Cal Hoffman: EASY TO SLIP with host Tom Gamper

Join us at The Ivy Bookstore to help celebrate Cal Hoffman's new book, Easy to Slip! We will enjoy a reading, and conversation as Hoffman is joined by Baltimore champion and architect Tom Gamper.

About the book: "Set in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hollywood in the ’60s and ’70s: a riveting, revelatory journey. Just 17, Sam Kovner starts his freshman year at Columbia, thrown into a world of academic pressure, recreational drugs, roiling testosterone, and repressed sexuality. In the dead of winter, the dorm walls fill with abusive scrawls. Voices chatter from the halls. Sam walks—36 hours straight, the insight of memory helping him to repair his inner unraveling. As Sam comes of age, his courageous narrative proves unsettling, inspiring, and utterly unique."

Purchase the book HERE!

CAL HOFFMAN is a writer, educator, and actor. He graduated from Catholic University and attended Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the MFA Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University. He has taught English and creative writing to children of immigrants, private school students, and young people in foster care. As an actor, he has performed in regional theater across the country and starred in the acclaimed New York revival of Jules FeiIer’s “Elliot Loves.” Cal lives with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, and their son, Harry, in Washington, DC.

TOM GAMPER is an architect who became acquainted with the Hoffman family through his friendship with colleague George Kostritsky, the long-time companion of Sheila Hoffman and founding partner of the internationally acclaimed architectural firm, RTKL. Tom leads SM+P Architects’ residential design studio, serving as advisor and mentor to the professional staff. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Colorado, Denver and his B.A. in Art History from Bowdoin College. He has completed dozens of large-scale residential design projects at SM+P Architects, including renovations and additions to houses in Baltimore’s historic districts such as Homeland, Roland Park, Reservoir Hill, Seton Hill, Bolton Hill, Mount Vernon and Federal Hill. He has also offered design assistance to the Neighborhood Design Center for over 30 years and is currently the Rehab Specialist on behalf of SM+P Architects for Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc.. An avid fly-fisher, he currently sits on the Boards of the Maryland Chapter of Trout Unlimited and the Alumni and Friends of Roland Park Elementary Middle School. The father of two adult children, Hope and Noah, he resides in Baltimore’s Charles Village with his wife Mary Beth.