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Co-presented with the WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL. Mother Jones journalist and editor Mac McClelland writes of living—to her surprise—with rebels seeking to overthrow the long-running Burmese dictatorship, what their aspirations are, and the way they seek to realize those aspirations in her richly drawn book, For Us Surrender is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma's Never-ending War (Soft Skull). "Alternately poignant and raucous, angry and heartbreaking ... McClelland's reporting is very much from-the-ground-up, far livelier than we will ever get from the average foreign correspondent." – Adam Hochschild. "Gritty, informed, passionate ... McClelland's gonzo sensibility, big heart, and keen eye for weird details bring this tale of inhuman cruelty and human resilience vividly alive." – Gary Kamiya. Tickets ($10 members/students, $15 non-members) and information are available at www.world-affairs.org or (206) 441-5910. Wyckoff Auditorium is on the Seattle University campus at 901 Twelfth Avenue.
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Co-presented with SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES. We are delighted and honored to again help present one of the most vital, arresting writers at work in the world today, Arundhati Roy. The Booker Prize-winning author of the 1997 novel, The God of Small Things, and the author, since, of a series of compelling, political non-fiction books, it is with the most recent of these, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers (Haymarket Books), that she visits Seattle this evening. "After so much celebratory salesmanship about India the 'emerging market,' Roy draws us into India the actual country, peeling away the gloss until we are confronted with perhaps the most challenging question of our time: who and what are we willing to sacrifice in the name of development? Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time." - Naomi Klein. "Arundhati Roy, the direct descendant of Antigone, resists and denounces all tyrannies, pleads for their victims, and unflinchingly questions the tragic. Reflect with her on the questions she receives from the political world today." - John Berger. Tickets ($15 general/$30 patron) and information are available via Seattle Arts & Lectures at www.lectures.org or (206) 621-2230. Town Hall Seattle is at 1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca).
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