Main Event Speaker Series featuring David Giffels - Full Program

David Giffels speaks at the Akron-Summit County Public Library's Main Library as part of the Main Event Speaker Series on Thursday, March 20, 2014.
David Giffels is the author of the new book The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt, a collection of linked essays about the quirky, hard-bitten cultural landscape of the Rust Belt, the people who live there -- and Akron in particular.
Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone magazine calls The Hard Way " an amazing book which will resonate with anyone who's ever loved a hometown, wherever it might be." And Pat Carney of The Black Keys adds "It is a great story, an authentic one about the way people protect the places they love."
David Giffels is also the author of All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, which the New York Times called "sweet and funny." Currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Akron, Giffels was a longtime columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Grantland, Parade, and many other publications.
Presented by the Akron-Summit County Public Library and Friends of Main Library.

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