This event is in the past.It took place on May 6, 2026 at City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Literature Talk
Literature TalkCity Lights, the legendary Beat-era bookstore, hosts National Book Award winner Karen Tei Yamashita for her new novel about Japanese American incarceration during WWII. She'll discuss Questions 27 & 28 with Paul Yamazaki, the store's iconic buyer of fifty years: two literary lifers unpacking a story of loyalty, displacement, and family survival.
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Launch Event for 'Questions 27 & 28: A Novel'
Literature TalkLiterature TalkCity Lights, the legendary Beat-era bookstore, hosts National Book Award winner Karen Tei Yamashita for her new novel about Japanese American incarceration during WWII. She'll discuss Questions 27 & 28 with Paul Yamazaki, the store's iconic buyer of fifty years: two literary lifers unpacking a story of loyalty, displacement, and family survival.
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