Pegasus Downtown

Acclaimed novelist Peter Orner will bring his latest work to the JCC. The third compilation in McSweeney’s Voice of Witness series, Underground America focuses on the plight of undocumented workers in the United States. Orner, who edited the collection, will discuss the stories of men and women who ... (more)have moved to America seeking a better life, only to be subjected to dehumanizing working conditions. Dubbed a member of “the first rank of American writers” by The Boston Globe, Orner is the author of the novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Creative Writing professor at San Francisco State.

We are pleased to welcome Zach Plague who will read from his novel, Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring. This hilarious satire of the art-school scene is both a novel and a series of nine posters, cut up and bound into book form. It has received acclaim from both the literary and design ... (more)worlds. Join us.

Theater historian Joel Schechter appears at the JCC to discuss his latest work, a social history of the American Yiddish theater of the 1930s. Messiahs of 1933 celebrates the satire, radical imagination and commitment to social change of the politically-charged plays from this period. Free admission. ... (more)Call: (510) 848-0237 x140.