Cal Hoffman discusses and signs "Judah Can't Tell"

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Join us on Tuesday October 20th at 6:30 pm as we welcome Cal Hoffman t o the store to discuss and sign Judah Can't Tell. Joining him in conversation will be Arye Gross. This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood. Free seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please purchase one copy of a book for one seat. A book purchase counts as your rsvp, supports the author and this Indie Bookstore, and helps us determine how many books are needed for the event. Thank you for your support! Cal Hoffman Event Reservation On the morning a powerful US senator is accused of a long-buried sexual scandal, his son Harris wakes to a world suddenly unrecognizable. A journalist, husband, and father, Harris has built his life on reason, responsibility, and restraint. But as headlines spread and reputations unravel, he is pulled back into the unresolved gravity of his childhood—into memories of political ambition, parental absence, and a father whose public idealism shaped Harris’s private life in ways he is only beginning to understand. As Harris navigates a single charged day—balancing work, marriage, parenthood, and a culture hungry for judgment— Judah Can’t Tell becomes a powerful meditation on power, consent, masculinity, and moral inheritance. What do we owe the people we love when the truth threatens to destroy them? And what do we owe our children when silence feels safer than honesty? Written with emotional acuity and moral clarity, Judah Can’t Tell is a timely, deeply human novel about reckoning—personal, political, and generational. Cal Hoffman is the author of Easy to Slip, the acclaimed debut novel. He graduated from Catholic University and attended Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the MFA Fiction Writing Program at Columbia University. He taught English and creative writing, and as an actor performed in regional theater across the country, starring in the acclaimed New York revival of Jules Feiffer's play, Elliot Loves. Cal lives with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, and their son, Harry, in Washington, DC. Arye Gross is an American actor, best known for Minority Report, Big Eden, Gone in Sixty Seconds, A Midnight Clear, and House II: The Second Story. Other film credits include: For The Boys, Grey Gardens, Mother Night, The Experts, Coupe de Ville, and Tequila Sunrise. Television credits include: regular and recurring roles on Castle, Wildfire, Ellen, The Riches, The Practice, and The Lincoln Lawyer. Theatre credits include: (Broadway) Brooklyn Boy (Biltmore Theatre); and regionally, Parfumerie (The Wallis), Circle Mirror Transformation, and the world premieres of Our Mother’s Brief Affair and Future Thinking (South Coast Repertory), ‘The Librarian’ in Underneath The Lintel at The Geffen Playhouse and ‘Lewis & Tolkien’ at DC’s Museum of the Bible.

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Diesel, A Bookstore

225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA

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