by Julia Harte
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first person festival/reading
The star of this event won't be present on Sunday — he'll be locked up in California State Prison. To understand how lifer/author Kenneth Hartman got there, and the metamorphosis he's undergone since his murder conviction 30 years ago, excerpts of Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars (Atlas, Nov. 3) will be read by a local actor. According to Vicki Solot, executive director of First Person Arts, Hartman will try calling in from prison to answer audience questions on Sunday, but if the jail's on lockdown, it may not work. "We've gotten a taste of [prison's] arbitrariness just in trying to get this arranged," she says.


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