Hit the jump to see the good doctor, Raj Patel author of two best selling, hard hitting, socially conscious [...]
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By joshuacitrak, on July 7th, 2009 |
 sponsored by the Northern California Independent Bookstore Association, this walking tour includes stops at the following stores, Get Lost Travel Books, Green Arcade, Great Books Symposium, Books Inc and [...] By joshuacitrak, on April 30th, 2009 |
From F.T. Marinetti’s “Critical Writings”: Destruction of Syntax––Untrammeled [...] By joshuacitrak, on March 23rd, 2009 |
Language makes us human, Derek Bickerton asserts in “Adam’s Tongue”, not the other way around. Humans simply could not have taken the evolutionary leap out of the savannas without it. However, contrary to common belief, language isn’t as simple as a straight line evolution from the myriad of animal calls exhibited by our genealogical [...] By joshuacitrak, on March 7th, 2009 |
“Riding Towards Everywhere,” Bill Vollmann’s book about “catching out”—hobo slang for riding a freight train without permission—romanticizes the forgotten conveyance and freightage of Manifest Density and the Westward expansion of the United States. The railways built this country. It wasn’t really until the 1950’s that we had an Interstate Highway System. Most people, but not Bill, forget [...] By admin, on May 16th, 2007 |
“Doing Nothing” (Tom Lutz) a historical review of slackers, loafers, loungers, bums, saunterers, tramps, flaneurs, communists, bohemians, beats, non-conformists, hippies and stoned out surfers. in short, the founding principles of Slouch. well, it’s obvious that Lutz isn’t a slacker with a book that tops out at over 300 pages and a bibliography that [...] |
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