This reading/performance features a selection of monologues from the first four books in the Portrait Series, which celebrate the riotous and heartfelt stories and perspectives of American eccentrics. “Lehrer’s animated readings bring to life the sit-down comedians, stoop philosophers, and off-the-cuff poets who are the subjects of his acclaimed series: a retired dockworker, an ordained minister turned street poet and raconteur, a gifted musician struggling with manic depression, and an orphaned citizen of the world and renaissance man.” In addition to performing selections from the books, I discuss my relationships with the subjects and my process writing and designing the books.
For booking info, email: renlehrer@earthlink.net
“The Portrait Series shamelessly offers the pleasures of voyeurism all good books afford... words take on thought’s very form, bringing sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow... (Once) considered too far ahead of his time... now the times are beginning to catch up to him...”
Julie Lasky, The New York Times Book Review
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