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SUMMARY:Eileen Truax in conversation with Lauren Markham (moderated by Ian Gordon)
DESCRIPTION:  \n \ndiscussing the subject of \nWe Build the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico\, Central America and Beyond \nby  Eileen Truax \nfrom Verso Books \nand \n  \nThe Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life \n  \nby Lauren Markham \npublished by Crown \nWe Built the Wall is an immersive\, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes\, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family\, and Delmy Calderón\, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil\, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico\, and Rocío Hernández\, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity. \nOriginally from Mexico\, Eileen Truax is a journalist and immigrant currently living in Los Angeles. She is the author of Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight For Their American Dream. \nLauren Markham is a writer and reporter based in Northern California. She writes fiction\, essays and journalism – mostly about migration\, youth\, the environment\, and the state of California.  She is the author of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life published in September 2017 by Crown. The Far Away Brothers is the winner of the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize\, a California Book Award Silver Prize\, was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection\, a New York Times Book Critics’ Top Book of 2017\, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the L.A. Times Book Award and longlisted for a Pen America Literary Award in Biography. Her essays\, fiction and journalism have appeared in outlets such as VQR (where I am a Contributing Editor)\, Harper’s\, The New Yorker.com\, The Guardian\, The New Republic\, Guernica\, VICE\, Mother Jones\, Orion\, California Sunday\, Narrative Magazine\, Pacific Standard\, and on This American Life. \nIan Gordon is an investigative journalist the managing editor at Mother Jones Magazine. \ncritical praise for We Build the Wall: \n\n“Eileen Truax has given us an evocative and human portrait of the so-called immigration crisis\, bringing together gripping firsthand narratives of refugees with an incisive analysis of America’s broken asylum policy. With attention to lives that have been put in jeopardy by Mexican and American governments alike\, We Built the Wallis the book we need in this time of rising nationalisms—a must-read clarion call for empathy across borders in the age of Trump.” \n– Ali Noorani\, Executive Director\, National Immigration Forum\, and the author of There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration \n\n\n\n“We Built the Wall combines the flair of a novel and the depth of the best investigative journalism with a passionate commitment to human rights to take readers into the heart of today’s immigration crisis. Truax highlights the voices of people who are fighting for justice on both sides of the border to shed light on the systems that have led to a deeply transnational human rights crisis. Immigration\, she makes clear\, is the result\, not the cause\, of this crisis.” \n– Aviva Chomsky\, author of Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal and “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration \n\n\n“A lucid account of US asylum policy\, both during the Cold War\, when it was granted overwhelmingly to people leaving the Soviet Union\, Cuba and Vietnam\, but withheld from people brutalized by Washington’s allies—in Guatemala\, El Salvador\, Haiti—and now in the age of deportation\, when Mexicans and Central Americans heading north\, including children in fear for their lives\, find it almost impossible to obtain refugee status.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, Contributing Editor at The London Review of Books and author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants out of the Rich World
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-truax-in-conversation-with-lauren-markham-moderated-by-ian-gordon/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dubravka Ugresic
DESCRIPTION:Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic discusses her new novels\, Fox and American Fictionary. \n\nPraise for Fox \n\n“Ugresic is also affecting and eloquent\, in part because within her quirky\, aggressively sweet plot she achieves moments of profundity and evokes the stoicism innate in such moments.”—Mary Gaitskill \n\n“Never has a writer been more aware of how one narrative depends on another.”—Joanna Walsh \n\n“Dubravka Ugresic is the philosopher of evil and exile\, and the storyteller of many shattered lives.”—Charles Simic \n\nAbout Fox \n\nFox is the story of literary footnotes and “minor” characters―unnoticed people propelled into timelessness through the biographies and novels of others. With Ugresic’s characteristic wit\, Fox takes us from Russia to Japan\, through Balkan minefields and American road trips\, and from the 1920s to the present\, as it explores the power of storytelling and literary invention\, betrayal\, and the randomness of human lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dubravka-ugresic/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Jordan reads poems from Riding Waves
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Solano \nKathryn Jordan reads select poems from her new collection\, Riding Waves. \nKathryn Jordan’s Riding Waves is not for the faint of spirit. Do not pick it up unless you are prepared to be jolted by hurts\, inspired by survival\, and charmed by metaphors that can only come from a wounded place within us.\nJohn Warley\, author of A Southern Girl \nKathryn Jordan’s beautiful book reverberates with the beauty and pain of a lost era. Scenes from a fragmented military childhood at the height of the Vietnam War are interspersed with meditations on Nature\, family\, love\, loss\, travel and music. It’s a rich tapestry of memory and spiritual inquiry. Jordan finds her way through a tumultuous time by paying rapt attention to the sensory details and small epiphanies that accompanied her on her journey. \nAlison Luterman\, author of Desire Zoo \nA strong book\, crafted and elegant\, utterly unsparing of hard truths and lit ablaze by the flamed-open heart of saying. These are poems that pull us close with their unflinching presence; roped in\, caught up by Kathe Jordan’s work\, we turn pages that spill a tough and aching history\, broken\, bled through\, and fraught with beauty. \nJudyth Hill\, editor\, poet\, author of Dazzle Wobble \nAbout the Author \n\nAt UC Berkeley\, Kathryn won the Elizabeth Mills Crothers Prize for Short Story and has placed narrative non-fiction with The Sun Magazine. She is the winner of the 2016 San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference Prize for Poetry. Her work was selected for Bay Area Generations and chosen to represent B.A.G. at Oakland Beast Crawl in 2016. Her poems have appeared in Roar Magazine and in the anthology\, Solamente en San Miguel. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Solano\n1855 Solano Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathryn-jordan-reads-poems-from-riding-waves/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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