[Crwt-undergrad-info] Fwd: ALOUD | PEN America World Voices Festival with Reza Aslan and Franklin Leonard

Allison Hedge Coke allisonh at ucr.edu
Thu Mar 23 17:03:17 PDT 2023 

Reza with Pen America World Voices Festival this May

New Program Announced!
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*NEW PROGRAM*
ALOUD is happy to present a new program in collaboration with PEN America
as part of the PEN America World Voices Festival.
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Reza Aslan (left) and Franklin Leonard (right)

*Saturday, May 13, 2:00 PM*
Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
*Reza Aslan + Franklin Leonard*
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*Co-presented with PEN America Part of the PEN America World Voices
Festival*


In our polarized climate in the United States, and amidst the movement for
human rights in Iran, writers and journalists have been increasingly
targeted by waves of online harassment for their work and writing. From the
missives of QAnon to the rise of hate speech on Twitter, our political
context is building a perfect storm of intimidation with ever-shifting
targets. Join best-selling author and scholar *Reza Aslan* and PEN America
Trustee and Black List
<https://lfla.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e81b3f7737647ae4fdcea86f&id=545e4b95b7&e=2614ce1aee>
 founder *Franklin Leonard* for a conversation about our divisive political
landscape in the United States and around the world and its insidious
impact on writers, scholars, and creators. *Click here to reserve.*
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From: ALOUD <programs at lfla.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Subject: ALOUD | PEN America World Voices Festival with Reza Aslan and
Franklin Leonard
To: <allisonh at ucr.edu>


New Program Announced!
View this email in your browser
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*NEW PROGRAM*
ALOUD is happy to present a new program in collaboration with PEN America
as part of the PEN America World Voices Festival.
<https://lfla.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e81b3f7737647ae4fdcea86f&id=1d3b929579&e=2614ce1aee>
Reza Aslan (left) and Franklin Leonard (right)

*Saturday, May 13, 2:00 PM*
Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
*Reza Aslan + Franklin Leonard*
<https://lfla.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e81b3f7737647ae4fdcea86f&id=3ba6bad6cd&e=2614ce1aee>

*Co-presented with PEN America Part of the PEN America World Voices
Festival*


In our polarized climate in the United States, and amidst the movement for
human rights in Iran, writers and journalists have been increasingly
targeted by waves of online harassment for their work and writing. From the
missives of QAnon to the rise of hate speech on Twitter, our political
context is building a perfect storm of intimidation with ever-shifting
targets. Join best-selling author and scholar *Reza Aslan* and PEN America
Trustee and Black List
<https://lfla.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e81b3f7737647ae4fdcea86f&id=545e4b95b7&e=2614ce1aee>
 founder *Franklin Leonard* for a conversation about our divisive political
landscape in the United States and around the world and its insidious
impact on writers, scholars, and creators. *Click here to reserve.*
<https://lfla.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e81b3f7737647ae4fdcea86f&id=d087188580&e=2614ce1aee>
*MEDIA ARCHIVE*
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Missed *Finding the Words*? Click here to watch or listen
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to film
and theater writer/director *Colin Campbell*'s journey as a grieving
parent in conversation with senior and founding rabbi of IKAR *Rabbi Sharon
Brous*, sharing the power of community in healing and hard-earned insights
about navigating despair.

Interested in learning more?

Here is a recommended list of books, by LAPL librarians, which will
resonate with those who appreciate Colin Campbell:

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    Camus
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   , *The Myth of Sisyphus*
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   - Joan Didion, *The Year of Magical Thinking*
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   - *Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning*
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Missed *Dust Child*? Click here to watch or listen
<https://lfla.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2e81b3f7737647ae4fdcea86f&id=c5a0514ea0&e=2614ce1aee>
an
evening with international bestselling author and poet *Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai*
in conversation with host of The Vietnamese Podcast *Kenneth Nguyen*. The
evening features special performances by *Quyen Ngo* and *Dr. Jason R.
Nguyen*. Co-presented with Skylight Books.

Interested in learning more?

Here are LAPL librarians' picks for stories by celebrated Vietnamese
authors:

   - Đạng Thùy Trâm, *Last Night I Dreamed Of Peace*
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   - Thu Huong Duong
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   , *Paradise of the Blind*
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   - Le Ly Hayslip
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   , *When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey
   from War to Peace*
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   - *Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer*
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These titles and more are all available with a Los Angeles Public Library
card!

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