Book Launch for Gary Younge Book about USA

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Event in collaboration with Centerprise Bookshop.


Margaret Busby in conversation with Gary Younge about his latest novel, Stranger in a Strange Land

Encounters in the Disunited States

Venue: Centerprise Bookshop, 136-138 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, Hackney, London E8 2NS

Date: Tuesday 23 May 2006 Time: 6.30 – 8.30 p.m.

Admission: Free

Limited capacity: RSVP Sheila 020 7254 9632



“Forthright, sane, measured, and vivid, Younge sees both England and America with a kind of hard-edged clarity that impresses me to no end.”

Jonathan Raban

Stranger in a Strange Land

Encounters in the Disunited States



By Gary Younge



An unrivalled superpower, yet too clumsy to save its own people from a devastating flood, many are struggling to understand the United States in the early years of the 21st Century. At this remarkable time, The Guardian’s foreign correspondent in New York, Gary Younge, has provided some of the most original, thoughtful and sometimes hilarious commentary about the trials and traits of this curious nation. With a sharp eye and a sharper pencil, Younge’s dispatches capture the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and often bitterly divided against itself.



Stranger in a Strange Land collects, for the first time, Gary’s best pieces for The Guardian, exploring war, race, politics and culture through the shadow of 9/11, the 2004 presidential election and Hurricane Katrina. In these pages we are led across America by a guide whose restless curiosity is framed with a powerful political intelligence. Along the way we listen in on expansive discussions with, among others, Warren Beatty, Michael Moore, Jon Stewart, Louis Farrakhan, Susan Sontag, and Maya Angelou. We take the stage with an extravagantly attired drag queen in John Ashcroft’s hometown, sup with a fundamentalist Republican who has just lost his son in the Iraq war, and take a latter-day Freedom ride with Guatemalan strawberry pickers. If journalism is the first draft of history, then history has a lot to look forward to.



“Gary Younge is an excellent journalist - a critical writer at a critical time.”

Andrea Levy



About the author:

Gary Younge has been on the staff of The Guardian since 1994, and is a columnist for The Nation. He was the recipient of the Washington Post’s Lawrence Stern Fellowship in 1996, and his previous book, No Place Like Home, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.