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What: Daniel Wolff will give a public reading of his book Fourth of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land (Bloomsbury Press, 2005), as part of the PSU Millar Library’s Artists and Writers Series. Fourth of July traces the rise and fall of Asbury Park, from 19th century religious idealism through the controlling power of the Ku Klux Klan, up to and past its emergence as a great rock & roll landscape.
When: Saturday, October 8, 2005, 7 p.m.
Where: PSU Millar Library, 2nd floor (1875 S.W. Park Ave.)
Cost: Admission is free and open to the public. Canned food donations for the Oregon Food Bank accepted at the door.
Contact: For more information, contact Kimberly Willson at 503-725-4552 or at artistsandwriters@lists.pdx.edu.
Background:
Daniel Wolff is the author of You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke, which won the Ralph J. Gleason Award for best music book of 1995, and he was nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes for a Sam Cooke box set. Wolff’s journalism has appeared in Vogue, The Nation, and his poetry in the Paris Review and the Partisan Review.
The PSU Millar Library at Portland State University is home to 1.3 million volumes, serving over 800,000 patrons annually. The PSU Library recently completed a major $2.8 million renovation, developing a state of the art research center and reorganizing the entire library collection. Now in its third year, the PSU Library’s Artist & Writers Series hosts various authors and lecturers throughout the season. For more information please visit pdx.edu/library/artistswriters.html.
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For Immediate Release #05-130
