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Talk Softly
Cynthia O'Neal
When the AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard, and after seeing the multitude of people facing an unfamiliar and stigmatized disease completely alone, actress, model and restaurateur Cynthia O’Neal walked into the fray. Talk Softly is the story of a life well-lived—with passion and compassion, in celebration of the joy of each moment, and with the ability to surprise yourself when you least expect to.
“Talk Softly is a beautifully written memoir of a ‘noisy life,’ intricately structured, heartbreaking as well as joyous, and tense as a thriller.” — Michael Ondaatje
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Grand Central Winter
Lee Stringer
Lee Stringer, a homeless drug addict living in the tunnels beneath Grand Central Station, was using a pencil one day to clear out his crack pipe when he realized: a pencil can also be used for writing. From this moment came his classic Grand Central Winter: Stories From The Streets — now updated and expanded with four new chapters, including a startling new ending.
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Spring 2010 Rights Catalog
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As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial
“A great read, a groundbreaking volume of graphic literature and a political polemic of the first order.” — Ted Rall
Presenting the color webcomic edition of As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan. New pages go up from Tuesday to Friday every week.
Click the thumbnail image to read the most recent page.
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(Like what you read? Can’t wait to see what happens next? Help support this project by picking up a copy of the original graphic novel from Seven Stories Press.)
In the News 
Barry Gifford’s “The Age of Fable” at Narrative Magazine
September 1, 2010
Roy read a story about a tribe of female warriors who interrupted the conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans in their quest for males to assist in the propagation of their race. These women called themselves Amazons and were led by Penthesilea, who, as had the rest of the tribe, severed her right breast in order to more swiftly and easily draw back her bow. The most exciting part of the story, Roy thought, was the Amazon queen’s confrontation with the champion of the Greeks, Achilles, whose ferocity in battle attracted Penthesilea as no man ever had. For the first time she encountered a man she could consider her equal.
The idea of a tribe of brave, vicious, single-breasted women was almost beyond the comprehension of Roy’s eleven-year-old mind. He drew pictures of the Amazons as he imagined them, naked, tall, and lean, their long hair tied back with leather thongs.
Roy asked his grandfather if he’d ever read this story.
“Sure,” said Pops, “it’s in The Iliad, by Homer.”
“That’s right,” Roy said. “I kind of found it by accident on a table at the library. Do you think there really ever was a tribe of savage women like that?”
“I don’t think savage is the correct word for them, Roy. They knew what they were doing.”
—from “The Age of Fable” at Narrative Magazine
Ted Rall: WikiLeaks will end the Afghan War
August 4, 2010
“An appalling irresponsible act.” That’s how General James Nattis, fresh at the helm of U.S. Central Command, characterizes the release of more than 76,000 classified Pentagon reports released by the website WikiLeaks.
You may recall that the Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, is the same outfit that loaded $24 billion in $100 bills onto shrinkwrapped pallets and loaded the cash onto C-130 transport planes bound for Iraq — guarded by enlisted men who earn $20,000 a year. Not one of those Benjamins has ever heard from since. Which, given that the money was supposed to be paid to corrupt tribal sheikhs, is just as well. Don’t be surprised if you see contractors installing one of those great a new Gunnite pool at the house belonging to your recently discharged veteran neighbor.
So anyway, when a Pentagon biggie calls someone irresponsible, take them seriously. These guys know from irresponsibility. — Ted Rall, reblogged from Commondreams.org
Multimedia 
Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges on totalitarianism and resistance
On July 5, Derrick Jensen and Chris Hedges talked with Royal University professor Michael Truscello about totalitarianism — about the point at which ordinary people start to realize that they have been deliberately and systematically disenfranchised by the systems that control them — and about what people can and must do to resist. Watch by clicking below.
Web Spotlight
Straight Up with Jan Herman
Jan Herman’s Straight Up: a blog about books, about arts, about the media, and about the culture at large, and one that isn’t afraid to have a human voice. Herman waxes rhapsodic on Nelson Algren, finds the hidden parallels between William Burroughs and the blockbuster “Watchmen” film, and in general separates what’s true from what’s bullshit. For all their claim to individuality, blogs are often anything but individual; Jan Herman’s is an exception.
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The Anti-American Manifesto
Ted Rall
America is finished. Who will take over: us or them? Don't wait and see, says Ted Rall-rise up now. -
Propaganda Inc
Nancy Snow
The inside story of the United States Information Agency-America's propaganda machine and the war on terror's secret partner.
