About this Event
Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Thursday, February 20th at 7:00 PM when award winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata comes to the store to present her new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe. Natasha will be joined in conversation by Aaron Glantz and will sign copies of her book after the presentation.
to preorder a copy of Another World Is Possible
A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie?
Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States. Through in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another World Is Possible examines innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, and more.
In each instance Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyed assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and real-world impact of these programs. The result is a compelling, frame-shifting account of how we might live differently and create a safer, healthier, more sustainable future.
A work of keen analysis as well as enormous heart and optimism, Another World Is Possible is destined to crack the mold of current debates, and to refresh our sense of what might be possible tomorrow.
NATASHA HAKIMI ZAPATA is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere. Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe (The New Press), is her first book. Natasha is the former foreign editor of Truthdig and she lives in London.
AARON GLANTZ, a two-time Peabody Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a fellow at Stanford University's Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. His work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings, numerous laws, and criminal probes by the DEA, FBI, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission and appeared in nearly every major media outlet, including the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour. His books include Homewreckers, The War Come Home, Winter Solider Iraq and Afghanistan and How America Lost Iraq. He lives in San Francisco.
ABOUT THE NEW PRESS:
Founded in 1992, The New Press is a not-for-profit book publisher with a public-interest mission. New Press books explore the issues that affect us all; its authors provide ideas and inspiration for the activists, teachers, policymakers, and everyday citizens who are working to defend and promote democracy. The New Press does its work with the help of its many supporters; please visit them at thenewpress.com or follow them on social media to find out more.
THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. Registration ends at 5:30 pm on February 20th, 2025.
BECAUSE SEATING is limited, please register only if you plan to attend.
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WALK-INS will be accommodated only if space allows.
WE ASK that attendees arrive between 6:45 and 7:00 PM for the event.
PLEASE leave your non-support companion animals at home.
OUR shared restrooms are not accessible after 6:30 PM, please plan accordingly.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mrs Dalloway's, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, United States
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