Thad Nodine and Andrea Portes

Touch and Go by Nodine

Hick by Portes (both books published by Unbridled Books)

Thad Nodine will read and sign his debut novel, Touch and Go, joined by special guest Andrea Portes, whose novel Hick has just been adapted into a film, appearing at the Toronto International Film Festival! "Nodine’s cinematic novel deserves to be hailed as one of the year’s finest fiction debuts."  -- Publisher's Weekly “Touch and Go is a strong debut—a high-velocity vision quest that keeps surprising and surprising.” — Jonathan Franzen Thad Nodine is a novelist and writer who grew up in Florida and now lives in California, in a brown house with a red door not far from the Pacific. He has written for a living since graduating from college -- as a legislative correspondent, speech writer, journalist, publishing director, writing instructor, university lecturer, grant writer, editor, communications director, researcher, vice president, and education policy specialist. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and UC Santa Cruz. Touch and Go is his first novel. Andrea Portes grew up in rural Nebraska, later shuffling between Illinois, Texas, Brazil, North Dakota and North Carolina before attending Bryn Mawr College. She received her MFA from UC San Diego and became a script reader for Paramount Pictures. She now lives in Los Angeles and is a nightlife columnist for several websites. Hick is her first novel. A film version of Hick was shot in early 2011, staring Chloe Grave Moritz, Blake Lively, Alec Baldwin, Juliette Lewis and Eddie Redmayne. Directed by Derek Martini and adapted by Martini and Andea Portes, the film debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS OCTOBER 21, 2011.