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  • Subject: [Internationalist] is HIDING OUT (tues oct 16 @ 7pm)
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:43:36 -0400

Internationalist Books & Community Center
405 W Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
www.internationalistbooks.org
919.942.1740

DANG YA'LL, WE GOT SLINGSHOTS! That's right, folks, they're here,
gettin' you read for 2008. Stop by today and pick up your own! We made
an extra huge order this year, but they'll go fast.

JONATHAN MESSINGER
Hiding Out
TUESDAY OCTOBER 16 @ 7pm
Join us for Jonathan Messinger's debut novel from Featherproof press.
Nothing is as it seems: A jilted lover dons robot armor to win back the
heart of an ex-girlfriend; an angel loots the home of a single father; a
teenager finds the key to everlasting life in a video game. In this
much-anticipated debut, one of Chicago's most exciting young writers has
crafted playful and empathic tales of misguided lonely hearts. Sparkling
with humor and showcasing an array of styles, Hiding Out features characters
dodging consequences while trying desperately to connect.

OCTOBER 20 @ 6:30
Queer Theory Book Group
Queer theory is for everyone!
Email: kaelin.Alexander AT gmail.com

CHIP SMITH
The Cost of Privilege
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 24 @ 7pm
The Cost of Privilege tears through the matrix of ?race relations? to
expose a power structure that has shaped all economic, political and
cultural life in the United States, since colonial settler days.
The visible half of that system is the systematic oppression,
super-exploitation and demonization of people of color by a white
capitalist elite. But the system also requires regular white folks
accepting it as normal and natural, even though they pay a terrible
cost for it. This white acquiescence is based on the systematic
awarding of white privileges, large and small, to everyday working
people who sometimes cling desperately to "whiteness" and often don?t
recognize the role their lives play in a much larger scheme.

NOVEMBER 1 @ 6:30
Embodied Sexuality Book Group
Amy Stapleford will lead a monthly book group on sexuality and gender.
We have the book for November: Naked on the Internet by Audicia Ray.
Email: amy AT embodiedsexuality.com

KNIT KNIT
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4 @ 2pm
We're proud to be hosting Sabrina Gschwandtner of KnitKnit magazine ?
she has a new book out this fall, KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from
Knitting's New Wave. Join us for a discussion and demonstration. The
book profiles 27 of the most talented artist-crafters knitting today.
All over North America and Europe, a brand-new generation has taken up
knitting?and is transforming the venerable needlecraft by blurring the
boundary between craft and art. In Copenhagen, Denmark, Isabel
Berglund hand-knit an entire room. In New England, Dave Cole
constructed an enormous ?knitting machine? (he used excavators and
utility poles) that knit an 800-stitch, 35-by-20-foot American flag.
But the projects aren?t all of a monumental scale. In Los Angeles,
Bridget Marrin knits little dollhouses?complete with lawns, shrubbery,
and smoke-filled chimneys, all made of yarn. Using surgical wire,
Indiana-based knitter Althea Merback hand-knits sweaters smaller than
a dime.

MAD BOMBER MELVILLE
Leslie James Pickering
Friday, November 16 @7pm
Join us for Leslie James Pickering's latest book release, Mad Bomber Melville.
Mad Bomber Melville is the long overdue biography of Samuel Melville,
a white, working class revolutionary, whose guerrilla bombings of
Manhattan skyscrapers, housing government and corporate offices
driving the Vietnam War, set in motion a flood of armed revolutionary
actions in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Once imprisoned, Melville became a key organizer and a crucial element
of the notorious Attica Prison rebellion, uniting prisoners across
racial barriers and making the ultimate sacrifice for revolutionary
change. Mad Bomber Melville traces Sam Melville s short life and rapid
political development, highlighting a much-needed example of an
undying and uncompromising struggle for justice and liberation. (Date
may change... stay tuned.)

CHOICE
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29 @ 7pm at Open Eye Cafe
Join us for a panel of women authors who discuss reproductive rights
and their choices to become mothers, not mothers, or anywhere in
between. Panel participants to be announced, but will include authors
from the released book, "Choice" from MacAdam/Cage.

BUY NOTHING DAY
We need your suggestions and energy for our Buy Nothing Day event this
year, on Friday 23 November. Send ideas, panel proposals, DIY workshop
ideas, etc. to daniel AT internationalistbooks.org

In the fall, we're hosting and sponsoring a series of important book
groups and studies at the bookstore. More information will come in
September, but you should email the addresses below for more
information and to RSVP for the discussion. All the book groups are at
the bookstore and all books will be available through bookstore as
well. We hope to expand these book & discussion groups, so please come
and support the pioneering steps!

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