Sayville-Bayport|Local Event
"Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination" with Nicholas Parisi.
Join us on June 13th for a reading of Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination by Nicholas Parisi. The author will read from the book and do a Q&A session. Books will be available for sale and they can be signed as well.
277 Railroad Avenue, Sayville, NY, 11782
7pm
Free
About the book:
Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Serling was the most prestigious writer in American television. As creator, host, and primary writer for The Twilight Zone, Serling became something more: an American icon. When Serling died in 1975, at the age of fifty, he was the most honored, most outspoken, most recognizable, and likely the most prolific writer in television history.Though best known for The Twilight Zone, Serling wrote over 250 scripts for film and television and won an unmatched six Emmy Awards for dramatic writing for four different series.
His filmography includes the acclaimed political thriller Seven Days in May and cowriting the original Planet of the Apes.In great detail and including never-published insights drawn directly from Serling’s personal correspondence, unpublished writings, speeches, and unproduced scripts, Nicholas Parisi explores Serling’s entire, massive body of work. With a foreword by Serling’s daughter, Anne Serling, Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination is part biography, part videography, and part critical analysis. It is a painstakingly researched look at all of Serling’s work—in and out of The Twilight Zone.
About the author
Nicholas Parisi is the author of Rod Serling: His Life, Work and Imagination and America's Twilight Zone: How Rod Serling Foreshadowed the Age of Trump. He serves as President of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation (www.rodserling.com), a charity that is dedicate to preserving and promoting Serling’s legacy.
He is the world’s foremost expert on Rod Serling’s life and work. He has appeared on CBS’s Inside Edition, spoken about Serling’s career on dozens of radio shows including Coast to Coast AM and Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, and delivered presentations on Serling at science fiction conventions across the country.As a musician and vocalist, Nicholas has performed on stage hundreds of times in front of thousands of people. In 2010, his former band, Arioch, released a CD with the Serling-inspired title Between Light and Shadow on Retrospect records.
His most recent band, The Sonic Revolution, independently recorded and released four CDs, each of which is available via Apple Music and other online platforms. He recently completed an original musical, also titled Between Light and Shadow, which is currently being shopped to producers.