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City Lights Events | NBCC Awards Announcements, Dahr Jamail, and Peter Nathaniel Malae
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Saturday, January 12, 2008, 6 pm
Join the National Book Critics Circle board, in collaboration with Litquake, Book Group Expo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights, Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, Daniel Alarcon, AWP board chair Catherine Brady, Maxine Chernoff, W. S. Di Piero, Paul Hoover, Wendy Lesser, Elizabeth Tallent, and others (list in progress) to celebrate the finalists for the NBCC awards in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, criticism, biography, autobiography, lifetime achievement and book reviewing. Former NBCC finalists and awardees Frederick Crews, Dave Eggers, Troy Jollimore, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others will be there to announce the finalists in each category. Followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008, 7:30 pm
This event will be taking place at The Woman's Building, 3543 18th St. San Francisco, CA 94110
Admission $5 to $10 sliding scale
Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years. He has reported extensively from inside Iraq for eight months, and has also has reported from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service, Asia Times, and many other outlets. His reports have been published in the Nation, the Sunday Herald, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent, among other publications. On radio as well as television, Jamail has reported for Democracy Now!, and numerous other stations around the globe. Jamail is also special correspondent for Flashpoints on KPFK Radio/Pacifica. He lives in California.
“From the earliest days of the war, Dahr Jamail has been a human conduit for the voices of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. In the face of tremendous personal risk, his commitment to the crucial, principled task of bearing witness has never wavered, and this extraordinary book is the result.”
—Naomi Klein, author, No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
“Dahr Jamail does us a great service, by taking us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. He is a superb journalist.”
—Howard Zinn, author, A People’s History of the United States
Thursday, January 17th, 2008, 7pm
The twelve stories in Teach the Free Man mark the impressive debut of Peter Nathaniel Malae. The subject of incarceration thematically links the stories, yet their range extends beyond the prison’s barbed wire and iron bars. Avoiding sensationalism, Malae exposes the heart and soul in those dark, seemingly inaccessible corridors of the human experience.
The stories, often raw and startlingly honest, are distinguished by the colloquial voices of California’s prison inmates, who, despite their physical and cultural isolation, confront dilemmas with which we can all identify: the choice to show courage against peer pressure; the search for individual rights within a bureaucracy; and the desperate desire for honor in the face of great sacrifice. These stories present polished and poetic examples of finding something redemptive in the least among us.
Peter Nathaniel Malae’s fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Cimarron Review, Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA , and a host of other magazines and journals across the nation. His work has been selected for distinguished recognition in the Best American Essays and Best American Mysteries series. He is currently at work on his first novel.
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