EVENTS

RED HEN AT THE GEFFEN

The Geffen Playhouse, in an effort to reach out to the Los Angeles community, partnered with Red Hen Press to create our new series Red Hen’s Monday Evenings at the Geffen, hosted by Kate Gale and select moderators.

Given the flowering of literature, music and theatre in this most auspicious city for the arts, we are pleased to give writers a stage to speak their voice. In the tangled palm trees and afternoon sun, some of us pause to pick up a pen, and with our pen to call for action.

As the great Raymond Chandler so aptly put it, “When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.” Sometimes that gun is a new way of looking at education, sometimes it’s an idea about poetry. Sometimes it isn’t a gun at all. We invite you to come through the door into our world of ideas. Welcome to Red Hen Press’s Monday Evenings at the Geffen.

Where
Geffen Playhouse
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
10886 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

When
Monday, evenings 7:30pm

Box Office
(310) 208-5454
Geffen Playhouse

General Admission
Individual event: $20/event
All 4 events: $70

Senior & Student (w/ID)
Individual event: $15/event
All 4 events: $50

Schedule of Events

Writers on Time and Place
Monday, May 12, 2008
7:30 PM

Antje Rávic Strubel’s novels include Kältere Schichten der Luft, nominated for Leipzig Book Fair Award & Snowed Under (Red Hen Press). German translator of Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking. Recipient of Bremer Literature Award, and The Academy of Arts Award for Literature.

Seth Greenland is a novelist and playwright. His first novel, The Bones, was optioned by Sony and recently came out in paperback. His second novel will be published by Bloomsbury in 2008. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Black Clock.

Susan Straight, author of six novels. Highwire Moon, finalist National Book Award. A Million Nightingales, finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her short fiction in Best American Short Stories and The O Henry Prize Stories is part of a trilogy on slavery, migration and love.

With moderator: Veronique de Turenne

Journalist and screenwriter, her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Los Angeles Magazine, Variety and other publications. She is a contributor to the best-selling anthology, My California; Journeys by Great Writers.