Tangled Paths: True Stories from Latin America

Join us for an evening with local nonfiction authors Mary Jo McConahay and Chris Feliciano Arnold, spanning World War II to the modern Amazon basin, Tuesday, March 12 in the ground floor meeting room of the Noe Valley/Sally Brunn Library, 451 Jersey St., between Castro and Diamond Streets. Moderated by Brandon Brown. Free admission and free wine reception at 6:30pm. The readings and discussion begin at 7pm.

This is a Word Week 2019 event. Word Week is Noe Valley’s annual literary festival. For a full listing of Word Week 2019 events, go to http://bit.ly/2WXT09H.

CHRIS FELICIANO ARNOLD has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Foreign Policy, Vice News and more. The recipient of a 2014 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he teaches writing in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. Chris Arnold

MARY JO MCCONAHAY is an award-winning reporter and documentary filmmaker who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Salon.com, and other outlets. Her previous books include Maya Roads and Ricochet.

BRANDON BROWN is Professor of Physics and department chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War and the forthcoming The Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America’s First Moon Mission. Brandon R. Brown’s author page