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Literature Talk

Tom Frank: The Creativity Con

October 27 at 7pm

At City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Chinatown, San Francisco

"temples to artists" — a regular visitor
"put away your sell phone!" — still radical after decades
Seating is limited, arrive early

Thomas Frank pulls apart America's creativity cult in his new book, arguing innovation became a smokescreen for inequality and elite power. Join him at City Lights, the legendary bookstore where radical ideas still feel right at home.

What are you into?

  • Author talk
  • Political commentary
  • Book discussion
  • Historic bookstore
  • City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
  • Chinatown
  • San Francisco

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