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Tonight! Please come talk, resist, and refuse book banning and other fascist antics with us. Zayd Dohrn, Gabrielle Lyon, and Frances de Pontes Peebles and I will read this short play and then we can all talk about this moment and what we're doing. Love from Writers For Democratic Action
WDA presents Ban the Bans: A Play Reading
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We're excited to welcome our friends at Writers for Democratic Action for a reading of "Ban the Bans," a new one act play!
Hey pals! Please come to a joyful reading of Ban the Bans, a new piece co-written by me and the one and only James Carroll for Writers For Democratic Action's Democracy Theater Project -- we'll be reading and then talking with everyone at Women & Children First on October 6th at 6 pm, in celebration of Banned Books Week. Come fight for books and authors and our rights to read, write, and speak freely. We would LOVE to see you there.
WDA presents Ban the Bans: A Play Reading
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We're excited to welcome our friends at Writers for Democratic Action for a reading of "Ban the Bans," a new one act play!
what fun to do this interview with chicago literary hall of fame. thank you for having me.
chicagoliteraryhof.org
By Jasminum McMullen <em>Writuals explores how our city's rich literary heritage, cultural diversity, and iconic spaces inspire routines that fuel the work of local authors. </em> Rachel DeWos...
It's the 20th anniversary of my first book, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (WW Norton, 2005). What a wild ride then and now. Thank you to everyone who has read FBIB over the years and written to me -- and thank you to all the Beijingers and fellow laowai I loved and love. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/18/foreign-babes-in-beijing
Join me tonight at the Chicago Humanities Festival in conversation with Fredrik Backman about his lively new novel, My Friends.