RICHARD RODRIGUEZ
Friday, January 25 at 7 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Avenue

Co-presented with Harper's Magazine and THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Award-winning journalist and author Richard Rodriguez makes this welcome Seattle this evening to read from and discuss an essay in the January 2008 issue of Harper's Magazine, "The God of the Desert: Jerusalem and the Ecology of Monotheism," which is part of a larger piece he is working on concerning the ecology of the desert and monotheistic religion. Richard Rodriguez is the acclaimed author of Hunger of Memory, Days of Obligation, and, most recently, Brown: The Last Discovery of America. He is an editor at New American Media in San Francisco, and a regular essayist on PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Free, no tickets necessary. Town Hall Seattle is located at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca). Parking is available in adjacent pay lots, and discounted parking ($4) is available with a voucher at the main Washington State Convention & Trade Center garage, two blocks north of Town Hall. For more information, please see www.spl.org or call (206) 386-4636.

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