Bill Sharpsteen on ‘Dirty Water”s Ripple Effect
When Bill Sharpsteen wrote Dirty Water, his book about how schoolteacher and swimmer Howard Bennett led the movement to clean up Santa Monica Bay in the 1980s, he wanted to tell a …
Read More >When Bill Sharpsteen wrote Dirty Water, his book about how schoolteacher and swimmer Howard Bennett led the movement to clean up Santa Monica Bay in the 1980s, he wanted to tell a …
Read More >Jack O’Dell has spent nearly his entire life working and writing for social justice. In Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell, editor Nikhil Pal Singh presents a …
Read More >The award-winning journal Gastronomica celebrates food and culture with articles, literature, humor, and art selected to challenge and to entertain. Exploring food in all its incarnations, not just the meal on the …
Read More >The Academy Award nominees were announced this morning, with “The Hurt Locker” and “Avatar” leading the pack at 9 nominations each. When the winners step up to the stage next month to …
Read More >Author and emergency room psychiatrist Dr. Paul Linde reflects on his book Danger to Self, being in the public eye, and the craft of writing. ________________________________________________________________________ Danger to Self: On the Front …
Read More >Paul Farmer spoke to Ray Suarez on PBS NewsHour this week about ongoing relief efforts in Haiti, and the difficulty of getting supplies and medical care from scores of volunteers to the …
Read More >Since the earthquake in Haiti there has been a torrent of international aid, a growing movement to cancel Haiti’s foreign debts and turn emergency loans into grants, and talk of how Haiti …
Read More >“I used to write shorter poems,” said Lisa Robertson, author of R’s Boat, in a recent interview on the Canadian radio station CKUW’s program Speaking of Poets, with host John Herbert Cunningham. …
Read More >Chinese American Heroes and AsianWeek have honored Jean Pfaelzer for her book Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, which revealed the pogroms and ethnic cleansing that targeted Chinese Americans in …
Read More >UC Press, Huntington Library Press, and Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West have launched a new series in the history and culture of the American West. We are thrilled to announce …
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