Saturday, May 2, 5 PM: Author Event, Featuring Eugene Anarchist John Zerzan and Busdriver/Newspaper Writer Rick Levin
Free Event, Books Available for Purchase
————————————
John Edward Zerzan will be reading from and talking about his just-released book “Often in the Right Place: Education of an Anarchist.” Zerzan, born August 10, 1943) is an American anarcho-primitivist author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Subjects of his criticism include domestication and symbolic thought (such as language, number, art and the concept of time).
His previous books include Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive and Other Essays (1994), Running on Emptiness (2002), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005), Twilight of the Machines (2008), Why hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015), A People's History of Civilization (2019), and When We Are Human: Notes From The Age Of Pandemics (2021).
Rick Levin is an award-winning journalist and critic. His work has appeared in The Stranger, The Seattle Weekly, The Village Voice, and The Eugene Weekly. His short fiction and essays have been published in a number of literary journals. In a spasm of romanticism and blue-collar solidarity he abandoned his career in journalism in 2019 to become a city bus driver in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, wherre he lives with his wife and various animals. “Off Route” is his first novel.