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The Knowledge Revolution and the Future of Libraries

Ismail Serageldin speaks on the transformation of knowledge and how it will impact the future of libraries.

Francisco Cantú (author of The Line Becomes a River) at the FYE® Conference 2018
Francisco Cantú (author of The Line Becomes a River) at the FYE® Conference 2018
Francisco Cantú, author of THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER (Riverhead Books), speaks about his book at the First-Year Experience® (FYE) Conference in San Antonio, TX.
William T. Vollmann | Carbon Ideologies
William T. Vollmann | Carbon Ideologies
National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann introduces “Carbon Ideologies,” his new two-volume exploration of the causes and consequences global warming.

Over the years William T. Vollmann has earned critical acclaim by tackling some of the largest and thorniest issues of our times, including poverty, violence, and American imperialism. In “Carbon Ideologies,” Vollmann turns to one of the greatest crises we have ever faced: global warming.

“No Immediate Danger,” volume one of the series, examines the technological and cultural forces that created climate change—manufacturing, agriculture, fossil fuel extraction and the global demand for electric power—leading to a detailed case study of the brutal 2011 tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan. For seven years, at great personal risk, Vollmann traveled to the no-go zones and ghost towns of Fukushima to interview tsunami victims, nuclear evacuees, anti-nuclear organizers and pro-nuclear utility workers. With his signature wit and meticulous, wide-ranging research, “No Immediate Danger” builds a powerful picture of one of the greatest environmental disasters in recent history.

Volume two, “No Good Alternative,” coming in June 2018, focuses on human experiences related to coal mining and natural gas production.
Cecile Richards introduces Make Trouble
Cecile Richards introduces Make Trouble
Women's rights advocate and president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Cecile Richards, joins us for a discussion of her new book, Make Trouble.

Richards has been an activist since 7th grade, when she was taken to the principal's office for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. She had an extraordinary childhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her civil rights attorney father and activist-turned-Texas governor mother taught their kids to be troublemakers. Now, after years of advocacy, resistance, and progressive leadership, she shares her story for the first time—from the joy and heartbreak of activism to the challenges of raising kids, having a life, and making change, all at the same time.
Ishion Hutchinson interview at AWP 2018
Ishion Hutchinson interview at AWP 2018
We’re sitting down with Ishion Hutchinson, author of House of Lords and Commons: Poems. Hutchinson won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2016 for House of Lords and Commons.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.

These poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea. House of Lords and Commons testifies to the particular courage it takes to wade unsettled, uncertain, and unfettered in the wake of our shared human experience.

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