12/8/2023 0 Comments Bernie sanders busboy and poets![]() For more info about the event, click here. If you want a preview, Emmich put out a series of YouTube videos talking about his process for the book. But he hadn’t bargained on some of the surprises lingering in her uncanny memory, and Gavin soon has different kinds of loss to grapple with.Įmmich is also a singer-songwriter and actor, and his presentation will include an acoustic performance. If she can bring back Sydney by recalling his visits over the years, Gavin will use his musical talents to help her win a songwriting contest. After burning all the mementos and relics of his relationship with Sydney, he tries another way to relieve his pain: he moves from Los Angeles to New Jersey and asks his friend’s daughter Joan to use her preternatural memory to help him. The Reminders by Val Emmich ( June 7 at 6:30 p.m.Įmmich’s bittersweet first novel focuses on Gavin Winters, who has just lost his partner. Wrote earlier this year as a teaser of her experience as an activist. Tufecki’s Twitter account, linked above, is very active, and often links out to other must-read pieces. Tufecki and Kauffman will be in conversation. The book starts with the myriad socio-political movements of the 1960s and traces activism through ACT UP to Occupy & Black Lives Matter. She’s been at work on this detailed and insightful history of protest for twenty-five of the thirty-plus years she’s been involved in organizing. ![]() ![]() Kauffman is a long-time organizer, strategist, and journalist. Zeynep Tufekci, a New York Times contributor and a faculty member at Harvard’s Berkman Center and the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science, looks in detail at the role of technology in three recent uprisings: the Zapatistas in Mexico in 1994, Egypt’s Tahrir Square in 2011, and the Occupy movements in the U.S. Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufecki ( Action by L.A. P&P is looking forward to hosting plenty of exciting (and free) author events at Busboys and Poets locations this summer! Check out what’s on the way:
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