There's nothing more important than perseverance. It's what every PEN member knows. Without it none of us would be here.
On Thursday (9/24) I'll be interviewed on Queens Public Television (QPTV), 8-9 pm about my book, ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.
While it's now in its third printing and has been translated into 13 languages, its beginning was decidedly ignominious: 83 publishers rejected it before it finally saw the light of day.
One night at a PEN gathering when I told some people about the lengths I had to go to find an agent, including putting together a 20-page marketing plan one of them demanded, the cartoonist Stan Mack was so amused he asked me if he...
Charles Patterson will talk about his book "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" (ISBN 1-930051-99-9) on Wednesday, March 11. The Mid-Manhattan Library (NYPL) is located at 40th Street and Fifth Avenue. The talk begins at 6:30.
Eternal Treblinka (soon to be in 14 languages) shows the common roots of Nazi genocide and modern society's enslavement and slaughter of animals. The title comes from Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, "For the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."
The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as the "master species" and how we came to dominate the earth and its other inhabitants. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter of both animals and...
