About this Event
Join author Eric Schnall for his first-ever book event in Berlin.
I Make Envy on Your Disco—winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction—takes place in Berlin in 2003. In fact, a few scenes are set just steps away from Minoa, by the Wasserturm and in Kollwitzkiez. Please join us for Disco’s homecoming!
“A love letter to Berlin, to travel, and to saying yes to life.”— Alan Cumming
“A funny and moving debut.” — The Washington Post
About The Event:
Minoa Berlin welcomes Eric (all the way from New York!) for a lively discussion about the creation of I Make Envy on Your Disco.
- Author reading
- 30min Q&A, moderated by Minoa's Abigail Lajti
- Open Q&A session— your questions are very welcome!
- Book signing (paperback copies of I Make Envy on Your Disco will be available for purchase at the event)
- Drinks and nibbles will be available for purchase
- Program will be in English for approximately 2 hours
About The Book:
It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year- old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own.
In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit cafés and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials. A trip that begins in isolation evolves into one of deep connection and possibility.
In an intensely concentrated series of days, Sam finds himself awash in the city, stretched in limbo between his own past and future—in nightclubs with Jeremy, a lonely wannabe DJ; navigating a flirtation with Kaspar, an East Berlin artist he meets at a café; and engaged in a budding relationship with Magda, the enigmatic and icy manager of Sam’s hotel, whom Sam finds himself drawn to and determined to thaw.
I Make Envy on Your Disco is at once a tribute to Berlin, a novel of longing and connection, and a coming-of-middle-age story about confronting the person you were and becoming the person you want to be.
About The Author:
Eric Schnall has worked on and off Broadway as a producer and marketing director for more than twenty-five years. He won a Tony Award for the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and a Lucille Lortel Award for Fleabag. He has also written about techno and electronic music for Billboard and Revolution, profiling DJs and musicians from around the world. Eric lives in New York City. I Make Envy on Your Disco is his first novel.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Minoa | Café & Bookstore, Rykestraße 52, Berlin, Germany
EUR 9.90
