Join Diesel, A Bookstore on June 8 at 6:30 pm as they welcome Arthur Smith to the store to discuss and sign Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television.

In Reach, Smith shares adventures, triumphs, and hard-won lessons from his astonishing career, beginning with his unprecedented ascension from the ranks of sports production to become the youngest-ever head of CBC Sports.

Arthur Smith, the chairman of A. Smith & Co. Productions, is a pioneering veteran of nonfiction television, known for creating and producing some of the longest-running unscripted series in history, including Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior. Smith was honored as one of Variety’s “Titans of Unscripted TV” in 2022, inducted into the Realscreen Awards Hall of Fame in 2021, awarded Broadcasting & Cable’s “Producer of the Year” in 2020, has been nominated for several Emmy Awards, and has received dozens of industry honors and awards. Smith embarked on his career in television as a 22-year-old wunderkind, talking his way into sports production at CBC in his native Canada.

This event is free to attend and will be held in the courtyard at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood.