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Berkeley Arts & Letters is a project bringing writers and thinkers together with readers for inspiration, provocation, education, and sharing conversations. Produced by Melissa Mytinger and Praveen Madan, we welcome everyone who's interested in civil discourse, curiosity...and the pleasure of words.

DANIEL CLOWES / Wilson

Start: May 13, 2010 - 7:30pm

Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog and quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friend and stranger alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humor. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, and discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended and given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family -- a doomed mission that will surely, inevitably backfire.

In the first all-new graphic novel from one of the leading cartoonists of our time, Daniel Clowes creates a thoroughly engaging, complex, and fascinating portrait of the modern egoist -- outspoken and oblivious to the world around him. Working in a single-page-gag format and drawing in a spectrum of styles, the cartoonist of GhostWorld, Ice Haven, and David Boring gives us his funniest and most deeply affecting novel to date.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning cartoonist Daniel Clowes lives in Oakland, with his wife and son, where he continues to create his Eightball comic book series and write screenplays.

Preferred seating tickets available with the purchase of a copy of WILSON at The Booksmith from April 27 while supplies last.

Location:

The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, California 94117