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Showing videos filed under: Fiction
Edwidge Danticat: Create Dangerously
January 29, 2011"Writing is nothing like dying in, for, and possibly with, your country," writes novelist and essayist Edwidge Danticat in her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. But writing and creating can inspire action, whether it's revolution in the streets or simply managing to survive under seemingly hopeless circumstances.Edwidge Danticat, Howard Zinn, and John Nichols
January 28, 2011"Writing is nothing like dying in, for, and possibly with, your country," writes novelist and essayist Edwidge Danticat in her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. But writing and creating can inspire action, whether it's revolution in the streets or simply managing to survive under seemingly hopeless circumstances.Alex Gibney & Bob Ney, Richard Trumka, and Treme
May 4, 2010Get the money out of Washington. It's an ongoing refrain now, from the left and even from those in the Tea Party movement. Too much corruption, too little trust. Jack Abramoff, the superstar lobbyist whose spectacular fall brought down then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was the very public face of the problem of lobbying when he headed off to jail, and he is the subject of Alex Gibney's newest documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money.Ned Sublette: HBO's Treme Helping Rebuild New Orleans
May 4, 2010I can’t be objective about Treme, the new HBO series, because I’ve been cheering it on since it was first announced. Some of my friends are in it, and a number of specific songs, people, and places in the episodes I’ve seen are also in my two books about New Orleans. So I'm gonna like it.The Empathy of Fiction: Ethan Canin and David Rosen
July 17, 2008A conversation with Ethan Canin, the author of America America and David Rosen, Editor in Chief of the Progressive Book Club.
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