Peter Clothier Reads from Persist on Tuesday March 23, 2010 at 7 pm at The Standard, Hollywood

A Reading by Peter Clothier Date/Time: Tuesday March 23 at 7 pm Location: The Standard, Hollywood Please join Peter Clothier from 7 to 10 PM in the Cactus Lounge for this public event Hosted Wine bar for the first hour Artillery Magazine presents a special book reading and signing of Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce , by writer Peter Clothier. Peter Clothier's Persist: In Praise of the Creative Spirit in a World Gone Mad with Commerce arrives at the perfect time. As the art world tries to reinvent itself in the current economic malaise, Clothier's book inspires us to see the soul and spirit inherent in the creative process. Money may not be the root of all evil but it is the root of a lot of bad art. Peter Clothier challenges artists, writers, actors and filmmakers to value artistic process as a goal in itself rather than a path to wealth and power. Most of all, Clothier urges us to keep on creating - to never give up. The world woul...