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3/1/2008
Robert Kirsch Award to Maxine Hong Kingston
"You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it's as if she had never been born."
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Los Angeles Times has named Maxine Hong Kingston as the 28th recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award. The award honors a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition.
Maxine Hong Kingston is best known for her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which chronicles Chinese myths, family stories and events from her California childhood that have shaped her identity as a first generation Chinese American.
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2/16/2008
Michael Pollan: Food is under attack
"Food’s under attack from two quarters. It’s under attack from the food industry, which is taking, you know, perfectly good whole foods and tricking them up into highly processed edible food-like substances, and from nutritional science, which has over the years convinced us that we shouldn’t be paying attention to food, it’s really the nutrients that matter."
Author and journalist Michael Pollan appeared on DemocracyNow! this past week. He argues that what most Americans are consume today is not food but “edible food-like substances” -- products not of nature but of food science.
In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients and the result is what he calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.
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2/2/2008
20th-century art and literary history landmark, André Breton's Surrealist Manifesto, on the block
Only the word freedom can still exalt me. I consider it capable of sustaining indefinitely the old human fanaticism. Doubtless it satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. - André Breton, Surrealist Manifesto
Sotheby's has announced that the landmark Manifeste du surréalisme written by the French writer and poet André Breton, is up for auction along with eight other of the author's autograph manuscripts. Andre Breton was the founder and major theorist of the surrealist movement, one of the most influential currents of twentieth-century art and criticism. In the history of poetic thought, the 1924 publication of the 21-page Surrealist Manifesto was a revolutionary event of the first magnitude where dreams, madness and the force of the human imagination were championed over logic, reason and artistic rules.
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1/21/2008
David Cay Johnston on How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You with the Bill)
I've got the documents. President Bush, who will go down in history as the great tax cutter, owes almost all of his fortune to a tax increase that was funneled into his pocket.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston covers tax policy for the New York Times. He is the author of the bestselling book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else, where he reveals how U.S government policies provide the "super rich" the opportunity to hide their wealth and defer or evade tax payments while "passing the bill" to law-abiding, tax-paying middle-class American citizens. The loss in revenue "imposes a severe cost on honest taxpayers" through reduced services, increased federal debt, and hinders upward social mobility. David Cay Johnston's latest book is Free Lunch: How the ...
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12/2/2007
National Book Award winner Tim Weiner on the CIA and The Legacy of Ashes
"The CIA does what it does beause presidents tell it to do those things."
New York Times reporter and author Tim Weiner used twenty years for thinking and two years for writing in order to create Legacy of Ashes: The History of the C.I.A., the winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Non-fiction. The title refers to President Eisenhower's public rebuke of Allan Dulles before the assembled National Security Consul in the last days of his presidency. Dulles had been Eisenhower's Director of Central Intelligence for eight years. "I have been after you eight years to get Central Intelligence organized and you have failed me," Eisenhower said. "You have handed me an eight year defeat and I am going to hand on to my successor John F. Kennedy, A legacy of ashes," -- and four months after came the Bay of Pigs -- added Tim Weiner.
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11/15/2007
Henri Alleg and Naomi Klein on torture and the Mukasey confirmation
I have described the waterboarding I was submitted to. And no one can say, having passed through it, that this was not torture, especially when he has endured other types of torture -- burning, electricity and beating, and so on. So I am really astonished that this is a big question in the States about this, because the real question is not waterboarding or not waterboarding, it's the use of torture in such a war, and this use of torture, torture in general. - Henri Alleg
Henri Alleg was a French journalist who supported Algerian independence in the 1950's. On June 12, 1957 he was arrested
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11/14/2007
Norman Mailer, 1923-2007. He went down swinging.
My American Dream is that this country has more opportunities to be extraordinary than any other country around, but it doesn't make us extraordinary. That can make us worse. Here you could be the son of the richest man on earth, and it doesn't mean you're going to be a fabulous fellow. You could end up a monster.
Norman Mailer was the first to follow his own advice to young writers: "Don't hold yourself in. Don't rein yourself in. Go all the way. Go over the top. Overdo it." "He could do anything he wanted to do - the movie business, writing, theater, politics," said writer GayTalese. "He never thought the boundaries were restricted. He'd go anywhere and try anything. He was a courageous person." No one has ever accused Norman Mailer of being modest, and he would be the first to agree: "You almost can't become a serious professional writer unless there is a built-in arr ...
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9/22/2007
Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the beat generation poets
Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights Books in San Francisco in 1953 together with Peter D. Martin. It was the first all paperbound bookstore in the country, a bold idea as at that time, paperback books were not even considered "real books" by the book trade. Named after the Chaplin film, City Lights Books had an anarchist-pacifist orientation from the very beginning. Peter Martin was a son of Carlo Tresca, the Italian anarchist who was murdered on the streets of New York. Ferlinghetti had been sent to Nagasaki six weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb. His later "political education" came from listening to KPFA, the first listener supported non-commercial radio station in the USA. It was co-founded in 1949 by Lewis Hill, a pacifist, poet, and journalist and the poet and conscientious objector Kenneth Rexroth had a weekly program there.
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