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Thane Rosenbaum to speak at LMU Thursday March 5
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Tommorrow night (Thursday March 5), novelist, attorney, law professor, and essayist Thane Rosenbaum will be appearing at Loyola Marymount University in their McIntosh Hall at 7pm.
Rosenbaum will be speaking on : “Artful Testimony: Responsibility and Imagination in Holocaust Narrative.” Rosenbaum is the author of the novels, “The Golems of Manhattan,” “Second Hand Smoke,” the short story collection “Elijah Visible,” and the non fiction work “The Myth of Moral Justice.”
I will be introducing Rosenbaum and then will lead the Q & A after his talk.
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