Arts and Culture - Book Excerpt | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/category/book_excerpt/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2012 2012-01-31T22:01:06+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/category/book_excerpt/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/how_the_stimulus_revived_the_electric_car_20120131/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/how_the_stimulus_revived_the_electric_car_20120131/ cars, economy, electric car, environment, excerpt, michael grabell, money, obama, stimulus, technology, Book Excerpt By Michael Grabell, ProPublica

Until the economic stimulus package was passed in 2009, the manufacture of electric cars and their batteries in the United States was nearly nonexistent.

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]]> 2012-01-31T22:01:06+00:00 Can I Help You? http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/can_i_help_you_20120104/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/can_i_help_you_20120104/ book, excerpt, lauren b. davis, novel, our daily bread, Book Excerpt

In this excerpt from Lauren B. Davis’ new novel, “Our Daily Bread,” an elderly woman encounters two troubled boys and the question of whether we ever do enough to help others.

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]]> 2012-01-04T18:19:22+00:00 God of the Oppressed http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/god_of_the_oppressed_20111221/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/god_of_the_oppressed_20111221/ book, excerpt, james h. cone, race, religion, the cross and the lynching tree, Book Excerpt

In this excerpt from “The Cross and the Lynching Tree,” James H. Cone writes that the gospel is found wherever the wronged struggle for justice.

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]]> 2011-12-21T17:46:45+00:00 What Does Your Feminism Look Like? http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/what_does_your_feminism_look_like_20111207/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/what_does_your_feminism_look_like_20111207/ and some thoughts on balls, book, excerpt, f ’em goo goo, feminism, gaga, jennifer baumgardner, Book Excerpt

In this excerpt from “F ’em! Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls,” author Jennifer Baumgardner lays out a history of feminism in “waves”: from the rights of citizenship and equality to transgenderism, male feminists and sex work.

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]]> 2011-12-07T18:08:54+00:00 Baltimore: The City That Bleeds http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/baltimore_the_city_that_bleeds_20111123/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/baltimore_the_city_that_bleeds_20111123/ baltimore, book, david kennedy, don't shoot, excerpt, inner city, violence, Book Excerpt

David Kennedy, author of “Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America,” spent more than 10 years in the worst corners of the worst cities in the country before going to Baltimore.

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]]> 2011-11-23T17:46:20+00:00 The Myth of the ’60s http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_myth_of_the_60s_20111116/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_myth_of_the_60s_20111116/ book, edward p. morgan, review, what really happened to the 1960s, Book Excerpt

Edward P. Morgan, in this excerpt from “What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy,” maintains that “the mass media’s ‘’60s’ discourse is chiefly one of ghosts, accusations, and smoke and mirrors that has long played on audience emotions and diverted public attention to what is essentially a symbolic form of spectator politics.”

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]]> 2011-11-16T19:03:52+00:00 The Confidence Crumbles http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_confidence_crumbles_20111109/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_confidence_crumbles_20111109/ book, confidence men, excerpt, ron suskind, Book Excerpt

An excerpt from Ron Suskind’s “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President” looks into the perilous political labyrinth navigated by our nation’s leader.

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]]> 2011-11-09T23:34:22+00:00 Campus Intrigue http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/campus_intrigue_20111102/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/campus_intrigue_20111102/ book, excerpt, jeffrey eugenides, novel, the marriage plot, Book Excerpt

An excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides’ third novel, “The Marriage Plot,” which centers on a romantic triangle at Brown University in 1982.

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]]> 2011-11-02T17:03:44+00:00 Los Angeles Noir http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/los_angeles_noir_20111005/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/los_angeles_noir_20111005/ book, excerpt, los angeles stories, ry cooder, Book Excerpt

An excerpt from musician Ry Cooder’s first published collection of stories, set in L.A. after World War II, “a sunny place for shady people.”

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]]> 2011-10-05T16:50:11+00:00 Theater of Combat http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/theater_of_combat_20110901/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/theater_of_combat_20110901/ 9 circles, acts of war, american tet, bill cain, excerpt, lydia stryk, play, review, Book Excerpt

The recently published “Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays” collects seven works for the stage, all of them about war. Here are excerpts from two of those plays, “9 Circles” by Bill Cain and “American Tet” by Lydia Stryk. A review of the book will be published in this column Friday.

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