch-may-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Zadoorian book launch May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To reserve a signed or inscribed first edition copy of THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES in paperback ($16.95) or hardcover ($28.95) send your name and phone number to BookBeatOrders@gmail.com, or call us at (248) 968-1190 Mon-Sat 10 AM-5 PM. Operators are standing by! Support Local! Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLike Zadoorian\u2019s earlier novels\u2014The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit, The Leisure Seeker and Beautiful Music\u2014this new novel brims with wit, passion and soul.\u201d
\n\u2014The Millions<\/em>, one of The Millions\u2019 Most Anticipated Books of 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A message from author Michael Zadoorian:<\/strong> You\u2019re stuck inside. There\u2019s nothing to do. You\u2019ve binged all the shows. You\u2019ve Zoomed all your friends and frankly, you\u2019re a little sick of them. You\u2019re thinking, \u201cWhy doesn\u2019t someone live stream something really exciting — like a literary reading?\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s happening. I\u2019m doing a special Facebook Live event on the launch day of my new novel from Akashic Books, THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES. On Tuesday, May 5th at 8pm ET<\/strong>, I\u2019ll do a live reading from the book with musical accompaniment by my virtuoso pal, Oscar & Grammy winner Luis Resto. After that, we\u2019ll have a live virtual Q&A. (Just in case, I\u2019ll have questions ready, complete with fake names.)<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll also have a virtual book table. Signed copies of The Narcissism of Small Differences will be available from Book Beat of Oak Park, Michigan. I\u2019ll be signing books before and after the event (in mask and rubber gloves), so books can also be personalized. To order, just email BookBeatOrders@gmail.com<\/a> or call Book Beat directly at (248) 968-1190<\/strong>. (Operators will be standing by during the event too.) Books can be shipped or picked up directly at the store via curbside service.<\/p>\n

Join me Tuesday, May 5th at 8pm on my Facebook page<\/strong> and learn just how low your threshold for entertainment has gotten!
\nStreaming link: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michael.zadoorian<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author’s photo by Doug Coomb<\/p><\/div>\n

Michael Zadoorian<\/strong><\/a> is the author of the novels Second Hand, Leisure Seeker, Beautiful Music<\/em> and the short story collection The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit<\/em>. His latest novel The Narcissism of Small Differences<\/em> will be officially released by Akashic Books on 5\/05\/20. You can visit the author’s inner sanctum here.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Here\u2019s my official spiel on the book, which comes out May 5th: Set in bottomed-out 2009 Detroit, THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES is the story of an aging Gen X creative class couple stuck between mainstream and alternative culture, sincerity and irony, achievement and arrested development. It\u2019s a comic novel about selling out, buying in, and compromise: the financial compromises we make to feed ourselves; the moral compromises that justify our questionable actions, and the everyday compromises we all make just to survive in the world. Yet it\u2019s also about the consequences of those compromises and the people we become because of them. And big surprise: there\u2019s tiki in it.” –Read the entire interview with Michael Zadoorian at: Detroit Tikiphile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To reserve a signed or inscribed first edition copy of THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES in paperback ($16.95) or hardcover ($28.95) send your name and phone number to BookBeatOrders@gmail.com, or call us at (248) 968-1190 Mon-Sat 10 AM-5 PM. Operators are standing by! Support Local! Thank you! “Like Zadoorian’s earlier novels—The Lost Tiki Palaces of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[486,270],"class_list":["post-68706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit","tag-luis-resto","tag-michael-zadoorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}