Join us Saturday, December 14th for a fabulous reading from Laura Lampton Scott celebrating the release of The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille, which she co-edited with Peter Orner. Moderating will be the incredible Alyssa Ogi!
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An experienced fixer for journalists covering Haiti, Jean often unexpectedly finds himself on the subject side of stories. After his son was kidnapped and his house taken, Jean decided to move his family out of Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic. In the first of McSweeney’s new Dispatches series, Jean tells us the story of this struggle to relocate, another change of country in his search for a better life.
Dispatches from individual lives, as they happen: in our new Dispatches series, each compact book originates in short confidences recorded by individuals during borrowed moments from their interesting lives. Set amid some of our most pressing contemporary predicaments and edited by award-winning writers Peter Orner and Laura Lampton Scott, these invaluable books seek to document the highs and lows of daily human endurance. -
Laura Lampton Scott is an editor and writer. Her work has appeared in Hobart, 68 to '05, and Michigan Quarterly, among other publications. A MacDowell Colony fellow, she teaches fiction at Portland State University. She is co-editor, with Peter Orner, of the Dispatches series published by McSweeney's Books.
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Alyssa Ogi is a poet and editor in Portland, Oregon. The recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant and an Oregon Literary Fellowship, she received her MFA from the University of Oregon, and now works as an editor at Tin House.