If you’re in Nashville on November 8th you may want to stop by the Downtown Public Library, where the Greens will be discussing Elizabeth Royte’s “Garbage Land,” as well as establishing criteria for nominating and endorsing candidates.
Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler’s book Class Action hit the trifecta: optioned, put into development, and made into a Silkwood meets Erin Brokovich-esque movie starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson. The studio called the movie North Country, and changed the narrative here and there, but this is still the story of the first class-action sex discrimination law suit ever filed in the United States. Word on the movie is that it’s great; Booknoise is going to see it next week and will report back. But we can tell you that the book is amazing! Check it out.
US critic Harold Pinter wins Nobel Literature Prize : Argentina Indymedia (( i ))
A big cash prize, sure, good for book sales, yes, but something more important, too. A chance to reprint Pinter’s rabidly anti-US anti-War diatribe from 2002.