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Sarah Lawrence College Online Discussion of The Man with No Borders

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT APRIL 23, 2020

From my alma mater: Join us for a special evening with alumnus Richard C. Morais ’81 in a live discussion of his most recent novel The Man With No Borders. In advance of this event, you can read the novel along with Richard. Morais’ debut novel, The Hundred-Foot Journey, was a New York Times and international bestseller, which was brought to the big screen by Stephen Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey and starred Helen Mirren and Om Puri. Morais’ sophomore novel, Buddhaland Brooklyn, is currently in development as a premium TV series with K&L Productions.

Cultures Collide Tour #3

If you’re in the Boston area, please come hangout at this Nov 21st, 2019, event using my novels to riff on cross-cultural issues — and ask me some provocative questions! For details click on the Eventbrite posting by Cultural Vistas and Hostelling International.

Nonfiction Memoir in the Pipes

Forbes, Barron’s
Veteran and Bestselling Novelist Richard C. Morais Creates Literary Partnership
with Progressive Entrepreneur Joseph Sanberg

RCM Media Llc., the firm of award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Richard C. Morais, has entered into a literary partnership with Joseph Sanberg, a progressive entrepreneur investing capital for social impact and a rising star in Democratic Party circles. Mr. Morais and Mr. Sanberg are collaborating on  Sanberg’s memoir, tentatively called Commanded to Try after a Martin Luther King refrain that inspires Mr. Sanberg’s “war on poverty.”

“Joe’s story has it all,” says Mr. Morais. “It’s a 21st century tale that runs from living on Hamburger Helper and hiding from debt collectors to getting a full scholarship to Harvard and making a small fortune on Wall Street. Joe’s story is about heartache, family turmoil, the solace of religion, tenacity, smarts and the hard work of genuine soul searching. Joe is a complex figure of our times who is, controversially, both a classic entrepreneur and a believer in Medicare for All. I am convinced, if we do our job right, Commanded to Try will be a great read that addresses many issues of our Age through one man’s battle to do right and be heard.” 

“Richard has a great talent for capturing this economic and cultural moment in our nation’s history,” says Mr. Sanberg. “When he approached me with this idea, I was honored and excited about working with him.”

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Joseph Sanberg: Co-Founder, Aspiration & Chair, CalEITC4Me. Joseph Sanberg is a progressive entrepreneur who works through both the public and private sectors to improve public policy with the aim of ending poverty and making people’s lives better. Sanberg has been one of the nation’s leading advocates for the earned-income tax credit (EITC) for low-income families, and in 2015, he successfully lobbied legislators in his home state of California to create the state’s first EITC. Sanberg also serves on the board of the Economic Innovation Group and the Jefferson Awards Foundation.

Richard C. Morais: Managing Partner RCM Media Llc. Mr. Morais is an award-winning American journalist and novelist. His latest novel, The Man With No Borders, is published by Amazon’s literary imprint Little A and a prestigious “Amazon First Read.” His novel The Hundred-Foot Journey was a New York Times and international bestseller, which Stephen Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey released as a successful 2014 film starring Helen Mirren. He is also the author of Buddhaland Brooklyn, in development as a premium TV series, and the acclaimed business biography Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label.

Mr. Morais was both the editor of Barron’s Penta, a glossy magazine
for wealthy families; and Forbes’s
European Bureau Chief, the magazine’s longest-serving foreign correspondent.
Mr. Morais has won three awards and six nominations at the Business Journalist of The Year Awards.
He was named the 2015 Citizen Diplomat of the Year“for promoting cross-cultural
understanding in all of his literary work.”

Captured by New Yorker Cartoonist

I have arrived. My likeness was captured at the 2019 Milford Readers & Writers Festival by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein. How cool is that?

Amazon First Reads: Last Days For Free “The Man with No Borders”

The dog days of August are also the last days where you can pick up a free digital copy or a deeply discounted hardback of my novel, The Man with No Borders, before its official wide release on September 1st. So easy to get a copy by clicking on Amazon First Reads’ top literary title of the month.

Booklist Weighs In

Rave review from the go-to review portal for librarians.

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Tight Lines, Dad. I Love You.

This is your 90th birthday, Dad. Though you left this world two years ago, you remain very much alive and in my heart. I hope you take up your rod today and go down to the river. I’ll meet you there one day. Not now. But when it’s time. And we’ll fish together again.

Today, in your honor, I am looking at pictures of us fishing.

Dad and I posing with a 19 lb salmon I caught on the Langá River in Iceland.

Catch a big fish for us on the river where you are, Dad. I love you. Richard

The Man With No Borders Picked as Amazon’s Top Literary Book

Woohoo. Such an honor. My novel was chosen as the top literary title for August on the digital giant’s prestigious Amazon First Reads series.

Sexy Instagram Pic Spotted

Book sakes in UK are running strong. Perhaps this Instagram pic snapped in London explains why.

Goodreads E-Book Giveway

Goodreads giving away 100 free digital copies of The Man With No Borders.