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Steve Masover is an author, activist, and information technologist. A native of Chicago, he currently lives and works in Berkeley, California. His debut novel Consequence was published in September 2015.

Masover’s short fiction has appeared in Stoneboat Literary Journal, Five Fingers Review, and Christopher Street. An essay-length memoir piece is anthologized in Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men. Masover co-authored the screenplay of the anti-apartheid movement documentary Soweto to Berkeley (Cinema Guild, 1988; excerpt on YouTube). He blogs at One Finger Typing.
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	Consequence 4.36 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men – An Anthology of Themed Poetry and Short Stories from Notable Contributors by Bob Blauner (Editor), Nelson Algren (Contributor), Hilton Als (Contributor) 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Martin's Pond 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Narrating the Anthropocene: a panel - 19 Nov 2017 - Howard Zinn Book Fair

The fourth annual Howard Zinn Book Fair (HZBF) will converge around this year's theme -- The World We Want -- at City College of San Francisco's Mission Campus the Sunday before Thanksgiving, on 19 November 2017.

I've organized one of the book fair panels, titled "Narrating the Anthropocene" and I hope you can make it! We're on from 1:30 - 2:30 pm.

What's "the Anthropocene," you ask? It's a name pro Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 04, 2017 09:33 • Tags: anthropocene, book-fair, climate, event, panel, san-francisco

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