2007.02.26: February 26, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Uzbekistan: Writing - Uzbekistan: Vietnam: Upcoming: Tom Bissell gives reading and booksigning for "The Father of All Things
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2007.03.02: March 2, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Uzbekistan: Writing - Uzbekistan: Vietnam: Entertainment Weekly: Jennifer Reese writes: Buried inside Tom Bissell's impassioned and bloated memoir, The Father of All Things, is a poignant magazine-length story about an idealistic writer and his ex-Marine father traveling through Vietnam :
2007.02.26: February 26, 2007: Headlines: Figures: COS - Uzbekistan: Writing - Uzbekistan: Vietnam: Upcoming: Tom Bissell gives reading and booksigning for "The Father of All Things
Tom Bissell gives reading and booksigning for "The Father of All Things
Nearly 40 years after Captain John Bissell landed at Qui Nonh as part of the American offensive in Vietnam, he agreed to return to the country for a magazine piece his son, Tom Bissell, was writing about the war and its affects. That article, printed first in Harpers and chosen for "Best American Travel Writing 2006," is the foundation of "The Father of All Things" a genre-defying work that bridges the divide between continents and generations. Author Tom Bissell served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan.
Tom Bissell gives reading and booksigning for "The Father of All Things
Tom Bissell
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When
Friday, March 23, 2007
7:00 PM
Where
Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, California 94117
37.7698, -122.449
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TOM BISSELL
reading & booksigning for "The Father of All Things"
Friday, March 23 at 7:00 pm
Nearly 40 years after Captain John Bissell landed at Qui Nonh as part of the American offensive in Vietnam, he agreed to return to the country for a magazine piece his son, Tom Bissell, was writing about the war and its affects. That article, printed first in Harpers and chosen for "Best American Travel Writing 2006," is the foundation of "The Father of All Things" a genre-defying work that bridges the divide between continents and generations.
Tom Bissell is the author of "Chasing the Sea" and "God Lives in St. Petersburg," and a contributing editor for both Harper’s Magazine and The Virginia Quarterly Review. (Bissell is also a former editor of the Michigan State University-based Red Cedar Review, the longest running undergraduate-run publication in the United States.) His work has been selected several times by the Best American Short Stories, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Science Writing series.
This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.
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