Events

Launch party for Fleda Brown's new collection of memoir essays, Driving With Dvorak. We are honored that Fleda has chosen Brilliant Books to launch her latest work, a collection of essays written over the past nine years. Examining subjects as diverse as hiking in the Cascades and nearly dying of pain in her knees; her 89–year-old father and his lady friend turning their sailboat over in the middle of the lake; being at Cape Cod with the kids and wishing she were at Central Lake; returning cats to the Humane Association (after having them for six years); and all the cars Fleda has ever owned (including one with racing stripes!). We will have Brilliante sparking wine from Bel Lago Wineries and award winning raclette from Leelanau Cheese, as well as everything else you'd expect from a Brilliant books launch party.   Advance praise for Driving with Dvorak   “This book is, in a word, sublime.” “Brown’s essays, whether you call them personal essays or lyric essays, are brilliant.” “We are in the company of a deeply wise, compassionate, gifted poet who brings a musicality and distillation of word and image to prose that is a wonder to behold.”