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Gregg Allman in the news…(and event poster) at @Live Talks on May 15
Happy to share our poster for our Live Talks Los Angeles event with Gregg Allman next Tuesday, May 15. Ticket info here.
Here are some mentions in the press about Gregg Allman and his memoir, My Cross To Bear:
— In The Washington Post, Love, family, drug addiction: Gregg Allman tells it all in new memoir
— In The Miami Herald, Gregg Allman’s memoir brims with road stories and family pain
— In USA Today, Allman bares wounded soul in memoir ‘My Cross to Bear’, April 30
— Rolling Stone, an excerpt from the book, April 27
— in Entertainment Weekly, Gregg Allman talks life behind the scenes in new memoir, ‘My Cross to Bear’ (VIDEO), April 24
— from CBS News,Gregg Allman passes heart tests, ready for book tour and summer concerts, May 2
— Huffington Post: Gregg Allman Remembers Cher–Was She A Mermaid, A Little Girl Or General Patton?!, April 30
Gregg Allman in the news…He appears at Live Talks LA on May 15 at Aero Theatre @SidGrauman @GreggAllmanNews
We’re thrilled to be hosting Gregg Allman on May 15th at The Aero Theatre discussing his career, music and life. His memoir, My Cross to Bear, was just released to rave reviews…We’re happy to hear that the recent heart tests he underwent came out good and he’s cleared to tour.
He’ll be in conversation with music journalist, Alan Light.
Here are links to some recent stories in the news…
— In USA Today, Allman bares wounded soul in memoir ‘My Cross to Bear’, April 30
— Rolling Stone, an excerpt from the book, April 27
— in Entertainment Weekly, Gregg Allman talks life behind the scenes in new memoir, ‘My Cross to Bear’ (VIDEO), April 24
— from CBS News,Gregg Allman passes heart tests, ready for book tour and summer concerts, May 2
— Huffington Post: Gregg Allman Remembers Cher–Was She A Mermaid, A Little Girl Or General Patton?!, April 30
Michael Sandel in the news – at Live Talks LA May 9 w/ @Patt_Morrison (Colbert, WSJ,Huff Post….) @HarvardAlumni
Michael Sandel’s book, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, continues to get noted in the press. We host him at Live Talks Los Angeles May 9th at All Saints Church in Pasadena in conversation with Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times columnist and host of The Patt Morrison Show on KPCC
Event deets here…
— The Huffington Post (April 24): Does the Invisible Hand Really Know Best
— Fortune (April 20): One Nation, Ruled by Money
— Vanity Fair (May 2012): Market Philosopher
— Huffington Post (4/13): Michael J. Sandel Warns Market Society Risks America’s Soul
— See Michael Sandel on The Colbert Report (April 25)
And on The Colbert Report…
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Michael Sandel (What Money Can’t Buy) in the news…We host him May 9 in conversation with @Patt_Morrison
We host Harvard’s Michael Sandel on May 9th at All Saints Church in Pasadena. He’ll be in conversation with Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times columnist and host of The Patt Morrison Show on KPCC. Ticket info here…
He argues that the spread of ‘market philosophy’ has created what he calls “a consumerist idea of freedom,” in which we think our highest freedom is what we consume. Our obsession with consumption limits our freedom to engage in a full civic life. He applauds markets for driving economic prosperity around the world, but he still thinks markets shouldn’t replace our moral judgment. His hugely popular course he teaches at Harvard, “Justice,” was broadcast on PBS and the BBC.
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life? Decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for- profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Hear what Sandel has to say on the “moral limits of markets.”
Michael Sandel in the news…
— Newsweek (4/16): What Money Can’t Buy: Michael Sandel on Market Moralism Run Amok
— Huffington Post (4/13): Michael J. Sandel Warns Market Society Risks America’s Soul
— The Atlantic (April 2012): What Isn’t for Sale (book excerpt)
Scott Turow in the news on the publishing biz, we host him w/ Carolyn Kellogg at Live Talks Business 6/22 on the Future of Book Publishing @LiveTalksBiz @paperhaus
Are Apple Inc. (AAPL) and the big trade publishers colluding to manipulate the market in electronic books?
No, says Scott Turow, president of the Authors Guild. We host him at Live Talks Business on June 22nd for breakfast to discuss this and other challenges in the world of book publishing. He’ll be in conversation with Carolyn Kellogg of the Los Angeles Times’ Jacket Copy blog about all things books.
Scott Turow observes this from two perches: As the writer of bestsellers, including Presumed Innocent, Innocent, One L, and Ultimate Punishment. And, as the current president of The Authors Guild, the leading advocate for writers’ interests.
Here’s an excerpt from an Op-Ed piece in Bloomberg this week on the issue by Turow…
The Justice Department has been investigating whether the publishers colluded in adopting, for the sale of e-books, the same “agency model” pioneered by Apple in selling iTunes. Under that setup, Apple acts as the publishers’ sales agent, taking a cut (usually 30 percent) and leaving it to publishers to set the prices of the e-books they publish.
I have no way of knowing whether the publishers colluded. My friends in publishing insist that price was never part of the discussions, but the Justice Department prosecutors seem to think they have a compelling case. All I can say as an author — and as president of the Authors Guild, the nation’s largest membership organization of professional book writers — is that if the government wants to intervene in the literary marketplace, I hope it will consider the complex ecology of bookselling in the U.S.
Amy Poehler/Jane Lynch event video on Bio.com home page…
We’re thrilled to have the video from our event with Amy Poehler and Jane Lynch featured on the home page of the Biography Channel’s website. The Biography Channel is a major sponsor of Live Talks Los Angeles and a content partner where we exclusively release the videos from some of our events….Here’s a link to the video.
Here’s a link to the Live Talks Los Angeles page on the Bio website where you can see more of our videos.