Come see NWU members Bill Fletcher Jr. and Tim Sheard at Busboys Takoma from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 16. This event, Bread & Roses: Writers at Work, will feature Fletcher, Sheard and Gary Frank, who is also a longtime labor activist. All three published novels in the past year, and will speak about their work and […]

Victor Grossman, a New York “red diaper baby” of the 1930s and resident of East Berlin since the 1950s, recently made a 10-week transcontinental tour with his new memoir and meditation on left politics, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee (Monthly Review Press). It is a richly told story unfolding in rare, personal detail.  […]

In May, NY Chapter co-chair Timothy Sheard met with four aspiring writers, each with their own unique challenges and goals. Over two hours we discuss each writer’s opportunities and options, from finding an agent to self-publishing. One writer, having not heard back from a publisher who expressed interest in her book, is now going to […]

Climate change has brought a new, aggressive Zika virus to Philadelphia, making pregnant women fearful they will become infected, and overloading the hospital with a crush of frightened patients. Pregnant nurses at James Madison Hospital beg to be relieved from caring for patients with the virus, but Mother Burgess, the Director of Nursing, refuses. The […]