Barbara Ehrenreich on her new book, "Natural Causes"

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Barbara Ehrenreich
Noted author will be at Powell's May 1st for a reading

Ehrenreich has done it again! The author of "Nickel and Dimed," "Bright-Sided" and many others now offers us her fresh and unique take on the medical establishment, the "wellness industry," and our peculiar attidudes to death and dying. Her prose is as always succinct and compelling, her research thorough and her level-headedness refreshing. She joins host Paul Roland for a Membership Drive special you won't want to miss!!

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, The Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer, just out in hardback from Twelve, Hachette Book Group, New York. Barbara Ehrenreich will speak at Powell's Books on West Burnside, Tuesday May 1 at 7:30 p.m.

From the Introduction to Natural Causes:

Here you will find no “how-to” advice, no tips about how to extend your life, upgrade your diet and exercise regimen, or fine-tune your attitude in a more healthful direction. If anything, I hope this book will encourage you to rethink the project of personal control over your body and mind. We would all like to live longer and healthier lives; the question is how much of our lives should be devoted to this project, when we all, or at least most of us, have other, often more consequential things to do.

Her website is http://barbaraehrenreich.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter, @B_Ehrenreich.

Ehrenreich also founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, which "aims to change the national conversation around both poverty and economic insecurity. The stories we commission—from narrative features to photo-essays and videos—put a human face on financial instability. We fund and place our reportage and photojournalism at the most renowned and popular sites and magazines, from The New York Times to The Guardian to VICE"

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