Erik Gleibermann is a San Francisco social justice journalist, literary critic, memoirist and poet. He is a contributing editor for World Literature Todayand teaches writing in the Stanford University Continuing Studies program. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Florida Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and other literary magazines. He recently completed Jewfro American: An Interracial Memoir. Follow him on Twitter @erikgleibermann and read more of his writings at erikgleibermann.com/writings
This week in New York Smith Magazine Six-Word Memoirs and more, Poets House Showcase Reading, BOMB Magazine issue 116 party at powerHouse Arena, The Soundtrack Series at Le Poisson Rouge,…
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