SEATTLE HOSTS EASY TO SLIP WITH A BASH TO CELEBRATE THE END OF THE 20-CITY NATIONAL BOOK TOUR
Seattle, Washington — After drawing standing-room-only crowds in cities like Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and New York, Cal Hoffman’s debut novel Easy to Slip arrives in Seattle to close out a remarkable 20-city national book tour. The final event, held at Third Place Books in Ravenna, marks the end of a summer journey that included stops throughout the Hudson Valley and wrapped with visits to Baltimore, Boston, and New York City.
The tour has garnered widespread acclaim, with Pulitzer Prize winners Geraldine Brooks, Carl Bernstein, David Auburn, and Doug Wright praising Easy to Slip for its emotional precision and literary depth. Brooks describes the novel as “Raw, brave, and gripping…an uncommon exploration of adolescence, psychosis, and recovery.”
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About the Book:
Easy to Slip follows a gifted 17-year-old confronting emotional unraveling, family pressure, and the seductive pull of fame he ultimately resists. What emerges is a life shaped by honesty, humility, and the private work of becoming whole.
Told in picaresque form from the inside out, Easy to Slip is a novel you don’t just read—you flinch, laugh, cry, and remember. Cal Hoffman has done something increasingly uncommon: made the act of remembering an act of survival. His path, guided by emotional honesty, intellectual rigor, and creative independence, delivers not just catharsis, but confrontation, clarity, recovery, and grace.
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Third Place Books, Ravenna, Welcomes Cal Hoffman’s Debut Novel with Grand Finale Event in the Pacific Northwest.
After 20 cities and coast-to-coast buzz, Easy to Slip by Cal Hoffman lands in Seattle for its grand finale—August 13 at 7 PM, Third Place Books, Ravenna. For more information click here!
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After 20 cities and coast-to-coast buzz, Easy to Slip by Cal Hoffman lands in Seattle for its grand finale—August 13 at 7 PM, Third Place Books, Ravenna. For more information click here! 〰️
Recent press coverage from the New York Post and The Daily News of Cal Hoffman and Iliana Levine at the Mercer Hotel in New York City.
NOVEL EASY TO SLIP BY CAL HOFFMAN ENDS HIS 20 CITY TOUR STOPS IN WASHINGTON D.C., PALM BEACH, MIAMI, NEW YORK CITY, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO, PITTSBURGH, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, GREENVILLE, SHALLOTTE, KINGSTON, WOODSTOCK, SAUGERTIES, BOSTON, NEW YORK CITY, AND SEATTLE!!
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NOVEL EASY TO SLIP BY CAL HOFFMAN ENDS HIS 20 CITY TOUR STOPS IN WASHINGTON D.C., PALM BEACH, MIAMI, NEW YORK CITY, LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO, PITTSBURGH, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, GREENVILLE, SHALLOTTE, KINGSTON, WOODSTOCK, SAUGERTIES, BOSTON, NEW YORK CITY, AND SEATTLE!! 〰️
Guests enjoy meeting Cal Hoffman, the author of Easy to Slip with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman at Barnes & Noble UWS, NYC.
Cal Hoffman with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman
Molly Ringwall eager to listen to Cal Hoffman’s Presentation —photo by Patick McMullen.
Over 150 guests packed the space: a mix of literary icons, curious readers, neighborhood regulars, and boldfaced names. The moment Cal read aloud, silence became spellbound.
Easy to Slip Nationwide 2025 Book Tour - Second Leg Begins June
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Monday, June 9, 2025 @ 7:30 PM. M. Judson Booksellers hosts in its Books Over Drinks series, author Cal Hoffman for a reading of his novel, Easy to Slip —a raw, gripping coming-of-age story. The author will engage in conversation with Dorothy Dowe. ($40 includes signed book and specialty cocktail, reserve: here.)
Address: 130 S. Main St., Suite 200A Greenville, South Carolina 29601
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Saturday, June 14, 2025 @ 5:30 PM. AZIO Media’s The Gingerbread house hosts author Cal Hoffman for a reading of his novel, Easy to Slip —a raw, gripping coming-of-age story. The author will engage in conversation with David Henderson.
Address: 280 Holden Beach Road SW Shallotte, North Carolina 28470
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Thursday, June 26, 2025 @ 7 PM, Riverstone Books hosts author Cal Hoffman for a reading and of his novel, Easy to Slip —a raw, gripping coming-of-age story. The author will engage in conversation with Mike Garand.
Address: 5841 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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Easy to Slip begins its Hudson Valley chapter on Tuesday, July 1, @ 6 PM with a special event at Oblong Books: a reading by Cal Hoffman, followed by an intimate conversation with Peter Riegert.
Address: 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, New York 12572
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Saturday, July 5, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM, The Woodstock Library hostsCal Hoffman’s Easy to Slip —a coming-of-age story told from the inside. The author will read an excerpt and engage in conversation with David Wallis. Books sold by the Golden Notebook. Join us afterwards at SHELTER, 21 Mill Hill Road. Free drink with us at Shelter, with an Easy to Slip book receipt.
Address: 5 Library Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498
What People Are Saying
“Intricate, hallucinatory, funny and harrowing, Cal Hoffman’s absorbing novel takes us deep into the psyche of an exceptional everyman, whose coming-of-age is at once singular and universal.”
— David Auburn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Proof.
“At once memoir, novel, and reportage, Cal Hoffman brings us his remarkable gift for the most intimate story-telling: probing his own young psyche, through the language and tools of a writer, to unravel and overcome the hellish mysteries of psychosis. It is impossible not to marvel at this harrowing tour of the mind from deep within and the triumphant distance of recovery.”
—Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, All the President’s Men, and Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir
“An uncle’s sudden stardom has unforeseen effects on his nephew’s family. As his celebrity soars, an impressionable boy must grapple with new definitions of success and an unbearable pressure to be special. When he arrives at college in the gritty New York of the 1970s, his mind is overrun by malevolent voices and visions. Raw, brave, and gripping, Easy to Slip is an uncommon exploration of adolescence, psychosis, and recovery.”
—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.
With the veracity of a diarist, Cal Hoffman uses vivid stream-of-consciousness prose to dramatize the story of a precocious young Columbian student doing his very damnest to stay on the right side of sanity. It's a story that touches the heart and the mind in equal measure....by Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright of I Am My Own Wife.
With the veracity of a diarist, Cal Hoffman uses vivid stream-of-consciousness prose to dramatize the story of a precocious young Columbian student doing his very damnest to stay on the right side of sanity. It's a story that touches the heart and the mind in equal measure....by Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright of I Am My Own Wife.
“With the veracity of a diarist, Cal Hoffman uses vivid stream-of-consciousness prose to dramatize the story of a precocious young Columbian student doing his very damnest to stay on the right side of sanity. It’s a story that touches the heart and the mind in equal measure.”
Doug Wright, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright of I Am My Own Wife.
About the Author
CAL HOFFMAN
Cal Hoffman is a writer, educator, and actor. He graduated from Catholic University and studied at Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London and the MFA Fiction Writing program at Columbia U. He taught English and creative writing to immigrant children, private school students, and foster youth.
Cal acted in regional theater nationwide and starred in the acclaimed New York revival of Jules Feiffer’s play Elliot Loves.
He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Victoria Leacock Hoffman, and their son, Harry. Cal is currently completing his second novel, Judah Can’t Tell.
