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Katha PollittShaffer Fellow Katha Pollitt has won many awards and prizes for her work, including two National Magazine Awards, one for Essays and Criticism in 1992 and one for Columns and Commentary in 2003. Pollitt is a frequent public speaker, with recent appearances at Harvard, Wellesley, Emory University, the University of Louisville, Barnard and the Center for New Words in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been a guest on numerous radio and TV programs. Her poems have appeared in Slate and The New Yorker. Her most book, The Mind-Body Problem: And Other Poems is a book of brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Her previous work, a collection of essays, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, was reviewed in The New York Review of Books: "The essays...describe the challenges that are the lot of an intelligent, fair-minded, politically alert woman with an inconvenient sense of the absurd. They are full of insight and charm." Selected Articles and Interviews: Better Living Through Torture Moth Who's Afraid of Judy Maccabee? Iron My Skirt 'One or Two Murderers in Any Crowd' Dumb and Dumber: An Essay and Its Editors The Weepy Witch and the Secret Muslim For more information on Katha Pollitt, visit her blog. Read the rest of Katha Pollitt's columns in The Nation here. |
The Death and Life of American JournalismThe Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation. "John Nichols and Bob McChesney are the Thomas Paine and Paul Revere of our time. We ignore them at democracy's peril." —Bill Moyers More Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of Coal: Theater PerformanceFebruary 4 - 13 | Across the United States
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