Author, poet, television series host and winner of the 2008 Orion Book Award, Diane Ackerman will host a lecture and Q&A session. Her recent New York Times Bestseller The Zookeeper's Wife is a non-fiction account of one couple's bravery in sheltering 300 Jews and Polish resistors in a zoo during the Nazi Holocaust — "a true story—of human empathy and its opposite—that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful." (Washington Post Book World)
Chicano chanting, mixed-up, multicultural, Spanglish-slinging, raza-ranting, binational-border bringers of the Word Francisco Bustos and Michael Cheno Wickert, Aquí Estamos...Ya Nos Vamos (Here We Are, Here We Go). (Calaca Press).
Prestigious Whiting Award recipient, poet, performer, and educator Douglas KearneypresentsFear, Some, a collection of poetry that “broadcasts from the slippery moments when personal, national, racial and aesthetic anxieties overlap” (Red Hen Press).
City’s very own Laurel Corona, The Four Seasons: A Novel of Vivaldi’s Venice, a “tumultous story of women discovering the complexities of their passions and the deep bonds of love, in a setting where music and an extraordinary city become central characters in and of themselves” (Voice).
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego; immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, and deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her fourth book, The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse, was published in January by NYU Press.
Cohn’s other books include Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent;Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law; Cameras in the Courtroom: Television in the Pursuit of Justice.
In 2008, Professor Cohn testified about Bush administration torture policy before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She is the 2008 recipient of the Peace Scholar of the Year Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association. Her numerous articles can be read at www.marjoriecohn.com.
Author Diane Ackerman
Poets Francisco Bustos,
Author Laurel Corona