A Vegan Novel - "Off the Reservation" - with Glen Merzer
b'Today Laura Theodore the Jazzy Vegetarian\\xa0welcomes Glen Merzer who is an author, playwright, and screenwriter - to discuss his recent novel, Off the Reservation - a comic narrative about a quirky vegan congressman who undertakes an unconventional quest for the presidency; actor Jason Alexander called it \\u201cas politically savvy and poetically literate a book as I have read in a long while\\u2026. a completely gorgeous and rewarding experience.\\u201d\\xa0\\n\\nSigned copies of Laura Theodore\\u2019s Cookbooks and the Best of Jazzy Vegetarian DVD are available at jazzyvegetarian.com and Jazzy Vegetarian on Public television continues to air nationally \\u2013 check local listings for airings in your area.\\n\\nABOUT GLEN\\xa0MERZER:\\xa0 Glen\\xa0began his career in book-writing as co-author, with Howard Lyman, of Mad Cowboy (Scribner, 1998) and No More Bull! (Scribner, 2005).\\xa0 Merzer is also co-author of Unprocessed (2011), by Chef AJ; Food over Medicine (BenBella Books, 2013), with Pam Popper; and Better Than Vegan (BenBella Books, 2013), with Chef Del Sroufe. Merzer has had dozens of productions of his plays staged throughout the country, including two productions that toured to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.\\xa0 Three of his plays have been published by Samuel French. Merzer is currently at work on a children\\u2019s book and his next novel.'