Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography, and the translator (from Portuguese) of a memoir by Brazilian author Hadasa Cytrynowicz. He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. He chaired the Southern California chapter of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 UAW (AFL-CIO) for two terms and is director emeritus of The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District. In 2015 he produced “City of the Future,” a CD of Soviet Yiddish songs by Samuel Polonski. He received the Better Lemons "Up Late" Critic Award for 2019, awarded to the most prolific critic. His latest project is translating the fiction of Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese. The first two books, "Five Days, Five Nights" and "The Six-Pointed Star," are available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Labor

Do you ‘look for the union label’ on nonprofit solicitations?
May 13, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
The union "bug" be easy to miss unless you’ve trained your eye to spot it.
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News

Race heats up in California’s 54th Assembly District
May 3, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Several candidates with progressive platforms and records have a good chance of eventually winning the seat in the state legislature.
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Books

Two new entries in the catalogue of progressive children’s literature
April 22, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
These are the kinds of helpful teaching and socialization aids that parents need if they want to raise woke kids.
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Culture

Baritone Will Liverman dreams of a new day in CD of Black composers
March 24, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Dreams of a New Day: Songs by Black Composers comprises more than an hour’s worth of 19 great songs by eight different composers.
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Culture

Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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Culture

Attractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
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Books

‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’
March 9, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.
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Opinion

Half a million COVID dead: Trump death cult meets shock doctrine
February 22, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
Today we are a nation of the walking wounded—those of us still above ground.
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