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MICHAEL COFFEY is interviewed at Irish Central
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018JOHN FREEMAN is profiled in the LA Times
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018Read here.
STEPHEN GILPIN appears on Rising Up With Sonali
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018Listen here.
MEDEA BENJAMIN, author of the forthcoming INSIDE IRAN, on being American, Jewish, and banned from Israel, in The Guardian
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018Read here.
The Times Literary Supplement calls WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES “an urgently necessary chronicle of the Yazidi genocide”
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018Read here.
STEPHEN GILPIN discusses TRUMP U. on BRIC TV
Friday, January 12th, 2018ELI VALLEY is interviewed in American Jewish World
Thursday, January 11th, 2018Read here.
WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES “allows us to dive into all of the detail to help understand this terrifying ordeal,” says The Iranian
Thursday, January 11th, 2018Read here.
“How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion.” CATHY OTTEN in The Atlantic
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018Read here.
TSERING WOESER‘s story from OLD DEMONS, NEW DEITIES appears at Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018Read here.
The New Yorker calls DESPERATELY SEEKING SELF-IMPROVEMENT “a comically committed exploration of current life-hacking wisdom in areas ranging from athletic and intellectual prowess to spirituality, creativity, wealth, and pleasure.”
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018Read here.
Red Pepper calls ELI VALLEY “one of the great masters of graphic satire.”
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018Read here.
Critical thinking on cultural boycott: The Electronic Intifada reviews ASSUMING BOYCOTT
Friday, December 22nd, 2017Read the full review at The Electronic Intifada.
OURS TO HACK AND TO OWN is named one of Wired’s top ten tech books of 2017
Friday, December 22nd, 2017“In the utopia that Scholz, Schneider, and dozens of contributors illustrate, the technologies we’ve come to take for granted—from Uber to Amazon and Airbnb—would be refashioned as cooperatively-owned and collectively governed entities. Mark Zuckerberg, they suggest, might put his Facebook shares in a user-controlled trust, so that those billions of people could have a say in what happens with the data that the platform collects. That’s just one of the bold proposals put forth by dozens of contributors, who envision a more just online future. At times, Ours to Hack and to Own may read like a pipe dream—but it’s also a much needed reminder that a better internet is possible.”
Read the full list at Wired.
“For sheer readability, Frank B. Wilderson III’s essay ‘Incognero: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid’ is unbeatable”: ASSUMING BOYCOTT is reviewed at A Gathering of the Tribes
Friday, December 22nd, 2017Read the full review here.
The Samuel Beckett Society interviews MICHAEL COFFEY about SAMUEL BECKETT IS CLOSED
Tuesday, December 19th, 2017You ask several times in the book, ‘Why Beckett.” So, why Beckett?
You could ask not only why Beckett but why mention it. I mention it because I think that being transparent about the genesis of such a project is important. It is being honest. Not everyone cares to see process in a work of art, but there you have it. And in Beckett’s work itself, the mechanics of things are stripped down, laid bare. There is very little artifice. But plenty of invention. A principle interest of mine was really “What Beckett?” That is, what would such an innovator be doing today, given today’s technologies and global politics. Whatever I have learned thus far is in this book, to a point. I am still at it.
Read the full interview at The Samuel Beckett Society.
ARIEL DORFMAN at LitHub with an excerpt from HOMELAND SECURITY ATE MY SPEECH on the monster that is Donald Trump.
Friday, December 15th, 2017Read here.
SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF CHILDREN is featured in Antioch College Alumni News
Friday, December 15th, 2017Read here.
GREG SHUPAK in Jacobin on Trump’s announcement that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
Thursday, December 14th, 2017Read here.
DESPERATELY SEEKING SELF-IMPROVEMENT is recommended at the Times Higher Education Supplement
Thursday, December 14th, 2017Read here.
Joanna Walsh’s essay from THE DIGITAL CRITIC appears in Los Angeles Review of Books
Thursday, December 14th, 2017Read here.
At Counterpunch—leaked footage of ARIEL DORFMAN being interrogated by Homeland Security agents about his new book.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017Watch here.
Pacific Standard calls DIVINING DESIRE “fascinating . . . a lens on the past, present, and future of the American project.”
Thursday, December 14th, 2017Read here.
CARL CEDERSTROM and ANDRE SPICER appear on The Current, on CBC Radio
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017Read here.
EXTINCTION and LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE are reviewed in Social Studies of Science
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017Read here.
The Independent calls CARL CEDERSTROM and ANDRE SPICER “intrepid explorers of the outer limits of self-optimisation.”
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017Read here.
“Why Are Democratic Senators Enabling One Of Trump’s Worst Decisions?” MEDEA BENJAMIN in Huffington Post
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017Read here.
“Anyone familiar with his work,” says Huffington Post on ARIEL DORFMAN, “will probably want to read his most recent book, and trace the bumpy intellectual journey he has made in the age of Donald Trump.”
Tuesday, December 12th, 2017Read here.
New York Journal of Books calls HOMELAND SECURITY ATE MY SPEECH “personal, intellectual, devastating, and at times bitingly funny.”
Monday, December 11th, 2017Read here.
An excerpt from DESPERATELY SEEKING SELF-IMPROVEMENT appears in The Idler, in which CARL CEDERSTROM “attempts to optimize his pleasure.”
Monday, December 11th, 2017Read here.
