September 2011
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Energy Bulletin Reviews Global Warming Reader →
“McKibben is as engaging an editor as he is a writer…The Global Warming Reader zips by as quickly as a thriller by—well, by the late Michael Crichton, who appears in it as well.” - Energy Bulletin
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“Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power...”
– Rinku Sen, on a panel yesterday (moderated by OR author Laura Flanders!) at the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s 40th anniversary conference
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“What I admire about writers from elsewhere is the sense they bring of other...”
– -Amitava Kumar, in the foreword to Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination by Manan Ahmed.
Want to celebrate the launch of the newest book by “historian of the present” Manan Ahmed? Join our friends at Just World Books for a book launch party next Monday...
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The Lit Pub
Borders is finished. St. Mark’s gasps for air; B & N is wobbly: the world is ending. Or is it? Check out The Lit Pub for what a tremendous, dynamic 21st century bookstore looks like.
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They need your (and our) books...!
WHO AND WHY: NYC-born environmental activist Daniel McGowan was arrested in 2005 for destruction of property in Oregon. No one was hurt during his actions, but because he was labeled an “eco-terrorist”—and refused to cooperate with authorities—he received a seven-year term in a “CMU”—Communications Management Unit, the intriguingly-named federal isolation...
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Writers who don't read →
Buzz Poole suggests that more and more young writers are not interested in reading. Could this possibly be true? I hope not. It seems so counterintuitive.
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