What kind of kick in the ass would it take, for example, to prod more contemporary writers to stop mailing it in and going belly-up passive in this time of dire crisis, and channel some of the fearless intensity and readability of writers forged in the fire of 1960s California like Hunter S. Thompson and Joan Didion? Then as now, …
Author Talk Event Next Saturday
Who does not want to talk about politics these days?! If you’re like me, you may not even listen to the news most days – out of sanity reasons. But don’t we have to talk about what’s going on, even if it is scary? So this Saturday we’re having another, long overdue Author Talk discussing political writing and …