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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Books Reading Tonight

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM

The poetry slam returns tonight, and there are several other events, too.

Adam Eisenberg is at the Ballard branch of the Seattle Public Library. A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work is all about how the Gender Formerly Known as the Fairer Sex improved law enforcement procedures.

At Vermillion, on Capitol Hill, Kaie Wellman, the creator of the eat.shop. guides that have become so popular in a startlingly short amount of time, will give a talk about self-publishing successfully. More information about that is here.

University Book Store features Richard J. Meyer, the author of Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai. This book discusses how a film star from long ago and far away believed in using film to spotlight social injustice.

Richard Lomuto reads from his interestingly titled book In the Realm of History, the Anachronism Is King. There is very little information about Richard Lomuto online.

Daniel Goldhagen discusses how we will all genocide ourselves to death unless we fucking grow up at Town Hall tonight. He is the author of Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity.

And Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America is a book with a title that I can certainly get behind, even though it is written by Barbara Ehrenreich, and Ehrenreich's Nickel & Dimed is one of the most condescending books I've ever read.

The next week's worth of readings can be found here.

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"even thought it's written by Barbara Ehrenreich". Uhm, ok, thanks for your deep insight.

Posted by anon15 on October 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM

Funny that you found Nickeled and Dimed so cloying. It's become a standard in just about every college social studies course you can name.

I saw Barbara Ehrenreich on The Daily Show last week, and she didn't make very compelling arguments why the power of positive thinking doesn't work. I agree that the last thing a person who is battling cancer needs to hear is, "Think positive!" It's like when someone says, "Smile!" It deserves a swift, "Fuck you!" But other than being a rather insensitive faux pas, what's the problem?

Posted by Bauhaus I on October 21, 2009 at 1:38 PM