Join us at the bookstore for an exciting evening with local author Mark E. Leib for his novel Image Breaker, a story about a man’s journey to to reexamine a life he once held dear in order live a life that deeply, truly matters! 

Tristan Wishnasky seems to have it all: a successful career as a cynical novelist in love with the Void, a romantic relationship with a formidable woman, and admission to the parties and revelries of the glitterati. But just when he’s confident nothing can stop his stupendous rise, he begins to hallucinate mysterious messages telling him he’s wasting his life.

When the messages don’t stop, he turns to his atheist lover, his oracular psychotherapist, and an ingenious female rabbi for guidance and direction. Where has he gone wrong? How should he be living?

Leib will be joined by fellow local author and USF professor Dr. John Fleming! 

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Mark E. Leib’s short works have appeared in Boston Review, Jewish Fiction.net, Adelaide Literary Magazine, American Theatre and elsewhere. His theatre plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Cambridge, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Edinburgh and Singapore. His theatre criticism in the Tampa Bay area has earned seven awards for excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists, including three first-place Sunshine State awards. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he won the CBS Foundation Prize in Playwriting, and of Harvard College. He teaches fiction, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of South Florida. 

John Henry Fleming’s fiction has been called “joyful, deranged, endlessly surprising,” “required reading for anyone who lives in Florida,” and “campfire tales from the state’s coolest scout leader.” He is the author of four novels and story collections: Songs for the Deaf, Fearsome Creatures of Florida, The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman, and The Book I Will Write. His awards include an International Book Award and two Literature Fellowships from the State of Florida. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of South Florida and is the founding editor of Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art.