The editors of CounterPunch on their new book Serpents in the Garden

The editors of CounterPunch speak on their new book:
Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture and Sex

Thursday, July 22 – City Lights Bookstore SF
Friday, July 23rd – AK Press Oakland
Sunday, July 25th – Diesel Books Oakland
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Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture & Sex
Serpents in the Garden. That's how Percy Shelley described the revolutionary quest of his circle of Romantic poets and writers. And it's a perfect title for this marvelous a cappella of writing on art, music, culture and sex from the editors and writers of Counterpunch, the radical newsletter and hugely popular website.

A big part of being radical in the best sense of that word lies in enjoying, promoting and defending art and the spirit of freedom, along with the craft skills embodied by the arts. By the quality of life, art and freedom that radicals commend, so will radicalism prevail. Subversive perspectives on life and politics should be fun.

Herein find: Dr. Susan Block on John Ashcroft's breast fetish; Marsha Cusic getting to the absolute heart of Motown; Daniel Wolff on the gospel roots of Sam Cooke; Lenni Brenner eating peyote with a young Dylan; Bruce Jackson unearths the transcripts of the stage tapes from Dylan's famous electric performance at Newport; Susan Davis's journey to the Kinsey Institute; Alexander Cockburn on Angelina Jolie and the French Revolution; Jeffrey St. Clair on why Ken Burns hates music; Peter Linebaugh on the glorious history of May Day and much, much more.

Thursday, July 22nd
7 PM - Free
City Lights bookstore.
261 Columbus Avenue, SF
415-362-8193

Friday, July 23rd
7 PM – Free
AK Press Warehouse
674-A 23rd St.
Oakland, CA
510.208.1700

Sunday, July 25th
Diesel Books
2pm, Free
5433 College Avenue
Oakland,- 510.653.9965

http://www.akpress.org/
http://www.counterpunch.org/