A2A: Michael Largo & Lisa Cullen

Michael Largo is the author of Final Exits, an "illustrated encyclopedia of how we die," and Lisa Cullen is the author of Remember Me, a "lively tour of the new American way of death." So you can imagine how cheery this Author2Author will be!

"To the majority of Americans, death sucks. I personally don't want to checkout until I get a chance to see everyone zooming around in flying cars. But the only way I found to fill some seats in the audience is to tell of the things that kill us in anecdotes, take the dry statistics and serve them on a wry platter. Death has always been the greatest of stories, and now, when someone turns 50 every seven seconds, it's a subject getting more and more notice. So, I think death is seriously not funny, but writing funny is the only way to get serious attention when it comes to a book about death for the general reader."

Read the entire conversation between Michael Largo and Lisa Cullen. And here's a special bonus: The first five readers to contribute $15 or more to the Beatrice operating budget will receive copies of Final Exits and Remember Me...which is pretty much like getting one book free!