BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//communityadvocates.net//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10 // CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:6572a57e-e776-4500-b69c-31e237672593 X-WR-CALDESC:The numbers are staggering: over the past 20 years in Chicago\ , 14\,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60\,000 wounded by g unfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? \n\n Drawing on his decades of experience\, Alex Kotlowitz\, author of 'There A re No Children Here\,' set out to chronicle one summer in the city\, writi ng about individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity -- and the breaking point -- of the human heart and s oul. The result\, 'An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago\,' is a s pellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we thin k we know about gun violence in America.\n\nAmong others\, we meet a man w ho as a teenager killed a rival gang member and twenty years later is stil l trying to come to terms with what he's done\; a devoted school social wo rker struggling with her favorite student\, who refuses to give evidence i n the shooting death of his best friend\; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen\; and an aging former gang lead er who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends.\n\nCommunity Advocates Public Policy Institute and the City of Milwaukee Office of Viol ence Prevention are cosponsoring this evening at Boswell Book Co.\, during which Kotlowitz will discuss and sign 'An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago.' \n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged because space is limited. Get your ticket at the link below.\n\nALEX KOTLOWITZ is the author of three previous books\, including the national bestseller There Are No Children Here\, selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. The Other Side of the River was awarded the Chicago Tr ibune's Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. His work has appeared in The New Y orker\, The New York Times Magazine and on This American Life. His documen tary work includes The Interrupters\, for which he received a Film Indepen dent Spirit Award and an Emmy. His other honors include a George Polk Awar d\, two Peabodys\, the Helen B. Bernstein Award\, and the Robert F. Kenned y Journalism Award. He teaches at Northwestern University. \n\nPraise for 'An American Summer'\n\n'A masterpiece of real-life storytelling. With eac h unforgettable story\, Kotlowitz draws us into the lives of people living and working in some of Chicago’s most abandoned communities. The stories of suffering and revenge unsettle and enrage\; those of grace and forgiven ess warm and inspire. Together\, they dispel with cheap explanations\, off ering deeper sense to acts thought senseless and revealing people’s depth and humanity lost in the headlines.'\n--Matthew Desmond\, Pulitzer Prize-w inning author of Evicted \n\n'Alex Kotlowitz\, America’s pre-eminent narra tive journalist\, has written a searing\, profound and profoundly human bo ok about the gun violence that plagues American cities. Everyone who cares about the future of our cities and of our country will come away deeply m oved\, and with a deepened understanding of the long shadow cast by substa ndard schools\, housing and job opportunities. It’s not a call to action\, but the stories Kotlowitz tells cry out to all readers to start acting.' \n--Sara Paretsky\, New York Times bestselling author of Shell Game X-WR-RELCALID:0d6dc68bdda2bd66a683524296de70c5 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20191103T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20200308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ce5d167d-5773-45a3-9570-45ee55353438 DTSTAMP:20260501T103605Z DESCRIPTION:The numbers are staggering: over the past 20 years in Chicago\, 14\,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60\,000 wounded by gu nfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? \n\nD rawing on his decades of experience\, Alex Kotlowitz\, author of 'There Ar e No Children Here\,' set out to chronicle one summer in the city\, writin g about individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories c apture the capacity -- and the breaking point -- of the human heart and so ul. The result\, 'An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago\,' is a sp ellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America.\n\nAmong others\, we meet a man wh o as a teenager killed a rival gang member and twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he's done\; a devoted school social wor ker struggling with her favorite student\, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend\; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can't shake what he has seen\; and an aging former gang leade r who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends.\n\nCommunity A dvocates Public Policy Institute and the City of Milwaukee Office of Viole nce Prevention are cosponsoring this evening at Boswell Book Co.\, during which Kotlowitz will discuss and sign 'An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago.' \n\nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged because space is limited. Get your ticket at the l ink below.\n\nALEX KOTLOWITZ is the author of three previous books\, i ncluding the national bestseller There Are No Children Here\, selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. The Other Side of the River was awarded the Chicago Tri bune's Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. His work has appeared in The New Yo rker\, The New York Times Magazine and on This American Life. His document ary work includes The Interrupters\, for which he received a Film Independ ent Spirit Award and an Emmy. His other honors include a George Polk Award \, two Peabodys\, the Helen B. Bernstein Award\, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He teaches at Northwestern University. \n\nPraise for ' An American Summer'\n\n'A masterpiece of real-life storytelling. With each unforgettable story\, Kotlowitz draws us into the lives of people living and working in some of Chicago’s most abandoned communities. The stories o f suffering and revenge unsettle and enrage\; those of grace and forgivene ss warm and inspire. Together\, they dispel with cheap explanations\, offe ring deeper sense to acts thought senseless and revealing people’s depth a nd humanity lost in the headlines.'\n--Matthew Desmond\, Pulitzer Prize-wi nning author of Evicted \n\n'Alex Kotlowitz\, America’s pre-eminent narrat ive journalist\, has written a searing\, profound and profoundly human boo k about the gun violence that plagues American cities. Everyone who cares about the future of our cities and of our country will come away deeply mo ved\, and with a deepened understanding of the long shadow cast by substan dard schools\, housing and job opportunities. It’s not a call to action\, but the stories Kotlowitz tells cry out to all readers to start acting.'\n --Sara Paretsky\, New York Times bestselling author of Shell Game DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190313T210000 LOCATION:Boswell Book Co.\, 2559 N. Downer Ave.\, Milwaukee SUMMARY:An Evening with Alex Kotlowitz\, Author of 'An American Summer: Lov e and Death in Chicago' END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR