Barbara Ehrenreich, essayist and author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, gives us an update on the state of America’s working poor. Then, Anita Desai explores past and present cultural identities through the lens of a historian’s visit to a Mexican mining town in her latest novel, The Zigzag Way. Thai Jones reconstructs the compelling, and sometimes disturbing, development of his family’s political convictions in A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. And poets Paul Muldoon and Molly Peacock offer some insight on how to read a poem in this week’s Please Explain feature.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the state of the working poor today.
Music: Brother’s Keeper Soundtrack (Angel) Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
Track 16: "Cows on the Hill"
Track 9: "Fiddler’s Elbow"
Music: Brother’s Keeper Soundtrack (Angel) Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
Track 16: "Cows on the Hill"
Track 9: "Fiddler’s Elbow"
Anita Desai
Anita Desai shares her new novel, The Zigzag Way.
Events: Anita Desai will be reading and signing books
Friday, December 3 at 7pm
Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Square
Music: Mexico (Seeds Records)
Track 12: "Las Perlitas"
Track 9: "Delvahle"
Events: Anita Desai will be reading and signing books
Friday, December 3 at 7pm
Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Square
Music: Mexico (Seeds Records)
Track 12: "Las Perlitas"
Track 9: "Delvahle"
Thai Jones
Thai Jones reflects on growing up as a child of the Weather Underground: A Radical Line.
» Read an excerpt of A Radical Line in the Reading Room
Events: Thai Jones will be appearing on:
Tuesday, December 7th at 7pm
KGB ...
» Read an excerpt of A Radical Line in the Reading Room
Events: Thai Jones will be appearing on:
Tuesday, December 7th at 7pm
KGB ...
Please Explain: How to Read a Poem
In this week’s Please Explain feature, we find out how to read a poem. We’ll hear from Molly Peacock, one of the founders of Poetry in Motion, the project that posts poems in subways and buses, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon.
» More on the ...
» More on the ...
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