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Dillinger in Hollywood

Short Stories

By John Sayles


Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director, he was an award-winning writer of fiction, praised by the Washington Post as "one of our most exciting and accomplished young writers." This is Sayles's first short story collection in twenty-five years.

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Union Dues

A Novel

By John Sayles


Union Dues is a sprawling classic of American radicalism. It tells the story of a father and his runaway son whose destinies movingly collide.

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Los Gusanos


By John Sayles


The long-awaited reissue of the first novel by acclaimed filmmaker and writer John Sayles. Set in Miami in 1981, Los Gusanos is the vivid and moving account of one extended family's life in Cuba and the United States. Sayles introduces us to a memorable range of characters--young, old, black and white--all of whom are struggling to make a new life in exile while haunted by the memories of Cuba.

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Pride of the Bimbos


By John Sayles


Pride of the Bimbos is John Sayles's madcap, poignant and hilarious first novel. It tells the story of a circus sideshow softball team, the Brooklyn Bimbos, who play in drag in shabby small towns across the South.

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Salvation Boulevard

A novel

By Larry Beinhart


From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write."
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Deborah Stone's Book Tour

July 7 - November 2 | Across the United States
Deborah Stone, a Nation Books author, recently published her fourth book, The Samaritan's Dilemma. Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect calls it "a brilliant and persuasive statement of the case for organized compassion—not out of sentimentality but for the viability of society and our own self regard as a decent people." Listen to her on the radio and get a copy of the book signed at a bookstore on Stone's book tour. Find the schedule here.

August 25 | 6 pm
Bruce Mau Leads Green Symposium
(Denver, Colorado)
Institute Fellow Bruce Mau will lead the Green Constitutional Congress Symposium, which will cover a wide array of green-related topics. The symposium will take place at Buell Theater in Denver; it is produced by the Rhode Island School of Design and University of Colorado-Denver. The symposium is part of the larger event, Dialog:City at the DNC. For more information, click here. MORE

September 13
2008 ELECTION: What's Really at Stake?
(Cooper Union Auditorium, 30 Cooper Square, NYC)
Come listen to Institute Fellows Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill (also a Nation Books author of Blackwater) speak at a benefit for The Indypendent newspaper at Cooper Union Auditorium in New York City. Additional panelists to be announced; meet the speakers at a special pre-event reception. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit indypendent.org or call (212)-221-0521. MORE