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October 6th, 2026 - Alissa Quart
Award-winning author and poet, Alissa Quart, joins Heart of The East End Gianna Volpe on WLIW-FM during Banned Books Week to discuss iconic late local journalist, Barbara Ehrenreich, and collaborative creation of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project amidst 25th anniversary of Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America, which the New York Times named one of 100 best books in the 21st century.
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