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May 27

Eduardo Galeano at Ethical Culture: Reading and a Conversation with Lawrence Weschler

Where: New York City
When: 7 pm
Join Nation Books author Eduardo Galeano in a rare appearance in New York City in a wide-ranging conversation as he discusses his new book, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, Latin American politics, the role of literature in today’s world, Obama and Chavez.

Galeano will be interviewed by Lawrence Weschler, Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.

WHEN: Wednesday May 27, 2009 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street, New York City.

FREE.

Co-sponsored by The New York Society for Ethical Culture, Haymarket Books, The Nation, Democrats.com, Democracy Now!, KPFA, Lapham's Quarterly and The Paris Review.



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