“Ryan Van Meter’s ‘I Was There’ focuses on a thorough investigation of Janis Joplin’s exact address and its proximity to Van Meter’s home and falls under the terrific category.”

SAN FRANCISCO – TUESDAY, APRIL 24

San Francisco Public Library

Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room A & B

100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, California  94102

5:00 pm Reception

6:00 pm Reading

Confirmed authors: Ryan Van Meter, Daphne Gottlieb, Justin Chin, Tirza T. Latimer, Jan Steckel, Malinda Lo, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jim Provenzano, Lara Fergus, Christina Hutchins, Nat Smith.

“If You Knew Then What I Know Now” nominated for Gay Memoir/Biography.

Sunday, April 22 - 3:00 PM - University of Southern California

Southeast Hall (Tables P5 and P6).

“Eminent Debuts: Four Authors Discuss Their First Nonfiction Books”

“Is the Midwest Reshaping Creative Nonfiction? A Tribute to Fourth Genre”

“If there is a more gloriously tender account of growing up gay in suburban Missouri, we have yet to see it. In 13 linked essays, Van Meter traces a loose chronology of a boy who spent the first half of his life learning to hide in the closet, and the second, struggling to come out of it.”