Event Description
Porter Square Books: Boston Edition is excited to welcome Natasha Hakimi Zapata for her book Another World Is Possible. Author Dan Chiasson will join Zapata in conversation. This event will take place on Thursday, February 6 at 7pm at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition (50 Liberty Drive Boston, MA 02210).
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ABOUT ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Real-world solutions to America's thorniest social problems--from housing to retirement to drug addiction--based on original reporting from around the world
A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie?
Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States. Through in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another World Is Possible examines innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, and more.
In each instance Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyed assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and real-world impact of these programs. The result is a compelling, frame-shifting account of how we might live differently and create a safer, healthier, more sustainable future.
A work of keen analysis as well as enormous heart and optimism, Another World Is Possible is destined to crack the mold of current debates, and to refresh our sense of what might be possible tomorrow.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere. The former foreign editor of Truthdig and the author of Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe (The New Press), she lives in London.
Dan Chiasson is the author of seven books, including the forthcoming Bernie for Burlington: Sanders in a Changing Vermont (Knopf, 2026), a study of politics and change in one American place. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and teaches at Wellesley College.
This class will take place in-person at our Center for Creative Writing in Boston's Seaport neighborhood.
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