Authors I've learned to love lately

I've always loved Malcolm Gladwell (Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers), and Thomas Friedman (Lexus and the Olive Tree, The World is Flat; Hot, Flat, and Crowded). But a new favorite is Barbara Kingsolver, writer of The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, and the Poisonwood Bible, among many others, and Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote Eat, Love, Pray and a book of short stories called Pilgrims.

Two very compelling authors who I have come to admire are Samantha Power, who wrote "A Problem from Hell, America's Handling of Genocide" which makes a strong connection between the actions of the public and the intervention of politicians in stop genocide. It is important, even necessary to pay attention to issues like Darfur, and to write to our representatives about them. John Perkins wrote "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," which made me realize just how much damage corporatocracy wreaks on the world, and that we have to stop it. We can only do that if we know it is happening. He provides an anatomy of the economic disruption of our corporations. He knew what he was doing when he helped one of them, and eventually he couldn't live with it, and had to write about it.

If anyone would like to borrow any of these books I'd be happy to lend them out.