Spoon Jackson on a president he respected
Incarcerated poet and New Village Press author Spoon Jackson is working together with artist SaraMarie Bottaro on a new blog called Rabbits of Realness. We expect you will be moved as we were by Spoon's essay about Jimmy Carter.
"I knew that President Carter had the heart of a poet and was a poet. He spoke true and real about the system of injustice in the U.S.A. Not only did he speak about racial injustice, he spoke out about injustices to women, girls, the poor, and the homeless in this country and around the world."
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Alice Rothchild In-Person Readings
Discussing her new book Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
Third Place Books Seward Park, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, January 14, 7 pm PST
More information HERE.
Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
Tuesday, February 18, 7 pm
Register for the event HERE.
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Wednesday, February 19, 7 pm
More about the event HERE.
Dr. Alice Rothchild Radio Interview
Wednesday, February 19, 9:10 am EST
Host Jan Miyasaki will interview Alice Rothchild on The 8:00 Buzz for WORT 89.9 FM, Madison, WI.
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The Needham Free Public Library in Needham, Massachusetts, will be displaying sixteen Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits by artist Robert Shetterly from January 2 through February 15, 2025 in the Friends Art Gallery on the second floor of the library. Pictured right is Sojourner Truth.
The most recent title in the Americans Who Tell the Truth book series is Portraits of Peacemakers, which includes a portrait and profile of Dr. Alice Rothchild as well as her essay, "On Becoming a Peacemaker in a World of Trouble."
Learn more about AWTT events and exhibits HERE.
Find Robert Shetterly's book series HERE.
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Inspired and Outraged reviewed in Synapsis:
A Health Humanities Journal
"One of the most compelling aspects of Rothchild’s memoir is her honesty. She never holds herself above the reader but is raw and real about her struggles – a fact which is further emphasized by the poetic structure of her memoir."
—Rachel Peacock
Read the full review HERE.
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Alice Rothchild on Conversations LIVE
Host Cyrus Webb welcomed author Alice Rothchild to Conversations LIVE to discuss Inspired and Outraged.
"I looked around and I realized there are not a whole lot of women in my class, nobody is a woman who is going into OB-GYN. This is a field that really needs to change, so this is obviously, if I am a feminist and a woman, where I need to be."
Listen to the full conversation HERE.
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Joe Donahue of WAMC Radio hosts Alice Rothchild on The Roundtable
Listen to the interview HERE.
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Ecoart in Action reviewed in the Australian Journal of Environmental Education
"There are insights into bodies in space and place, activism and meditative practice through to engaging relevant, carefully considered materials and their properties in context (materiality). Reading through all the activities, the book taught me about how place is often a theme through which students can explore the more than human."
—Shelley Margaret Hannigan
Read the full review HERE.
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Built Environment Special Issue Reflects on 20 Years of Root Shock
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It, is a guest editor for Built Environment's Volume 50 – Number 2, "Root Shock Twenty Years On: Displacement – Its Harms and Remedies."
The issue includes essays, case studies, and research authored by journalists, community organizers, historians, social geographers, public health researchers, and urban policy scholars, that all, to use the words of Robert Sember, "attest to the impact of Fullilove's work, elaborate on her concept of root shock, contribute analyses that affirm the book's core paradigm linking human life and wellbeing to the qualities of urban environments, and codify her research methods."
Built Environment is a a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on urban planning and related fields.
Get the book Root Shock HERE.
Get the issue of Built Environment HERE.
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Article by David Cortright on Nuclear Weapons
In an article for Inkstick, peace activist David Cortright (author of A Peaceful Superpower and coeditor of Waging Peace in Vietnam) and William D. Hartung argue that "Nuclear 'modernization' is an unnecessary and wasteful diversion of federal funds to pursue an arms race with Russia and China that increases the risk of nuclear war."
Read the article HERE.
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Gary A. Patton reviews Creative Instigation: the Art and Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement by Fern Tiger
"What this book tell us is that democratic self-government works, when rooted in local action. The 'case studies' outlined in the book demonstrate that community-based efforts can change unacceptable realities and can help realize a community's dreams and aspirations."
Read Patton's review HERE.
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Italian Edition of Talking to the Girls
We are thrilled to celebrate the publication on January 16th of the Italian language edition of Talking to the Girls— Le Ragazze della Triangle. The beautiful essays in the book will now reach an even wider audience. We are grateful for the support of Stefano Albertini and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, translator Paola Bono, and our terrific editor at Iacobelli, Anna Maria Crispino. New Village joins Mary Anne Trasciatti in giving a special shoutout to her coeditor Edi Giunta who made this dream a reality.
Order the Italian edition HERE
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Letters From the Edge
Outrider Conversations
Margaret Randall
April 1, 2025
A collection of letters exchanged between the author and five “outriders” or artists who resist conformity to commercial, social, or political pressure.
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DisElderly Conduct
The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice
Judy Karofsky
May 13, 2025
An adult daughter accompanies her aging mother along the confusing, frequently defective, path of assisted living and hospice.
https://diselderlyconduct.com/
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ArtMill
A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia
Barbara Benish
July 15, 2025
A first-person, photo-illustrated account of the founding of the twenty-year-old artist’s center and NGO, ArtMill.
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