BROADCASTS.com

Join Haymarket Books and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project for a conversation celebrating the launch of the anthology Going for Broke. \n\nJoin Alissa Quart in conversation with Alex Miller, Annabelle Gurwitch, Katha Pollitt and Ray Suarez, to celebrate the launch of the anthology Going for Broke, a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.\n\nGet a copy of Going For Broke: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/...\n\nCheck out the podcast series \u201cGoing for Broke\u201d hosted by Ray Suarez in partnership between EHRP, The Nation and NPR: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/11683107...\n\nYou can read Alex\u2019s latest article here: https://www.wired.com/story/tech-vide...\n\nRead this powerful op-ed from Annabelle: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outloo...\n\nSubmit pitches to EHRP at info@economichardship.org\nDonate to EHRP at: https://economichardship.org/donate-t...\n\nS\ufeffpeakers:\n\nAlissa Quart is the author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream and executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She has written for many publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time. Her honors include an Emmy Award, the SPJ Award, and a Nieman Fellowship. She is the author of four previous books of nonfiction, including Squeezed: Why Our Families Can\u2019t Afford America and Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, and two books of poetry, most recently Thoughts and Prayers.\n\nAlex Miller, a reporting journalism fellow for EHRP, is a navy veteran and native Chicagoan. He\u2019s been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Esquire, and Wired. In addition, he has also been featured in the anthologies The Byline Bible and The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook. He lives in New York and is writing a mid-grade memoir about his experience of going to school for the first time at eleven years old.\n\nAnnabelle Gurwitch is a New York Times bestselling author of five books, a Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing finalist, and an actress. Her writing frequently appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Los Angeles Magazine. This essay, which was awarded an Excellence in Journalism citation by the Los Angeles Press Corp, is included in a longer form in her most recent collection of essays, You\u2019re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility, a New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living 2022.\n\nRay Suarez (@RaySuarezNews) was a senior correspondent for PBS News- Hour and host of the public radio show America Abroad. He is host of EHRP\u2019s podcast Going for Broke and co-hosts the program and podcast WorldAffairs for KQED-FM and the World Affairs Council.\n\nKatha Pollitt, the author of Virginity or Death!, is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. She has won many prizes and awards for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for her first collection of poems, Antarctic Traveller, and two National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism. She lives in New York City.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/tFRHrFqF8ls\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks