Berkeley Author Mark Dowie Presents His New Book "Judith Letting Go" at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

MARK DOWIE shares his new book "Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World's Smallest Death Cafe", in which an old man learns how to die from a poet facing death. Mark will sign copies of his book after his presentation. For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact, for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go: sometime between 11:00 AM and noon, December 5, 2019, which she did. "Judith Letting Go" supports the right to plan one’s death, but it is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable. MARK DOWIE is a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine, founder of Talking Point Radio, and Editor-at-Large of InterNation. He recently retired from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he taught science, environmental reporting, and foreign correspondence. Dowie’s works have won nineteen journalism awards, including four National Magazine Awards, a George Polk Award, a William Allen White Gold Medal, and a Media Alliance’s Meritorious Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by John F. Kennedy University and is the author of eight previous books.

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