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DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of\n\nAll They Will Call You\n\nfrom University of 
 Arizona Press\n\nwith special guests: Margi Dunlap, Connie Ann Mart, and 
 Lance Canales\n\nAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of "the 
 worst airplane disaster in California's history," which claimed the lives 
 of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican 
 citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. 
 Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican 
 passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to 
 become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century, 
 "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)." It was an attempt to restore the 
 dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an 
 unmarked mass grave in California's Central Valley. For nearly seven 
 decades, the song's message would be carried on by the greatest artists of 
 our time, including Pete Seeger, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Bob 
 Dylan, and Joan Baez, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics, "Who 
 are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?" would remain 
 unanswered—until now.\n\nTim Z. Hernandez will be joined by Margi Dunlap 
 and Connie Ann Mart, two women directly related to the song and the 
 incident, as well as Lance Canales, a musician who helped secure a 
 long-overdue memorial for the Mexican victims of the crash.\n\nCombining 
 years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, 
 award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from 
 testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, reconstructing the 
 incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original 
 account pushes narrative boundaries, while challenging perceptions of what 
 it means to be an immigrant in America, but more importantly, it renders 
 intimate portraits of the individual souls who, despite social status, 
 race, or nationality, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 
 1948.\n\nTim Z. Hernandez was born and raised in California’s San Joaquin 
 Valley. An award-winning poet, novelist, and performer, he is the recipient 
 of the American Book Award for poetry, the Colorado Book Award for poetry, 
 the Premio Aztlán Prize for fiction, and the International Latino Book 
 Award for historical fiction. His books and research have been featured in 
 the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, CNN, Public Radio International, 
 and National Public Radio. Hernandez holds a BA from Naropa University and 
 an MFA from Bennington College. Hernandez makes his home in El Paso, where 
 he is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso’s MFA 
 Program in Creative Writing. You can find more information at his website, 
 www.timzhernandez.com\n\nMargi Dunlap is a resident of Pilot Hill, 
 California, where she retired after 34 years working in immigrant rights 
 and immigration law. She is the niece of Martin Hoffman, the musician who 
 is credited with turning Woody Guthrie's poem, "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos 
 (Deportee)" into the popular protest song that later went on to be recorded 
 by music icons such as Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and many 
 others.  \n\nConnie Ann Mart is a resident of West Marin County, 
 California, where she makes her living as controller for West Marin Senior 
 Services. She is the niece of pilot Frank Atkinson, who perished in the 
 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon.\n\nLance Canales, a musician who 
 collaborated with Hernandez on creating a new arrangement of the song that 
 now includes the names of the Mexican victims. \n\nWhat has been said of 
 Tim Z. Hernandez work:\n\n\n“Tim Z. Hernandez is the real thing. This 
 epic, tragic story is finally being told, and it is in the best possible 
 hands.”—Luis Alberto Urrea\n \n“An important and moving book, 
 exploring the theme of identity and loss and disenfranchisement—topics 
 that have never been more urgent than they are now. Hernandez has 
 illuminated the present with this original and riveting examination of the 
 past.”—Susan Orlean\n \n“There’s something miraculous about the 
 storytelling feat Tim Z. Hernandez has pulled off in All They Will Call 
 You. With great compassion and patience, he has immersed himself in a 
 long-forgotten episode of California history, and uncovered a multilayered 
 epic of love, injustice, and family fortitude, stretching across 
 generations and borders. This is an intelligent, empathic, and deeply 
 moving work.”—Héctor Tobar\n \n“In his lyrics to 'Plane Wreck at Los 
 Gatos,’ my father, Woody Guthrie, asked a simple question, 'Who are these 
 friends?’ and finally someone has answered that question. It was unknown 
 if their stories would ever come to light, or if they would simply remain 
 ghosts without names, as if they had no lives at all—as if they didn’t 
 count. Through Hernandez’s amazing work, I now know who these people 
 were, their lives, their loves, and their journeys. All They Will Call You 
 is a heart-wrenching read for anyone who cares, and the names—now etched 
 in stone in a far-off graveyard—have become friends who will travel with 
 me as long as I am walking.”—Arlo Guthrie\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/01/24/18795748.php
SUMMARY:Tim Z. Hernandez
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
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