Long Beach Writers Read

Join Portfolio Coffeehouse for a monthly installment of Long Beach Writers Read featuring local authors reading, answering questions and selling copies of their recently published works. On January 23rd, we’ll feature author Greggory Moore reading from his novel, The Use of Regret, from 7-8:30 pm.

About the novel:
How to find within a life already lived a means to connect with the already-lost? The Use of Regret, a novel in 100+ intricately interconnected sections, is one man's eternally recirculating journey though the truths and fictions and fantasies of a life that has left him with grave regrets about his absences and the person he turned out to be. Through his mental travels we (re)visit the paradoxical unions of singularity and plurality, separateness and togetherness, and language and the non-linguistic by way of considering the United States as both a single entity and a construction of 300 million minds.

About the author:
Except for his first two years of life (Ohio) and a much later four-month jag (Comoros, a third-worldy island nation in the Indian Ocean between southern Africa and Madagascar), Greggory Moore has always resided in Southern California, including his current digs in a historical landmark in downtown Long Beach. While there (here), he has done various things with words, including for the Los Angeles Times, the OC Weekly, The District Weekly, Daily Kos, L.A. Record, and Long Beach’s Gazette newspapers, along with a number of literary and film journals, Websites, etc. Currently he works as senior contributor for the Long Beach Post, as well as theatre-critic-in-residence for GreaterLongBeach.com.

 About Portfolio:
For nearly two decades, Portfolio has hosted legions of local coffee drinkers amidst the tree-lined neighborhoods of Midtown Long Beach. Offering a wide selection of handcrafted food & pastries—and of course enticing coffee/tea brews—Portfolio also presents live music, poetry readings, and fine art exhibitions regularly in an eclectic locale.