The Place You Love Is Gone

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Melissa Holbrook Pierson criticizes the way big cities grow and develop at the cost of small towns. In The Place You Love Is Gone, she reveals how towns in the Catskills were flooded in order to provide water for New York City, and speaks out against the homogenization of American cities.

Events: Melissa Holbrook Pierson will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, February 7th at 7:15pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor

Music: “Main Titles” and “Homer’s Lessons” from the motion picture soundtrack of “Cider House Rules” composed by Rachel Portman.

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