“Mark
Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health
and Happiness,” collected and edited by former BJ TV/movie critic and longtime
Cuyahoga Falls resident Mark Dawidziak, will be unveiled at the Beachwood
branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 4.
Dawidziak
and his wife, Sara Showman, co-founders of the Largely Literary Theater
Company, also will be premiering a one-act show based on material in the book.
The book, published this month by Prospect Park Books, collects the writer's
often politically incorrect and always unapologetically honest advice on
everything from drinking to swearing.
“Nobody gets Mark Twain the
way Mark Dawidziak does,” documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says of “Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise,
Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness.” “Here is the master in all of his
certainty, humor and undertow. This book wonderfully underscores how
contemporary Mark Twain is and always will be.”
The
book launch event in Beachwood will include the performance, a
question-and-answer period and book signing. Dawidziak, the television critic
at Cleveland’s Plain Dealer, also will be signing “Mark Twain in Ohio,” published
in April by Rod Serling Books. It details Twain's many connections to the
Buckeye State and his visits to, among other cities, Akron, Cleveland, Ravenna,
Wooster and Columbus.
The
library is at 25501 Shaker Boulevard in Beachwood. To register for the free
event, go to www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Events.aspx . For information, call
216-831-6868.
The
national book launch for “Mark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise,” etc. will be at
the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Among the places
Dawidziak and Showman have been asked to
perform Twain shows this summer at the Thurber House in Columbus, the Barter
Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia, and the Center for Mark Twain Studies in Elmira,
New York.
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