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“Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change by Eitan Hersh” Reviewed by LaVonne Roberts
For anyone wondering how to engage in politics on a community level, Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, demystifies the process. Eitan Hersh, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University, says that when people engage in genuine political work there is only one reason they do that: they want power. Hersh concisely captures the difference between activism and organizing, coining the former as “political hobbyism.”
His research points to the fact that one in five Americans claim to be politically active on a daily basis,
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Teddy Wayne LIVE
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For the first installment of LIT Magazine’s newest series, LIVE with LIT, where book reviews come to life!
What really makes a great writer? Education? Hardship? Talent? Or luck? Find out tonight when LaVonne Roberts interviews Teddy Wayne on his latest novel, Apartment, a story about two students in Columbia’s MFA program in New York in the 1990s. (Read more: “Apartment by Teddy Wayne” by LaVonne Roberts).
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“Apartment by Teddy Wayne” Reviewed by LaVonne Roberts
Apartment is Teddy Wayne’s fourth novel and an easy read in just over 200 pages. Wayne’s novel gets to the crux of every writer’s angst in an MFA program: when you strip away the art of craft, is your writing any more interesting than yourself? Offering a rare glimpse of what happens in a workshop and the sheltered creative writer’s MFA community, Apartment speaks to what a privileged, highly-competitive MFA degree does or does not do for a writer. Moreover, it speaks to male identity in relation to male friendship.
Set in 1996,
