The UP Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA) will welcome back its alumna, prizewinning author and journalist Patricia Evangelista, and jumpstart the Philippine tour of her highly acclaimed book, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Random House, 2023), on 11 April (Thursday), 9:30 AM to 12:00 noon, at the Aldaba Recital Hall in UP Diliman.
Some People Need Killing is Evangelista's detailed chronicle of the Duterte-backed drug war in the Philippines. Documenting Evangelista's six-year immersion in the world of policemen, vigilantes, murderers, and survivors, it captures "the atmosphere of terror created when an elected president decides that some lives are worth less than others."
Considered one of the best books of 2023 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist, it provides a thorough examination of "the grammar of violence" and a critical "investigation into the human impulses to dominate and resist."
After Evangelista talks about her process of writing and publishing the book, she will be in conversation with fellow journalist Atom Araullo.
For updates on this event, please visit the official Facebook page of the UP Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts (DSCTA).
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