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October 8 - October 8, 2009

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Herbst Theater - 401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA
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English writer Nick Hornby made his debut in 1992 with the autobiographical Fever Pitch, which humorously chronicles his exploits as an obsessed fan of the Arsenal Football Club. Since then, he’s written four other books of nonfiction, numerous articles and critical pieces, and five novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy, both made into major motion pictures. Hornby infuses his characters with passion and verve – whether through the musical “top-five” lists constructed by a record shop owner in High Fidelity, or 16-year-old Sam Jones’ idolization of skateboarder Tony Hawk in the novel Slam. In “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” Hornby’s long-running column for The Believer magazine, the author discussed books he bought and what he’d read that month – often two completely different lists. Hornby’s influences range from David Gates’s novel Jernigan to the stories of Lorrie Moore, and his reading habits proved fertile ground for musings on lit culture and the manifold pleasures of a good book. Hornby’s sixth novel, out this fall, is Juliet, Naked, named for an album by musician Tucker Crowe, one of the novel’s main characters. The book tackles themes of love, loneliness and music – all strong suits in Hornby’s writings.