REGISTRATION: Founder’s Day with Jeff Sharlet
Bette members — please register for Sunday’s Founder’s Day event with Jeff Sharlet, who will be reading passages from his book, The Undertow, April 14, 4 pm PT
****Registration link for Sunday’s Founder’s Day event with Jeff Sharlet is below the paywall.
****Reminder, our David Pepper event is tomorrow!
Jeff Sharlet Returns to Bette!
Thank you to everyone who supports this work with a membership. Thank you to those who are renewing their annual memberships and to everyone who is upgrading to Founding Member — you have made it possible for me to open my archives to help counter the onslaught of infinitely funded disinformation.
If four more subscribers join or upgrade to Founding Member, I can focus on the work and not the wolves at the door (although in all fairness, I do love wolves).
I don’t mind telling you that I have been politely stalking Jeff Sharlet to come back and join us for another Founder’s Day event and the reason is completely selfish.
I need to soothe my soul by hearing Jeff read from his brilliant book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Moving Civil War.
Here is a print report on this brave poet from 2023:
We’re going to do things differently for this event — we’re just going to listen to Jeff read his words and reflect on how he feels about them in light of all that has transpired since he published his book.
As always, I am so grateful to those of you who support the work of our guests, and if you have not already purchased a copy of The Undertow, please do so here.
More about Jeff:
Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times and national bestselling author of THE FAMILY and C STREET, and executive producer of the 2019 Netflix five-part documentary series based on them, THE FAMILY. His newest book is THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (W.W. Norton, March 2023). His other books include THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS, SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE, and RADIANT TRUTHS. With Peter Manseau he wrote KILLING THE BUDDHA and edited BELIEVER, BEWARE. Of SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE, The Washington Post writes, "This book belongs in the tradition of long-form, narrative nonfiction best exemplified by Joan Didion, John McPhee [and] Norman Mailer… Sharlet deserves a place alongside such masters.” An article for GQ that became the beginning of THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS won a National Magazine Award, and excerpts from C STREET were honored with the Molly Ivins Prize, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Outspoken Award, and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association's prize for feature writing. Barbara Ehrenreich called THE FAMILY "one of the most compelling and brilliantly researched exposes you'll ever read."
Jeff is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and editor-at-large for VQR. He has been a frequent commentator on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," "All in With Chris," and NPR's "Fresh Air." He has received grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, The Nation Institute, and other organizations. His writing on music has twice been featured in the annual BEST MUSIC WRITING volume.
RadPod’s interview with him is epic.
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