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Hot Pick: 08-27-2010
Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press publisher, tells FP:
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Engineer the destruction of Capital and the State
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Hot Pick: 08-11-2010
Anne Frederick, Hester Street Collaborative Exec. Director, tells FP:
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Native New Yorkers by Evan Pritchard
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Get involved in your local community, in whatever way inspires you.
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Hot Pick: 07-27-2010
Pamela Sneed, writer, tells FP:
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Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
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Coney Island Dancers House Music Party on the Coney Island Boardwalk on Saturday nights
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Hot Pick: 07-14-2010
Robert S. Eshelman, independent journalist, tells FP:
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GOMORRAH: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
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Hot Pick: 06-28-2010
Lesley Kinzel, blogger at Fatshionista, tells FP:
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Hot Pick: 06-17-2010
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author, tells FP:
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A CHORUS OF STONES: The Private Life of War, by Susan Griffin
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Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Ping Chong—everything at BAM's 2010 Next Wave Festival
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Join a CSA and eat your local veggies!
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Hot Pick: 05-25-2010
Jennifer Baumgardner, writer and activist, tells FP:
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KING KONG THEORY by Virginie Despentes
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BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON at the Public Theater
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Hot Pick: 05-11-2010
MITCH MCEWEN, Director of SUPERFRONT, a gallery and project space for architecture and interdisciplinary projects, tells FP:
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When the Levees Broke by Spike Lee
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Something that isn't an act of marketing or mental masturbation.
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Hot Pick: 04-23-2010
Bevin Branlandingham, writer and host of queerfatfemme.com, tells FP:
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Hot Pick: 04-10-2010
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, tells FP:
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INCOGNEGRO: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid by Frank Wilderson
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Sara Shelton Mann and David Szlasa: tribes/dominion
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Hot Pick: 04-02-2010
Mimi Zeiger, editor and publisher of loud paper, tells FP:
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JUNK JET #3: flux-us! flux-you! issue
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Hot Pick: 03-21-2010
Jennifer De Leon, writer, tells FP:
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Hot Pick: 03-12-2010
Jaishri Abichandani, artist, activist, founder of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective tells FP:
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THE SPACE BETWEEN US by Thrity Umrigar
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Hot Pick: 02-26-2010
Josh MacPhee, artist and activist, tells FP:
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PAPER POLITICS: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today
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SIGNS OF CHANGE: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now at PNCA
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Hot Pick: 02-17-2010
Christian Parenti, author and journalist tells FP:
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
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Salesman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
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Catch up on your sleep. It's good for you.
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Hot Pick: 01-25-2010
Jacinta Bunnell, author of Girls are Not Chicks Coloring Book, tells FP:
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National Geographic's Sex, Lies, and Gender
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Take a writing workshop with Lynda Barry at least once in your life!
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Hot Pick: 01-19-2010
Gavin Browning, Studio X Programming Coordinator, tells FP:
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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, by José Esteban Muñoz
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The Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum of Art
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Collaborate! Speak with as many people as possible, get involved, plan and organize together!
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Hot Pick: 01-12-2010
Savannah Knoop, writer & clothing designer, tells FP:
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Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski
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Do reps RIGHT NOW, like the plank!
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Hot Pick: 01-05-2010
Substantia Jones, photographer and founder of the Adipositivity Project, tells FP:
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The Fat Studies Reader, edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
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Hot Pick: 12-31-2009
Astra Taylor, filmmaker, tells FP:
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Parallel Lives, by Phyllis Rose
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The Gleaners and I, by Agnes Varda
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Hot Pick: 12-16-2009
Brooke Warner, Seal Press editor, and coach, tells FP:
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A Thousand Sisters: My Journey Into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman by Lisa Shannon
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Hot Pick: 12-04-2009
Annie Sprinkle, ecosexual, tells FP:
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Some Girls: My LIfe in a Harem, by Jillian Lauren
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Tim Miller's "Lay of the Land"
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Hot Pick: 11-24-2009
Douglas A. Martin, writer, tells FP:
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, dir. Chantal Akerman
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Speaking Truth to Power, in Honor of Grace Paley, 12/11 at Barnard College
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Hot Pick: 11-16-2009
Jewelle Gomez, writer, tells FP:
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Society's Child: The Autobiography of Janis Ian
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We Shall Remain: American Experience, PBS
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Walk for a 1/2 hour every day no matter how much work is on the desk!
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Hot Pick: 10-30-2009
Frances Goldin, literary agent, tells FP:
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
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Barbara Kingsolver reading at the NYPL on November 4th
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Hot Pick: 10-14-2009
Courtney Young, cultural critic, tells FP:
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntosake Shange
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Working on my personal blog/website
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Hot Pick: 09-29-2009
Elizabeth Streb, choreographer, tells FP:
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
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Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith
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Listen to the real voices on the ground, speak the Truth to power, let confusions evaporate!
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Hot Pick: 09-02-2009
Bob Holling, FP web master, tells FP:
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The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago
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Dutch Festival on Governor's Island
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