Books
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Slowly, Alzheimer’s Erases a Poet’s Gifts and Memories By Almudena Toral
The memory of the New York poet Jack Agüeros is capricious nowadays. He remembers the lyrics of certain Puerto Rican folk songs and the name of his petite, growling dog: Nikki. He does not remember collecting the old radios, locks and cast-iron pieces that once decorated his bright Manhattan apartment on West 14th Street. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Joe picks and sings Hemingway's Whisky
Here is an outtake from The Kingdom of Survival, a documentary now in production that includes interviews with Joe Bageant, Noam Chomsky, a radical book publisher, a cabin builder, a musician, and a radio host. This segment was shot one year ago when Joe was visiting his home in Winchester, Virginia. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Joe picks and sings Hemingway’s Whisky
Here is an outtake from The Kingdom of Survival, a documentary now in production that includes interviews with Joe Bageant, Noam Chomsky, a radical book publisher, a cabin builder, a musician, and a radio host. This segment was shot one year ago when Joe was visiting his home in Winchester, Virginia. Continue reading
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Bageant’s Frustration: Extreme Isolation By Morris Berman
Joe came from unlikely roots to have formulated the political viewpoint that he did: working-class, right-wing, anti-intellectual, flag-waving, small-town Virginia. A “leftneck,” someone dubbed him; it’s not a bad description. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Poet, Redneck Revolutionary, R.I.P. By Marc Campbell
Joe Bageant was an extraordinarily gifted writer and thinker. Author of Deer Hunting with Jesus and countless essays and editorials on politics and society, Joe was a champion of human rights and a fearless critic of our government’s mistreatment of its working class. Continue reading
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Rainbow Pie: Attention Must Be Paid By Bob Kincaid
Let me be up front about things: I want you to buy Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. I want you to buy it not because I have any financial interest in it. I don’t. I want you to buy this book because it is a magnificent memorial both by and to one of the best… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Recalling Joe’s eagerness to help others By Justin E. H. Smith
Joe Bageant Saturday. He was my father’s very close friend over the past several years, and was an encouraging presence for me as well. This clip from the 2010 documentary, The Kingdom of Survival, shows him, I think, at his defiant best: Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Bageant Moves On By Fred Reed
Joe described himself as a redneck socialist, and he was. He was profoundly concerned with the fate of the people he wrote about, those who worked hard all their lives and ended up with nothing. Funny: I’ve never met a socialist who didn’t care about others, or a capitalist who did. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant, 1946-2011
27 March 2011 — Joe Bageant After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three children, Timothy, Patrick and Elizabeth, and thousands of friends and admirers. He is also survived by his work and ideas. According to Joe’s… Continue reading
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Books: The Return of the Public (space) By Dan Hind
With the destruction of our traditional forms of political expression, we have no collective voice, no public space that we can call our own. Instead, at best we have ‘single issues’ but no sense of the collective. ‘The Return of the Public’ explains how this came to be and offers a way out. Important and… Continue reading
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Book Review: To the Barricades! Then and Now… By Peter Monaghan
In a new book, The Insurgent Barricade (University of California Press), Mark Traugott relates the history of “the most striking embodiment” of the revolutionary spirit of the times. And it is the dissemination of “barricade consciousness” that most interests the scholar, a professor of history and sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London Events Newsletter March 2011
22 February, 2011 — Housmans NEWS 1. Ebooks now available from Housmans! 2. Volunteer fundraising cleaner 3. Getting ready for the national anti-cuts demo on the 26th IN-STORE EVENTS 4. ‘Canada’s Genocide: One Man’s Journey to Uncover the Truth’ with Rev Kevin Annett 5. ‘Eleven Reasons to Resist the Con-Dem Cuts’ with Neil Faulkner 6.… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: an update
After a month in hospitals, cussing doctors and wanting to escape, Joe Bageant is back home in his own bed in Winchester. He is continuing the chemotherapy as an out-patient. Continue reading
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NEW LEFT PROJECT: DAN HIND & RICHARD SEYMOUR
1 February, 2011 — Cafe Oto Tonight, Tuesday 1 February ’11 £4 adv. / £5 on the door [I know it’s short notice but I only got the info this am. Ed] Our politicians, now carrying out wholesale transformation of British society without a democratic mandate, have ever-decreasing legitimacy. Two of Britain’s leading radical writers,… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London – Events Newsletter for February 2011
21 January, 2011 — Housmans NEWS 1. Student article competition 2. Housmans sale continues into February IN-STORE EVENTS 3. ‘Ecology & Anarchism’ with Brian Morris 4. The Kettled Generation Speaks Out! 5. ‘Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music’ with Rob Young 6. The Short Film Movement 7. ‘Canada’s Genocide: One Man’s Journey to Uncover the… Continue reading
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A note from Joe Bageant
6 January, 2011 I got this email from my dear friend Joe the other day. He is currently receiving treatment at a Veterans hospital. Please send him a get well note, I’m sure he’ll appreciate it. Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Events Newsletter for January 2011
4 January, 2011 – Housmans NEWS 1. Supporters Cards are here! 2. Massive January Sale 3. Free ‘Peace Not War’ double CD with every Peace Diary or peace book IN-STORE EVENTS 4. ‘Hobson’s Imperialism’ presented by Jeremy Corbyn MP, Alex Callinicos and Nathaniel Mehr 5. ‘Restless Revolutionaries’ with Clive Bloom 6. ‘Ecology & Anarchism’ with… Continue reading
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Book Review: Britain’s dangerous double games By Tapani Lausti
Curtis’s latest book opens up a weird world where British national interests are promoted by collusion with forces which at first sight have nothing to do with those interests. This is how Curtis sums it all up: ‘Islamist groups have long performed a variety of key functions for British foreign policy, as we have seen… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Events Newsletter for December 2010 – January 2011
30 November, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Loyalty cards and events charging 2. The Spirit Level IN-STORE EVENTS 3. ‘John Lennon’s Poetry and Politics’ with Tim Biancalana 4. ‘Hobson’s Imperialism’ presented by Jeremy Corbyn MP, Alex Callinicos and Nathaniel Mehr 5. ‘Restless Revolutionaries’ with Clive Bloom 6. ‘Ecology & Anarchism’ with Brian Morris Continue reading
The New Dark Age 