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Brady KieslingForeign Service Test
Just before the Iraq war, American diplomat Brady Kiesling made headlines by resigning in protest from the U.S. embassy in Athens. He looks at the effect of the war in the various countries in which he has served, including Israel, Armenia and Morocco. Also, two winners of a prize for emerging women writers on gender and the writing life.
Wiki-Law
Jay Gallagher, Albany Bureau Chief for Gannett News and author, Politics of Decline (Whiston Press)
- talks about Wicks Law and Eliot Spitzer's plan to change it.
An Award of One's Own
Emily Rapp,
winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards and author of Poster Child (Bloomsbury, 2007),
and
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt ,
Winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, author of Harlem is Nowhere (Little, Brown, date TBD), and contributing editor for Transition Magazine
- on gender and the writing life.
» EmilyRapp.com
» TransitionMagazine.com
Event:
Emily Rapp and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt, along with other winners of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards, will read from their work tonight at 7 at
One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue).
NYU's Glucksman Ireland House
Call 212.998.8816 for details
Foreign Service Test
John Brady Kiesling, 20- year U.S. Foreign Service officer who resigned in protest
of the Iraq War and author,
Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower (Potomac Books, 2006)
- on lessons learned from the Iraq War and reaction to President Bush's live press conference at the White House.
»NY Times pdf of the Powell Letter
»Diplomacy Lessons is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Event:
John Brady Kiesling will give a talk and sign copies of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower tonight at 7 at the Barnes and Noble on the Upper West Side at 82nd and Broadway.
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