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Greg Sumner visits Book Soup
November 28, 2012
On Wednesday, November 28th, Greg Sumner, author of Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels, will be visiting Book Soup in West Hollywood to discuss and sign his acclaimed book.
In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country(2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer’s profound engagement with the “American Dream” in its various forms.
“Gregory D. Sumner celebrates what he playfully identifies as the ‘Kurt Vonnegut road show’ with a tribute that is enlightening and entertaining. I read with wonder and delight the biographical sketches so gracefully fused with a montage of Vonnegut stories and the ideas they dramatize. Unstuck in Time is an achievement of scholarship illuminated by a fan’s contagious enthusiasm.” —Sidney Offit, Curator-emeritus George Polk Journalism Awards
To learn more about the event, visit Book Soup’s event page.
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Sam Pizzigati in Hyattsville
November 29, 2012
Sam Pizzigati, author of The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900–1970, will be at Busboys & Poets Hyattsville Thursday, Nove,ber 29 at 6:30 to sign and discuss his new book.
Polls now show that two-thirds of Americans believe that the nation’s enormous wealth ought to be “distributed more evenly.” But almost as many Americans—well over half—feel that protests against inequality will ultimately have “little impact.” The rich, millions of us believe, always get their way. But, as Pizzigati shows in the popular history of 1900-1970, the plutocracy can win.
This even is cosponsored by Teaching for Change‘s Institute for Policy Study.
Sam Pizzigati Book Tour
Thursday, November 29th @ 6:30pm
Poets & Busboys Hyattsville (Zinn Room)
5331 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD
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Tags: busboys & poets, hyattsville, institute for policy study, sam pizzigati, teaching for, The Rich Don't Always Win
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Book release of Censored 2013 in Santa Rosa on December 1st
December 1, 2012
Project Censored presents the release of Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-12 on December 1 at 7 P.M. at the Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art, and Politics, 99 6th Street, in Santa Rosa, CA. Join Mickey Huff and Project Censored for a look at the top censored stories of the past year.
“Project Censored brings to light some of the most important stories of the year that you never saw or heard about. This is your chance to find out what got buried.”—DIANE RAVITCH, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System
“Censored is a refreshing open mic for news stories that have been left in the shadows by the cowardly corporate media and its obsession with banalities.”—JOEL MAGNUSON, author of Mindful Economics
“Project Censored remains a beacon for raising awareness of meaningful news . . . ”—JAMES F. TRACY, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Florida Atlantic University, editor of Democratic Communiqué, journal of the Union for Democratic Communications
“In another home run for Project Censored, Censored 2013 shows how the American public has been bamboozled, snookered, and dumbed down by the corporate media.
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Sarah Edreich book LAUNCH!
March 4, 2013
Sarah Edreich will be in Washington D.C. at Politics & Prose Bookstore on Monday, March 4 at 7:00pm to celebrate the launch of her new book, Generation Roe.
Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement delves into phenomena such as “abortion-recovery counseling,” “crisis pregnancy centers,” and the infamous anti-choice “black children are an endangered species” billboards; tells the stories of those who face threats on their lives to pursue careers in this stigmatized field; outlines the outrageous legislative battle grounds that have popped up all over the country; and takes to task pro-choice activists for allowing the very words used in the debate to be controlled by anti-choice rhetoric.
Sarah Ederich Book Launch
Monday, March 4th @ 7:00pm
Politics & Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DCMore Information »
Tags: abortion, generation roe, politics & prose bookstore, roe vs. wade, sarah edreich
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Chavisa Woods in San Fransisco
March 5, 2013
Chavisa Woods, Brooklyn-based writer and artist, and recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers, will be ay City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Tuesday, March 5 at 7:00pm to discuss her new novel, The Albino Album.
The Albino Album is a novel as songs that tells the epic story of a girl who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse. A lead character with an un-pronounceable name, our fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots leaves ashen valentines in her wake along this unique exploration of the bizarre yet familiar aspects of human desire.
The Albino Album will be out February 2013.
Chavisa Woods Book Tour
Tuesday, March 5th @ 7:00pm
City Lights Book Store
261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA
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Chavisa Woods in Seattle
March 8, 2013
Chavisa Woods, author of The Albino Album, will be at Seattle Town Hall on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30pm to discuss her new novel.
