Louise Runyon's son, award-winning journalist Brian Barth, has just published his first book, Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia.
City Lights Bookstore will present a Roundtable Discussion on Homelessness, featuring investigative journalist Brian Barth reading from his recent book, Front Street; Sylva Police Chief Chris Hatton speaking about Community Care; and Paul Phillips, Interim Supervisor of HERE In Jackson County discussing local homelessness. The event will take place on Thursday, April 16 at 6 p.m. in the Community Room of Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener Street, Sylva. Light snacks will be available in the Community Room at 5:30.
The Roundtable will be a forum for community discussion on homelessness; everyone with interest or questions is encouraged to attend and participate. This event is co-sponsored by City Lights Bookstore, Jackson County Public Library and Indivisible/Common Ground/WNC.
In Front Street, award-winning investigative journalist Brian Barth takes us on a journey deep into Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments. The book challenges everything we thought we knew about our unhoused neighbors, offering a wide-reaching portrait of people living in tents, shacks, and cars right next door to Google and Facebook. Blending memoir, investigative reporting, history, and cultural criticism, Barth paints a portrait of a community searching for dignity and connection in the midst of the national crisis in affordable housing. A conversation-changing story, Front Street reveals just how close many of us may be to facing homelessness.
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