James F. Trumm

We've got a busy June ahead of us at the FDL Book Salon.  It's shaping up as a month devoted to the many different ways that the current administration has taken the country into a lawless and dangerous place and left it there without a clear way home. On Sunday, June 10, we'll be hosting [...]

(Please welcome author Chris Hedges, who is here to discuss his new book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.  As always with guests here at FDL, please be polite and stay on topic in comments and questions.  Any off-topic comments should be taken to another thread.  Please join me in giving Chris a big [...]

We're having a special Book Salon double-header on Sunday, May 20. At 1:00, Laura Flanders, the host of RadioNation on Air America, will come by to discuss her new book, Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. Blue Grit is both a love letter and a wake-up call.  Like Diogenes in search [...]

(Please welcome our new Book Salon editor, James F. Trumm — JH) I'm a boomerang kid who fled the midwest at 17, lived in New England for the next 19 years, and then returned to Northwest Ohio to teach, write, and raise kids.  I'm a promiscuous reader; I'll get into bed with just about any [...]