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SUMMARY:Alyssa Battistoni on capitalism and the politics of nature\, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel
DESCRIPTION:Alyssa Battistoni is a professor of political science at Barnard College. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton UP 2025) and co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019). She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics\, capitalism\, Marxism\, feminism\, and other topics in modern social and political theory.  \n\n\n\nBenjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecisionand Utopia or Bust\, and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/alyssa-battistoni-on-capitalism-and-the-politics-of-nature/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tony Tulathimutte on gender and comedy in fiction\, in conversation with Hermione Hoby
DESCRIPTION:Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award\, and has written for The Paris Review\, N+1\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, and others. He also runs CRIT\, a writing class in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\nHermione Hoby is the author of the novels Neon in Daylight\, which was twice listed as a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and Virtue\, which was shortlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature award. She is a 2024 Macdowell Fellow in Literature and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, The Guardian\, The New York Times\, Bookforum\, and elsewhere. Raised in London\, she lives in Boulder\, Colorado.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/tony-tulathimutte-in-conversation-with-hermione-hoby/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Perry Anderson on World War I and the present international crisis\, in conversation with Tony  Wood
DESCRIPTION:Perry Anderson is the author of\, among other books\, Spectrum\, Lineages of the Absolutist State\, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism\, Considerations on Western Marxism\, English Questions\, The Origins of Postmodernity\, and The New Old World. He taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is on the editorial board of New Left Review. \n\n\n\nTony Wood is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder and a member of the editorial committee of New Left Review. He is author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007)\, Russia without Putin: Money\, Power\, and the Myths of the New Cold War (2018) and\, most recently\, Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race\, Nation\, and Empire in Interwar Latin America (2026).
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/perry-anderson/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner on aesthetics and politics\, in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kushner is the author of the novels CREATION LAKE\, THE MARS ROOM\, THE FLAMETHROWERS\, and TELEX FROM CUBA\, a book of short stories\, THE STRANGE CASE OF RACHEL K\, and THE HARD CROWD: ESSAYS 2000-2020. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Folio Prize\, the James Tait Black Prize\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker and the Paris Review\, and her nonfiction in Harpers and the New York Times Magazine. \n\n\n\nBenjamin Kunkel is the bestselling author of Indecision and Utopia or Bust\, and a co-founder of n+1. His writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
URL:https://magicmountaintalks.org/event/rachel-kushner-benjamin-kunkel/
LOCATION:Trident Booksellers & Cafe\, 940 Pearl St.\, Boulder\, CO\, 80302\, United States
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