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Melvillapalooza
4th Annual Living Literature Festival
SPECIAL EVENTS
January 18
6:30pm
Artist's Reception

Before Nicole's reading, join us at 6:30 for a reception and a toast to artist Crosby Romberger. An art installation of Crosby's visual renderings of Melville's work will be on display in Metropolitan's lobby throughout the festival.

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During this time, you will be able to purchase any of Nicole's novels. Nicole will be available for book signings and questions.

7pm
Nicole Galland reads from her modern riff on Moby Dick: "Moby Rich"

About "Moby Rich"
A native Vineyarder (“Call me Becca”) returns home after two decades to help her eccentric Uncle Abe (“a godless, god-like man”) keep his family landscaping business, Pequot, afloat, in the aftermath of a bitter divorce. Abe has a paranoid hatred of Richard Moby, the CEO of an off-island wholesale nursery, Broadway. This is in part because his ex-wife Gwen has begun to work for Broadway. Convinced that Moby wants to destroy Abe personally, and all island-based landscaping/nursery businesses generally, Abe is obsessed with “taking down” Moby before Moby succeeds. Repeated failures to hurt Moby (from lawsuits to head-on collisions in fishing boats) do nothing to dissuade Abe from his venture.
Nicole Galland About the Author
Nicole Galland hails from Martha’s Vineyard Island, off the coast of Massachusetts. She’s a graduate of Harvard University, where she spent most of her time doing theatre, although she was actually getting a degree in Comparative Religion (and with that as an excuse, sojourned in Indiaand Japan.)

Galland repatriated in California, where she co-founded a theatre
company for teens that premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She was awarded a full fellowship to pursue a PhD in Drama at UC Berkeley, however, she withdrew from the program and split the next several years between the Bay Area and New York City, eking out a living in theatre, writing, editing, and temp work.

After winning an award for her screenplay The Winter Population, Galland moved to Los Angeles, where she spent a few years as a screenwriter. In April 2002 she rediscovered the unfinished outline to The Fool's Tale. And, After a high concentration of serendipity, the book was completed in early 2003.

After a year and a half as Literary Manager/Dramaturg at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Galland moved back to the Vineyard to write full time. She recently married a high school classmate, Darren Lobdell, and is at work on her fourth novel.

http://www.nicolegalland.com/