Baffler event in Chicago

[Peter K.]

The Baffler magazine, rising like Phoenix out of the fire
of its former abode, is holding a reading/event at
Danny's Tavern (complete with neon Schlitz sign outside)
Wednesday.
Thomas Frank, among others, will be there.
http://noslander.com/dannys.html

Frank is quoted in this review of Jonathan "Oprah-spurner"
Franzen's book The Corrections.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n24/ohag2324.htm

"Americans imagined that economic democracy meant a reasonable
standard of living for all - that freedom was only meaningful
once poverty and powerlessness had been overcome. Today, however,
American opinion leaders seem generally convinced that democracy
and the free market are simply identical . . . What is 'new' is
this idea's triumph over all its rivals; the determination of
America's world leaders to extend it to all the world; the
general belief that there is something natural, something divine,
something inherently democratic about markets. A better term for
the 'New Economy' might simply be 'consensus'."