Life is a moving, changing thing which insists we be flexible. Thankfully, we are given endless opportunities to grow and move forward when old opinions, attitudes, and ambitions no longer suit who we are today. A rich and abundant history of intellectuals and artists have paved the way for us to make the most out of this time on earth. With Cinderella Sweeping Up Erin Chandler combines her own hard-earned life lessons with those of our histories most influential thinkers. Whether it be Albert Camus, a French philosopher in the 1950s, Buster Keaton, the Vaudevillian genius from the 1920s, Hunter S. Thompson in 1995, Oscar Wilde in 1880 or Buddhist Monk, Huineng in 680 A.D., we learn from each other what it means to be alive. Each of the seventy essays studies a beautiful or damned circumstance and takes a celebratory look at life.Praise for Cinderella Sweeping Up:“In 1969, when I was fourteen years old, I DEVOURED "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," Joan Didion's epic collection of essays about California. This cemented my love for the essay. Erin Chandler's collection of essays are delicious. Easily read, easily understood but thought-provoking and just so damn entertaining. Takes Southern storytelling to an art form. I highly recommend Cinderella Sweeping Up!” – Leslie Jordan, Emmy-winning actor and author, Will and Grace, American Horror Story, The Help“Chandler examines both own her life and what it means to be alive. Each of these tiny essays is rich with wisdom, humor and compelling ideas, glittering with extraordinary people and experiences, and crafted by a large heart and an intelligent, open mind. Chandler illuminates and inspires with this delightful book.” – Katrina Denza, Chair, Writer Residency Program, Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities“As I delved, non-stop, into Erin’s essays, “I found myself engaged in each evocative sentence on a personal level… Erin, a natural teacher, has woven the simple threads of life into an elegant textile of truth. A keeper.” – Denise Lutz, Litpschitz House“Erin Chandler is the rare writer who shows us the sweetness in this world even as she boldly tells us the truth about what she finds. If you love Jeannette Walls you will love these essays.” – Lissa Sims, The Village Voice

Cinderella Sweeping Up

Arts & Photography

Chandler, Erin

Individual Artists

Rabbit House Press

“Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual”. So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political world of the Governors mansion and deposited them into the gaudy yet glamorous life of 1970’s Las Vegas, where debauchery and brutishness was respected and everyone practiced the Golden Rule…. “The guy with the gold makes the rule.”After years of living a roller coaster life on his coattails, becoming adults proved to be their biggest challenge. Chan took the cowboy approach to life, on the road from one end of the country to the other, packing guns, breaking hearts and staying one step ahead of the law… usually. Erin followed the Vegas showgirls of her youth and found Hollywood. The brother and sister struggle to create balance. Author and playwright, Erin Chandler is candid in the telling of her life long difficulties with her loving, although overwhelming, alcoholic father, her heartbreaking challenges with her charming but dangerously self destructive brother, and her own relentless demons. Dark yet uplifting, filled with humor and insight, June Bug Versus Hurricane will leave audiences as haunted as its characters.

June Bug Versus Hurricane: Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

"Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual". So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political world of the Governors mansion and deposited them into the gaudy yet glamorous life of 1970's Las Vegas, where debauchery and brutishness was respected and everyone practiced the Golden Rule.... "The guy with the gold makes the rule." After years of living a roller coaster life on his coattails, becoming adults proved to be their biggest challenge. Chan took the cowboy approach to life, on the road from one end of the country to the other, packing guns, breaking hearts and staying one step ahead of the law... usually. Erin followed the Vegas showgirls of her youth and found Hollywood. The brother and sister struggle to create balance. Author and playwright, Erin Chandler is candid in the telling of her life long difficulties with her loving, although overwhelming, alcoholic father, her heartbreaking challenges with her charming but dangerously self destructive brother, and her own relentless demons. Dark yet uplifting, filled with humor and insight, June Bug Versus Hurricane will leave audiences as haunted as its characters.

June Bug Versus Hurricane

Bluegrass Sons, A True Crime Memoir

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

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