Want a way to support KPFA without any funds going to Pacifica? Proceeds of KPFA’s local events go solely to KPFA. Check out this list of upcoming KPFA benefit events – we’ll see you there!
All events are wheelchair accessible. Tickets available 2 weeks before the specific event at brownpapertickets.com phone: 800-838-3006 and at our supportive independent bookstores: Pegasus Books (3 stores), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s, Diesel a Bookstore, Walden Pond Books. In SF: Modern Times. For more information, contact: bob {@} kpfa.org, 510.848.5006
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February 23, 7:30 pm
Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future
First Congregational Church
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
BENEFIT FOR KPFA
“With his lucid and wry style, his knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth, and his willingness to indulge in a little scientifically informed futurology now and then Michio Kaku has written one of the very best accounts of higher physics.” – Wall Street Journal
In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku The New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the world’s top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs. The result is the most authoritative and scientifically accurate description of the revolutionary developments taking place in medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production, and astronautics.
“Mesmerizing the reader exits dizzy, elated, and looking at the world in a literally revolutionary way.” – Washington Post Book World
Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, cofounder of string field theory, author of several widely acclaimed science books, and has a Science Channel show and two radio programs, including Explorations. Philip Maldari, a veteran broadcast journalist on KPFA, is currently host of the Sunday Show.
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March 13, 7:30 pm
Hari Kunzru, Gods Without Men
The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley
Hillside Club
2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, yet centered on flesh- and-blood characters who converge in the desert. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is above all a hearfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe.
Hari Kunzru, the author of the novels, The Impressionist, Transmission, and My Revolutions, is the recipient of many major literary awards, including the Pushcart Prize. Granta has named him one of the best young British novelists. His work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His short stories and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Wired, The Times of India, and the New Statesman.
In 2010 Kunzru was the keynote speaker at the European Writers Parliament in Istanbul. He currently lives in New York City.
“Gods Without Men is a dazed, erudite and unforgettable novel” —David Mitchell, author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas.
Richard Wolinsky co-hosted and produced ‘Probabilities” and then “Cover to Cover” on KPFA-FM from 1977 to early 2002. His current program of literary interviews, “Bookwaves,” is broadcast Thursday afternoons at 3 pm.
BENEFIT FOR KPFA
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March 15, 7:30 pm
Michael Klare, The Race to the Bottom
The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St, Berkeley
details to come
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April 13, 7:30 pm
Rachel Maddow, Drift
King Middle School, 1781 Rose St, Berkeley
Rachel Maddow will discuss her new book, Drift, answer questions, and sign books. Rachel Maddow has hosted the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC since 2008. Before that, she was at Air America Radio for the duration of that underappreciated enterprise. She has a doctorate in politics from Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford. She lives in rural western Massachusetts and New York City with her partner, artist Susan Mikula, and an enormous dog.
BENEFIT FOR KPFA
