KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Jonathan Taplin and David Gans The Magic Years: Scenes From a Rock-and-Roll Life A Zoom Webinar Event Thursday, September 9, 2021, 7PM PST EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jonathan-taplin-david-gans-the-magic-years-scenes-from-rock-roll-life-tickets-159899328195 The Magic Years remarkably shares how Jon Taplin was on the front lines of so many pivotal and historic events. He has a helluva…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Lisa Wells and Joanna Manqueros Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, August 17 2021, 7:00 PM PT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lisa-wells-joanna-manqueros-believers-making-a-life-at-the-end-of-world-tickets-159198058679 In search of answers and action, award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Jeremy Lent and Joanna Manqueros The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, August 10, 7:00 PM PT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jeremy-lent-joanna-manqueros-the-web-of-meaning-tickets-159477650947 Rethinking values based on science and traditional wisdom Indigenous, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions have held for…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM with C-SPAN presents Dan Kovalik and Mickey Huff Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, July 13, 7:00 PM/PDT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-kovalik-and-mickey-huff-the-progressive-case-against-cancel-culture-tickets-154738889183 In his new book, Cancel This Book, longtime activist and labor lawyer Dan Kovalik argues that cancel culture is entirely mean-spirited, a…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Andrew Bacevich and Philip Maldari After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, June 22, 6:00 PM/PDT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/andrew-bacevich-philip-maldari-americas-role-in-a-world-transformed-tickets-154436480671 Andrew Bacevich & Philip Maldari discuss Bacevich’s book, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed, & answer questions. A bold and urgent…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents David Talbot and Margaret Talbot By the Light of Burning Bridges: The Second American Revolution A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, June 15, 6:00 PM/PDT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-talbot-margaret-talbot-by-the-light-of-burning-bridges-tickets-151915694933 Margaret and David Talbot will discuss their new book, By the Light of Burning Bridges, & answer audience questions. Hosted by Greg Bridges…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Mick LaSalle and Richard Wolinsky DREAM STATE: CALIFORNIA IN THE MOVIES A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, June 8, 7:00 PM/PT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mick-lasalle-richard-wolinsky-dream-state-california-in-the-movies-tickets-147654956951 Dream State is a freewheeling journey through several dozen big-screen visions of the Golden State, with LaSalle’s unmistakable contrarian humor as the guide. His writing, unerringly perceptive…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents JoAnn Wypijewski and Kris Welch What We Don’t Talk About: Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life A Zoom Webinar Event Thursday, June 3, 6:00 PM/PT EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/joann-wypijewski-kris-welch-what-we-dont-talk-about-tickets-147847360435 What if we took sex out of the box marked “special,” the contents of which are either the worst or best…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Aviva Chomsky and Mickey Huff Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration A Zoom Webinar Event Thursday, April 29, 6 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history-tickets-137895929437 Aviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present Davey D & Jeff Chang: A Zoom Event “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Hip-Hop History” The American Book Award Winner Now Adapted for Young Adults Sunday, April 20, 7 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/davey-d-jeff-chang-cant-stop-wont-stop-a-hip-hop-history-tickets-143437518479 CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP: A Hip-Hop History is the story, adapted for young adults,…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Vivian Gornick with Kris Welch Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism A Zoom Webinar Event Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 6:00 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivian-gornick-kris-welch-taking-a-long-look-tickets-137661131149 TAKING A LONG LOOK: ESSAYS ON CULTURE, LITERATURE AND FEMINISM IN OUR TIME is described by Publishers Weekly as “illuminating and a…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents Greg Grandin & Brian Edwards-Tiekert Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the U.S., and the Rise of the New Imperialism A Zoom Webinar Event Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 6PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greg-grandin-brian-edwards-tiekert-latin-america-us-new-imperialism-tickets-138075257813 Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents CLAUDIO SAUNT & MICKEY HUFF A Zoom Webinar Event Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 6PM-8PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/claudio-saunt-mickey-huff-tickets-137141043553 presented by KPFA Radio One of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans —Sven Beckert, author of Radical Compassion Unworthy Republic…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present Michael Eric Dyson: A Zoom Event Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 7PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-eric-dyson-sabrina-jacobs-reckoning-with-race-in-america-tickets-137147695449 Building on Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and…

  Poets: Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein A Zoom Webinar Event moved to THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 6 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-espada- and-dennis-bernstein-floaters-tickets-130079233489 presented by KPFA Radio MARTIN ESPADA http://www.martinespada.net has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry. His many…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Marcus Books present Sister Souljah & Sabrina Jacobs LOVE AND RAGE: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by the bestselling author of “The Coldest Winter Ever” A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 5:30 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sister-souljah-and-sabrina-jacobs-life-after-death-tickets-135779284495 Twenty years ago, Sister Souljah’s debut novel, “The Coldest Winter Ever,”…

  Rashid Khalidi & Nora Barrows-Friedman THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINEA History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017 A Zoom Webinar Event Tuesday, February 16, 6:00 PM PST EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rashid-khalidi-nora-barrows-friedman-the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-tickets-131127992355 presented by KPFA Radio A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of…

  ELIZABETH KOLBERT +MARK HERTSGAARD Under a White Sky, The Nature of the Future A Zoom Webinar Event Thursday, February 11, 5:00 PM EST EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elizabeth-kolbert-mark-hertsgaard-under-a-white-sky-nature-of-future-tickets-131627494379 presented by KPFA Radio Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on our environment, now asking: after doing so much damage,…

  A Black Women’s History of the United StatesBy Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross With Sabrina Jacobs Thursday, February 4, 7 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diana-ramey-berry-kali-nicole-gross-a-black-womens-history-of-the-us-tickets-130506218613 presented by KPFA Radio and Marcus Books Reaching from the year 1600 to the present day, A Black Women’s History of the United States – written by renowned…

  LADIES GET PAID The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career Claire Wasserman, with Steve Wasserman A Zoom Webinar Event MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 7 PM EVENTBRITE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/claire-wasserman-and-dad-steve-wasserman-ladies-get-paid-tickets-130905918125 presented by KPFA Radio Claire Wasserman – career coach and founder of Ladies Get Paid, the global organization leading…