“Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life” is the title of Michael Moore’s recently published quasi-memoir. Organizers at Auraria’s three colleges might add with a wink, “No, really, here comes trouble.”
The UCD Office of Student Life along with Metro State Student Activities and Community College of Denver are bringing the director-provocateur to the Auraria campus Nov. 3.
Glad to be a lightning rod for political contretemps, Moore — maker of the significant and contentious documentaries “Roger & Me” “Bowling for Columbine” and the Oscar-winning “Fahrenheit 9/11” — will discuss his latest book at a free event that is open to the public (2:30 p.m. Tivoli Student Union Turnhalle).
Later that evening, Moore is scheduled to sign copies at the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax (7 p.m.).
Book reviewer Dwight Garner, writing in the New York Times, captured the aggravating and compelling mix that is Moore, who was born in Flint, Mich. in 1954. He called the opening pages of “Here Comes Trouble” “red meat tossed to Mr. Moore’s true believers.” But Garner acknowledged that the director’s “coming of age as a working-class malcontent is, however, something to behold.”
