Zócalo Public Square Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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TONIGHT at 5 PM PDT, Pulitzer Prize winner David W. Blight will interview fellow historian @william_sturkey, winner of Zócalo’s 10th annual Book Prize for “Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White.” 1/8 https://zps.la/2XDPtA9

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.@UCRiverside's Edward T. Chang and researcher Carol K. Park spotlight the forgotten history of Pachappa Camp, the first-ever Koreatown U.S.A., and how it came to serve as a gathering place for Korean Americans fighting for their nationhood abroad. https://t.co/wXuVOFApe0

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Jorge Daniel Taillant (@jdtaillant), Climate Justice Policy Advisor at @IGSD_DC discusses glaciers and their impact on our ecosystem: from weather to providing fresh water, we are all "vested players in our global climate." https://t.co/2JBTUyUtMC

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Check out our poem “BACKPACK” by Polish poet Tomasz Różycki. Plus: enjoy the English translation and reading of the poem by @mira_rosenthal. https://t.co/V0ae0V4Rwe

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"We the Animals," by Justin Torres, "Freshwater" by Akwaeke Emezi... Ross Gay, Tony Morrison… "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" by Nick Flynn. "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. “There are so many,” @asgharthegrouch says, listing off influences.

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Christopher Carter, author of "The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice," considers the anti-racist roots of soul food, and its implications for today: https://t.co/e4AAf92t3h

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Moderator Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in L.A.’s San Gabriel Valley. She is the author of four books, including Brown Album: Essays on Exile & Identity, and is a senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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"Revisiting Hansberry’s 1959 triumph proves poignant in the wake of the open letter to 'White American Theater,' which is part of the racial reckoning prompted by the video-recorded police murder of George Floyd."—prof. Koritha Mitchell, September 2020. https://zps.la/34Zffm5

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Did you have an "aha" moment, Margonelli asked Wylie, while she researched Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work behind the Scenes.

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The page-turning plot of #Nightcrawling inspired our own @joemmathews to go walking in East Oakland. Read his dispatch in the latest #ConnectingCalifornia: https://t.co/9M5KNwb8iC