A Moment with John Sayles

Most people know John Sayles as the filmmaker and screenwriter behind such crazy-genre cult classics as Brother from Another Planet, The Howling and Piranha, but he’s also the author of several award-winning books. Sayles’s most recent novel, A Moment in the Sun, is a 968-page toe-crusher of a tome that starts in 1897 as the Yukon Gold Rush takes hold and follows a wide cast of characters across six countries. A panoramic view of the turn of the last century unfolds as the mostly unconnected characters live out their daily lives as boxers, miners, diplomats and everything else imaginable.

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The book is a well-researched take on the historical novel that concentrates more on individual stories than larger themes. As a result, it almost requires a reader to keep an encyclopedia on hand at all times — which makes the fact that Sayles will be at the Tattered Cover Book Store at 2526 East Colfax Avenue at 2 p.m. today to read from the book and answer questions very appealing. Admission is free; for more information, go to www.tatteredcover.com or call 303-322-7727.

Read about Westword editor Patricia Calhoun’s bit part in a John Sayles movie at showandtelldenver.com
Sun., May 29, 2 p.m., 2011