15 May, Saturday 7:30 P.M.
TamTam Books & Beyond Baroque presents
with the support of the French Cultural Service in Los
Angles
Serge Gainsbourg and Boris Vian Party
Saturday May 15 at 7:30 P.M.
AT: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
681 Venice Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
Phone no: 310-822-3006
TamTam Books: 323-661-8741
Tosh Berman and his TamTam Books celebrates the release of
their
first two titles: Boris Vian's I Spit on Your Graves and
Serge
Gainsbourg's only novel Evgu鮩e Sokolov. Both titles were, and
still are
shocking in its sense of outrageousness provocation, and
brilliance. Vian
was a jazz musician, playwright, novelist, translator of hard
boiled
American crime classics (Chandler, Cain, etc.) into French,
and hardcore
trouble maker. Gainsbourg was a prototype lusty punk who tore
into the
threads of French society with his numerous films, music
projects, and
outlandish persona. Both of them changed the world, and
therefore
transformed the world of pop music and literature into a
vision of
sexuality , humor and of course danger.
Along with the readings of Gainsbourg and Vian's work we
feature
the glorious sounds of dj's Lance Rock & Hypnotique
spinning the sounds of
Vian & Gainsbourg and the French music revolution they
both started, and a
screening of the ultra-rare documentary on Gainsbourg in
English, with the
tantalizing Brigitte Bardot, the desirable Jane Birkin, and
of course, the
nasty overtones of "Lemon Incest" with Gainsbourg's daughter
Charlotte.
Tickets are $7. $5 for students and seniors. Beyond Baroque
members free.
Boris Vian's I Spit on Your Graves & Serge Gainsbourg's
Evgu鮩e Sokolov
are available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobel.com and
various bookstores.
Also through :
AK Distribution
Small Press Distribution PO Box 40682
1341 Seventh Street San Francisco, CA 94140
Berkeley, CA 94710-1409 ph:415.864.0892
800-869-7553 fx:415.864.0893
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Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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