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Julie Orringer and Michael Chabon
May 14, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+0
$30
Julie Orringer (The Invisible Bridge) joins Michael Chabon (Moonglow) for a conversation about The Flight Portfolio, Orringer’s new historical novel set in occupied Europe and based on the true story of American journalist Varian Fry’s extraordinary rescue of Jewish artists and writers threatened by the Nazis including Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall.
“No book this year could possibly compare with The Flight Portfolio: ambitious, meticulous, big-hearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be.”
– Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
Authors
Julie Orringer
Julie Orringer is the bestselling author of the novel The Invisible Bridge and the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She is the winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships… Read More →
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, Werewolves in their Youth, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Summerland, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Maps and Legends… Read More →
Tuesday May 14, 2019 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Kanbar Hall 3200 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118