PRATT MEMORIAL LIBRARY, FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT (2ND FLOOR), 2-3 PM
Jim Meyer is a Baltimore based writer and stand-up comedian. He has written for The Guardian, Think Progress, Grist, and writes the weekly Spitballin’ column for the Baltimore CIty Paper. He has also appeared on Comedy Central, the Food Network, Fuel TV, and the CBC. Karen Houppert was a contributing writer at The Washington Post Magazine and also freelances for other magazines, covering social and political issues. Her work has appeared in New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Ms., The Village Voice and other magazines and anthologies. She is the author of two nonfiction books, The Curse (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999) and Home Fires Burning (Ballantine, 2005). Her third book, Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice (New Press) comes out in March and investigates the national crisis in indigent defense. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. David Sterritt, chair of the National Society of Film Critics and chief book critic of Film Quarterly, teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Columbia University. He also moderates the Cinema Club at the Avalon in Washington.
