This reel presents videotaped clips of Warren Lehrer’s live performance/readings of his illuminated novel—A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley. Performances were filmed at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC, PS1 MoMA, The LaGuardia Performing Art Center in LIC, and the Classic Stage Company Theater in NYC.

A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley is an illuminated novel that contains 101 books within it, all written by a controversial author who finds himself in prison looking back on his life and career.

In his funny and thought provoking performance/readings, Warren Lehrer presents an overview of Bleu Mobley's life in books via many of Mobley's book cover designs, book-like objects, and other biographical materials including animations and video performances of Mobley book excerpts by the band BETTY, actress/poet La Bruja, and (whenever possible) live cameo appearance by actress/author Judith Sloan. The resulting retrospective explores the creative process of a writer/artist, as it reflects upon a half century of American/global events, and grapples with the future of the book as a medium, and the lines that separate and blur truth, myth, and fiction.

In A LIFE IN BOOKS, Bleu Mobley's autobiography/apologia is paired with a review of all 101 of his books, each represented by its first-edition cover design and catalog copy, and more than a third of his books are excerpted.

Written and designed by author/designer/performer Warren Lehrer, acclaimed as a pioneer in the fields of visual literature and design authorship; A Life In Books is Lehrer’s 10th book; his first novel.

A LIFE IN BOOKS is the winner of the 2014 IPPY (Independent Publishers) Outstanding Book of the Year Award for Most Original Concept. It also won a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award, a 2014 National Indie Book Award, and a 2014 CBAA Exhibition Prize (College Book Art Association).

The 380 page, 4 color novel is published by Goff Books.
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If you’re interested in Warren Lehrer presenting A LIFE IN BOOKS at your university, conference, art or literary center, bookstore, reading or performance series, contact: warren@earsay.org

For further info about the BOOK, Warren Lehrer's tour dates, videos, press materials, study guide, contests: alifeinbooks.net

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