Zinn Goes Widescreen

A few years back, my wife and I helped a cool dude named Anthony Arnove produce a live reading of the source texts from Voices of a People's History of the United States, the epochal alt-history book from revered scholar Howard Zinn. It was a stunning success, mostly because of Zinn and Arnove's stirring vision and the utter dedication of talent that came on board for it. That talent included Viggo Mortensen and the dedicated Josh Brolin, who told me after the show that his kids actually go to a school that uses People's History of the United States as a textbook. I was floored by that one.

Same with the live readings themselves, which are now in the process of going widescreen, according to recent emails Anthony has been sending me. Here's an in-depth update from my pals at AlterNet, and here's Seven Stories page for Zinn's recent book, The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency. Read them all, and get ready for the bigger show, which is going to turn heads and tease minds.

Just in time for us all.