Jewish Book Festival brochure

A Spotlight Event Featuring
Author Jamie Bernstein
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein
7:00 - 9:30 pm • Hilton Naples
Sponsored by TheatreZone,
Dr. Barrett Ross Ginsberg
and Steinway Piano Gallery
The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare
look at her father on the centennial of his birth in a deeply intimate and broadly evocative
memoir. In Famous Father Girl, Bernstein mines the emotional depths of her
childhood, and invites us into her family’s private world. A fantastic set of characters
populates the Bernsteins’ lives, including the Kennedys, John Lennon, Mike Nichols,
Jerome Robbins, Richard Avedon, Stephen Sondheim and Lauren Bacall. The memoir
is an intoxicating tale and an intimate meditation on a complex
and sometimes troubled man, the family he raised, and the music
he composed that became the soundtrack to their entwined
lives. Deeply moving and often hilarious, Bernstein’s beautifully
written memoir is a great American story about one of the greatest Americans of the modern age.
Jamie Bernstein is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. She travels the world as a concert
narrator. Her documentary Crescendo: The Power of Music is available on Netflix.
$39 in advance • $45 at the door • includes beverage
and light snacks during book-signing reception
Lou Cove
Man of the Year
10:00 am - noon • Unitarian Univ. Cong.
Sponsored by Naples Jewish Congregation
Jamie’s passages will be
brought to musical life by a singer
and pianist performing several
Leonard Bernstein hits.
1978 promised to be another year of dislocation for 12-year-old Lou Cove, the eighth
move in his short life. His free-thinking Jewish family had just left New York behind
for working-class Salem, Massachusetts, a town not far evolved beyond the witch
trials that made its name – hardly the place for a long-haired
Mets fan on the cusp of his Bar Mitzvah. And that was before
the arrival of Howie Gordon: actor, artist, hippie, lover and
Playgirl’s Mr. November. Howie has Hollywood ambitions
and a highly unorthodox idea for achieving them: be named
Playgirl Man of the Year, 1979. When he enlists Lou as his
“campaign manager,” the unlikely duo embarks on a quest
to win the hearts and minds of the witches and wharf rats of
Salem. Man of the Year is the improbable true story of Lou’s
13 th year, one very unusual campaign and the unexpected
guest who taught him how to be a man. A fresh twist on the
coming-of-age memoir, yes, but also a tale of lost innocence.
Lou Cove is an author and a fundraising advisor. He has raised more than $70 million, mostly for Jewish causes. Lou is
Senior Advisor at the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and PJ Library, and was Executive Director of Reboot, a think-tank
and incubator for modern Jewish culture, and Vice President of the National Yiddish Book Center.
$10 in advance • $15 at the door
includes light brunch during book-signing reception
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18
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19
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