C-SPAN AIRS 27th ANNUAL AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS (Before Columbus Foundation)
C-SPAN Book TV Weekend will air the 27th Annual American Book Awards, which took place December 2, 2007 at Laney College Theatre, Oakland, CA. Emil Guillermo hosts the event. Among the guest speakers: Playwright (”Domestic Crusaders”) Wajahat Ali, author Carla Blank, Before Columbus Foundation co-founders Ishmael Reed and Gundars Strads, Oakland City Attorney John Russo, and California poet laureate Al Young.
Upcoming Schedule
Saturday, January 26, at 4:00 PM Pacific Time Sunday, January 27, at 9:45 PM Pacific Time Monday, January 28, at 3:15 AM Pacific Time
Times listed above are Pacific Time | U.S.A.
(Add 2 hours for Central Time; 3 hours for Eastern Time)
About the Program:
Winners of the 2007 American Book Award read selections from their work. Participants include: Daniel Cassidy, How The Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads, Michael Eric Dyson, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, Rigoberto González, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains, Ernestine Hayes, Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir, Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, Gary Panter, Jimbo’s Inferno, Jeffrey F.L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown, Judith Roche, Wisdom of the Body, Kali Vanbaale, The Space Between. The ceremony was held 2 December at Laney College Theatre in Oakland, California.
American Book Awards honors writers at Laney
Photo: Felix Solomon
