Welcome to Citations Needed. I'm Nima Shirazi. Our show this week is a recording of a recent live event that Adam and I did last week in Brooklyn, New York. We were generously hosted by The Word is Change, a fantastic community bookstore in the Bedstay neighborhood of Brooklyn, to discuss Adam's new book, How to Sell a Genocide,

the media's complicity and the destruction of Gaza, which was published just last month by Pluto

Press. If you haven't yet picked up a copy, you really should. All Pluto books are 50% off

through May 14th, so hurry up. Also, all royalties from the book go to the Middle East Children's Alliance,

which you can find online at mecca for peace.org.

Thank you to Alexander and everyone at the Word is Change Bookstore

for making the event possible,

and to everyone who came out that night, Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The store was packed with

longtime fans of Citations Needed and newcomers alike, and it was a pleasure to be with you

all, especially in Brooklyn, the borough where Citations Needed was born almost nine years ago.

And it was really fun for me to interview Adam

instead of co-host with him.

Adam also has more book talks coming up.

He'll be in Milwaukee on Wednesday, May 13th,

Chicago on May 21st, Washington, D.C. on May 22nd,

and Baltimore on May 23rd.

There are more events still coming,

and you can check out Adam's website, columnblog.com, for more of these events as details become available.

In the meantime, of course, you can follow Citations Needed on Twitter and Blue Sky at CitationsPod, Facebook, citations needed, and become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com slash citations needed podcast.

All your support through Patreon is so incredibly appreciated as we remain 100% listener funded. So now without further ado is my

conversation with Adam Johnson, Citation's Needed co-host and author of the book How to Sell a

Genocide, the media's complicity in the destruction

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