Young Literati Salon with Amy Chozick and Erich Schwartzel
Schedule
4pm – Drinks and Bites
5pm – Remarks and Conversation
Join us on Saturday, October 17 at Café Telegrama for a Salon with bestselling author, screenwriter, and journalist Amy Chozick in conversation with journalist and author Erich Schwartzel about Chozick’s debut novel, With Friends Like You.
Darkly funny and sharply observed, With Friends Like You follows a new mother whose search for the college friend who once knew her best pulls her into an increasingly strange world of wealth, sex, secrets, and obsession.
Spend a late afternoon with Chozick, Schwartzel, and fellow Young Literati Members for a lively conversation over drinks and bites.
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Our Featured Speakers
Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick is an author, screenwriter, and journalist who has covered major stories in politics, business, and media for The New York Times. She is the creator and executive producer of the HBO Max original series The Girls on the Bus, inspired by her New York Times bestselling memoir Chasing Hillary. Amy is working on adapting her debut novel, With Friends Like You, into a feature film with Brad Weston—the producer of several Oscar-winning films—and Fifth Season. She also has multiple television projects in development at Netflix and Apple. Amy’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair and other publications. Chozick spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal, including as a political reporter covering Barack Obama. She served as a consultant on the Netflix political drama House of Cards and Greg Berlanti’s USA series Political Animals. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.
Erich Schwartzel
Erich Schwartzel covers the film industry in The Wall Street Journal‘s Los Angeles bureau. He joined the Journal in 2013 and has written dozens of front-page stories on life and business in Hollywood, specializing in features where commerce meets culture. Schwartzel’s first book, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, was published in February 2022 by Penguin Press. Red Carpet was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, called a “page-turner” by Foreign Affairs, and named one of the best books ever written about Hollywood by Esquire.
Schwartzel covered energy and the environment for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where his work won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting. He grew up in Latrobe, Penn., where he got his start in journalism writing a police blotter for the local paper.
