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2005 Writers Program: Steve Hernandez Effingham & Brenda Givens
Class and Conflict: Steve Hernandez Effingham reads from his forthcoming novel tracing the development of jazz and racial conflict in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, and Brenda Givens reads poems of contemporary conflict.
From our 2005 Jack Straw Writers Program series of radio pieces, co-produced with KUOW.