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Support for Forum comes from Broadway SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.

From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of

Leo and Lucille Frank, a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is

accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice,

and devotion.

The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orpheum Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.

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From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, George Saunders,

George Saunders is widely considered one of the greatest fiction writers alive,

attested to by all the prizes, the respect of other writers, even book sales.

Now he's got a new book out, collection of short stories.

It's called Liberation Day, and it will surprise no one that it's a brilliant work

filled with generosity, pain, and characters who can't quite

answer the door when honesty comes knocking.

The book affirms that lurking in every office, off every highway, even underneath the ground,

there are humans, and so there are stories.

We've got Saunders with us here in the studio this morning, and we're going to talk about

this new book, the changing political climate around his fiction, and how stories work.

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