VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH
A conversation with NICK OFFERMAN

April 27th, 7pm ET/ 4pm PT

Tickets for the event are required and include a copy of LITTLE AND OFTEN. Each purchase will include a signed bookplate.
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About Nick Offerman:
NICK OFFERMAN is an actor, writer and woodworker, who can be seen starring as "Ron Swanson" in NBC’s hit comedy series PARKS & RECREATION, "Forest" in Alex Garland’s DEVS (FX), and "Karl Weathers" in the acclaimed series FARGO, also on FX. Recent film credits include HEARTS BEAT LOUD, THE FOUNDER, BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, LUCY IN THE SKY, THE HERO, and THE LEGO MOVIE (1&2). Offerman has penned four New York Times Bestselling books, PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE, GUMPTION, GOOD CLEAN FUN, and most recently THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, written with his wife, Megan Mullally. In his spare time, he can be found at his woodshop in Los Angeles building hand-crafted items ranging from fine furniture to canoes to ukuleles.

About the Author:
Trent Preszler is CEO of Bedell Cellars, whose merlot was the exclusive red wine at President Barack Obama’s 2013 inaugural luncheon. He builds boats in his eponymous Preszler Woodshop, which has been featured in Esquire, Financial Times, Robb Report, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, and The New York Times (on the cover of the Sunday Styles section). Newsday produced a short documentary about his life, “Winemaker and Boatbuilder,” that won the 2018 New York Emmy Award for Best Lifestyle Program. He has a BS from Iowa State University, and an MS and PhD from Cornell University.

About the book:
Trent Preszler thought he was living the life he always wanted, with a job at a winery and a seaside Long Island home, when he was called back to the life he left behind. After years of estrangement, his cancer-stricken father invited him home to South Dakota for Thanksgiving. It would be the last time he saw his father alive.

Preszler’s only inheritance was a beat-up wooden toolbox that had belonged to his father, who was a cattle rancher, rodeo champion, and Vietnam War Bronze Star Medal recipient. This family heirloom befuddled Preszler. He did not work with his hands—but maybe that was the point. In his grief, he wondered if there was still a way to understand his father, and with that came an epiphany: he would make something with his inheritance. Having no experience or training in woodcraft, driven only by blind will, he decided to build a wooden canoe, and he would aim to paddle it on the first anniversary of his father’s death.

While Preszler taught himself how to use his father’s tools, he confronted unexpected revelations about his father’s secret history and his own struggle for self-respect. The grueling challenges of boatbuilding tested his limits, but the canoe became his sole consolation. Gradually, Preszler learned what working with his hands offered: a different per­spective on life, and the means to change it.

Little and Often is an unflinching account of bereavement and a stirring reflection on the complexities of inheritance. Between his past and his present, and between America’s heartland and its coasts, Preszler shows how one can achieve reconciliation through the healing power of creativity.