Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And in a bit, I speak to Stacey Schells Harvey, who is the CEO of Regeneration Schools. She runs a network of charter schools in Ohio and in Chicago. And we talk about everything from immigration enforcement at schools, to the state of disciplinary action at

schools to education reform, to Kanye West, to Megan Markle, to Prince to the state of documentaries

in America.

So we hit on a lot of subjects, but before I get there, I wanted to just like visit,

revisit some of the big items in the news right now. But first up, let me just talk about one big

piece of news here, which I've alluded to in previous episodes, which is I have a novel coming

out on March 25th. It's called Garbage Town. And this is a novel that is based in the 90s.

And it's a coming of age thriller about a group of kids who grew up in the shadows of fresh kills, which if you're a long time listener, you'll know, is the largest garbage dump the world has ever seen.

It was in Staten Island, New York.

And these kids stumble upon something they shouldn't have seen, and they basically have to fight for survival.

And so it is a thriller, it is a coming of age book, but it really is a nostalgic book.

It's a period piece about the 90s, you know, beepers, A Well, Instant Messenger, riding your bikes around your neighborhood, this period of time in life when you didn't have

your phone, we didn't have our politics to divide us, you were kind of free to have adventures.

So whether you grew up in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, a lot of just a texture of life, I think,

will speak to you.

And it's obviously, you know, it's not accidental.

It's from the time and place where I grew up. And so I draw a lot on things that actually happened in Staten Island. And so I'll leave it to you to decide what's real and what is not. But number one, you could pre-order it. So Amazon, bookshop.org, et cetera. But you could also come check me out. I'm doing some book readings. March 27th in New York City

and the Lower East Side at P&T Knitware, which is Bradley Tusks bookstore. He's been on this

podcast before, so that's going to be the evening of March 27th, March 30th in St.

St. Anneux Church in the afternoon, March 31st in St. Louis at Left Bank Books. So you can go

to Garbage Town Book.com or in the show notes,

we'll link to the event pages for those books. And you can RSVP. You're going to have to RSVP

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