The Panopticon Review: 'The Divide': An Important New Book By Leading Political Journalist And Social Critic Matt Taibbi

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

'The Divide': An Important New Book By Leading Political Journalist And Social Critic Matt Taibbi

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-matt-taibbi-20140330,0,4516236.story#axzz2xXVS95Cb

MATT TAIBBI

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by Matt Taibbi
Hardcover: 448 pages

Spiegel & Grau. Released on April 8, 2014

All,

As I've been saying for nearly a decade now: Matt Taibbi is the best damn political journalist in this country and one of the best in the world. He, Paul Krugman, and Frank Rich are three of the very few writers on U.S. political economy today who not only speak real truth to real power all the time but have the knowledge, courage, integrity, and CLARITY to say exactly what needs to be said no matter what anyone else thinks. Born in 1970 Taibbi is that super rare throwback to a time when even this country had a stable of real public intellectuals who were also progressive 'social and economic justice advocates' in the genuine sense of this rapidly evaporating phrase...

Kofi

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Taibbi will be appearing and speaking live at the First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way Berkeley, California on April 12, 2014 at 7:30PM.

Please Attend-- I guarantee you won't regret it...

Nina Simone (1933-2003)

"There's no other purpose, so far as I'm concerned, for us except to reflect the times, the situations around us and the things we're able to say through our art, the things that millions of people can't say. I think that's the function of an artist and, of course, those of us who are lucky leave a legacy so that when we're dead, we also live on. That's people like Billie Holiday and I hope that I will be that lucky, but meanwhile, the function, so far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times, whatever that might be."

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Kofi Natambu, editor of The Panopticon Review, is a writer, poet, cultural critic, and political journalist whose poetry, essays, criticism, reviews, and journalism have appeared in many literary magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the author of a biography MALCOLM X: His Life & Work (Alpha Books) and two books of poetry: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS (Past Tents Press) and INTERVALS (Post Aesthetic Press). He was the founder and editor of SOLID GROUND: A NEW WORLD JOURNAL, a national quarterly magazine of the arts, culture, and politics and the editor of a literary anthology NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT (Post Aesthetic Press). Natambu has read his work throughout the country and given many lectures and workshops at academic and arts institutions. He has taught American literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history and criticism, film studies, political science, creative writing, philosophy, critical theory, and music history and criticism (Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hip Hop) at many universities and colleges. He was also a curator in the Education Department of Detroit’s Museum of African American History. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Natambu currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Chuleenan.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

'The Divide': An Important New Book By Leading Political Journalist And Social Critic Matt Taibbi

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