Kind of Blue (Oceanview Publishing)
Miles Corwin returns to Skylight to read from and sign his fourth book (and his first novel) Kind of Blue. Special guest Marcella Winn, the LAPD detective Corwin wrote about in The Killing Season, will give the introduction! Miles Corwin spent the first years of his life living with his family in the Rosslyn Hotel, which his grandfather owned, located at 5th and Main streets in downtown Los Angeles, at the edge of Skid Row. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received an M.A. at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He spent more than 5 years as a Los Angeles County beach lifeguard. Corwin, a former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is the author of three non-fiction books: The Killing Season, a national bestseller; And Still We Rise, the winner of the PEN West award for nonfiction and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; and Homicide Special, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Kind of Blue is his first novel. Corwin lives in Altadena with his family and teaches at the University of California, Irvine. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS NOVEMBER 4, 2010.