The most optimistic man in America

David Mezzapelle will share inspiring from his new book Contagious Optimism with a broad tour of California.

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David Mezzapelle, author of Contagious Optimism

Reading Contagious Optimism will allow you to appreciate and understand the principles that people of all races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds live by and have exhibited during their life's adventures.

—Daniel P. Tully

(PRWEB) September 11, 2013

David Mezzapelle will tour the Bay Area and Los Angeles from September 19th to 25th, sharing inspirational stories from his newly-released bookContagious Optimism: Uplifting Stories and Motivational Advice for Positive Forward Thinking, which is newly available on Audible.

Contagious Optimism is a collection of personal success stories and advice that discusses the power of positive thinking. Mezzapelle urges readers to find the silver lining in every cloud despite trials such as personal hardship, economic downturns, and political uncertainties. Developed by the same team that wrote the bestselling Random Acts of Kindness, Contagious Optimism is written to lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on hope and happiness.

Jupiter Life featured an article on David and Contagious Optimism, exploring the inspiration behind the book and giving tidbits from the inspirational stories of contributors like Mona Tippins.

Join David on his tour at these events in Northern and Southern California:

9/19 7pm, Books Inc., Alameda, CA
9/21 1-3pm, Agape Quiet Mind Bookstore, Culver City, CA
9/25 7am, The Inside Edge, Irvine, CA
9/25 4-5:30pm, Mystic Journey Bookstore, Venice, CA
9/25 7pm, Barnes and Noble 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA

What people are saying about Contagious Optimism:

"Contagious Optimism is an inspiring invitation to change your life through a change of perspective. Mezzapelle's collection of stories and various viewpoints spurs our imagination of what's possible to create a happy and successful life. A highly persuasive book I full-heartedly recommend."
—Andrea F. Polard, PsyD

"Learn how you can experience true happiness and fulfillment despite life's greatest challenges as you read the stories of those who have chosen to see that glass half -full."
—Chloe JonPaul, author of This Business of Children

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Huffpo's interview with literary outtlaw, Alan Kaufman:

Critically Acclaimed Author Alan Kaufman Discusses What Avant Garde Means in 2013

Poet and author of Drunken Angel, Alan Kaufman is interviewed on the significance of avant garde writing.

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Drunken Angel by Alan Kaufman

[An] addictive memoir of self-destruction, recuperation and a literary coming-of-age.

— Kirkus Reviews

(PRWEB) September 04, 2013

Avant garde is a phrase often-heard but seldom completely understood. What exactly does it mean, and why is it important? Alan Kaufman, avant garde poet and author of Drunken Angel (also available as an audio book, was interviewed on Huffington Post on this important classification of media.

Kaufman defines avant garde art and literature as "anticipations of massive esthetic, social and political changes to come. Today's avant garde, driven by vision, defies convention esthetically, socially, professionally. Its works are prophesies."

He also gives insight into the writing process of his harrowing memoir Drunken Angel:

"The actual writing of Drunken Angel just poured out over a year into a memoiristic blow by blow account, described by others as 'harrowing' -- of what it was like to descend drunk into the gutter and then my journey back from hell. But it's about my ascent as a writer. Of once-dead dreams miraculously revived and realized."

As the founder of the Acker Awards, which recognize excellence in the avant garde, and a groundbreaking author and poet himself, nobody is better poised to speak about the subject than Kaufman.

Find Alan Kaufman in person at these events:
September 12-15, Sprachsalz Festival, Austria
September 6, 2013, Adobe Books, 7-9pm, San Francisco, CA
October 12, 2013, Litquake, "Writers Who Paint, Painters Who Write" San Francisco, CA

What people are saying about Drunken Angel:
"[An] addictive memoir of self-destruction, recuperation and a literary coming-of-age."
— Kirkus Reviews

Allen Ginsberg, Kathy Acker, Elie Wiesel, Barney Rosset, Isaac Bashevis Singer: these are some of the literary icons who impact the life and times of outlaw writer Alan Kaufman in his intoxicating new memoir Drunken Angel. In this brutal account of his ceaseless battle against his addiction, Kaufman portrays with raw power and naked candor his descent into the hell of alcoholism, while struggling to cope with the fact of being the son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor in a world that is only too eager to forget the horrors of WWII. An inspiring story of coming to terms with how the Holocaust impacted his family, Drunken Angel is an important memoir by a Second Generation Holocaust writer to examine of how addiction, Jewishness and The Holocaust intersect.