Liberal Books

Matthew Klane hosted this reading by representatives of small presses with connections to the Capital Region as part of the month-long exhibit at the Gallery. The presses had had their books on display since the First Friday of January monthly art walk, along with an exhibit of photos from "the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets" by me , Dan Wilcox. & I led off the reading, giving a brief history of A.P.D. ( A P oetic D emocra cy, A lso P ublishes D irt, etc.) then reading the entire chapbook, all 4 miniscule poems, from Poems from the Raccoon Lodge ... Read Full Story

   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release)   –   Jan 30, 2009   – 130-Page Coffee Table Book Includes 100 Beautiful American Flags and direct quotes, photographs of President Obama in his campaign, life, and inauguration.   Los Angeles, Jan. 30 / Blurb publishing, LLC has released a hands on “Lessons We Learned From Obama” book honoring Barack Obama's character distinctions for success and the impact he has had on the world during his presidential campaign and inauguration. The 130-page coffee table Special Edition book chronicles the lessons learned by this former Republican mother with five children. It is packed with the twenty-seven ... Read Full Story

Author Marnie Howard  Giving is Living     Generosity Makes a Comeback New Book Shows That by Helping Others We Help Ourselves Because each of us deals with so much stress on a personal level—especially in light of the current recession—it can seem like an overwhelming task to reach out to others in need. The truth is, though, that giving back can be easier than we may think. Giving is Living presents a clear, practical guide to making generosity a part of our everyday lives. It shows us how small efforts to reach out to help those in need can make a real difference. ... Read Full Story

I looked at a certain section of my library this afternoon and was struck by a difference between two sorts of progressive political books I saw on the shelf. Some had been very timely when they were published, but were not at all enduring in value, whereas others had not achieved much initial acclaim, but have been valuable to me for quite a long time. Al Franken’s book, Lying Liars and the Lies they Tell , is amongst the first group. It had a great public relations event to start it out, with Bill O’Reilly’s hyperventilating lawsuit against Franken, and so it soon reached ... Read Full Story

Eric Alterman has written what he describes as a handbook for post-Bush America. It’s called Why We’re Liberals . Do we liberals really need a handbook for these new times? Some of us do seem to need a hand out of the box of defining ourselves as anti-Bush, but Barack Obama’s campaign seems to be serving in that role rather handily. Perhaps we need a travelogue for why we have become liberals, or how we have moved within the land of liberalism. For that travel, a field guide to the different varieties of liberal might be useful too. I’ll stop with the liberal quibbling, ... Read Full Story