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Mark Arax & Aris Janigian

On Monday, June 1, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Glendale Public Library Auditorium
222 East Harvard Street, Glendale
(818) 548-3288

Almost a century ago, in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, Yervant
Janigian made his way from Turkey to the Great Central Valley, and soon
convinced his nephew, Aram Arax, to join him. Together they began
picking fruits and vegetables, and putting down roots.

Today, two generations later, their grandsons Mark Arax (West of the
West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State)
and Aris Janigian (Riverbig: A Novel) offer probing reflections on the
West.

Award-winning author and journalist Mark Arax is a co-author of The King
of California and author of In My Father’s Name. He is a contributing
writer at Los Angeles magazine and a former senior writer at the Los
Angeles Times. He teaches nonfiction writing at Claremont McKenna
College.

Aris Janigian is a professor of humanities at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. In 2007, he received Columbia
University’s Anahid Literary Award. His first novel Bloodvine was a
finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize. He is
currently working on a third book.