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An Evening with Gail Sheehy

by Live Talks Los Angeles

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Wed, Sep 24, 2014, 8:00 PM

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Moss Theatre

New Roads School

3131 Olympic Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Live Talks Los Angeles invites you to:

An Evening with Gail Sheehy
Journalist and author, discussing her memoir

Daring: My Passages

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

8pm (Reception: 6:30-7:30pm)
(Doors open for General Admission tickets at 7:15pm)

Moss Theatre
New Roads School
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tickets:
$20 General Admission
$30 Reserved Seats

$43 Includes Gail Sheehy's book, Reserved Seating
$95 includes Pre-event reception, Sheehy's book, Reserved Seating


Gail Sheehy is the author of sixteen books, including the classic New York Times bestseller Passages, named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress. A multiple award-winning literary journalist, she was one of the original contributors to New York magazine and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. A popular lecturer, Sheehy was named AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving in 2009.

Daring: My Passages is Gail Sheehy's inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. It is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel.

Gail Sheehy reveals the obstacles and opportunities encountered when she dared to blaze a trail in a “man’s world.” Daring is also a beguiling love story of Sheehy’s tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker, the charismatic creator of New York magazine. Sheehy recounts her audacious pursuit and intimate portraits of many twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush, and the world-altering attraction between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Sheehy reflects on desire, ambition, and wanting it all—career, love, children, friends, social significance—and lays bare her major life passages: false starts and surprise successes, the shock of failures and inner crises; betrayal in a first marriage; life as a single mother; flings of an ardent, liberated young woman; her adoption of a second daughter from a refugee camp; marriage to the love of her life and their ensuing years of happiness, even in the shadow of illness. Sheehy speaks from hard-won experience to today’s young women. Her fascinating, no-holds-barred story is a testament to guts, resilience, smarts, and daring, and offers a bold perspective on all of life’s passages.

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