Sea Empty - Always Imagine First

Thanks to all who attended Banned Books Read-Out on, Saturday, September 27, 3:30pm, Pioneer Park, next to the Chicago Tribune Building

Judy Blume is the author of young adult classics such as Blubber, Forever, Tiger Eyes, Then Again, Maybe I Won't, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - all five of which appear on the Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2007.
Stephen Chbosky is author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, number 10 on the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007.
Ilene Cooper is the author of more than 30 books for children and young people.
Ron Koertge is a novelist and poet whose book, The Brimstone Journals, was challenged in 2007 for use of profanity.
Between The Giver and the Anastasia Krupnick series, Lois Lowry is a regular on our Top Ten Challenged Books lists. She is also author of Summer to Die, Number the Stars, and Find a Stranger, Say Good-bye.
Lauren Myracle is author of the wildly popular "IM Series" (TTYL, TTFN, and L8r G8r), as well as the trilogy Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. TTYL is number six on the Top Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of the beloved Alice series, appears as regularly as Judy and Lois on Top Challenged Authors. The Alice books come under regular attack for their sexual content.
Achy Obejas is a Chicago-based novelist, poet, and translator who most recently edited Havana Noir, a collection of short crime stories set in the Cuban capital.
Sara Paretsky is author of the series featuring Chicago-based private investigator V.I. Warshawski.
Peter Parnell is a playwright and co-author of And Tango Makes Three, which topped our challenged book list in both 2006 and 2007.
Justin Richardson, M.D. is the coauthor of Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask) and coauthor of the most frequently challenged book of 2006 and 2007—And Tango Makes Three.
Mary Schmich is a Chicago Tribune columnist.
Dawn Turner Trice is a Chicago Tribune columnist.
Luis Alberto Urrea is a novelist and activist currently teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This is his first time at the Read-Out!
Eric Zorn is the Chicago Tribune metro columnist.

Sea Empty Recent Performance, 8/9/08 at:

CHICAGO'S ANNUAL HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION

3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, August 9 - the 63rd Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki

at THE HENRY MOORE SCULPTURE "NUCLEAR ENERGY"

the site of the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942

at the University of Chicago Campus, on Ellis Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets

Set: Improv, Give Peace A Chance (Beatles), Untold Stories (Buju Banton)