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Blue Library 3

On view: Dec 2, 2017-Jan 29, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday Dec 9, 6-10pm Closing Reception: Jan 13, 2018, 6-10pm The third iteration of the Blue Library is books made from the 3K Project, a photographic answer to the first US travel ban. Participating artists are from the US, Somalia, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and … Blue Library 3

What you were always trying to avoid was being party to an atrocity: An interview with Michael Pitre

Michael Pitre’s debut novel, Fives and Twenty-fives, delves into a war of endless tedium and Sisyphean roadwork, but there is no boredom. There is only routine, which saves lives, and a fog of death that clouds them. Each day, the soldiers—Pitre joined the Marines in 2002 and was twice deployed to Iraq—find potholes and, in … What you were always trying to avoid was being party to an atrocity: An interview with Michael Pitre

You might think sending Bhutanese people to Fargo doesn’t make sense, but it does: A Conversation About Refugees with Juliet Linderman and Susan Weishar

Refugees granted asylum in the United States arrive through only a handful of cities. They often spend the first night in their new country at a hotel near the airport, where they rest and prepare for the next leg of their journey. Beginning in 2007, the first person some of these refugees would meet in … You might think sending Bhutanese people to Fargo doesn’t make sense, but it does: A Conversation About Refugees with Juliet Linderman and Susan Weishar