7th Annual San Diego City College Int'l Book Fair

October 1 - 6, 2012

2012 Seventh Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair
Free admission to all events. Open to the public.

Monday, October 1, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us

Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
9:35 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Reading and book signing with Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here
Buy one, get one free: For each purchase of Between Heaven and Here ($12), the author will give a free copy of Take One Candle Light a Room, part of her Rio Seco trilogy.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Panel discussion with Justin Hudnall, Corinne Goria, Mindy Solis, and Erica Blunt, contributors to The Far East: Everything Just As It Is, an anthology that combines non-fiction and poetry to create a portrait of life in East San Diego County.

Thursday, October 4, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
11: 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Zohreh Ghahremani, author of Sky of Red Poppies
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Gustavo Arellano, author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America

Friday, October 5, 2012
Saville Theatre
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
City Works Press reading and book signing with Chris Baron, Heather Eudy, Cali Linfor, and Sabrina Youmans, contributors to Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems

Saturday, October 6, 2012
Saville Theater
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Screening of Precious Knowledge, documentary and discussion

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Readings of excerpts from banned books by faculty and staff members including: Roberta Alexander, June Cressy, Farrell Foreman, Kevin Gossett, Jan Jarrell, Nadia Mandilawi, Elizabeth Meehan, Oscar Preciado, Anna Rogers, Elva Salinas. Discussion to follow.

Readings and book signings by authors banned in Arizona, including:
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Rudy Acuña, author of Occupied America, Anything But Mexican, and Corridors of Migration

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Matt de la Peña, author of Mexican White Boy, Ball Don’t Lie, and We Were Here

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Herbert Sigüenza, author of Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy

Featuring:

Sabrina Youmans

Sabrina Youmans thrives in Los Angeles, but remains tethered to San Diego and all its trappings of paradise. She started her career writing for magazines and newspapers. After earning her MFA from San Diego State University with Pockets of Air, she transitioned into education. Youmans has served as a learning specialist for the past fifteen years, orienting student-athletes to university writing and the demands of college. She began this work at SDSU, did a brief stint in the south at LSU, and is now a Senior Learning Specialist at UCLA. Her first book, Pacific Standard Time, appears in Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems.

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