top
San Francisco
San Francisco
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

Legendary Lawyer Tony Serra Reads From Novel on War and Death Penalty

sm_tony_serra_2.jpg
Date:
Thursday, July 07, 2016
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
The Green Arcade
Location Details:
The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Begun as an outline when still a young lawyer around 1960 and finally completed in prison when he was a tax resister 50 or so years later, J. Tony Serra’s first novel takes place during World War II in the South Pacific, the story of a court martial, filled with Serra's legal career experiences. The message, if there is a message, is that war is absurd; treason is absurd; the death penalty is absurd--and that platonic love is humanity's only redemption.

A native son of San Francisco, J. Tony Serra has dedicated his life to defending society's outcasts. After earning a Philosophy degree from Stanford University, Serra went on to graduate from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in the 60's, an era he calls "the golden age of law."

“I do believe that my mind began to ripen in the 1950s. I was young and naive, and found myself uncomfortably wedged between the beatniks of the 50s and the hippies of the 60s. It turned out for me that I couldn't go back in time and become part of the beatnik milieu; I was too young. On the other hand, I was a little older than the Love Generation, but they accepted me and I strove intellectually and aesthetically in their direction. Also, I recall being victim of many romantic fallacies, one of which was to be a Hemingway image, the expatriate writer. So after graduating from Stanford in epistemology (a philosophy major), I went to Tangiers, Morocco, hopeful to commence a career predicated upon writing bad poetry and bad fiction, prepared to become a never-blossomed flower in the Garden of Literature. ” –From the Prologue, by J. Tony Serra

Admission is free. Published by Grizzly Peak Press.
Added to the calendar on Sun, Jun 26, 2016 5:00PM
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$80.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network