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  • Subject: [Internationalist Books] EVENTS: we have events! collect all five!
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:11:09 -0400

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919-942-1740
http://internationalistbooks.org/

WE HAVE SO MANY GOOD EVENTS COMING UP. COLLECT ALL FIVE.
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TUESDAY, 19 SEPT @ 7PM: WHEN OUR PARENTS BECOME OUR CHILDREN

Local author Perry Thacker will be here to read from and discuss his
work, “When Our Parents Become Our Children”, about the role reversal
that many people are facing: the point at which their parents need care.
More and more people are going to be senior citizens in the upcoming
years, and the good options for care at that age are decreasing rapidly.
What can children do now to deal with their new responsibility,
especially in the face of a failing health care system? The author will
also briefly discuss his role in the preservation of animal habitats in
Africa.

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WEDNESDAY, 20 SEPT @ 7PM: PAUL AARON & FRIDAY NOON POETS

Local poet Paul Aaron and other members of the Friday Noon Poets will be
here to read from and discuss their latest collection of poetry, “Always
on Friday”. The Friday Noon Poets are a collective of poets who meet
regularly to discuss their work and their craft. They have met on
Fridays since 1978 and always featured prominent local poets. Their
latest book is a collection of the best works from all of them, which
makes for a great collection of local poetry.

Here’s a review:

The book includes poems from winners of The North Carolina Poetry Society's Poet Laureate Award and other awards, poets such as David Manning (three time winner of the Poet Laureate Award), Eugene Grace, Elizabeth Bolton, Mitchell Lyman, Richard De Los Mar, Priscilla Webster-Williams, Joanna C. Scott and Doug Stuber. Also, Sheridan Bushnell, creator of “Untamed – Women of the New Millennium” and Laura Spray, who does not speak, but communicates by typing with facilitation. There are too many more to name, but immerse yourself in this pool of rose petals, this bathtub of jello, this emotion laden factory of wordsmiths. You will love laughing long, letting go of leaving until you finish the very last poem. You will cry and shake your fist, then stare up at the sky in wonder. This is a book you will read again—will read to your children—will pick up and thumb through occasionally—will send off to the many deserving people in your life as the gift you have been searching for.

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WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPT @ 7PM: LITERATURE FROM THE AXIS OF EVIL

Join us for our recognition of Banned Books Week. “Literature From the Axis of Evil” is a new collection of writings from countries which America has declared its enemies: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, Syria, and Cuba. Many of the works have previously not been allowed in the states. The New Press and Words Without Borders came together to produce a collection of short stories and poetry from these countries. Through these works, we’re now able to experience these cultures without the often bigoted filters through which we’re used to viewing them; through these works, we can hope to gain a more humane understanding of the world outside American borders.

Editor Alane Mason will join us via telephone to discuss works from the collection, as well as the process by which she was able to create an invaluable resource.

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WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT @ 7PM: INGA MUSCIO: CUNT & AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLUE EYED DEVIL

Inga Muscio will be here to read from and discuss her acclaimed first
work, Cunt, as well as her latest work, Autobiography of a Blue Eyed Devil.

Here’s a review from Cunt:
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. Sending out a call for every woman to be the Cuntlovin’ Ruler of Her Sexual Universe, Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing all things cunt-related. This edition is fully revised with updated resources, a new foreword from sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, and a new afterword by the author. "Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy...."—San Francisco Chronicle "... Cunt provides fertile ground for psychological growth."—San Francisco Bay Guardian "Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber diets—it reinvents the oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious."—Bust Magazine

& here’s more about Autobiography of a Blue Eyed Devil:
It's just called history, asserts Inga Muscio in her newest book. In fact, the controversial author continues, the so-called history we learn in school is no more than a brand, developed by white men who, often unjustly, won the right to spin their stories as hard facts. With Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, it's Muscio's turn and she's taking it in order to hip the masses to the truth about the American history they think they know. Whose country is it? Has democracy ever really existed? Why does our culture celebrate certain figures and ignore others? Do schools teach kids to perpetuate white supremacist ideologies? Muscio delves deep to answer these questions, marveling at how personal history is to everyone, while challenging people to expand their thinking on America's past and encouraging them to consider how their own histories might read.

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THURSDAY, 02 NOV (tentative): INTERNATIONALIST BOOKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY & CAKE ORGY

Come join us at Open Eye Café for our 25th anniversary! There will be twenty-five cakes for you to enjoy, and many more good people and much more fun. More information coming soon.



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