IMMIGRANT WRITERS | WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13
ROSE CASTILLO GUILBAULT, Author, Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America
ANDREW LAM, Author, Perfume Dreams; Winner, PEN/Beyond Margins Award
SANDIP ROY, Editor, New America Media; Host, “Upfront,” KALW-FM – Moderator

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THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRANT WRITERS ON CALIFORNIA’S LITERARY LANDSCAPE

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Immigration is opening the floodgates for new voices that bring different cultures and languages into California’s literary mainstream. Writer Peter Schrag notes that “the cross-cultural sensibilities that inform California’s new writers may not be that different from the things that nourished first- and second-generation writing in the 20th century – from Phillip Roth and Bernard Malamud to Mario Puzo, from James T. Farrell to Saul Bellow. American literature, like American music, was always nourished by the immigrant experience….” Today, they come from Mexico, Vietnam, India, Afghanistan and China, and write about their California – filled with hybrid cultures, contemporary movements and popular culture.

5:30 p.m., Wine and cheese reception | 6:00 p.m., Program | Club office, 595 Market St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco | Free for Members, $18 for Non-Members | Directions to The Club.
Co-sponsored by The Bernard Osher Foundation and Stacey’s Bookstore.