Events

Join Michael Fine, author of Abundance and Health Care Revolt, for readings and discussions throughout November. Click on the link below for information.

“Abundance is a realistic tour-de-force of survival.” —Michael Bilow, Motif Magazine

“Health Care Revolt is a revolutionary book. The author incites readers to embark on an audacious revolution to convert the American medical market into the American health care system.” —T.P. Gariepy, Stonehill College/CHOICE connect

November 6 in Newport, RI. Abundance reading at Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 6:00 pm. 50 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840

November 8 in Warwick, RI. Keynote Speaker at RI Minority Elder Task Force’s Cultural Competency Conference: Death and Dying at 9:00 am. 2225 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886

November 11 in Providence, RI. “Advocacy in Action” Guest Panelist at Warren Alpert Medical School, 5:30 pm. 322 Richmond Street, Providence, RI 02903

November 12 in Providence, RI. Abundance reading at Fox Point Library, 6:30 pm. 90 Ives Street, Providence, RI 02906

November 14th in Johnston, RI. Health Care Revolt Discussion Group at Mohr Memorial Library, 11:45 am. 1 Memorial Avenue, Johnston, RI 02919

November 15 in Providence, RI. Abundance reading at Hamilton House, 11:00 am. 276 Angell Street, Providence, RI 02906

November 19 in Central Falls, RI. Health Care Revolt reading at Adams Public Library, 7:00 pm. 205 Central Street, Central Falls, RI 02863

November 20 in West Hartford, CT. Abundance reading at Noah Webster Library, 7:00 pm. 20 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107

November 21 in Tiverton, RI. Abundance reading at Tiverton Public Library, 6:30 pm. 34 Roosevelt Avenue, Tiverton, RI 02878

Michael Fine, MD, is a writer, community organizer, and family physician. He is the chief health strategist for the City of Central Falls, RI, and Senior Clinical and Population Health Services Officer for Blackstone Valley Community Health Care, Inc., and recipient of many awards and prizes for his pioneering work bringing together public health and primary medical care. He was director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, 2011–2015. He is author of Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy—All at the Same Time. Abundance is his first novel.

Join Erica Lagalisse, author of Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples, at Spartacus Books in Vancouver, BC on Saturday, November 23rd from 5pm to 7pm. Click on the link below for more information.

Join Erica Lagalisse, author of Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples, at the People’s Co-Op Bookstore on Sunday, November 24th at 7pm in Vancouver, BC. Click on the link below for more information.

Join Ian Brennan, author of Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth, in London, UK on Monday, November 25th at 6:30pm at Bookmarks Bookshop with legendary producer, Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Richard Thompson, Pink Floyd). Click the link below for more information.

Silenced by Sound is a powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era. It is “full of wisdom from someone who cares deeply about the power of real music.”—MOJO. Learn more here.

Ian Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four books and has worked with the likes of filmmaker John Waters, Merle Haggard, and Green Day, among others. His work with international artists such as the Zomba Prison Project, Tanzania Albinism Collective, and Khmer Rouge Survivors, has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment with Anderson Cooper reporting. Since 1993 he has taught violence prevention and conflict resolution around the world for such prestigious organizations as the Smithsonian, New York’s New School, Berklee College of Music, the University of London, the University of California–Berkeley, and the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (Rome).

Join Gabriel Kuhn for the book launch of  X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, November 27th at ABF Stockholm (Sveavägen 41, 111 83 Stockholm, Sweden) at 6pm.

X is the highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution which continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.

Find all of Kuhn’s books here. Click the link below for more information.

Join Gabriel Kuhn, author of  X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety, and PM Press at the Umeå Anarchist Bookfair/Umeås Anarkistiska Bokmässa from  November 28th to December 1st in Umeå, Sweden.

Gabriel will give a presentation on his new book and have a selection of PM Press books on hand.

X is the highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution which continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.

Find all of Gabriel Kuhn’s books here. Click the link below for more information about the book fair.

Join PM Press at the 2019 Seattle Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, November 30th and Sunday, December 1st at the The Vera Project located at Seattle Center, on the corner of Warren Ave North and Republican St.  Check out our new releases, and click the link below for more information.

Join Nisi Shawl, author of Talk like a Man, and others for “Anarchy in the SF: A Panel on Speculative Fiction” at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, November 30th from 12:30pm – 2pm at The Vera Project in Seattle, WA. Click on the link below for more information.

Anarchy in the SF: A Panel on Speculative Fiction

Building a better world is impossible without a blueprint. Coming from a variety of perspectives and taking on projects ranging through prison abolition, trans liberation, regime downfall and others, local speculative fiction writers share the ways they’re imagining anarchy into being. With discussion of past and present anarchist speculative fiction that inspires and challenges their works in progress.

Nisi Shawl, winner of the 2019 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, wrote the 2016 Nebula Award finalist Everfair, which is about an imaginary Fabian socialist Utopia in the Congo. PM Press has just released their story collection Talk Like a Man. With Cynthia Ward they co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, the basis of several ongoing classes. They live in Seattle and take frequent walks with their cat.

Joanne Rixon is an organizer with the North Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup, and she facilitates creative writing workshops for incarcerated youth at the juvenile jail in Tacoma with Write 253. Her short fiction has appeared in Liminal Stories, Fireside and Terraform.

Evan J. Peterson is the author of Drag Star! and The PrEP Diaries: A Safe(r) Sex Memoir. He is a Clarion West alum and editor of the Lambda Literary finalist Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam: Gay City 5. His writing has also appeared in Weird Tales, Unspeakable Horror 2, Queers Destroy Horror, Boing Boing, and Best Gay Stories 2015.

J.G. Stewart writes fiction, music, and code, with varying degrees of success. His most recent novel explores themes of colonialism, history, identity, and airships, in an alternate British Raj. He is a graduate of Viable Paradise, Writing the Other, and the UW Certificate Program in Genre Fiction. He likes dogs.

Kristin King lives in Seattle and is working on a time travel novel. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the Aqueduct Press anthology Missing Links and Secret Histories, and her short story collection Misfits from the Beehive State. She enjoys hiking, kayaking, and obsessing over Doctor Who, and in the future of her dreams she has already learned how to play a chromatic harmonica.