A Conversation with Dave Eggers, Valentino Achak Deng, and Samantha Power
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University invites you to attend a conversation with Dave Eggars, Valentino Achak Deng, and Samantha Power on...
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
Monday February 26, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA
Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity! and How We Are Hungry. In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent publishing house located in San Francisco that publishes books, a quarterly literary journal, The Believer, and a daily humor website.
Samantha Power, co-founder of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, is the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy.
Presented by
- The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University
- PEN New England
- The Sudanese Education Fund
For directions to Memorial Church visit the church's Web site.
Books will be available for sale by Harvard Book Store.
Save the Date! Eros Night 2007 - Ladies' Night
Wednesday, February 14th at 7:00 PM (Valentine's Day)
The Paradise Lounge
Featured readers include:
- Ann Hood, The Knitting Circle
- Daphne Kalotay, Calamity and Other Stories
- Tracy McArdle, Confessions of a Nervous Shiksa and Real Women Eat Beef
- Lise Haines, Small Acts of Sex and Electricity
- Elizabeth Searle, Mistress of Ceremonies
DJ will take advance requests from audience members and readers; send your requests to jhodgkinson@comcast.net.
Presented by Tim Huggins of Newtonville Books, The Paradise Lounge, and PEN New England
Admission $5.00
Reserve your FREE TABLE in advance by calling 617-562-8820, Paradise Lounge, 967 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
Directions available at www.thedise.com
Michael Lowenthal Reads at Hotel Marlowe
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
From 6:15 PM to 7:00 PM
(During Wine Hour, which begins at 5:00 PM)
Michael Lowenthal is the author of Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). The novel, set in 1918, is based on a disturbing but little-remembered episode in American history, when the government, claiming special wartime powers to protect the military, arrested and incarcerated 15,000 women who had venereal disease. The women—American citizens—were held indefinitely, without formal charges, in federally funded detention centers. Lowenthal is the author of of two previous novels, Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002) and The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998). His stories have appeared in the Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and Tin House, and have been widely anthologized, most recently in Best New American Voices 2005 and Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Lowenthal teaches creative writing at Boston College and in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. He also serves on the Executive Board of PEN New England.
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading.
The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.
For more information call 617-824-8820 or e-mail pen_ne@lesley.edu