David Horsey with Nancy Guppy — 'Beach of Stars'

Third Place Books welcomes cartoonist and writer David Horsey to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about his new book, . David will be joined in conversation by Northwest news presenter and sketch comedy writer Nancy Guppy.

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National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan calls David Horsey's Beach of Stars "a wonderful novel" and "a masterful bit of storytelling." National Book Award winner Charles Johnson says, "the novel is amazingly good." Best-selling author Will Schwalbe puts it simply: "The book is terrific." Beach of Stars opens with a 21-year-old college student working a summer job in Mexico. In an act of whimsy, he takes a beer to a young woman on a secluded beach. That simple decision ignites a chain of events that, twenty years on, lures him from his career in city politics into a search for the now-fugitive woman -- a journey of revelation that climaxes in a star-crossed reckoning with the past. More than a romance, more than a mystery, Beach of Stars is an odyssey steered by the small choices, impulsive actions, bad timing and happy coincidences that propel human lives toward calamity or bliss.

David Horsey is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. After a long career at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and six years as a political commentator for The Los Angeles Times, Horsey is now based at The Seattle Times. Horsey has been recognized as one of the University of Washington's 150 most distinguished graduates. Besides winning Pulitzers for the P-I in 1999 and 2003, Horsey was a Pulitzer finalist in 1987 and again in 2014 after joining the LA Times. Also in 2014, he received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his cartoons on social justice issues. Horsey took first place in the Best of the West journalism competition for his columns about the 2008 presidential campaign. A fourth-generation Washingtonian, David Horsey lives in Seattle with his wife, Nole Ann.

Nancy Guppy was a staff writer and performer on the KING 5 sketch comedy show “Almost Live” from 1992-1999; a sidekick and traffic chick on the KMPS morning radio show “Ichabod Caine & The Waking Crew” from 2003-2005; and has been the host/producer of "Art Zone with Nancy Guppy" on the Seattle Channel from 2008 to present. She is the recipient of a Writers Guild of America award, numerous Northwest Emmy awards, and, in May of 1976, was named Kiwanis Club Girl of the Month. More about Nancy at www.nancyguppy.org

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events

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Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way Northeast, Lake Forest Park, United States

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