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“O’Neil plumbs the depths of the modern American hyper-capitalist nightmare, turning a gimlet eye upon its indignities, absurdities, and sundry horrors.” — LOCKDOWN IN HELL WORLD author Luke O’Neil interviewed for Teen Vogue

Friday, April 16th, 2021

“Luke O’Neil’s ‘Lockdown in Hell World’ Details the Horrors of 2020”

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“Thanks to her role as muse to W.B.Yeats, Maud Gonne (1866-1953) is well-known in mythic form to many who have never heard her name. The initial corrective was her own 1938 autobiography, but Kim Bendheim’s book is a much more candid and useful book.” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT recommended in Tortoise

Friday, April 16th, 2021

“Further evidence, too, of how imaginative and creative the New York-based independent publishing house, OR Books, has become since its foundation in 2009. “

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THE DREAM OF DOCTOR BANTAM author Jeanne Thornton interviewed on the Evergreen Review podcast

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“Dale Peck talks with Jeanne Thornton, author of the novel The Dream of Doctor Bantam and the collection The Black Emerald. They discuss Thornton’s relationship with the editing process, her experiences growing up in Texas, Ayn Rand, and Dirty Dancing.”

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“This book’s topic is critically important, and every student at WSU should have the opportunity to join the 36 contemporary writers in examining life in a deeply divided America” — TALES OF TWO AMERICAS selected as Washington State University’s Common Reading book

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“The Washington State University Common Reading Program has announced the 2021-22 book to be used by first-year and other students in classes and beyond is Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, edited by John Freeman.”

Read the announcement here.

“A book and card set that, like the de Bono theory, has players getting ready to Occupy a space controlled by government or corporate interests… Instant mobilization against anything oppressive.” — BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE featured in OpEdNews

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“Games We the People Play”

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“Reading Michael Ratner’s Moving the Bar shows just how unusual he was in the crowded room of radical lawyers… especially when other radical lawyers fell by the wayside, and opted for money, fame and notoriety.” — MOVING THE BAR reviewed in CounterPunch

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“Ratner for the Defense: the Legacy of a Lefty Lawyer”

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“Covid-19 has driven us into a collective fatigue” — PANDEMIC! featured in the Nation

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“The virus doesn’t only make Covid sufferers tired. It is now making even healthy people tired. In his book Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World, Slavoj Žižek dedicates a whole chapter to the question ‘Why are we tired all the time?'”

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“Slavoj Žižek on GameStop, WallStreetBets, and the Future of Capitalism” — PANDEMIC! 2 author interviewed on Bloomberg‘s Odd Lots podcast

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021

“Hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take you on a not-so-random walk through hot topics in markets, finance, and economics.”

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“The murder trial of Derek Chauvin has put a spotlight on a number of police reform efforts, including the push to end qualified immunity” — ABOVE THE LAW author Ben Cohen interviewed on CBS News

Friday, April 9th, 2021

“How ‘Qualified Immunity’ damages the relationship between law enforcement and their communities” — ABOVE THE LAW author Ben Cohen interviewed on MSNBC

Friday, April 9th, 2021

“It is now time to shift from protest to policy” — ABOVE THE LAW author Ben Cohen interviewed for CNN

Friday, April 9th, 2021

“We are now united in a coalition that is resolved to end this get-out-of-jail free card for bad cops.”

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“Andrew Cuomo Is Clinging to Power and Rewarding His Billionaire Loyalists” — THE PRINCE author Ross Barkan writes for Jacobin

Friday, April 9th, 2021

“Real estate titans and landlords might just be New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s last base of support. The embattled governor is rewarding them handsomely for their loyalty.”

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“The Power of an Extraordinary Woman” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim in conversation with Women’s Power Toolkit

Friday, April 9th, 2021

“What is one book you’ve recently read that you might recommend?” — REDISCOVERING EARTH recommended by Christian Møller-Holst on Springwise

Friday, April 9th, 2021

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FULL VIDEO: THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David Roediger in conversation for Shelter & Solidarity

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

“An honest, poignant, sprawling, remarkable, and inspiring account” — MOVING THE BAR reviewed in the LA Progressive

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

“How a middle-class Jewish kid from Cleveland chose not to go into the family building-supply business but instead became a visionary and peripatetic human rights lawyer.

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“Death Is the Capital of Uruguay” — LOCKDOWN IN HELL WORLD excerpt published in Slate

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

“Untold numbers of people were about to die, though not for the reason I expected.”

Read the excerpt here.

“The stalwart left-wing publisher OR Books has firmly established itself as the go-to source for titles that challenge the status quo and suggest options for moving beyond our current ruts. Two new collections from OR do just that.” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! and REDISCOVERING EARTH reviewed in CounterPunch

Tuesday, April 6th, 2021

“[Everything Must Change! pulls together] an impressive mix of international leftist movers and shakers. The result is a commendably broad range of ideas about moving forward with left agendas… The goal of Rediscovering Earth is to not only analyze the insanity of continuing knowingly to destroy our planet but also to help us avert catastrophe… I hope that both of these collections can contribute to an ideological shift away from settling for business as usual.

Read the full review here.

“The campaign to end qualified immunity in civil rights cases involving police” — ABOVE THE LAW author Ben Cohen interviewed on C-SPAN

Friday, April 2nd, 2021

“End qualified immunity” — ABOVE THE LAW author Ben Cohen writes for the Hill

Friday, April 2nd, 2021

“Qualified immunity is a judge-made legal defense that prevents police and other government officials from being held civilly liable for violating people’s rights.”

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“Better policing begins with accountability and an end to qualified immunity” — ABOVE THE LAW author Ben Cohen writes for USA Today

Friday, April 2nd, 2021

“Ending qualified immunity will send a clear message: Nobody, not even law enforcement, is above the law.”

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“How to fix America’s relationship with news media” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi interviewed on the Donlon Report

Friday, April 2nd, 2021
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UPCOMING EVENT: LOCKDOWN IN HELL WORLD author Luke O’Neil in conversation with the SPJNE on 04/07/21

Friday, April 2nd, 2021

Details here.

“Prioritizing the needs of people over generating profit” — PEOPLE’S POWER author Ashley Dawson interviewed on NYC-DSA’s Public Power Hour

Friday, April 2nd, 2021

“Strikingly pithy insights into the pathology of capitalism and also into the essential features of socialism.” — AN INHERITANCE FOR OUR TIMES reviewed in the Socialist Standard

Friday, April 2nd, 2021

“An Inheritance for Our Times. Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism. Edited by Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker and Michael J. Thompson. OR Books, 2020. 412pp.”

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“I’ve Been Sleeping With A Shovel Under The Bed” — LOCKDOWN IN HELL WORLD excerpt published in Defector

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

This excerpt from Luke O’Neil’s book “Lockdown In Hell World,” which is now available in paperback, is published with the permission of OR Books.

Read the excerpt here.

“The Coronavirus is Ravaging New York Again After Cuomo’s Victory Lap” — THE PRINCE author Ross Barkan writes for the Daily Beast

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

“The governor’s premature victory lap seems that much worse as he races to reopen things to fend off other scandals in the state with America’s second highest death toll.”

Rad the article here.

“Andrew Cuomo, the Creepy Tyrant of Albany” — THE PRINCE author Ross Barkan interviewed on the New Republic‘s the Politics of Everything

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

“Secrets of Drug Dealing Unveiled” — THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Rising

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

“Yeats / Gonne: Echoes over Time” — THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT author Kim Bendheim in conversation with Joseph Hassett for Irish Rep

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

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