Book Signing - Jess Winfield

July 29, 2009 BOOK SOUP, SUNSET STRIP, LOS ANGELES, CA MY NAME IS WILL A NOVEL OF SEX DRUGS AND SHAKESPEARE" is now available on audiobook at iTunes     or       Audible.com Jess delighted his audience during a signing and reading to celebrate the release of the new audiobook. Jess is a master story teller and he captivated attendees as he shared insight on his story influences and references and read passages from My Name is Will.   Below are some photos from the book signing and during a visit to his office just before the event. But first here's what a few people have said abot My Name is Will: “Hilarious, fascinating . . . a cunningly witty, frolicsome, time-warping bildungsroman . . . Winfield slings bucketfuls of double-entendres and wily puns... But serious business underlies the literary larkiness... Winfield's high-spirited tribute is a celebration of the power of language and story through which we learn who we are and who we might be as we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, bit players reaching for the heavens in a drama beyond our grasp.” Donna Seaman, LOS ANGELES TIMES “A lusty, pun-drunk first novel by the professional wiseacre and award-winning cartoon producer Jess Winfield . . . to say that Jess Winfield knows his Shakespeare is laughable understatement. Upside down – boy he knows him, inside out, and round and round . . . Winfield must have known how much harder it would be to pull off a strange eventful history like this one sans tights, sans stage, sans everything – but where there’s a will there’s a way. . . In MY NAME IS WILL, Winfield may be accused of treating his favorite literary lion unceremoniously. But, after all, no gentleman is a hero to his varlet.” Liesl Schillinger, NEW YORK TIMES “Pulls off a potentially clumsy conceit with nuance and panache, as the lives of our two Williams intersect across time and space with mind-bending results." Adriana Leshko, WASHINGTON POST “Happily outrageous . . . The sex throughout is well done and not for the prim . . .Winfield delights in puns from low to high (“iamb what iamb”'), and cleverly sprinkles conversations in the earlier age with lines that would later turn up in the plays... Well done, Winfield. Jeffrey Burke, BLOOMBERG.COM We have to agree, if you have not read this book, you should.
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MY NAME IS WILL and these other works are available now from Amazon.com!