Moon City Press, a non-profit publisher based in the English Department of Missouri State University, invites the public to a dramatic reading from a new book they’ve published, Throwaway Youth: Stories of Springfield's Homeless Teens, by Springfield native Nancy Fairbank. It's TONIGHT (Friday Sept. 2nd) from 7:00 to 8:30pm in the Auditorium of the Springfield-Greene County Library Center, 4653 S. Campbell. Nancy Fairbank and her longtime mentor, Dr. James Baumlin from the MSU English Department, appeared live on Arts News this morning to talk about it. Nancy was a student in the International Baccalaureate program at Central High School and is now a senior at University of Texas-Dallas, studying political science. Her book, featuring stories of five homeless teenagers in Springfield told in their own words, was several years in the making. “I started the book,” Nancy says, “when I was at Central High. It began with interviews I took from youth who were at Rare Breed, at the Basic
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