Events: November 29, 2012, Readings and Talks
November 29, 2012, 7 pm
Darryl Pinckney at New York Public Library for Robert B. Silvers Lecture
The New York Public Library, New York
Writer Darryl Pinckney will discuss the history of the betrayals and successes that culminated in the Obama presidency, the price of Obama's victory for black politics, and the results of the recent election.
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November 7, 2012 – December 3, 2012
Do the Math Road Tour
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle
Based on Bill McKibben’s widely read Rolling Stone article, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math,” “Do The Math” aims to raise awareness of the climate crisis and challenge the power of the fossil-fuel industry head-on.
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
Ongoing
Room 220 Live Prose Reading Series
Press Street, New Orleans
Room 220 is the only place to find serious (and also irreverent) discussion of literature in New Orleans. Its fall reading series begins September 27.
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