John Ross: El Monstruo
- When
- Wed Nov 18, 2009
- Where
- Modern Times Bookstore
- Time
- 7pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts
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Description
Spanning 50 million years from the Paleocene to last spring's swine flu panic, El Monstruo - Dread & Redemption in Mexico City is a love letter to the most contaminated, corrupt, and conflicitive megalopolis in the Americas where the author has lived for the past quarter of a century.John Ross is a familiar figure on Mission District streets. The author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction and an equal number of poetry chapbooks, Ross is a longtime correspondent for the SF Bay Guardian and the winner of both the American Book Award and the Upton Sinclair ("The Uppie") prize.
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