John Freeman on The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox and Hal Niedzviecki on The Peep Diaries
Sunday, Nov. 15, 1:30 p.m., Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
John Freeman
John Freeman is a writer and book critic who’s written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson page-turner award, and was recently named American editor of Granta. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox (Simon & Schuster), is “closely argued and historically informed,” says James Shapiro. Freeman lives in New York City.
Hal Niedzviecki
Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil, a magazine covering zine culture and the indie arts. In addition to three novels and a story collection, Niedzviecki is the author of We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture. His latest, The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (City Lights Books), is a “smart mixture of reportage and reflection (that) avoids alarmism and hype while capturing the strange power of our urge to see and be seen.”—Publishers Weekly.
Schedule
| Sunday, Nov. 15, 1:30 p.m. |
Free |
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)
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