"Iraqigirl Meets El Monstruo," an author talk by John Ross

Globetrotting troublemaker John Ross will read from his two new cult classics: "Iraqigirl", the diary of a teenager coming of age under U.S. occupation in Mosul, Iraq that has been called "an Anne Frank for our time", and "El Monstruo - Dread & Redemption in Mexico City", the tangled tale of the most contaminated, corrupt, crime-ridden, and chaotic city in the Americas that has just been selected as "book of the year" by the San Antonio Express News.