“Writers of the
Storm: Fake News, and Public Decency, in the Age of Terror”
A Writers-at-Large Panel Discussion
at the
Berkeley Richmond Jewish
Community Center
Writers-at-Large, a California-based writers’
advocacy group which operates under a small grant from the California
Arts Council, is delighted to bring you “Writers of the Storm: Fake News and
Public Decency in the Age of Terror.” The panel will deal
with our role, as writers, in speaking to what the concept of decency
means, who gets to decide that, and why, as well as whether that
decision diminishes the power of the pen, the dignity of writers, as
well as the importance of diversity of opinion.
The panel discussion will feature Bay Area artist, and president of The
First Amendment Project, moderator, Clinton
Fein, and panelists Floyd Salas,
author, and president of PEN Oakland, author, journalist, and former
speechwriter for New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Jeff Gillenkirk, playwright Scott McMorrow, journalist and
author, David Ewing Duncan,
novelist, and social commentator, Stephen
Elliott, and radio journalist, Noelle
Hanrahan. Co-sponsored by: Berkeley Richmond JCC, City Lights Books,
Dutton’s Books of Brentwood and Beverly Hills, the American Booksellers
Foundation for Free Expression, and the Peninsula Beverly Hills.
On Wednesday, September 28th
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the
Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
(the event will be in their 300 seat auditorium).
Admission: $15 /
general admission;
$10 / (students with valid ID)
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