Join filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez for a screening and panel discussion of the California Documentary Project-supported film Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle at Sacramento State on Monday, November 10. The film, an investigative look into the life and mysterious death of pioneering journalist Ruben Salazar, was recently broadcast nationally on PBS and will …
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Don’t Miss California Reads at Your Local Library!
Hundreds of activities — reading and discussion programs, author talks, oral history collection, story-sharing projects, art-making activities, community forums and dialogues, presentations and panel discussions, film screening, and civic engagement and community service projects to support veterans and their families continue to place across the state this fall at libraries, …
Read More »Karl Marlantes’ Author Tour Begins in Southern California
Karl Marlantes, New York Times bestselling author and Vietnam veteran, will return to Southern California for the second leg of his statewide speaking tour, focusing on topics raised in his compelling narrative What It Is Like To Go To War, our current CA Reads book selection. The tour will kick-off at UCLA Sunday, …
Read More »Recap of Karl Marlante’s Author Conversation Tour in Northern California
As part of our War Comes Home: California Reads program, Karl Marlantes, Vietnam veteran, Rhodes Scholar, and New York Times bestselling author of What It Is Like To Go To War toured Northern California in early October. Marlantes spoke to audiences about his experiences during and after war, how he came to write the book, …
Read More »War Comes Home: Jorge Mariscal
Jorge Mariscal is a Professor of Literature and Chicano Studies at UC San Diego.
Read More »War Comes Home: Brayden Yoder
Brayden Yoder is a writer & filmmaker who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq & Germany 200-2004.
Read More »War Comes Home: Starlyn Lara
Starlyn Lara served in the U.S. Army 1995-2007 & is the Women VA Program Manager at Swords to Plowshares.
Read More »War Comes Home: Geoff Millard
Geoff Millard was a member of the New York National Guard.
Read More »War Comes Home: Carol Burke
Carol Burke is a Professor of English and Folklore at UC Irvine.
Read More »War Comes Home: Keith Jeffreys
Keith Jeffreys is a US Army veteran and the Executive Director, USVAA.
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