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WHEN: 12 noon and 5 pm
WHERE: see below
DESCRIPTION: At noon, The Legacy of Zinn (1922-2010). Amy Goodman will join David Zirin and others to discuss the intellectual and popular influence of Howard Zinn, Brooklyn-born historian and author, at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn.

At 5 pm, War, Torture and the Death and Birth of Meaning. Nick Flynn, author of The Ticking is the Bomb, Feryal Ali Gauhar, author of No Space for Further Burials, and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning talk with Amy Goodman about the depiction of conflict in both fiction and non fiction, and the way these events can shape both our identity and engagement with our everyday lives, at St. Francis College McArdle Hall, 180 Remsen Street in Brooklyn.

TICKETS: See link below.
MORE INFO: Brooklyn Book Festival