Notable Portland: 4/11–4/17
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Posts Tagged: Flint
On Suffering and Sympathy
What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Jennings
Chris Jennings talks about his new book Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, incremental reform, Transcendentalists, Shakers, and creating a more perfect future.
...moreHip-Hop’s Response to the Flint Water Crisis
Artists across the musical spectrum have rallied to help raise awareness and funds for the Flint, Michigan water crisis, which, thanks to governmental inaction, has been allowed to develop since 2014. Okayplayer. chronicled the work that hip-hop artists, in particular, have done to bring attention to the issue, and the responses of Flint’s own hip-hop […]
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Should you really follow your bliss? What is really behind Flint’s water crisis? Will Facebook become even more of a virtual reality? Novelists are the best at seeing inside the mind of a terrorist.
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