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Meet & Greet with Greg Sestero

  • Fountain Bookstore 1307 West Cary Street Richmond, VA, 23220 United States (map)

Come meet Greg Sestero, the man behind the book about The Room! He'll be doing an informal meet and greet and signing books in the store.


No registration is required, but you can reserve a book to get signed!


About the Book:

From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a “sharply detailed…funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors” (The New York Times): the making of the cult film phenomenon The open_in_newRoom.In 2003, an independent film called The Room—starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles.

Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, it’s an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons. Hailed by The Huffington Post as “possibly the most important piece of literature ever printed,” The Disaster Artist is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of a deliciously awful cinematic phenomenon as well as the story of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship.

Greg Sestero, Tommy’s costar, recounts the film’s bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie’s many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be and unraveling the mystery of Tommy Wiseau himself. But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, “The Disaster Artist is one of the most honest books about friendship I’ve read in years” (Los Angeles Times).


About the Author:

Greg Sestero is the New York Times best-selling co-author of the Academy Award-nominated The Disaster Artist and co-star of the cult classic The Room. Greg also recently wrote and produced Best F(r)iends Volume 1 and Volume 2 and was recently seen in Netflix's popular gothic-drama mini-series The Haunting of Bly Manor. His directorial debut, Miracle Valley featured a scene filmed at Frank Lloyd Wright's world-renowned masterpiece Falling Water. His next movie, Forbidden Sky, is an alien abduction tale set in Roswell, New Mexico.

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