You can purchase a copy of A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley here: tinyurl.com/m6aelpz A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley is an illuminated novel written and designed by Warren Lehrer (2013, Goff Books). The novel includes 101 books within it all written by Lehrer’s protagonist—Bleu Mobley—who finds himself in prison looking back on his life and career. This video is an animated visualization of the first paragraph of Bleu Mobley’s opening narrative, as whispered into a microcassette recorder from the darkness of his prison cell on the night of February 7th, 2008. Over the course of one long night, he tries to puzzle out how a life writes itself. How one thing leads to another without a plan or a map: how a simple compulsion to tell stories – turned into something else, twisted this way and that. “And maybe by coming to grips with my story and putting it in a book, I can set myself free of it. For mine has been a life in books (101 of them, I’m told). Books have been my oxygen, my fix, my wings, my armor and fortress, my bread and butter, and now the cause of my demise. And if the story of my life in books can be my last book, I might (finally) be able to start a new chapter.” Purchase a copy of A Life In Books and read more about Bleu Mobley’s life and books: tinyurl.com/m6aelpz Find out more about the A Life In Books project, Warren Lehrer, performance/reading tour, contests, etc: alifeinbooks.net/ Animation by Warren Lehrer in collaboration with Brandon Campbell. Nocturne Opus 48, No 1 in C minor by Frederick Chopin, performed by Claudio Arrau.

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