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John Andrew Fredrick Book Release

August 31, 2017 @ 7:00 am PDT

Join us as we help native Santa Barbarian John Andrew Fredrick celebrate the publication of his two new books, F**king Innocent & Your Caius Aquilla.

Wes Anderson is now seen as one of America’s greatest and most stylistic filmmakers. With movies like “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” Anderson has solidified his place among the best and brightest of contemporary filmmakers. In F**king Innocent, John Andrew Frederick, who has taught Anderson’s early work at USC, examines his three earliest films, “Bottle Rocket,” “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tennenbaums,” and discusses them individually.

Set in ancient Rome, Your Caius Aquilla is composed of hilarious letters between a doting and brave (but quite bumbling) legionary and his beautiful wife, Lora. While Caius fights barbarians, Lora cossets her adorable (and very cruel) children, and fends off lovers of both sexes. An act of fate and mistaken identity eventually brings Caius home for good where, as he and Lora truly love each other, he belongs.

John Andrew Fredrick grew up in Santa Barbara, and received his Ph.D. from UCSB, after which he formed an indie rock band, The Black Watch. They have released 17 records to considerable underground acclaim. He has taught at USC, Santa Monica College, Loyola Marymount University, and UCSB. At UCSB Fredrick won the Graduate Students Award for Professor of the Year in 1987. He plays tennis at least five times a week and sometimes puts on show his abstract paintings of book covers for such classics as Madame Bovary and The Catcher in the Rye. He is also the author of the novels The King of Good Intentions and The King of Good Intentions II.

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August 31, 2017
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7:00 am PDT

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