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Making Promises to American Workers

We look into America’s pension and health care crisis, and what it will take for corporations and the government to make good on their promises to workers. Roger Lowenstein’s new book is While America Aged.

Event:
Roger Lowenstein will be giving a talk and signing books
Wed., May 28
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
At Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
McMahon Hall - Room 109
113 W 60th Street

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States of the Union: Montana

We look at the issues that matter to voters in Montana before they head to the polls for their June 3 primary. Find out how Montana’s Democrats have been successful in Big Sky Country in recent years, and why the governor was the first to sign a law banning the enforcement of the Real ID Act. Chuck Johnson is a reporter in the Lee Newspapers State Bureau in Helena, Montana.

States of the Union fact of the week: Montana has three state names: Treasure State, Big Sky Country, and The Last Best Place

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: Early Soviet Rap Star

Gary Shteyngart has called Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky “a genius, a hipster, a shill, and the first and only early-Soviet rap star.” Michael Almereyda’s new book about Mayakovsky’s life and work Night Wraps the Sky.

Event:
Michael Almereyda will be reading tonight, Wed. 5/28
7 pm at 192 Books
192 10th Ave. (at 21st St.) in Chelsea
More info available here

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Revisiting Yiddish Recipes

Arthur Schwartz talks about Eastern European Jewish home cooking – from cholent, to Hungarian shlishkas – and tells us where in New York are the best places to get Jewish food. His new book is Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited.

Weigh in: Where are your favorite places to get real New York bagels?

Some of Arthur Schwartz' recipes

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