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Letters to the Beyond brings the P.O. Box Outer Space zine series to the Twentynine Palms Book Festival for a Sunday afternoon reading. Co-editors Jardine Libaire and Jennifer Prediger join book designer Beth Middleworth to explore the series’ open-letter approach to cosmic, existential and personal questions across fiction, poetry, visual art and experimental storytelling.
The program begins at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, November 15, inside the Twentynine Palms Community Center at Freedom Plaza, 6547 Freedom Way. Desert General organizes the festival.
