This may be John O'Brien's best novel (readers are saying it's better than «Leaving Las Vegas») The novel is set in Los Angeles and is sure to draw film interest. ...
Lunch is an underground icon/celebrity, so author tours and events will be very helpful in the promotion. The New York Times and New Yorker have both run recent features with photos of Lydia Lunch. A recent book, NO WAVE, by Thurston Moore (another underground icon) and Byron Coley, has Lydia as a major subject. ...
Included in MTV.com's «These 17 Music-Themed YA Books Could Be Your Life»A selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program."Meno gives his proverbial coming-of-age tale a punk-rock edge, as seventeen-year-old Chicagoan Brian Oswald tries to land his first girlfriend…Meno ably explores Brian's emotional uncertainty and his poignant youthful search for meaning…His gabby, heartfelt, and utterly believable take on ad ...
VERY SHORT LIST chose A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola for the #1 Spot on their November 16 Food E-mailA Brain Pickings Favorite Food Book of 2012 and one of their Best Graphic Novels & Graphic Nonfiction of 2012Featured in Columbia College Today's Bookshelf section"A straight forward and accessible text…Cortés’ highly detailed paintings call up concomitant issues and famous faces as well… ...
A radical re-framing of conservative takes to «political correctness.»It grapples with the thorny PC question from a progressive perspective, side-stepping traps inherent in fighting on the enemy's terrain. Relies on interviews with an international range of activists and thinkers including Silvia Federici, Gustavo Esteva, Kelsey Cham Corbett, Leanne Simpson, and Glen Coulthard. Full interview with Federici included as appendix. Foreword by ...
"Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon." -George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune "Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an indispensable resource for understanding why the new revolutionary movement of the 21st century will emerge from the ranks of the most marginalized by capitalism and ...
At the very end of Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer writes: “Time always tears down the curtain that tries to hide the truth. A crime can never be covered up forever.” He demonstrates that principle in this moving and nuanced study of strikes led by the powerful anarcho-syndicalist labor union FORA against the despotic landowners and industrialists of Argentina’s Patagonia region in 1921– 1922. ...
From nineteenth-century newspaper publishers to the protesters in the “Battle of Seattle” and the recent Greek uprising, anarchists have long been incited to action by the ideal of a “free society of free individuals”—a transformed world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination. But what exactly would that look like, and how can we get th ...
