Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline to Appear at NYC Book Event

  Fifteen Paths, a new book from writer and York University of Toronto professor of business ethics David Weitzner, discusses the state of the social conversation in the current era and features a number of musicians, and Weitzner will be hosting a couple of book events in San Francisco and New York with some of the artists. On March 15, Dubtribe Sound System's Sunshine Jones will appear at an event at SF's 111 Minna Gallery for a conversation and performance, while a March 18 event at Rough Trade NYC will feature Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline. "The premise of the book is that our social conversation has gone awry," Weitzner explains about Fifteen Paths. "We have allowed the wrong people to claim substantial amounts of social, political and economic power, leaving many of us to feel left out, left behind or left alone. We need to rethink what it means to listen, to think, to create and to be democratically engaged citizens. Documenting a year of searching, Fifteen Paths is the work of a disillusioned business professor who gave up on old arguments and set out to learn about the power of imagination with iconoclastic visionaries, including Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Nels Cline (Wilco), Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band), Sunshine Jones (Dubtribe Sound System), Angelo Moore (Fishbone) and Lydia Lunch." Order Fifteen Paths here.