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Is Nonfiction Literature? Exploring the Intersection of Fact and Art
Sunday October 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
San Francisco Public Library Saroyan Gallery
Although memoir and narrative nonfiction continue to thrive as genres, the writers of such works tend to be seen as something other than artists—reporters, survivors, historians, and social thinkers, yes, but not artists. Can works driven by facts aspire to true artistry, or does the burden of representing reality inherently place it in a different category? Together, writers Tom Barbash, Lindsey Crittenden, Glen David Gold, and Rachel Howard, along with moderator Jason Roberts, explore these worthwhile questions. FREE, $10-15 suggested donation
Moderators
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Jason Roberts

Jason Roberts is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. His newest book, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, came out in April. His previous book, A Sense of the World, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A... Read More →
Authors and Participants
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Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is the author of four books as well as reviews, essays, and articles for publications such as Men’s Journal, ESPN The Magazine, McSweeney’s, Tin House, the Believer, Narrative Magazine, ZYZZYVA, and The New York Times. His non-Fiction book, On Top of the World, was... Read More →
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Lindsey Crittenden

Lindsey Crittenden is the author of The View From Below: Stories and The Water Will Hold You, a memoir ("exquisitely written," Publishers Weekly starred review). Her personal essays have appeared in Cimarron Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Best American Spiritual... Read More →
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Glen David Gold

Glen David Gold is the author of the international best-selling novels Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, and the memoir I Will Be Complete. He's written comic books for Marvel, DC and Dark Horse, and composed essays and short stories for Playboy, McSweeney's, Wired, Zyzzyva, and... Read More →
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Rachel Howard

Rachel Howard is the author of The Risk of Us, a novel, and The Lost Night, a memoir about her father's unsolved murder. A 2024 National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow, she has published fiction and nonfiction in ZYZZYVA, StoryQuarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books... Read More →
Sunday October 13, 2024 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
San Francisco Public Library Saroyan Gallery
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