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Larry BlaskoSaturday, April 21st, 7:00 PM
 
Larry Blasko will discuss and sign his new book Opening the Borders: Solving the Mexico/U.S. Immigration Problem For Our Sake and Mexico?s. Every day tens of thousands of illegal immigrants stream north across the border, overtaxing our healthcare and education system and bringing drugs, disease, and potential terrorists across the border with them. In spite of this, Larry Blasko suggests that the best solution is not a closed border, but an open border policy similar to that enjoyed in the European Union by member countries.
 
About the author, Larry Blasko served for more than three decades with The Associated Press working as writer, editor, columnist and executive.
 
What people are saying about the book:
 
\”With political irreverence as refreshing as the new ideas he proposes, Larry Blasko tells why and how to make the U.S. – Mexico border more open and at the same time more secure against illegal crossings. His is a fresh take on an intractable, urgent issue.\” — Walter R. Mears, Pulitzer Prize winning political reporter and executive for more than 40 years with the Associated Press
 
?With wry humor, thorough research and compassionate insights, Larry Blasko offers a novel approach to resolving the thorny issue of illegal immigration from Mexico, with a win-win proposal for both immigrants and the American economy.\” –Claude E. Erbsen, retired AP correspondent and executive with over 40 years? experience in Latin American affairs
 

THE2NDHANDSunday April 15th 4PMGEEK AND DORK TOUR, 2007
Featuring readings by
Todd Taylor (Los Angeles)
Jennifer Whiteford (Ottawa)
Mike Falloon (Brewster, NY)
Jonathan Messinger (Chicago)
hosted by THE2NDHAND (www.the2ndhand.com) designer/illustrator Rob
Funderburk.
 
GEEK AND DORK TOUR, 2007
For one week in April, three intrepid folks are going to hop in a station
wagon from Minneapolis to New York City and read from their collected works.
They promise this: they?ll read some entertaining stories. It?s not slam
poetry. It?s not dull. It?s good stories told well. They don?t barely bumble
through them, they tell them.
 
Todd Taylor heads the Los Angeles-based Razorcake Magazine
(www.razorcake.org) and co-heads Gorsky Press (www.gorskypress.org). Todd is
also a regular contributor to Thrasher magazine, and has published work in
Suburban Voice, Barracuda, Verbicide, Sleepwalk, and Maximum Rock’n’roll. In
2006, Razorcake became the United States’ first bonafide non-profit
independent music magazine and it is currently attempting to set up a
community center in East Lost Angeles. Todd will be reading from his first
work of fiction, Shirley Wins. Shirley Wins is a novel of not giving up and
not giving in as seen through the eyes of a physics-obsessed grandmother and
her punk music listening granddaughter who, against all odds, will create
the pumpkin cannon to end all pumpkin cannons. Shirley Wins is the follow up
to 2004’s Born to Rock, a collection of in-depth interviews illuminating the
often-misrepresented subculture of punk rock.
Jennifer Whiteford lives in the lovely and very cold city of Ottawa,
Ontario, where she is a civil servant by day and a rock?n?roll,
rollerderbying, novelist by night. Her first book, Grrrl, has been likened
to “a killer mixtape from the early 1990s that you want to play over and
over again.” She has a shy dog and a very loud laugh. She takes no offence
to being labeled as a geek and/or a dork. It has become par for the course.
She has a blog, too: http://www.jenniferwhiteford.blogspot.com/
 
Mike Faloon has paid the bills as a DJ, dishwasher, drummer, and school
teacher. He is the publisher of two zines (Go Metric, Zisk) and a
contributing writer to magazines such as Chunklet, Razorcake, and Roctober.
His work has also appeared in The Zine Yearbook (Soft Skull) and The
Overrated Book (Last Gasp). His first book, a collection of essays and
stories, is due out on Gorsky Press. He resides in Brewster, NY with his
wife and daughter. www.gometric.typepad.com
 
Jonathan Messinger is the publisher behind Featherproof Books
(www.featherproof.com) and books editor at Time Out Chicago.

Marry SoderstromThursday, March 29th, 7:30 PM
 
Mary Soderstrom, a Montreal-based writer, whose new book Green City: People, Nature and Urban Places has recently been published by V?hicule Press of Montreal. With nine books to her credit, Soderstrom is well-known to Canadian readers. Her new book uses 11 cities–Chicago among them–as starting points for exploring the ways that people have brought nature into cities over history.
 
This reading will be co-sponsored by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and someone from the center will introduce Soderstrom.