This story is an excerpt from my forthcoming novel Everyone Comes from Belterra: When America Owned the Amazon, slated to be published by Pear Tree Press in July 2008.
The story originates from my background research for the novel, when I encountered the horrific human rights violations committed on the Putumayo river in the early […]
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If you consider yourself young and drifting from the left, you will find Greg Keller’s new one-act play deeply unsettling. This probing production at the Cherry Lane Theatre examines the relationship of two old friends in Park Slope, Brooklyn as they wrestle with the choices they’ve made and the terror that accompanies personal and […]
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What is the role of the law? What do rights do? What do they mean?
Karl Marx warned us that legal rights are not always to be trusted. His reasoning was simple: that legal rights often perpetuate systems of exploitation and bolster the status quo. But somehow, one hundred and fifty […]
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Venue: Southpaw
Brooklyn, NY
Yamaha’s Tenori-On is the musical culmination of an iPhone, Wii, and a little bit of love.
The new musical instrument was unveiled today in Brooklyn at a low-key event and inspired even the most jaded fixed bicycle gear hipster to stick around. Several hundred gadget geeks and musicians witnessed performances on Yamaha’s […]
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In this post, I take a critical look at Kazuo Ishiguro’s work The Unconsoled - but this time from the point of view of a fiction writer. The book is a delightful a crash course in courageous writing techniques, and reveals why Ishiguro deserves to be hailed as one of the world’s greatest living […]
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