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George Packer In Conversation With Elizabeth Farnsworth

Thursday, Nov 12 8:00p
Phone: (415) 392-4400
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George Packer is a journalist, novelist and playwright who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003. His acclaimed investigation of the events leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and his award-winning play about Iraqi interpreters, Betrayed, show a deep and wide-ranging engagement with the War on Terror that is without match in contemporary letters. His most recent book, Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade, collects essays on some of the most important cultural and political stories of the past ten years-from Iraq to September 11 to the rise of Barack Obama and the 2008 election. Packer seeks out not only the public figures that played prominent roles, but also the many private lives that were affected by the sweeping changes we have seen in recent contemporary history. At once wide-angled and humane, Interesting Times is an essential work from an unmistakable voice in contemporary journalism.
Elizabeth Farnsworth is a former anchor at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the director of the recent documentary film The Judge and the General. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and elsewhere, and has produced and directed a number of other PBS documentaries.

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Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 392-4400
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