The Albino Album is a novel as songs that tells the epic story of a girl who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse. A lead character with an un-pronounceable name, our fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots leaves ashen valentines in her wake along this unique exploration of the bizarre yet familiar aspects of human desire.
Chavisa Woods is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist, and recipient of the 2009 Jerome Foundation Award for emerging writers. Her debut collection of short stories, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Debut Fiction. Woods has read or performed at The Whitney Museum, Penn State, the New York Vision Festival, the NYC HOWL festival, and the New York Hot Festival.
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Chavisa Woods in Eugene
March 11, 2013
Chavisa Woods will be at the Eugene Public Library on Monday, March 11 at 6pm to discuss her new book, The Albino Album.
Emerging author Chavisa Woods, noted for capturing a “strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S.” (Go Magazine), here presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence. The novel, told as songs, follows a lead character with an unpronounceable name who rides the line between abandon and lunacy on a speeding albino horse. The Albino Album breaks into a whirlwind tour of the underbelly of America spanning countryside to cityscape, from the cornfields of Luisiana, to the big brass sound of Mardi Gras, and the heights of the Empire State Building.
The Albino Album will be out February 2013.
Chavisa Woods Book Tour
Monday, March 11th @ 6:00pm
Eugene Public Library
100 West 10th Avenue, Eugene, OR
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Joel Magnuson in Portland
March 11, 2013
Joel Magnuson, author of The Approaching Great Transformation, will be in Portland at Powell’s City Books on Monday, March 11 at 7:30pm to discuss his upcoming book.
The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Liveable Post Carbon Economy is Magnuson’s follow up to his previous book, Mindful Economics. In his second book, Magnuson extends his ideas and focuses on he coming shift in how we act and think in the world economically as the era of cheap oil comes to an end. The purpose of this book is to provide inspiration for those seeking the ongoing global effort to move away from our dependency on fossil fuels and ceaseless growth, and towards a more sustainable, stable, and just system.
“The Approaching Great Transformation is a breath of fresh air in a world of hackneyed nonsolutions to our social and economic problems. Professor Magnuson pulls no punches regarding the coming collapse of the corporate-commercial-consumer society, or the inability of technological fixes and ‘green capitalism’ to bail us out of the historical crunch that is virtually upon us.” -Morris Berman, author of Why America Failed
The Approaching Great Transformation will be out in April 2013.
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Joel Magnuson in Eugene
March 13, 2013
On Wednesday, March 13 at 6pm, Joel Magnuson, author of The Approaching Great Transformation will be at Eugene Public Library in Oregon as part of his book tour.
The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Liveable Post Carbon Economy, Magnuson’s follow-up to Mindful Economics, provides a philosophical basis and guidelines for citizens who are working to develop new and very different economic institutions that are centered on self-reliance, ecological permanence, stability, and a celebration of human creativity. In time, these institutional developments will lead to the positive evolution of economic systems and human culture. This book documents examples and stories of this work that is already being done.
“A challenging and engaging exploration of what it will take to make the transition to an ecologically sustainable future.”- Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and author of America Beyond Capitalism
The Approaching Great Transformation will be out in April 2013.
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Tags: economy, energy, eugene public library, joel magnuson, mindful economics, the approaching great transformation
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Joel Magnuson in Seattle
March 20, 2013
Joel Magnuson, author of The Approaching Great Transformation will be at Seattle Town Hall as part of the Town Hall’s Civic Series on Wednesday, March 20 at 7:30pm, to discuss his new book.
With vision and deliberate action communities around the world can break out of habitual ways of producing and consuming things and move optimistically toward something better. The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Liveable Post Carbon Economy, Magnuson’s follow-up to Mindful Economics, discusses this idea and many other timely issues of economy, energy, and consumption. in time, these institutional developments will lead to the positive evolution of economic systems and human culture. This book documents examples and stories of this work that is already being done.
Joel Magnuson is an internationally recognized economist specializing in non-orthodox approaches to political economy. He is currently a professor of economics in Portland, Oregon; a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England; and is an international advisor to the editorial board of Anglia’s journal Interconnections.
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Tags: civic, consumption, economy, energy, joel magnuson, seattle, the approaching great transformation
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