Lady Lazarus coming to bookstores

My creative writing instructor and friend, Andrew Altschul has his first novel arriving in stores next week. It's called LADY LAZARUS, and here's the book description: LADY LAZARUS

"This spectacular, sprawling debut novel tells the story of Calliope Bird Morath, daughter of legendary punk-rock star Brandt Morath—whose horrific suicide devastated the world—and his notorious wife, Penelope.

The novel is narrated by both Calliope and her obsessive biographer, who follows her from her silent childhood to her first tortured, manic public statements about her father; from her highly publicized publication of a book of poetry to her mysterious disappearance; from her reappearance as the mute leader of a cultlike brigade known as The Muse to her spectacular showdown with the biographer.

A disturbing and razor-sharp meditation on twenty-first-century celebrity culture, Lady Lazarus is also a funny and moving story about the age-old question of the nature of the self.

"And here's his book tour schedule:
April 15 - BOOK LAUNCH at Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, 7pm.
April 17 - InsideStoryTime, Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco, CA, 6:30pm.
April 22 - Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, 7pm.
April 23 - UC Riverside, INTS-1128, Riverside, CA, 3pm.
April 24 - Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, 7pm.
April 29 - Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, 7:30pm.
April 30 -Books Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 7pm.
May 8 - Powell's, Portland, OR, 7pm.
May 9 - Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle, WA, 7:30pm.
May 15 - Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, 7:30pm.
May 19 - Drunk Poets Society, Winston's Beach Club, San Diego, CA, 6:30pm.
May 21 - Stanford University, Margaret Jacks Hall, Stanford, CA, 7pm.

Andrew's a gifted writer--make sure to check out his book!