Michael Krasny and Elvis Costello in conversation.

Co-hosted by Copperfield’s Books and the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center, Michael Krasny of KQED’s award winning program Forum, will discuss the Elvis’ memoir Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink on October 23rd at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater. The tome chronicles a fascinating musical career known to millions and a lesser known personal life. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician. Costello went into the family business and took the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four. Written entirely by Costello himself, the memoir offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with plenty of stories about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, and inside reveals about the emotional foundations of his best known songs such as “My Aim is True.” Tickets are available at lincolntheater.org.

Michael Krasny, Ph.D., is host of KQED’s Forum, a news and public affairs program that concentrates on the arts, culture, health, business, and technology. Forum is one of KQED’s most-popular shows and one of the nation’s most-listened-to locally produced public radio talk show.

Dr. Krasny hosted a night-time talk program for KGO Radio in the 1990s and co-anchored the weekly KGO television show Nightfocus. He hosted Bay TV’s Take Issue, a nightly news analysis show, programs for KQED Public Television, KRON television, and NPR, and did news commentary for KTVU television. He has also served as host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

Dr. Krasny has interviewed many of the leading newsmakers and cultural icons of our time, including former President Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Francis Ford Coppola, Don DeLillo, Newt Gingrich, Vice President Al Gore, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, President Barack Obama, Rosa Parks, Nancy Pelosi, Robert Redford, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Updike, and countless others. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including The S.Y. Agnon Gold Medal for Intellectual Distinction, The Eugene Block Award for Human Rights Journalism, The Inclusiveness in Media Award from The National Conference for Community and Justice, and a Koret Foundation Fellowship. He has also been named best talk show host by Focus magazine, a number of Bay Area newspapers, The San Francisco Publicity Club, and Citysearch.

$45 admits one person and includes one signed book; $60 admits two people and includes one signed book. Tickets are available at lincolntheater.org or by calling the box office at (707) 944-9900.