Events Calendar

Thomas Frank will read from Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society.

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times?perfect for this political moment.

What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America’s winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country?

Thomas Frank is the author of Listen, Liberal; Pity the Billionaire; The Wrecking Crew; and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and writes regularly for The Guardian. He lives outside Washington, D.C.