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• Brooklyn Book Festival – Children’s Day in Brooklyn, NY on October 1, 2022

• Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, NY on October 2, 2022

• Halloween Meltdown in Oakland, CA on October 8 and 9, 2022

• Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN from October 14 to 16, 2022

• Atlanta Radical Book Fair in Atlanta, GA on October 15, 2022

• Twin Cities Book Fest in Minneapolis, MN on October 15, 2022

• Brooklyn Folk Festival in Brooklyn, NY from October 21 to 23, 2022

• Boston Book Festival in Boston, MA on October 29, 2022

• On tour with Subhumans:

  – OCT 31 Market Hotel Brooklyn, NY

  – NOV 01 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA

  – NOV 02 Otto Bar Baltimore, MD

• Short Run Comix and Arts Festival in Seattle, WA in November 5, 2022

• Boston Anarchist Book Fair in Boston, MA on November 12 to 13, 2022

• Facing Race – Race Forward in Phoenix, AZ from November 17 to 19, 2022

• The 51st Annual KPFA Benefit Craft Fair in at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, CA on December 3 and 4, 2022

• Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market in Trenton, NJ on December 10, 2022

• Philly Punk Rock Flea Market in Philadelphia, PA on December 17 and 18, 2022

• Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, AZ on March 4 and 5, 2023

• Association of Writers and Writing Program AWP in Seattle, WA from March 8 to 11, 2023

• Left Coast Crime 2023 in Tucson, AZ on March 16 to 19, 2023

• Appalachian Studies Association Conference in Athens, OH from March 17 to 19, 2023

• American Association of Geographers – AAG in Denver, CO from March 23 to 27, 2023

• Northeast Modern Language Association NeMLA Annual Convention in Niagara Falls, NY from March 23 to 26, 2023

• Bioneers in Berkeley, CA from April 6 to 9, 2023

• LA Times Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA on April 22 and 23 2023

Join us for a launch of Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, September 30th in-person at 7pm at Quimby’s Bookstore NYC at 536 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

This is an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event!

Join a book launch party for Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds with co-editor Kenneth Wishnia and contributors Jill D. Block, Jen Conley, Robin Hemley, Steven Wishnia, and Joy Mahabir. Panelists will discuss the light and dark sides of religion and culture, the legacy of negative stereotypes amid rising anti-Semitism, the history of prejudice, assimilation, and questions of ethnic identity and political corruption that feed into an exploitative system. This informal gathering will include light refreshments.

Raymond B. Craib presents Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age in-person at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach, CA on Friday, September 30th at 7pm. Learn more here and join us!

About the book and author:

Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants.  Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a history of our future.

Raymond Craib is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile, Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes, and with Barry Maxwell, co-editor of No Gods No Masters No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms.