Always outstanding, sometimes controversial, but never dull regional and local authors read from and discuss their works as well as the craft of writing, and engage in dialogue with their audience in this always compelling series of talks hosted semi-annually on the campus.
A creative writing instructor at Santa Monica College and Antioch university, awardwinning documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, and an active volunteer with Inside Out Writers, an organization that offers writing classes for incarcerated youth.
Roald Hoffmann-awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Kenichi Fukui) and now a Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University-will read selections and talk about his writing, which has carved out a land betw
Viet Thanh Nguyen-Associate Professor of English & American Studies & Ethnicity at The University of Southern California (USC) author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, and co-editor of Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emer
A member of the English Dept. faculty at Loyola Marymount University, author of the New York Times Bestseller Raising Fences, and co-host of the weekly KPFK (90.7 FM) public affairs news 'magazine' Beautiful Struggle - reads from his work.