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Thursday, May 25, 2006

May 30 at KGB: Prison, Diamonds, Catfights

KGB Non-Fiction Night: Prison, Diamonds, Catfights
85 E4th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues
FREE!!
Doors open at 7:00; readings begin at 7:15ish
Hosted by Lisa Selin Davis

David Goewey is the son and grandson and brother of Sing Sing prison guards.He holds and MFA from The New School and has taught creative writing at LaGuardia Community College. His book, The Crash Out: The True Tale of a Hell's Kitchen Kid and theBloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History, is the riveting true story of a 1941prison break from Ossining Correctional Facility that claimed the life of a guard and a local policeman. It skillfully interweaves the story of theattempted escape (a "crash out," as the cons used to call it) with detailsabout the gang wars in Hell's Kitchen and the warden's vain attemtps to create a more humane atmosphere behind bars.

Susan Shapiro Barash is a professor of gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College. She is the author of eight previous books, including A Passion ForMore, Second Wives and Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law. Her book Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Rivalry and Women is astudy of the mysterious and quietly vicious world of competition amongwomen. She interviewed more than 500 women from all walks of life to form a portrait of the various ways in which women undermine one other in pursuitof jobs, relationships and children. The arena of rivalry can be even morebrutal among women, says Barash, because of the lack of generally-understood boundaries of competition and what she calls the myth of "sisterhood" thatmay actually do more to further the problem than solve it.

Tom Zoellner has worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and acontributing editor for Men's Health magazine. He is also the coauthor of An Ordinary Man, the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions duringthe 1994 Rwandan genocide were portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda. His book The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds,Deceit and Desire is being called the "Fast Food Nation" of the diamondtrade. His investigation of America's favorite gemstone took him every continent on the globe but Antarctica. He reported his book from illegaldiggings in Brazil, diamond smuggling rings in Africa, exploration rigsabove the Arctic Circle, the sweltering polishing shops of India, underground tunnels in Australia, advertising offices in Japan, warehouse labs in Siberia, and the halls of the De Beers cartel in London.

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