Event Lectures and Symposia Fathers, Sons, Guns — Novels of the West: Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Alexander Sammartino
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 24, 2024
10:50 am - 11:50 am EDT
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival
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We learn from the news that America is a violent country, but how do novelists reckon with that violence? In Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ Texas novel “The Bullet Swallower,” the legacy of two brothers and their botched bank robbery spans two centuries, and Alexander Sammartino’s “Last Acts” tells the story of a father and son and their Phoenix gun store. Moderated by John Williams.