7th Annual San Diego City College Int'l Book Fair

October 1 - 6, 2012

2012 Seventh Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair
Free admission to all events. Open to the public.

Monday, October 1, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Reyna Grande, author of The Distance Between Us

Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
9:35 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Reading and book signing with Susan Straight, author of Between Heaven and Here
Buy one, get one free: For each purchase of Between Heaven and Here ($12), the author will give a free copy of Take One Candle Light a Room, part of her Rio Seco trilogy.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Panel discussion with Justin Hudnall, Corinne Goria, Mindy Solis, and Erica Blunt, contributors to The Far East: Everything Just As It Is, an anthology that combines non-fiction and poetry to create a portrait of life in East San Diego County.

Thursday, October 4, 2012
Room 121A/B Faculty Lounge
11: 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Zohreh Ghahremani, author of Sky of Red Poppies
12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Reading and book signing with Gustavo Arellano, author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America

Friday, October 5, 2012
Saville Theatre
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
City Works Press reading and book signing with Chris Baron, Heather Eudy, Cali Linfor, and Sabrina Youmans, contributors to Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems

Saturday, October 6, 2012
Saville Theater
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Screening of Precious Knowledge, documentary and discussion

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Readings of excerpts from banned books by faculty and staff members including: Roberta Alexander, June Cressy, Farrell Foreman, Kevin Gossett, Jan Jarrell, Nadia Mandilawi, Elizabeth Meehan, Oscar Preciado, Anna Rogers, Elva Salinas. Discussion to follow.

Readings and book signings by authors banned in Arizona, including:
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Rudy Acuña, author of Occupied America, Anything But Mexican, and Corridors of Migration

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Matt de la Peña, author of Mexican White Boy, Ball Don’t Lie, and We Were Here

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Herbert Sigüenza, author of Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy

Featuring:

Gustavo Arellano

Gustavo Arellano’s new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, presents an entertaining, tasty trip through the history and culture of Mexican food in this country, uncovering great stories and charting the cuisine’s tremendous popularity in El Norte. Arellano’s fascinating narrative combines history, cultural criticism, personal anecdotes, and Jesus on a tortilla.

Arellano is the editor of OC Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Orange County, California, author of Orange County: A Personal History, and lecturer with the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at California State University, Fullerton. He writes “¡Ask a Mexican!” a nationally syndicated column in which he answers any and all questions about America’s spiciest and largest minority. The column has a weekly circulation of over 2 million in 39 newspapers across the United States, won the 2006 and 2008 Association of Alternative Weeklies award for Best Column, and was published in book form by Scribner Press in May 2007.

Arellano’s commentaries regularly appear on Marketplace and the Los Angeles Times. Arellano is the recipient of the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2007 President’s Award and an Impacto Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition. He was recognized by the California Latino Legislative Caucus with a 2008 Spirit Award for his “exceptional vision, creativity, and work ethic.” Gustavo is a lifelong resident of Orange County and is the proud son of two Mexican immigrants, one whom was undocumented.

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