All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem

Noted Illustrator Laurie Rosenwald Reads and Signs
All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem
An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies, or Frankly Anybody Else
At Stories LA January 21st at 7:30pm

Los Angeles, CA – January 7, 2009 - All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem is a very attractive, sort of interactive book from quasi professional non-conformist Laurie Rosenwald, who asks, “Why feel bad about yourself when you could be laughing at everybody else?”

Rosenwald will be reading from her book at the new Echo Park book shop, Stories LA at 1716 Sunset Blvd. on January 21st at 7:30pm. The event is hosted by Stories LA, and 826LA.

Rosenwald will also be presenting her noted workshop “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose” at 826LA at 1716 Sunset Blvd. on January 16th from 2:30 – 7:00pm. For tickets to the workshop please go to www.826la.org.

A lot of people are trying to tell other people what is best for them. Rosenwald has no clue and in this book/at this event, she isn’t even trying. Her “Advice to Teens” is done Mad-Libs style. Other chapters include “The PMS Collection Agency,” “Really Extreme Makeover: 25,185 Days to a Better You” and “Bizarre Things I found on Facebook.” As for the environment: is the earth really worth saving? Not if it is full of marketing executives. Laurie thinks marketing should involve a shopping cart, milk and bananas.

In the tradition of nothing you have ever seen, All the Wrong People Have Self Esteem is for anyone who asks good questions about life and then ignores all the answers. Laurie says she doesn’t want to tell anyone what to think. But when you are as irreverent, as funny and as iconoclastic as she is, people sort of DO want to know. But be warned, if you think like Rosenwald it could get you kicked out of yoga.

Laurie Rosenwald is the world’s most commercial artist and principal of rosenworld (www.rosenworld.com). Actually there is no studio, Ms. Rosenwald usually works alone, and rosenworld doesn’t exist (except as a website). She runs a popular workshop called “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose” which she has taught from Stockholm to Google to Starbucks Creative Camp. Her illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other fine publications.

Her other books include New York Notebook, a NYC guidebook, sketchbook and journal all mashed up into one, and her picture book And To Name But Just a Few: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue was named a Scholastic Parent & Child Best Book of 2007.

Laurie appeared as “Woman” on “The Sopranos”, a role she was born to play. She is also a very good painter and speaks Swedish like a native New Yorker. She claims to have won all the usual awards.

For more information, a PDF of the book, or to arrange an interview, please contact Susan von Seggern at susan@susanvonseggern.com or call 213-840-0077.

Visit www.rosenworld.com to see more of Laurie's work, and read some hilarious essays, including "Enormous Blonde Herring-scented Nauseatingly Fair-minded Nymphomaniacs in Clogs"

Susan von Seggern
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