Programs & Events

Chronological List of Programs

Fall Literary Series Benefiting
826 Valencia Scholarship Program

Cultural Studies

On Art & Politics

Social Studies

Special Events

California Academy of
Sciences Series

end of season specials

 Herbst Theatre

Tickets:
City Box Office www.cityboxoffice.com
415.392.4400

Books:
Books Inc. www.booksinc.net

George Packer

In conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth

Thursday, November 12, 2009  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

George Packer is a journalist, novelist and playwright who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003. His acclaimed investigation of the events leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and his award-winning play about Iraqi interpreters, Betrayed, show a deep and wide-ranging engagement with the War on Terror that is without match in contemporary letters. His most recent book, Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade, collects essays on some of the most important cultural and political stories of the past ten years-from Iraq to September 11 to the rise of Barack Obama and the 2008 election. Packer seeks out not only the public figures that played prominent roles, but also the many private lives that were affected by the sweeping changes we have seen in recent contemporary history. At once wide-angled and humane, Interesting Times is an essential work from an unmistakable voice in contemporary journalism.

Elizabeth Farnsworth is a former anchor at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and the director of the recent documentary film The Judge and the General. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and elsewhere, and has produced and directed a number of other PBS documentaries.

Buy Tickets   |  Back to Chronological List    |  Back to Series