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ON LINCOLN

“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” — Abraham Lincoln

Tony Kushner (Angels in America and the screenplay for Lincoln) and Sarah Vowell (Assassination Vacation) will examine the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln this week at Royce Hall.

 

 

TONY KUSHNER AND SARAH VOWELL IN CONVERSATION

THE LINCOLN LEGACYTHE MAN AND HIS PRESIDENCY, Thursday, February 22, at 8 pm.

ROYCE HALL, UCLA, 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles.

ucla.edu/kushner_vowell

Gloria Reuben, Sally Field, and Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012). Image credit: DreamWorks.

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PARTY FOR McSWEENEY’S 50TH

Join Kevin Moffett, Corinna Vallianatos, Sarah Walker, Carson Mell, and Brian Everson (who will all give readings) at the release party for Issue 50 of McSWEENEY’S, the quarterly founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers. The new issue—in a hardcover book format—includes contributions by Carrie BrownsteinChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Thomas McGuane, Sheila HetiKevin Young, Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, Etgar Keret, Diane Williams, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and Steven Millhauser.

McSWEENEY’S 50th ISSUE PARTY, Tuesday, August 29, 2017, at 7:30 pm.

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

skylightbooks.com/event/mcsweeneys-50th-issue-release-party

McSweeney’s, issue 50.

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