The Progressive Reading Series
When: Monday, September 11, 7pm
Where: The Makeout Room – 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, 415-647-2888
Price: $10-20 sliding scale

Featuring: Celebrated writer Joyce Maynard will read from The Usual Rules , a novel about a 13-year-old girl who loses her mother in the World Trade Center attack, and how she learns to cope with grief and adapt to the new world after 9/11. Geoffrey Nunberg is a professor at UC Berkeley and researcher at Stanford’s Center for the Study of Language and Information, as well as a frequent contributor to NPR’s Fresh Air . His new book, Talking Right , examines how Republicans have used language to manipulate public perceptions in the “War on Terror.”
Tom Barbash‘s book, On Top of the World : Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal , profiles the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, the trading firm that lost 658 of its 1,000 New York employees when the World Trade Center was destroyed. Lutnick’s anguished appearances after September 11 give a glimpse into the terrible costs for the survivors as well as those who lost their lives. Caroline Paul has written a memoir about her life as a San Francisco fire fighter, Fighting Fire . Her new novel, East Wind, Rain , deals with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, as inhabitants of a remote Hawaiian island confront the consequences of World War II and difficult questions about what it means to be an American.

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