Evan Handler's It's Only Temporary

Hey guys, I ran across this upcoming memoir online the other day -- some of you might know Evan Handler from his acting -- Sex In the City, Californication, and small parts in Lost, The West Wing and more. I am a fan, but I didn't know that he had overcome a supposedly incurable form of leukemia. He also writes for Huffington Post and has some interesting articles over there.

So I found him on myspace (his Huffington articles are posted in his blog there) and he seems like a really great guy -- he responded to my comment which was cool -- more than I can say for other celebs. He has a Facebook page too. Just thought I'd pass on the info about his book in case there are other fans here. (It comes out May 1).

It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive by actor/author Evan Handler. He's the bald guy in the cover photo.


A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death.

Actor and author Evan Handler’s new book, It’s Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well with the knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has created a poignant and wildly funny rumination on the ironies of human existence.

Structured as a collection of incisive and probing autobiographical stories , It’s Only Temporary is a startlingly candid portrait of one man’s struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows he’s lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handler’s defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. It’s Only Temporary celebrates the transformation from boy to man—even if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.