Set the Night on Fire details a decade in the life of a city with influence beyond its time and place. The authors will discuss the background to the book and its relevance today, particularly in the context of urban crisis.
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Mike Davis is the author of City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Buda’s Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.
Jon Wiener (@jonwiener1) is a longtime Contributing Editor at The Nation and host and producer of Start Making Sense, the magazine’s weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of U.S. history at UC Irvine, and his books include Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files and How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America. He lives in Los Angeles.
Robin D. G. Kelley is Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002); Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997); and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990).
Glyn Robbins (@robbins_glyn) is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, LSE and a housing worker and campaigner.
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