PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Awards: Luis J. Rodriguez, more

7 DECEMBER 2013 — saturday

The 23rd Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards honor writers across the nation, this year's awards go to: Andrew Lam, Birds of Paradise Lost: Thirteen Stories of the Vietnamese Diaspora; Luis J. Rodriguez and Denise M. Sandoval, Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community; Lucille Lang Day, Married at Fourteen, a memoir; Toni Morrison, Home, a novel; Tim Seibles, Fast Animal, poems; Christopher Wagstaff, A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews of Robert Duncan; Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to novelist Jesse Douglas Allen Taylor, the (anti) Censorship Award goes to journalist Chris Hedges; reception and book signing follows, Oakland Public Library, Rockridge Branch, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 2:00-5:00 (Kim McMillon: 510/681-5652; Tennessee Reed, 510/206-6107, treedorama@gmail.com)