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Love Books? Independent Small Press Book Fair 12/1-2 NYC

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The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
451 West Street
New York, New York 10014
(212) 924-1858
toplab@toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org

To TOPLAB Friends-

There are two great book fairs in New York: The Brooklyn Festival of
Books, held in September, and the Independent and Small Press Book Fair,
which will take place this weekend, December 1 and 2, 2007, at the New
York Center for Independent Publishing (formerly the Small Press
Center), 20 West 44 Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues).

Numerous small and independent presses will be displaying and selling
their books on three floors of the Center's building, and there will be
ongoing readings, literary talks, and publishing panels and seminars.

Some of the presenters include Amiri Baraka, Tama Janowitz, Katha
Pollitt, Hattie Gossett and many others.

The Fair hours are 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturday and 11:00 am to 5:00
pm on Sunday.

For more information, go to http://www.nycip.org or contact the New York
Center for Independent Publishing at nycip@nycip.org or (212) 764-7021.

***

Here is the announcement from NYCIP:

The New York Center for Independent Publishing
20 West 44 Street
New York, New York 10036
(212) 764-7021
nycip@nycip.org
http://www.nycip.org

The New York Center for Independent Publishing's Twentieth Anniversary
Independent and Small Press Book Fair!

Saturday and Sunday, December 1 and 2, 2007

Come be a part of history in the making. This year's program highlights
include In the Flesh: Writing and Publishing Erotica, moderated by
Rachel Kramer Bussel, Ian MacKaye on Independent Culture, a Q&A session
with an introduction by Ian Svenonius, an interview with photographer
Glen Friedman with a slide show presentation, and Tama Janowitz and
Arthur Nersesian read from their iconic 1980s novels.

If you'd like to know more about publicity, we'll have a discussion
among book publicists from a variety of backgrounds about the book
industry today. Want to make the perfect pitch? Katharine Sands shows
us How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye.

But that's not all! Amiri Baraka, Hattie Gossett, and Aaron Petrovich
will give rugged and raw, cutting-edge urban readings, we'll discuss
permissibility in translation, self-publishing options, hear from a
great list of independent authors, and witness the earth-shaking battle
of wits between The New York Review of Books and A Public Space.

Come get your fortune read or visit the cooperative exhibit filled with
the best titles, both on the second floor!

For a full list of programs, including days and times, click here:
http://nycip.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/book-fair-program-details/

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A further note from TOPLAB

We are disheartened to be witnessing a trend of corporate mergers,
takeovers and homogenization in the book and publishing industry but are
grateful to know that independent publishing is, nonetheless, still
alive and thriving, and we urge people to support human-sized presses by
attending events like the Independent and Small Press Book Fair. And
during the rest of the year, when such fairs are not happening, we urge
people to buy books at your local, independent book store and, as much
as possible, boycott the big chains. In Manhattan, some of our favorite
book shops include:

Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street
Books of Wonder, 18 West 18 Street (for kids)
Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40 Street
Hue-Man Bookstore, 2319 Frederick Douglas Boulevard
Labyrinth Books, 536 West 112 Street
McNally Robinson, 50 Prince Street
Oscar Wilde Bookshop, 15 Christopher Street
Revolution Books, 9 West 19 Street
Saint Marks Bookshop, 31 Third Avenue
Shakespeare and Company, 716 Broadway
Three Lives and Company, 154 West Tenth Street
Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books, 34 Carmine Street

There are undoubtedly others, but these are the ones we know. Apologies
too for giving short-shrift to the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.

===
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toplab@toplab.org
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"My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the
battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
--George W. Bush, May 1, 2003

"...I told the American people that the road ahead would be difficult,
and that we would prevail. Well, it has been difficult--and we are
prevailing."
--George W. Bush, June 28, 2005

"Our cause in Iraq is noble and necessary....America is engaged in a new
struggle that will set the course for a new century. We can and we will
prevail."
--George W. Bush, January 10,
2007

"Prevailing in Iraq is not going to be easy."
--George W. Bush, March 19, 2007

+U.S. military fatalities through May 1, 2003: 140
+U.S. military fatalities through June 28, 2005: 1743
+U.S. military fatalities through January 10, 2007: 3017
+U.S. military fatalities through March 19, 2007: 3217
+U.S. military fatalities as of November 29, 2007: 3879 (this figure
exceeds the number of people killed in all of the incidents that
occurred on September 11, 2001)

+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of September 2004 (estimated by
The Lancet): 100,000+
+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of July 2006 (estimated by The
Lancet): 654,965
+Iraqi deaths due to the US invasion, as of November 29, 2007 (estimated
by Just Foreign Policy): 1,118,846*

*These figures are based on the number of deaths estimated in The Lancet
(the British medical journal) study through July 2006, and then updated
based "on how quickly deaths are mounting in Iraq". To do that, Just
Foreign Policy multiplies The Lancet figure as of July 2006 by the ratio
of current deaths reported by Iraq Body Count (IBC), divided by IBC
deaths as of July 1, 2006. The IBC numbers, considerably lower than
those cited by The Lancet, Opinion Research Business (a British polling
firm which estimated 1.2 million Iraqi deaths as of September 2007),
and even the Iraq Ministry of Health, are based on the number of
fatalities cited in various news reports and have been criticized, with
much justification, for not giving an accurate assessment of the real
Iraqi death count. The much more rigorous and statistically-reliable
study, conducted by teams from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia
University and Al-Mustansiriya University, and published in The Lancet
in September 2004, put the figure at around 100,000 civilians dead.
However, that data had been based on "conservative assumptions",
according to research team leader Les Roberts, and the actual count at
that time was credibly assumed to be significantly higher. For example,
The Lancet study's data greatly underestimated fatalities in Fallujah
due to the surveying problems encountered there at that time. The
second Lancet study, released on October 10, 2006, indicated that
654,965 "excess" deaths of Iraqis have occurred since the outbreak of
the aggression and genocide committed by the United States against the
people of Iraq. The current figures provided by Just Foreign Policy
seem to be logically consistent with the increasing rates of death from
2003 to 2004, and 2004 to 2006.

Sources: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.zmag.org/lancet.pdf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1338749,00.html
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/Iraq_war.html
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6271
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20041025/008279.html
http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf

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