KGB Bar

HELEN BENEDICT is the author of five novels and five books of nonfiction. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon, Huffington Post, The Nation, and elsewhere and she is a professor of journalism at Columbia University. She will be reading from her newest nonfiction book, THE LONELY SOLDIER: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq.

DR NATHANIEL FRANK is Senior Research Fellow at the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an adjunct professor of history at New York University. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. A historian with a doctorate from Brown University, he is perhaps the most widely published journalist on the military’s current policy on gay troops. He will be reading from his new book UNFRIENDLY FIRE: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America.

DAVID VINE is assistant professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC.  His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Mother Jones online, Chronicle of Higher Education, International Migration, and Human Rights Brief, among others.  David is a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, and a founding member of the Project on Foreign Military Bases and the Network of Concerned Anthropologists.  He has also conducted research about gentrification in Brooklyn, NY, environmental refugees, homelessness and mental illness, and summer league basketball in Washington, DC. He will be reading from his new book ISLAND OF SHAME: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia. Visit his website: www.davidvine.net

* Last KGB Nonfiction reading of the season.