{"id":72524,"date":"2023-08-10T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=72524"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T17:39:05","slug":"peter-werbe-at-edo-ramen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2023\/08\/10\/peter-werbe-at-edo-ramen\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Werbe at Edo Ramen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pwerbe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pwerbe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pwerbe.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pwerbe-768x417.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>Join local author and activist <strong>Peter Werbe<\/strong> for a reading and signing of his new book <strong>Eat the Rich <\/strong>at <strong>Edo Ramen <\/strong>on <strong>Friday, August 11 from 6-10 pm.<\/strong> Edo Ramen is located at 4313 W. 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI. Book Beat will be selling books on site. Signed copies of Eat the Rich are also available online at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/eat-the-rich-and-other-interesting-ideas-by-peter-werbe-signed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book Beat Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eat the Rich <\/strong>is a selection of Peter Werbe\u2019s essays from the pages of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthestate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fifth Estate<\/a><\/strong> that explores some of the basic themes the publication addresses: anarchism, capitalism, technology, civilization, racism, patriarchy, politics, culture, music, the environment, his trips to Cuba, and other subjects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterwerbe.org\/\"><strong>Peter Werbe<\/strong><\/a> is a long-time figure in alternative and commercial media in Detroit, and a political activist. He is a member of the editorial board of the <em>Fifth Estate<\/em> magazine. His professional career was as a DJ on Detroit&#8217;s major rock stations, WABX, WWWW. WRIF, and WCSX. He hosted Nightcall, WRIF&#8217;s phone-in talk show, that was the longest running such program in U.S. radio history, 1970-2016. He is also the author of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/summer-on-fire-by-peter-werbe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summer On Fire: A Detroit Novel<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join local author and activist Peter Werbe for a reading and signing of his new book Eat the Rich at Edo Ramen on Friday, August 11 from 6-10 pm. Edo Ramen is located at 4313 W. 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI. Book Beat will be selling books on site. Signed copies of Eat the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,108,9],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-72524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-writer","category-essays","category-politics","tag-peter-werbe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}