Organized By PowPAC, Poway's Community Theatre
13250 Poway Rd,Poway (32.957313, -117.043030)
A special, one night only presentation! Free with RSVP - email [email protected] Amerikan Krazy, Henry James Korn's debut novel, interprets the meaning of power in America. To celebrate its publication, friends, fans and lovers of satire are invited to a reception with the author at 5:00 p.m.; Korn's performance is slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. Signed copies of Amerikan Krazy will be available for purchase at the event. Korn, who served as CEO of the Poway Center for the Performing Arts Foundation from 2003-2009, was hailed by the editors of the Poway Chieftain for steering the nonprofit organization through tough times, building its artistic reputation and finances, restoring the arts and education program and making packed houses "a norm, not a surprise." He is a fiction fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and the author of several previously published books including Muhammad Ali Retrospective, Proceedings of the National Academy of the Avant Garde and A Difficult Act to Follow (www.boffosockobooks.com). He has written articles about art, sports, popular culture and the media for many national and local magazines and newspapers and his stories have been published in numerous fiction anthologies and literary magazines. By turning political writing into art, Korn's recently published novel begins where George Orwell, Edward Abbey and Jules Verne left off. Its vibrant historical context features the illusions and disillusionment of a PTSD-stricken protagonist—a member of the “San Diego 3”—who vows to tilt all available windmills, giving his readers laugh-out-loud moments. Fueled by passion and driven by a playful rage, the novel smacks the “ruling class” upside the head. Dr. Walter James Miller, Professor of Literature at New York University and host of public radio's “Reader's Almanac,” called Korn "one of our very best absurdist writers," contending that "Amerikan Krazy has all the best characteristics of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, Robert Coover's Public Burning and Jack Kerouac at his best."