Dates: Saturday, April 05, 2025
Type of Show: Community Event
Event time: 6:30pm
Tickets: Free
Join us for a book reading and signing event as local author Michael Hanson reads from his fiction.
About Michael:
Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, MICHAEL HANSON resides and writes in Chapel Hill, where he works at the University of North Carolina. Michael has been dedicated to writing from a young age, as described in his first non-fiction book, Tripping to Dickeyland. A graduate of the University of Georgia, he studied under poet Coleman Barks. In addition to writing, Michael daily helps connect people to books at UNC’s Davis Library, has a passionate love of funk music, and has, according to friends, “the biggest heart of anyone I know.”
About Michael’s Novels:
I Am A Prayer
The night my mom died I couldn’t sleep for the fun. So begins Raymond Shackleford’s confused odyssey, with the news he receives on the very first page of this novel.
I Am a Prayer is about loss and it’s about gifts, and the efforts we make to find meaning in life when tragedy is an inescapable aspect of love. Ray’s journey takes him to a variety of venues-from a dance-club to the depths of his own past-but it will be a chance encounter with a stranger that changes everything.
Nate’s New Age
Darkly comic and fast-paced, Nate’s New Age is the bastard son of Bright Lights, Big City, and All That Jazz. A 28-year-old skydiving instructor searches for — and avoids — meaning in his life through substance-abuse and sexual adventure. His most controlled moments are jumping out of a plane at 15,000 feet. Nate knows it is time to plant his feet on solid ground. Will he make changes, or has he become addicted to the plunge?
Tripping To Dickeyland
“This Dickeyland book is a beautiful elegy for James Dickey and his work, his wild vitality, his kindness. But it is more than an elegy. It describes, and celebrates, Michael Hanson’s difficult apprenticeship to his craft, his loves, his friendships. This is very real and rare, the true story of an American artist at work.”
-Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi