Barbara Ehrenreich talks about why she thinks America’s love affair with positive thinking has a negative side. Her new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America traces the origins of our sunny outlook and looks at how relentless positive thinking has led to an era of what Ehrenreich calls irrational optimism.

Event: Barbara Ehrenreich will be reading and signing books
Wednesday October 14, at 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble, Upper West Side
2289 Broadway at 82nd Street