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Tue, Nov 1, 7 PM
MAO:
The Unknown Story
In conversation with
Seth Faison, former
Shanghai bureau chief, New York Times
In a series of startling revelations, Chang
(author of Wild Swans) and Halliday, a renowned Asia scholar,
explode every myth and assumption about Mao.
Co-presented with Asia Society Southern
California
Wed, Nov 2, 7 Pm
FLEDGLING
In conversation with
Akasha Gloria Hull,
poet and feminist scholar
Butler, one of the world’s great
science fiction writers, explores the limits of
“otherness” in her new novel—the story of a
young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and
abilities lead her to a startling conclusion.
Tue, Nov 8, 7 PM
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
In conversation with
John Powers, Critic at
Large for NPR’s Fresh Air
Packer, award-winning staff writer for The
New Yorker, explores the full range of ideas and emotions
stirred up by our most controversial foreign-policy venture
since Vietnam.
Thu, Nov 10, 7 PM
Ordinary Heroes
Set in Bastogne, during the Battle of the
Bulge, Turow’s character explores the agonizing choices
his father faced on the battlefield. A story of courage,
betrayal, passion and the mystery of a father’s hidden
war.
Tue, Nov 15, 7 PM
“Nancy Drew to
Eve Diamond: From
Girl
Sleuth to Postmodern Noir Dame”
Rehak, author of a new book about Nancy
Drew, discusses the beloved girl detective in conversation with
the creator of the gripping Eve Diamond mystery thrillers.
Thu, Nov 17, 7 PM
“Telling the Story of War: Two
Writers Respond”
Croatian-American novelist Novakovich
(Infidelities, Stories of War and Lust) and Paris Review editor/non-fiction author Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You
That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from
Rwanda) discuss writers’ responses to catastrophe.
Mon, Nov 28, 7 PM
Patty Stonesifer
“All Kids College Ready: What Will it Take to Ensure that Our Public Education System Prepares All Children?”
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Tue, Nov 8, 7 PM
George Packer
Photo © Greg Martin
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George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of two novels and three works of nonfiction including The Assassins' Gate, which will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November, 2005, and Blood of the Liberals (FSG, 2000), which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is also the editor of the anthology The Fight for Democracy. He lives in Brooklyn.
John Powers is film critic at Vogue, Editor at Large of L.A. Weekly and Critic at Large for NPR's Fresh Air. His 2004 book, Sore Winners: American Idols, Patriotic Shoppers and Other Strange Species in George Bush's America has just been released in paperback by Anchor.
After getting his Ph.D. from Stanford University in "Modern Thought and Literature," Powers taught at Georgetown University. In 1985, he moved to Los Angeles where he became a full-time journalist. Over the years, his work has appeared in such other publications as New York, Rolling Stone, Harper's, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Gourmet, for which he served as Southeast Asia correspondent. In 1993, he co-directed the acclaimed BBC documentary I Am a Sex Addict with Vikram Jayanti (who, like Mr. Powers, is not a sex addict). He and his wife, Sandi Tan, live in Pasadena.
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