5:30 pm‐ Reception and silent auction of signed books (by the readers, as well as Reg Gibbons, Rick Perlstein & Paula Kamen)
6:30 pm‐ A flock of local writers will read work that is very fun, very interesting, very political (in the broadest sense) and very very brief: Sara Paretsky, Stuart Dybek, Haki Madhubuti, Rosellen Brown, James McManus, Jonathan Messinger, Roger Bonair-Agard, Kevin Coval, Michelle Goldberg, Quraysh Ali Lansana,Kristiana Rae Colón, Tom Geoghegan, Marcus Sakey, Libby Hellman,Carlos Cumpian & Cris Mazza, and non‐silent auction of political cartoons by Nicole Hollander, Jennifer Berman, Tom Bachtell, Pat Byrnes & Tim Jackson. MC is S.L. Wisenberg.
8 pm‐ Viewing of the final Obama‐McCain debate
Cost is $60/person at the door, $50 in advance, on line. To buy your ticket, go to
http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/WritersandCartoonists
and hit "Donate" on the thermometer.
Ticket sales go to Obama for America. Cartoon and book sales go to pay for buses that will take Chicagoans to Iowa to canvass for Obama. Bring your checkbook for the auctions.
For more info, or if you're an author or cartoonist who'd like to donate signed books or cartoons, contact: Oct15Obama@gmail.com
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