Wife, Just Let Go : New Book Launch in New York City

Friday, October 20, 2017

New Book Launch in New York City

INVITATION TO A BOOK LAUNCH OF

Wife, Just Let Go

A duo-memoir by Robert Briggs & Diana Saltoon

Hosted by Ann Vellis

THE PLAYERS

“A Certain Club”

16 Gramercy Park South

New York, NY 10003

Monday, October 30, 2017, 6pm – 8pm

(The Players is a private social club founded in 1888 by Edwin Booth and Mark Twain)

An extraordinary love story, Wife Just Let Go are the last words Robert Briggs wrote to his wife before he passed away from Alzheimer’s disease. A publisher, literary agent, and author who deeply felt the influence of the Beat era, Robert never stopped writing, even in his later stages of Alzheimer’s. What began as a promise to publish his last works evolved into this duo-memoir. His wife Diana, as his long-time partner and primary caregiver joined him in this telling, as a way to restore for the reader, and for Robert, the parts of the story he was losing. Her meditative commentary offers the other side of Alzheimer’s: gifts that sustain and inspire loved ones left behind. Books and CDs will be available for sale; cash or check appreciated. (Both @ $15.00 each.)

Please contact Diana Saltoon-Briggs at: dsaltoonbriggs@gmail.com if you intend to come to this event.Your name will be placed on a list at the entrance. Thanks!

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Diana Saltoon Bio

Diana Saltoon has traveled extensively, studied yoga, and in the 1970s developed a program that dealt with modern stress. Her interest in Zen led to a study of Chado, The Way of Tea, as a Zen art and received a certificate of Chamei from the Urasenke School in Kyoto, Japan. Diana became a teacher at the Portland Wakai Tea Association in Oregon before moving with her husband, Robert Briggs, to New York in 2011. They returned to Portland, Oregon, in 2014. A member of Zen communities in Oregon and New York, Diana continues to give presentations, classes and workshops on the Zen Art of Tea. She is the author of Tea and Ceremony: Experiencing Tranquility (2004), The Common Book of Consciousness (1990), and Four Hands: Green Gulch Poems (1987).

Robert Briggs Bio

Robert Briggs attended Auburn and Columbia Universities and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He became a partner in The San Francisco Book Company in 1972 and in 1973 founded Robert Briggs Associates, a group of West Coast consultants to writers and small publishers. The Association was involved in a variety of nonfiction publications including Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd, Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer, Kenneth R. Pelletier’s classic book on stress, as well as works by Joseph Campbell, Stanislav Grof, Colin Wilson, and Theodore Roszak. Briggs is also the author of The American Emergency: A Search for Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Materialism, 1986, and Ruined Time: the 1950s and the Beat, 2006. Ruined Time is a cultural autobiography of the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950s. This book sparked various multimedia projects including Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons, reads written and read by Robert Briggs and accompanied by jazz musicians in performances in Portland, OR. CDs were produced that include Poetry in the 1950s (1999), Someone Said No(2003), My Own Atom Bomb (2005), The Beat Goes On(2008), Love in America (2009) and The Beat Revealed (2011). Robert Briggs was involved in early West Coast jazz and poetry scenes where he performed in San Francisco’s Jazz Cellar. To Briggs, “Jazz is to music, what poetry is to knowing.”

Zen, Alzheimer's, and Love

Friday, October 20, 2017

New Book Launch in New York City

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