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Pamela Newkirk (LETTERS FROM BLACK AMERICA) + Samuel G. Freedman (UPON THIS ROCK) + Patrick McCloskey (THE STREET STOPS HERE) read at KGB Nonfiction.

PAMELA NEWKIRK is the editor of A Love No Less and the author of Within the Veil, which won the National Press Club Award for Media Criticism. She is an award-winning journalist and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. She will be reading from her new book, Letters from Black America, a volume of collected correspondence of African American men and women who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the 1700s to the twenty-first century, from slavery to the war in Iraq.

SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the six acclaimed books, most recently Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life and Letters To A Young Journalist. His previous books are Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School, The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond, and Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. He will be reading from Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church, winner of the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.

PATRICK J. MCCLOSKEY writes for the New York Times and many other prominent publications. He will be reading from his first book, The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem.

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