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Start: 6:00 pm
Financial deregulation and the explosion of new forms of credit moved a larger percentage of the world's money into the hands of a progressively smaller group of people. Understanding the Crash (Soft Skull Press), by radical comic book artist Seth Tobocman and journalist Eric Laureson, takes some of the mystery out of the process by telling the story in comic book format, providing specific examples from cities like Cleveland and Miami, and by including both political analysis and possible solutions. "Finally, a book on the financial crisis that brings the conversation back to the people most affected by it. For all those who want to better understand the forces begind today's troubled economy, yet are tired of struggling through incomprehensible jargon-filled and often tedious analysis, this book is for you." - Annie Leonard.
Start: 8:00 pm
We are delighted to welcome back writer/playwright Rebecca Chace—who used to live in these parts, before going east to teach at both Bard and the City College of New York. Author of Chautauqua Summer and a first novel, Capture the Flag, she is here tonight with her newest novel, Leaving Rock Harbor (Scribner). Set in a time and place of transition, on the eve of World War I, this is the coming-of-age story of a fourteen-year-old girl who goes through the big changes her country and times go through. "Chace has deftly and seamlessly interwoven a love story, an elegy for a vanished way of life, and an account of a crucial and neglected period in America's social history. Nobody who reads this moving, evocative, and sure-handed novel will forget Frankie and her world." - David Gates. "An irresistible read in part because its protagonist, Frankie Ross, seduces us on the first page and never surrenders our affection, but also because fictional Rock Harbor feels as real as she does." - Richard Russo.
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