“A sumptuous writer and one of the finest thinkers and essayists I’ve read. Curtin sees our confusing world with compassionate clarity and profound wisdom.” OLIVER STONE, Writer, multiple Oscar-winning director and screenwriter

“Ed Curtin is our warrior with words.  Ed writes like Albert Camus’s rebel and Leo Tolstoy’s Andrei in War and Peace. The unspeakable end we have created by our nuclear politics Ed resists by the resurrection strokes of his pen. Thank you, Ed, for your beautifully transforming essays.” JAMES W. DOUGLASS, Author, JFK and the Unspeakable

“  A Fabulous Book! “MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, professor emeritus, University of Ottawa

“With these lucid and uncompromising essays, Edward Curtin continues to be one of the few voices of a genuine American radicalism, so urgently needed at this moment. .” JONATHAN CRARY, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University

“Edward Curtin’s At the Lost and Found is an extraordinary potpourri of political, philosophical, spiritual, and even musical essays and poetic lyrics, exactly a composition of “things” that you would find in a “Lost and Found” shop. ” PETER KOENIG, Economist, geopolitical analyst, author, Geneva, Switzerland

“An invaluable collection of essays that shows Edward Curtin’s sharp analysis of the connections between art and politics in the struggle for social change, while at the same time exposing the hidden agendas of elite mainstream culture.” CAOIMHGHIN Ó CROIDHEÁIN, Dublin Artist, Writer, and Lecturer

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Educated in the classics, philosophy, literature, theology, and sociology, Edward Curtin is a retired professor of sociology. Once a newspaper columnist, his writing on a wide range of topics and in many styles has appeared in magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and online for more than forty years. Born and raised in the north Bronx, he attended Regis High School in Manhattan on an academic scholarship and Iona College on a basketball scholarship. Aside from holding multiple graduate degrees, he has worked in an elevator factory, as a sexual disease epidemiologist for the U.S. government, a bartender, and an interviewer in a NYC police precinct holding jail. His last book is Seeking Truth in A Country of Lies. He lives in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts.