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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