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SUMMARY:Isabel Tree
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nWilding:Returning Nature to Our Farm \nfrom New York Review Books \nwith an introduction by Eric Schlosser \nFor many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers\, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible\, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000\, facing bankruptcy\, the couple decided they would try something new. They would hand their 3\,500 acres\, farmed for centuries\, even millennia\, back to nature. They would let it go wild. \nThis was no simple matter. What form did the land have before it took on the form that human beings have given it? The answer to that question was controversial and required real\, and fascinating\, research. And then the land had once been open to whole hosts of animals that had since been prevented from running wild\, if not killed off or made extinct. These had been a crucial actor in the landscape and its ecology\, and how were they\, or their likes\, to be reintroduced into it? And finally there were the neighbors\, often appalled at the sight of once-tidy fields now running riot with what they considered dangerous weeds. \nThe experiment however\, was a success. With minimal human intervention\, and with herds of free-roaming animals stimulating new habitats\, Knepp is now full of new life. Rare species such as turtle doves\, peregrine falcons\, and purple emperor butterflies breed there. The fabled English nightingale\, heard less and less in modern times\, sings again. \nThe Knepp project has become a leading light for conservation in the UK\, demonstrating how letting nature take its course can revive both the land and wildlife\, reversing the cataclysmic declines in biodiversity that challenge Britain and the world. The story of rewilding Knepp points the way to a wilder\, richer future—a countryside that benefits farming\, nature\, and us. Wilding is an inspiring story of hope. \n\nWhat has been said about WILDING: \n\n[F]ans of Roger Deakin\, Robert Macfarlane\, Nan Shepherd\, and other British naturalists will follow right along … A fine work of environmental literature that demands a tolerance for detail and should inspire others to follow suit.\n—Kirkus \nThis wonderfully readable book\, which is partly a memoir and partly a plan of action\, is an inspirational guide for how to “rewild” a landscape….This honest\, thoroughly researched and deeply hopeful book will appeal to everyone—especially farmers—who is concerned about how intensive farming practices are degrading the environment and how to restore nature to ravaged lands.\n—Forbes\, “Ten of the Best Books About Climate Change\, Conservation And The Environment of 2018” \nWilding is one of the most exhilarating books I know. Knepp Castle is a modern marvel\, a wild ancient landscape in a modern domestic country\, a place filled with birds and animals leading their own independent and remarkable lives. Isabella Tree\, who lives there\, tells the rich\, complicated story of Knepp. As a writer\, Tree is both elegant and deeply informed\, and the story is full of poetic awareness and scientific foundations. This story will delight anyone who’s interested in nature\, wildlife and hope.\n—Roxana Robinson\, author of Sweetwater \nIn a story that is part personal memoir\, part work of conservation\, Tree reveals the capacity of the wild to reclaim the land–as long as humans step out of the way.\n—Smithsonian\, “The Ten Best Science Books of 2018” \nWilding is both a timely and important book.\n—Tim Flannery\, The New York Review of Books \nA poignant\, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land\, this should be conservation’s salvation; this should be its future; this is a new hope.\n—Chris Packham \nEvery farmer (and perhaps every conservationist) in Britain needs to go and spend a day at Knepp. The Knepp “wilding” project is a vitally important experiment for working out what we can do to let nature back into our farmed landscapes…This book tells this vital story and deserves to be widely read.\n—James Rebanks\, author of A Shepherd’s Life \nThe remarkable story of an astounding transformation.\n—George Monbiot \nIsabella Tree’s apparently quixotic tale of Exmoor ponies\, longhorn cattle\, red deer and Tamworth pigs roaming free on an aristocratic estate is a hugely important addition to the literature of what can be done to restore soil and soul.\n—Caspar Henderson\, The Guardian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/isabel-tree/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jess Row: White Flights
DESCRIPTION:Jess Row discusses his new book\, White Flights: Race\, Fiction and the American Imagination. \nPraise for White Flights \n“These are brilliant\, sweeping\, intimate delights—and afterward\, you may never read the same way again.”—Alexander Chee \n“A major literary and intellectual intervention\, clarifying the real stakes in what we too complacently call ‘identity politics.’”—Pankaj Mishra \n“We need this book\, now and yesterday.”—Kiese Laymon \n“Jess Row performs a much-needed analysis. . . . The landscape of the imagination\, like the country itself\, he argues with rich insight and brio\, is neither equal nor free.”—John Keene \n“White Flights will change my work\, and my life\, and for that I’m grateful.”—Jonathan Lethem \nAbout White Flights \nA bold\, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction\, by the author of Your Face in Mine \nWhite Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book\, Jess Row ties “white flight”—the movement of white Americans into segregated communities\, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns—to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes\, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo\, Annie Dillard\, Richard Ford\, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. \nWhite Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place\, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean\, he asks\, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin\, Dorothy Allison\, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction\, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music\, film\, and literature in its arguments\, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jess-row-white-flights/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Timothy Faust / Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Timothy Faust\, back in San Francisco to present his first book\, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next. Please join us! \nThe sun is setting on America’s half-century of punishing the sick\, and this book promises a bright new dawn for us all. \nSingle payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current model\, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what’s the deal with our current healthcare system\, and why don’t we have something better? \nIn Health Justice Now\, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is\, why we don’t yet have it\, and how it can be won. He identifies the actors that have misled us for profit and political gain\, dispels the myth that healthcare needs to be personally expensive\, shows how we can smoothly transition to a new model\, and reveals the slate of humane and progressive reforms that we can only achieve with single payer as the springboard. \nIn this impassioned playbook\, Faust inspires us to believe in a world where we could leave our job without losing healthcare for ourselves and our kids; where affordable housing is healthcare; and where social justice links arm-in-arm with health justice for us all. Single payer is the tool—health justice is the goal! \n\nTimothy Faust‘s writing has appeared in Splinter\, Jacobin\, and Vice\, among others. He has worked as a data scientist in the healthcare industry\, before which he enrolled people in ACA programs in Florida\, Georgia\, and Texas\, where he saw both the shortcomings of the ACA and the consequences of the Medicaid gap firsthand. Since 2017\, he’s been driving around the United States in his 2002 Honda CR-V talking to people about health inequity in their neighborhoods. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Health Justice Now\, order below and include your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
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