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Daily Life in Wartime Iraq

Journalist Dahr Jamail gives us an up-close look at daily life in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Jamail is one of the few unaffiliated, unembedded journalists covering the war in Iraq. His new book is Beyond the Green Zone.

Dahr Jamail’s website and blog
SLIDESHOW: Beyond The Green Zone

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America’s Kitchen Culture

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that if you want to understand a society, you must "look into their pots" and "eat their bread." What do American kitchens reveal about the U.S.? Steven Gdula looks into the history of kitchens in America in The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the Twentieth-Century American Home.

Event: Steven Gdula will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, January 29 at 7:30 pm
Barnes & Noble
396 Avenue of the Americas (at 8th Street)

Weigh in: How central is your kitchen to your home life? What does your kitchen reveal about you and your life?

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Life with Food

John Haney of Gourmet magazine grew up eating beans on toast and bacon sandwiches in a Cockney household outside of London; now he eats in some of New York’s fanciest restaurants. He writes about his journey in his new memoir, Fair Shares for All: A Memoir of Family and Food.

Event: John Haney will be speaking and signing books
Sunday, February 3 at 3 pm
Sundays at Sunny’s reading series
253 Conover Street (between Beard and Reed Streets)
Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Cory Booker: Post-Racial Mayor?

The New Yorker’s Peter Boyer says that Newark Mayor Cory Booker is a mayor of the "post-racial generation" who has nevertheless run into raw racial prejudice since his entry into Newark politics. His article in the Feb. 4 issue is "The Color of Politics."

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