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Silver City and Other Screenplays


By John Sayles


Filmmaker legend John Sayles has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. This collection of his greatest work includes Sunshine State, the Oscar-nominated Passion Fish and his new film for the election year, Silver City.

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Left in the Dark

Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001

By Stuart Klawans


In 2007, The Nation's Stuart Klawans won a National Magazine Award for his sharp and revelatory film writing. This selection of reviews and essays from The Nation--as well as the New York Times, The Village Voice, Film Comment and other journals--spotlights some of his best work.

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I'd Hate Myself in the Morning

A Memoir

By Ring Lardner, Jr.



In this lively memoir, Ring Lardner, Jr recalls his strange existence as a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of the studio system--an existence made stranger by membership in the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party.
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Cinema Nation

The Best Writing on Film From The Nation, 1913-2000

By Carl Bromley and Stuart Klawans



"A fine collection of sensitive film writing from one of the first homes to serious film writing in America." --Film Comment
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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