[NYC-L] FW: BOOK READING tuesday ON KOSOVO WAR AND THE NEW YORK CONNECTION

[Jeton Ademaj]

well, here come the literary profiteers!

head's up.


>To: <Harriman-news at columbia.edu>, <othereurope at columbia.edu>

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>For anyone interested in the Balkans, or just a well-told tale,
>journalist Stacy Sullivan will be reading from her new book, "Be Not
>Afraid For You Have Sons in America." It is the story of
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>an ethnic Albanian immigrant to New York who launched a guerrilla army
>in Kosovo from his
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>Brooklyn roofing company. The official publication date is May 25, but
>Sullivan is
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>reading at KGB on Tuesday night, May 4, at 7 PM.
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>KGB Bar
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>85 East 4th Street
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>New York, NY 10003
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>(212) 505 3360
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>what other writers say about the book:
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>Thanks to years of reporting, Stacy Sullivan has managed to hunt down
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>inside story of how a Brooklyn roofer helped launch a guerrilla army in
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>Balkans. With her remarkable tales of gun-running, intrigue, high
>politics,
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>and murder, Sullivan has given us a work of contemporary history that
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>more like a crime thriller. She has also offered a disturbing glimpse
>behind
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>the scenes of one of the only wars ever waged on humanitarian grounds.
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>Samantha Power - author of Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Problem From Hell."
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>Stacy Sullivan allows us to peer into the shadowy world of
>revolutionaries,
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>gangsters, gun runners and war profiteers who work below the surface of
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>every conflict.  Her story is as timeless as it is compelling.  She
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>chronicles the awful machinery of war, the high idealism and base
>cynicism,
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>the brutal politics and utopian visions, which propel young men into
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>battlefields and often leaves them broken and scarred.  She captures,
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>through her dogged reporting, the dark and frightening labyrinth of war.
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>Chris Hedges - author of NYT bestseller "War is A Force That Gives Us
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>Meaning."
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>  "Be Not Afraid'" is a war reporting tour de force - tough, thorough,
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>gut-wrenching. In the tradition of Anthony Lukas' "Common Ground" Stacy
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>Sullivan gives us an unforgettable character - the avenging Brooklyn
>emigre
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>Florin Krasniqi - to capture the full emotional toll of a brutal war we
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>thought we understood.
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>Todd Balf, author of NYT bestseller "The Last River" and "The Darkest
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>Jungle."
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>Peter S. Green
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>Knight-Bagehot Fellow
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>Columbia University Graduate School of Business
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>400 West 119th Street
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>New York, NY 10027
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>Tel: 917 583 2390
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>Email: petergreen at pobox.com
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