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September 07

To usher in back-to-school season, we've put up a free e-book of Robert Graves's witty, unorthodox writing handbook, The Reader Over Your Shoulder. The promotion lasts through September 11, 5PM EST.

Here on the blog, you can find an excerpt from the first chapter, "The Peculiar Qualities of English." Scholarly and thorough, but never pedantic or doctrinaire, the piece demonstrates why grammar maven Patricia T. O'Conner calls The Reader Over Your Shoulder "the best book on writing ever published."

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July 16

Yesterday the the New York Times ran a feature implying there are no major health risks associated with the upcoming move to 5G cellular networks. The piece did make a convincing case that an often reproduced graph on the dangers of cell phones, first created by a Dr. Bill P. Curry in 2000, contains a serious error. But the dangers of electromagnetic fields (EMF) are broader than the article mentions, and the effects have by no means been exhaustively studied. As a primer to the subject, here is the first chapter of Martin Blank's Overpowered: What Science Tells Us About the Dangers of Cell Phones and Other WiFi-Age Devices.

June 21

What supposedly thorny journalistic questions could be simply settled by honest, unbiased inquiry? Noam Chomsky asked that very question in 2002, in his speech "The Journalist from Mars," included in the second edition of Media Control: The Spectacular Achievments of PropagandaLet's say an idealistic journalist came down from Mars, with none of the prejudices used by intellectual elites to buttress up power. What would that Martian make of global affairs and the way they're reported? How would our Martian friend report on terrorist acts in Nicaragua, Lebanon, the U.S., and elsewhere? Chomsky does his best Martian impression and informs us below.

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April 06

The refrain we hear over and over, in the United States at least, is that people today are apathetic about politics. Yet it turns out that this is far from the case. Voters in the U.S. and in democracies around the world are more engaged in politics than they've ever been. The catch is that they're disillusioned with the democratic process itself. Only 33% of Europeans have faith in the EU. The U.S. Congress has a 69% negative rating. So what gives? In Against Elections, set to be published on April 17th, David Van Reybrouck diagnoses the symptoms of our ailing democracies and comes up with a radical solution: drawing lots, rather than voting, to determine our politicians, just as the ancient Athenians did. Here as an exclusive excerpt on the Seven Stories Blog is the book's introduction, from former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, and the first chapter of Van Reybrouck's book. 

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July 27

Attention all Tralfmadorians, Bokononists, and other Vonnegut fanatics!

In case you didn't know, Seven Stories is collecting, for the first time...

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September25

BE THE CHANGE: Robin Marty, author of New Handbook for a Post-Roe America

With the Supreme Court...

Online, Internet!
7.00pm
Porter Square Books (Online)
September14

Taking us from 9/11 through Donald Trump’s election, this solo show by accomplished...

Columbus, Ohio
8.00pm
Mershon Auditorium Stage
September26

Please join KPFA Radio at The First Congregational Church of Berkeley ...

Berkeley, CA
7.00pm
The First Congregational Church of Berkeley
May11
Darwin's Ghost author, Ariel Dorfman, visits Scuppernong Books to talk about his latest novel.
Greensboro, North Carolina
7.00pm
Scuppernong Books
November04
Every semester, the Poets @ Pace series welcomes poets who inspire, captivate, and change the way we think about poetry. This reading features two celebrated poets: Michael Lally and Nadia Owusu
New York, NY
6.00pm
Bianco Room, Pace University
September21

Ten Mini-Plays by Barry Gifford - One Night Only!

Join us on Thursday, September 21, for a FREE...

New York, NY
7.30pm
The Players