Meet Producer Daniel Wolff on Tour

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Meet I'm Carolyn Parker Producer Daniel Wolff in-person during a nine-city book and screening tour beginning on Thursday, August 16, 2012, in New Orleans and ending in Woodstock, NY, on October 13, 2012.

Wolff's new book, The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back (Bloomsbury, Aug. 7, 2012), is about citizens returning to New Orleans and rebuilding the Lower Ninth Ward; it is another aspect of the ongoing project he is producing with Jonathan Demme that includes I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful.

For a complete event schedule, see below.

August 16, 2012 at 5:30 p.m.

Garden District Bookshop

The Fight for Home reading

2727 Prytania Street · New Orleans, LA 70130

August 17, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center (in partnership with New Orleans Film Society)

I'm Carolyn Parker screening

1712 Oretha C Haley Boulevard · New Orleans, LA 70113

August 18, 2012 at 2 p.m.

Community Book Center

The Fight for Home reading

2523 Bayou Road · New Orleans, LA 70119

August 19, 2012 at 2 p.m.

Brazos Bookstore

The Fight for Home reading

2421 Bissonnet Street · Houston, TX 77005

August 19, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts (in partnership with the Houston Cinema Arts Society)

I'm Carolyn Parker screening

1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX 77005

August 21, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.

San Diego Public Library - Valencia Park/Malcolm X Branch

The Fight for Home reading

5148 Market St, San Diego, CA 92114

August 22, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Vroman's Bookstore

The Fight for Home reading

695 East Colorado Boulevard · Pasadena, CA 91101

August 24, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Book Passage

The Fight for Home reading

51 Tamal Vista Boulevard · Corte Madera, CA 94925

August 25 at 4 p.m.

The Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD)

I'm Carolyn Parker screening

685 Mission Street · San Francisco, CA 94105

September 13, 2012 at 7 p.m.

Princeton Public Library

I'm Carolyn Parker screening

65 Witherspoon Street · Princeton, NJ 08542

September 18, 2012 at 7 p.m.

The Strand

Daniel Wolff & Jonathan Demme in conversation

828 Broadway · New York, NY 10003-4805

October 13, 2012 at 5 p.m.

Woodstock Library

The Fight for Home reading

5 Library Lane · Woodstock, New York 12498

Daniel Wolff, Producer

Daniel Wolff

Daniel Wolff was executive producer on Jonathan Demme's The Agronomist, has published poetry in The Paris Review, Partisan Review and The Threepenny Review and is the author of a number of nonfiction books, including the recent How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them. A Grammy nominee and winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award for his biography of Sam Cooke, Wolff has collaborated with sculptor Robert Taplin, musician Steve Elson and choreographer Marta Renzi, mother of his two children.