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POSTPONED: Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade

Date: February 10, 2010

Time: 6:00 PM

220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York NY 10001

Due to inclement weather, this event has been postponed. Please check back soon for further details.

Join Demos, the Progressive Book Club, and the Center for American Progress for an exciting forum with George Packer to discuss his new book, Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade. In this collection of essays, Packer turns a critical eye on the “decade” that began on September 11, 2001, and ended with the election of Barack Obama. In his examination of the failures of the previous administration, as well as the trials and tribulations of the progressive community, Packer paints a vivid picture of what it was like to live in America at the beginning of our new century.

Author and prominent commentator Todd Gitlin will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a reception. A live webcast will be available at www.demos.org.

About the Speakers:

George Packer has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since May 2003. He is widely known for his coverage of Iraq and Sierra Leone, and for his book The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The New York Times. Packer was a 2001-2002 Guggenheim Fellow and has contributed articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature to The New York Times Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones, and Harper's, among other publications. He has taught writing at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Columbia.

 

Todd Gitlin is a prominent political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts for publications such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, and many more. Gitlin is currently on the editorial board of Dissent and the Progressive Book Club, a contributing writer to Mother Jones, and a member of the board of trustees of openDemocracy.net. He also currently serves as a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph.D. program in Communications at Columbia University.

 

To RSVP for this event, please click here, or contact Jinny Khanduja at jkhanduja@demos.org or 212.389.1399.

Click here to become a member of the Progressive Book Club and receive a free copy of Interesting Times by George Packer.