ERICK LYLE
Sunday, June 29 at 2 p.m.

Erick Lyle's Scam zine and commentaries on public radio's This American Life chronicling the efforts of activists creatively resisting San Francisco's gentrification now live on in an expanded form in his book, On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City (Soft Skull). Humorous, insightful, and unsparing, Erick Lyle, aka Iggy Scam, finds the irony in this story, noting for example that the police initiating the closure of all-night donut shops identified as 'epicenters of crime' ultimately find themselves unable to find late-night coffee. "Forget statistics and pretentious analysis of urban society. Take a walk through the city with Erick Lyle and discover the reality of how people live in an American city." - Howard Zinn.

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