Date: March 8th 2010

Mother Jones's Mac McClelland, author of FOR US SURRENDER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION (Soft Skull Press, March 2010) will be participating in a panel at Housing Works entitled "Writing on Human Rights."

Join The Daily Beast’s Dana Goldstein, the Nation Institute Investigative Fund’s Gabriel Thompson, and Mother Jones’ Mac McClelland for Writing on Human Rights, a reading, discussion, and Q&A about the cruciality and challenges of human rights coverage. McClelland, author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma’s Never-Ending War, and Thompson, author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do, will also be available to sign books.

When: Monday, 15 March at 7 pm

Where: The Housing Works Bookstore Café
126 Crosby Street
New York, NY 10012
212-334-3324

http://www.housingworks.org/events/category/bookstore-cafe-events/

In FOR US SURRENDER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION, McClelland weaves a narrative that is part investigative journalism, part popular history, and part memoir of a midwestern, twenty-something woman living with refugee activists on the Burma-Thailand border. Driven by the community McClelland is illegally aiding—a small group of brave young men and women—For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question is an urgent and fascinating look at a weary conflict, told by a bright, new voice.


"This is a book alternately poignant and raucous, angry and heartbreaking; a reader could not ask for a more vivid introduction to the long-overlooked plight of Burma's Karen people. Mac McClelland's reporting is very much from-the-ground-up, far livelier than we will ever get from the average foreign correspondent." —Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

“McClelland tells the story of [this] complex political situation so that it is not only understandable, but meaningful. For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question makes a faraway group of refugees feel like close friends. For a book about such a dire situation, it is a surprisingly lighthearted and entertaining read.” —Ann Friedman, The American Prospect

“Gritty, informed, passionate . . . McClelland's gonzo sensibility, big heart, and keen eye for weird details bring this tale of inhuman cruelty and human resilience vividly alive.” —Gary Kamiya, Executive Editor of Salon



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