April 2020 News
Dear Friends,

How moving it is to witness the compassionate actions of people all around us. In this crisis, everyone works on the same side in response to the challenges. Enmities dissolve. We are tending relationships and opening our hearts in good faith, as perhaps never before. May we come out of this knowing we live on common, precious ground.

In love and community,
Lynne
Coronavirus Update
For everyone's safety, all of our April events have been postponed or cancelled until further notice. We will keep you updated on changes. More than ever, we are grateful for our community and for the resources they’ve shared to get us through the pandemic. One such resource is the blog of social psychiatrist and New Village Press author Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Countdown to Main Street , which includes updates on what this crisis might mean for our mental health and advice on how to proceed.

We are also grateful for local, independent bookstores, including those that remain open for online sales during these difficult times. We hope you’ll join us in supporting their business .
NEW RELEASE: Visitors
The vivacious, incomparably honest, wise, perceptive, humorous and truth-telling voice of Ann Snitow makes Visitors a joy to read from start to finish. —Phillip Lopate, author, Art of the Personal Essay

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe by Ann Snitow was released on March 24th. Read an excerpt published in Dissent Magazine here .

Written in its own time of seismic transformation, Visitors offers readers insight into the kinds of possibilities that arise in the moments when “for any number of reasons, the walls of the city are shaken.” Unsentimental but fiercely optimistic, Visitors is an excellent read for all of us in this period of abrupt and powerful change.
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
Click here  to listen to the poem “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” by Adam Zagajewsky, read by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow. This poem, translated from Polish, serves as the coda for Visitors . 
Mindy Fullilove Online Events and Updates
Design Observer Studio Session

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove was a featured guest on the March 28th Design Observer Studio Session, where she discussed how design affects our lives, even in times of a pandemic. As Design Observer put it, "creative people excel at reinventing ways to thrive in challenging times." Click here to find out more about Studio Sessions.
City Journal article previews a theme from a forthcoming book on Main Street by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD

Excerpts from and reflections on Mindy Thompson Fullilove’s next book, which grew out of a ten-year study of Main Streets, have been published in LA+ Journal ( "Main Street: What Happens Next?" ) and City Journal ( "Main Streets and Disaster: A Study of Regional Collective Efficacy" ). 

Main Street is about finding connection within a community and harnessing that connection to solve problems, particularly in moments of crisis. In "Main Street: What Happen's Next?" Dr. Fullilove concludes that as our landscape and needs change so too might our Main Street, but "as long as there are people, they will find a place to sing the body electric." In this time of physical distancing, we are being called to find that place.
Spoon Jackson Podcast
At Night I Fly

Spoon Jackson’s latest podcast series At Night I Fly , created in partnership with journalist Matthew Schneeman, is coming soon. Listen to the poem that inspired the project.
#LWOP Protest

On March 9, a Drop LWOP rally was held in Sacramento, California. New Village Press author Spoon Jackson has been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for over 40 years. Learn more about the work being done by The Drop LWOP Coalition here .
Lily Yeh Exhibit Review
The New York Times recently reviewed an exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore featuring a mural Lily Yeh created during her time working in art healing in Rwanda. Read it here .

The spring publication of Lily Yeh and Susan Viguers’ book Healing from Genocide in Rwanda: Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book has been temporarily suspended.
Isolation Reading
As we continue to shelter in place, we'd like to offer some recommended reading. While Amazon orders are restricted to essentials, our titles remain available to order through NYU Press . Find our selected titles for reading in the time of isolation on our blog.