Amid intense book banning conversations nationwide and here in North Dakota, Zandbroz is hosting a day with author Dave Eggers on Sunday, Oct. 8.

The event starts with a reading and signing at Zandbroz at 1 p.m. followed by a special advance screening of "To Be Destroyed" a 30-minute documentary directed by Arthur Bradford at 7:30 p.m. at the Fargo Theatre. The evening will feature a community conversation on book banning and censorship with both Bradford and Eggers along with Fargo-Moorhead community leaders, including the ACLU’s Cody Schuler.

These events are free and open to the public.

• Date: Sunday, Oct. 8
• Time: 1 p.m.
• Location: Zandbroz

• Date: Sunday, Oct. 8
• Time: 7:30 p.m.
• Location: The Fargo Theatre

• Timothy S. Dirks, MLIS, MPA - Director of Fargo Public Library
• Katie Christensen - Fargo Public School Board Member
• Representative Karla Rose Hanson, representing District 44
• Louie Lauer - Library Media Specialist for Clara Barton Hathorne Elementary School
• Cody Schuler - Advocacy Manager of ACLU of North Dakota

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, among them The Eyes and the Impossible, The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Monk of Mokha, Heroes of the Frontier, A Hologram for the King, and What Is the What. He is the founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company, and co-founder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired over 70 similar organizations worldwide. Eggers is winner of the American Book Award, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the TED Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

"To Be Destroyed" tells a story of restricting access to books in Rapid City, SD, and offers unique insight into how the individuals closely involved grappled with the complex contemporary American perspectives on the rights of students, teachers, and readers in the unprecedented era.