Franklin Street Works and Barrett Bookstore present Moby and Porcelain: A Memoir -- cocktail party and book signing.
From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late ’80s and ’90s.
At once bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place during the most gloriously anxious period in life, when you’re on your own, betting on yourself, but have no idea how the story ends, and so you live with the honest dread that you’re one false step from being thrown out on your face. Moby’s voice resonates with honesty, wit, and, above all, an unshakable passion for his music that steered him through some very rough seas.
Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It’s about finding your people, your place, thinking you’ve lost them both, and then, somehow, when you think it’s over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians’ memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age, and something timeless about the human condition. Push play. (Penguin Press)
ACCESSIBILITY
Franklin Street Works has a temporary ramp for accessing our gallery. Please call the main land line during gallery hours 203-595-5211 and talk to a team member or call Creative Director Terri C Smith's cell at 203-253-0404 or email her at terri@franklinstreetworks.org to use the ramp or for any other access requests. The ramp is in the back entrance is up a curb, across approximately 9 feet of mulch from the next door parking lot which is accessible from the sidewalk. Once inside there is an elevator available. Bathrooms are large and clear but do not have access bars. Franklin Street Works is in the process of raising the remaining funds to install a permanent walkway and finish the permanent ramp in 2016.