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 le="color: #212529\; font-family: ">Included in price of admission (Genera
 l $16\, Students/Seniors $9\, Members FREE)\n \n<p style="box-sizing: bord
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 gin-bottom: 1rem\; font-family: ">Join  <strong>Gwen Muranaka</strong> fo
 r a talk on cartoons\, creativity\, and the inspirations in her life. She 
 will be in a conversation with <strong>Susan Hirasuna</strong> \, anchor o
 f <em>Fox 11 News</em> \, about her new book\, <em><strong>Drawing By Hear
 t</strong> </em> \, which is a compilation of cartoons and cross-cultural 
 commentary. A whimsical excursion into a world of outspoken cats and dogs\
 , where cultures clash and Spam musubi is a staple\, Muranaka’s book she
 ds light on the unique\, funny things that make us Japanese American.\n\n<
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 rgin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; font-family: ">The JANM Book Club is
  a series of Public Programs that highlights new publications by Japanese 
 Americans or related to Japanese American history and culture.\n\n<p style
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 p: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; font-family: "><strong><em>Drawing by Heart
  </em> </strong> will be available for purchase at the <a href="https://ja
 nmstore.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box\; -webkit-font-smoothing: anti
 aliased\; color: #722182\; text-decoration: underline\; background-color: 
 transparent\; font-family: ">JANM Store</a> .\n\n<p style="box-sizing: bor
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 ottom: 1rem\; font-family: "> \n\n<em><span style="font-weight: normal\;"
 >About the author:  </em>\n<p style="box-sizing: border-box\; -webkit-font
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 ily: ">As a journalist\, artist\, and newsroom manager\, Gwen Muranaka’s
  experience has spanned more than twenty years and two continents. She ove
 rsees both editorial and production as senior editor of America’s oldest
  and largest bilingual Japanese community daily—<em>The Rafu Shimpo</em>
  —now in its 120th year.\n\n<p style="box-sizing: border-box\; -webkit-f
 ont-smoothing: antialiased\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1rem\; font-
 family: ">A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA\, she maintains that community
  newspapers are the front line of information and must continually evolve 
 to reflect the diversity of its readers. She is being honored in October b
 y the Greater Los Angeles Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journ
 alists as a Distinguished Journalist.\n\n<p style="box-sizing: border-box\
 ; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased\; margin-top: 0px\; margin-bottom: 1
 rem\; font-family: ">Muranaka began as a reporter for<em> Pacific Citizen<
 /em> and later channeled her creative side as a cartoonist for <em>The Jap
 an Times</em> in Tokyo. She currently draws <em>Dad’s Three Cats</em> \,
  which appears in<em> The Hawai‘i Herald</em> and<em> The Rafu Shimpo.</
 em>\n\n
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SUMMARY:JANM Book Club: Drawing by Heart with Gwen Muranaka
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