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Battling Repression
In our regular Underreported feature, we’ll look at the state of gay rights in the Middle East. Then, Ben Greenman tells us about remixing his short story collection into a new novel: Superworse. Frank Deford revisits baseball in the 1900s with The Old Ball Game. And Steven Levitt uses economics to answer unconventional questions about everyday life in Freakonomics.
Gay Rights in the Middle East
Scott Long, the LGBT director of Human Rights Watch, and Ramzi Zakharia, the webmaster and outreach director for GLAS (the Gay and Lesbian Arab Society), give us an update on the state of gay rights in the Middle East. In the past year, activists in Lebanon have launched a campaign to overturn a statute that makes homosexuality illegal, while Saudi Arabia recently raided a private party and arrested 100 men for allegedly engaging in homosexual conduct.
» More on LGBT issues and Human Rights Watch
» More on GLAS NYC
More resources on Gay Rights in the Middle East:
» More on Ahbab
» More on gaymiddleeast.com
» Nore on AIDS and repression of homosexuality in Egypt
Music:
"Tomorrow" by Amp / "Royksopp’s Night Out"
Superworse
Ben Greenman tells us about using sampling as a literary device to rework Superbad--a collection of two dozen works of short fiction—-into a novel: Superworse.
» More on Superworse
»Visit Ben Greenman's website
Events:
Ben Greenman will be judging a literary contest for the L Magazine, tonight at 8 pm - at the Baggott Inn, at 82 West 3rd St. between Thompson and Sullivan.
Music:
Cinema de Funk-Volume Three: "Waltz for Caroline" by Simon Napier
The Old Ballgame
Frank Deford, a NPR Morning Edition weekly sports commentator, brings to life the earliest days of baseball with a look at two of the biggest players of the 1900s, in The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball.
Music:
Soundtrack to Field of Dreams, music by James Horner: "Field of Dreams"
Events: Frank Deford will be appearing on:
Friday, June 3rd at 7:30pm
Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway at 82nd St.
Freakonomics
The Wall Street Journal has said that if Indiana Jones were an economist, he'd be Steven Levitt. The self-described "rogue" economist speculates on how everyday life is affected by money matters—from what kind of impact Roe v. Wade had on violent crime, to why drug dealers still live with their moms--in Freakonomics.
Music: "Salpica" by Mambotur
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