Stamford Literature, Arts & Culture Salon - SLACS

08/30/2022

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08/09/2022

This celestial was surely written in the stars…MANMADE CONSTELLATIONS by Misha Lazzara is available now in multiple formats (including signed hardcover)!✴️🤩Check out Misha’s ‘Dear Readers’ note below, and follow the link below to grab your copy + score details on the 6 events in Misha’s , starting TONIGHT in Charlotte, NC at Summit Coffee Co. NoDa!

Dear Reader,
Thank you for coming along on this journey with me. Or, more aptly, on this journey with Lo, John and Jason as they travel across the country, all in search of something different. Lo, for a parent she’s never met. John, who needs to make amends after big mistakes and long absences, and with Jason, who unwillingly wanders away from one future while grappling with a past he’d prefer to leave behind.

For me, this journey was a long one. I started writing Manmade Constellations well over ten years ago, then shelved it for one of various reasons that writers tend to do such things. It’s likely I wasn’t quite ready to write it back then. I had my own journeys to rove before I was ready to put this one into words. When I finally picked this manuscript back up again, I met it with a revived vision, and as I wrote, I began to understand precisely where I had to take these characters.

In many ways, it’s an exploration of what it takes to leave the only home you’ve ever known, to trust yourself to face your biggest fears, to own up to mistakes and move into the future with more clarity and self-knowledge than before. In other ways, it’s a long series of misadventures, detours that many people face in life. Those junctures where staunch beliefs are enforced as both a shield and a weapon—how the things we believe so firmly about ourselves and the world can keep us from knowing or understanding either of those things very well at all.

So I’d like to say thanks to all of you who commit to the journey of Manmade Constellations. I hope it takes you places you didn’t expect.

With appreciation,
Misha Lazzara

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08/09/2022

08/05/2022

07/20/2022

Book launch party for Misha Lazzara’s smart, magnetic and emotional debut novel MANMADE CONSTELLATIONS (Blackstone Publishing), with music by Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday happening at Half Full Brewery's Half Full Third Place Sat. 8/27 8pm. Hope to see you there!

05/26/2022

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05/20/2022

"Fuller’s book will soon be offered to various publishing houses through the help of literary agent Mark Gottlieb, who is also the president of SLACS. It was Gottlieb who arranged for Tubman to write the introduction; the two are friends."

During an event in Stamford’s South End, education consultant Brian Fuller spoke about...

04/21/2022

Harriet Tubman grandnephew Abdul Tubman interviews Brian Fuller, education leader, writer and activist about his upcoming book exploring educational paths to liberation in schools—shedding light on the importance of racially conscious teaching, policies, and practices.

04/04/2022

Chef & restaurateur Paul Gerard experienced his fair share of trials & tribulations and is on a quest searching for meaning, balance, and connection by using food as the greatest unifying force of all. He discusses the crossroads of how food connects us in memory & personal history—and what it means to keep the fire burning in his event Appetite for Connection.

02/15/2022

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02/15/2022

An illustrated presentation that takes various beer styles and breaks them down into easy-to-understand comics.

02/11/2022

Thank you to everyone who stopped by and made last night’s Stamford Literature, Arts & Culture Salon an awesome event! Special thanks to Half Full Third Place/Half Full Brewery for hosting us!