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3/7/05

'SCRAPING BY' AUTHOR TO SPEAK AT SLU EVENT

CANTON – The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries 
at St. Lawrence University will celebrate the publication of 
Associate Professor of English Natalia Rachel Singer's book 
Scraping By in the Big Eighties (University of Nebraska Press, 
2004) with a public reception on Friday, March 25, at 4 p.m. in 
the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. Singer will 
speak at the event, which is open to the public, free of charge.
	The book combines memoir with political commentary to 
make the point that "history is being revisited upon us" in a 
trickle-down phenomenon Singer dubs "déjà-voodoo."
	"My book is dedicated to everyone who lived through the 
eighties convinced that the whole world had gone crazy," Singer 
says, "and who are feeling a very uncomfortable déjà vu now. My 
hope is that it will provide solace to the people who thought 
they were the only ones who felt this way. It's also dedicated 
to my students, who were born during the Reagan years and have 
never lived in the America I knew as a child, when, for all its 
flaws, the commitment to end poverty and injustice was a top-down 
mandate."
	Singer has done readings from the book at a number of 
locations throughout the country since its publication. Her fiction 
and essays have appeared in Ms., Harper’s, O: The Oprah Magazine, 
The American Scholar, alternet.org and dozens of other journals. 

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