Name: Book Launch: Gal Beckerman with George Packer
Start: 2026-04-23T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-23T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene

Book Launch: Gal Beckerman with George Packer

Founded in October 2009, Greenlight Bookstore is a general independent bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which hosts literary events in-store and with partner venues. The mission of Greenlight Bookstore is to create welcoming spaces for discovery, conversation, and connection around books, through curation, programming and service that provides for the needs and interests of our customers and highlights creative work we love and value, based on a commitment to improving equity and sustainability in our company and our community. Through knowledgeable staff, curated book selection, community partnerships, and a robust e-commerce website as well as a beautiful bookstore spaces, Greenlight combines the best traditions of the neighborhood bookstore with a forward-looking sensibility. Greenlight has garnered local, national, and international press coverage for its innovative startup model and its continuing success. More information and details, along with book purchase options, can be found atgreenlightbookstore.com.

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Local senior editor at The Atlantic Gal Beckerman launches an invigorating guide to fighting back.

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Book Launch: Gal Beckerman presents How to Be a Dissident In conversation with George Packer In partnership with <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/" title="https://www.theatlantic.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Atlantic</a>Local senior editor at The Atlantic, and author of the article “<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/01/antidote-trump-look-to-the-dissidents/685822/?utm_campaign=one-story-to-read-today&amp;utm_content=20260130&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;lctg=6050f5f9f98ec7553c053ea3&amp;utm_term=One%20Story%20to%20Read%20Today" title="https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/01/antidote-trump-look-to-the-dissidents/685822/?utm_campaign=one-story-to-read-today&amp;utm_content=20260130&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;lctg=6050f5f9f98ec7553c053ea3&amp;utm_term=One%20Story%20to%20Read%20Today" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">There Is a Word for What Is Happening in Minneapolis</a>”, Gal Beckerman launches How to Be a Dissident, an invigorating guide to fighting back—part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift. Urgent and inspiring, How to Be a Dissident shows that dissidence is a human capacity we can all cultivate, a refusal to betray one’s inner voice, no matter the cost. He argues: in a polarized America and a world sliding toward authoritarianism, we need dissidents—not only the jailed and martyred, but also those of us who face small daily compromises of conscience. Beckerman reads from and discusses the book with The Atlantic's George Packer, before an audience Q&amp;A and signing.

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