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  Juozas Javaitis

  In Person
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  Teresa Rozanovska

  In Person

  Producer
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  Robert Hass

  Introduction

  Robert Hass is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. He collaborated with the Nobel laureate Milosz on the translation of his poems.
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  Mark Danner

  Introduction

  Mark Danner, UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professor in Journalism and English, was a friend of Milosz and was his tenant in his house on Grizzly Peak, where Danner and his family still live.
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  Anthony Milosz

  Introduction

  Anthony Milosz is the poet's son.

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  Jonathan Lethem

  Introduction

  Jonathan Lethem is the author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influen

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  Katrina Dodson

  Katrina Dodson wrote her UC Berkeley dissertation on Elizabeth Bishop.

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  Leonard Gardner

  In Conversation

  Author Leonard Gardner is best known for his first novel, Fat City, which was adapted from his screenplay by John Huston and recently reissued by the New York Review of Books.
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  David Thomson

  In Conversation

  David Thomson is author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies—and What They Have Done to Us; Have You Seen . . . ?

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  Carroll Ballard

  In Person

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  Oscar Bucher

  In person

  Bucher is a local award-winning filmmaker.
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  Barry Gifford

  In person

  Local writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart and The Up-Down) is coscreenwriter of Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, director Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being); Algr
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  Dan Simon

  In person

  New York-based writer/publisher Dan Simon has been on Algren's trail for over thirty years—he reissued many of his books and organized the centennial Steppenwolf Theatre performance on which Nelson Al
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  Philip Kaufman

  In person

  Philip Kaufman is a director (The Unbearable Lightness of Being); Algren acted in his films Goldstein and Frank's Greatest Adventure.

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  Katrina Dodson

  In Conversation

  Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector.
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  Idra Novey

  In Conversation

  Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. Her debut novel, Ways to Disappear, is about a translator's search for a missing Brazilian author.
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  Ramona Naddaff

  In Conversation

  Author and Berkeley professor Ramona Naddaff is cofounder and editor of Zone Books. 
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  David Peoples

  In Person

  Local screenwriter
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  Siciliana Trevino

  In Person

  Local filmmaker