Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Venue Partner)
3200 California St
415.292.1200
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Fame, Oblivion and the Writing Life
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Thursday Mar 11, 2010 (8pm)
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Directions: California at Presidio
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$10 - 18
Award-winning Stanford historian, Steven J. Zipperstein joins essayist Richard Rodriguez, author of The Hunger of Memory, to discuss what it feels like to succeed and fail as a writer. Zipperstein's latest book, Rosenfeld's Lives is a probing study of the now little-known, once celebrated novelist and essayist, Isaac Rosenfeld who, until his sudden death in his thirties in 1956, was considered by some a better writer than his best friend and rival from childhood, Saul Bellow. Hear this fascinating and cautionary tale of how character, talent, and luck weigh in the mysterious balance that tips a writer toward fame or failure.
