Fw: book launch celebration for a new collection of Tillie Olsen's work

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From: Rebekah Edwards
Sent: Sep 15, 2013 11:29 AM
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Subject: Mills book launch celebration for a new collection of Tillie Olsen's work

I want to invite you to a celebration and book launch party for a new
collection of work by Tillie Olsen. Some of you know that I wrote an
introduction to this collection. I'm excited about this book for a number
of reasons but especially because it has brought back into print a number
of her reportage pieces from the San Francisco Waterfront general strike of
1934 and her stunning, experimental novella Requa 1 (set in the 1930's
economic poverty of the Northern California Klamath river township
of Requa).
Laurel books will be hosting a book launch celebration at Mills on Weds
Sept 18th at 4 pm in the Mills Hall livingroom. Some of Tillie's family
will be reading and we will show a short clip from the documentary about
her life.

I would love to see you there.

Please do pass the information on to those you might think would be
interested.

I am attaching the poster and pasting the invitation below.

Thank you,
Rebekah

from the invitation: *Tillie Olsen,* was an internationally honored writer
and social justice activist (1912-2007) who wrote about the lives of
working-class people, women, and people of color, with profound and
experimentally poetic craft, and with nuance, understanding and respect.
Now, a new collection of work -- *Tell Me a Riddle,Requa I, and Other Works*
-- has been released.

Tillie's beautiful, poetic, powerful, award-winning stories give voice to
those who have so often been silenced. Along with the much anthologized *Tell
Me a Riddle *collection (the stories *I Stand Here Ironing, Oh Yes, Hey
Sailor What Ship?*, and the novella *Tell Me a Riddle*) the new book
includes the “lost” story *Requa I, *last seen in *Best American Short
Stories 1971*, and four pieces of reportage from and about the struggles
for economic justice in the 1930’s. These include Tillie's writings about
the waterfront and about the life-destructing piece-work which fed the
garment industries and from the front-lines of the San Francisco General
Strike*.*

You are invited to book *Launch Party at Mills College on Weds September
18th ~ 7p.m. *Mills Hall living-room.