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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Alvin Orloff, Beth Lisik and K.M. Soehnlien in conversation 
DESCRIPTION:<p>Our Summer On the Same Page author Alvin Orloff will be in conversation with&nbsp;<a href="https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Lisick%2C+Beth&amp;searchType=author" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Beth&nbsp;Lisik</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=%22Soehnlein%2C+K.+M.%22&amp;searchType=author" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">K.M.&nbsp;Soehnlien</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Alvin Orloff, Bay Area native,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">2020 Lambda Literary</a>&nbsp;award finalist for best Gay Memoir is our On the Same Page selected author for his book&nbsp;<em><a href="https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3898143093">Disasterama!</a>: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977-1997&nbsp;</em>(Three Rooms Press).&nbsp;<em>Disasterama!</em>&nbsp;is a fun, raunchy, hilarious and painful&nbsp;coming of age&nbsp;memoir. One cannot speak of gay counterculture in the 80s and not be ingrained in AIDS crisis&nbsp;and the loss of life which ensued. Alvin does this with honest emotion and humor.&nbsp;Opening with&nbsp;teenage Orloff in search of acceptance, love, but mostly sex—he&nbsp;finds,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alvinorloff.com/webstitute.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Michael Joseph Collins</a>,&nbsp;who becomes his infatuation,&nbsp;creative partner, bandmate in&nbsp;The&nbsp;Popstitutes,&nbsp;love and friend.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Reservation required:&nbsp;<a href="https://bit.ly/DisasteramaAuthorTalk">https://bit.ly/DisasteramaAuthorTalk</a></p>

<p>Get&nbsp;the book&nbsp;today at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dogearedbooks.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Dog Eared Books Castro</a>,&nbsp;you can calls between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. every weekday at (415) 282 1901 or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dogearedbooks.com/email-orders-page" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">order online</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Related event</strong></p>

<p><a href="https://sfpl.org/events/2020/06/28/book-club-disasterama-alvin-orloff">On the Same Page Book Club</a>: Discussing&nbsp;<em>Disasterama!</em>&nbsp;– June&nbsp;28, 2 p.m., Virtual Library&nbsp;</p>

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