The PEN America World Voices Festival is the premier celebration of writing from the United States and around the world.

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Los Angeles Latinidad: Past, Present, and Future at The Preserve
Preeminent writers and historians explore the past, present, and future of Latinidad in Los Angeles. A leading scholar of race, immigration, and mass incarceration, author Kelly Lytle Hernández offers illuminating insights into the history of race, politics, and the borderlands. Historian George J. Sanchez, renowned for his scholarly work on race, labor, and migration, is an expert on under-known histories of ethnic interaction in 20th-century Los Angeles. Joined by Pulitzer-prize-winning writer Héctor Tobar, these three luminaries will discuss the possibilities and paradoxes of the 20th and 21st-century Latino experience in the City of Angels.

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