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Mark Danner & Frank Rich

In conversation

Monday, April 12, 2010 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Award winning journalist and author Mark Danner has covered American politics and foreign affairs for the past two decades. He has written extensively about the war on terror, U.S. policy on torture, and the war in Iraq. He has reported from Central America, the Balkans, Haiti and the Middle East. Mark Danner is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and was a long time staff writer for The New Yorker. Danner is the author of four bestselling books, The Secret Way to War, The Road to Illegitimacy, Torture and Truth, and The Massacre at El Mozote. Danner is a former editor for Harper's Magazine and the New York Times Magazine. He is a professor of journalism at the University of California Berkeley and Bard College. In his forthcoming book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War, Danner writes from and about the world's war zones.

New York Times Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich was the Times chief theater critic from 1980 to 1993. His memoir Ghost Light reveals how theater gave Rich a new way of understanding the world during his childhood and how it has sustained him in adult life. Rich's work also includes commentary in Esquire, The New Republic, and Time, and bestselling books like The Greatest Story Ever Sold.

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