Close to the Knives

A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz     1991     288p     5 x 8 Written in the ’80s when Wojnarowicz and his friends were sick and dying of AIDS, this is a powerful, tragic — yet beautiful — memoirs. A collection of essays dealing with death, sickness, the sexual freedoms of queer … Continue reading Close to the Knives

Persepolis

Vol. II: The Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi     2003     160p     6 x 9 In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon … Continue reading Persepolis

New Arrivals

  A Cavalier History of Surrealism     Jules-François Dupuis     1977     131p     5 x 8 This pseudonymous account of surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem offers an answer to the question, “What was living and what was dead in Surrealism?” Though blistering in its criticism of surrealism’s artistic and political aporias, … Continue reading New Arrivals

Postcarious

Breakaway   CD   2014 Breakaway is a darkwave/dance/punk/neofolk/witch house  musician out of the north. Tracks: 1.   Long Goodbye   4:05 2.   The Crashers And The Snappers   3:44 3.   Flotsam And Jetsam   3:56 4.   At A Time   3:01 5.   That Are Told That Unfold   3:22 6. … Continue reading Postcarious

The Watch

Dennis Danvers     2002     368p     5 x 8 In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future comes to Peter Kropotkin’s deathbed and offers the world-renowned anarchist philosopher a new life. Kropotkin — the one-time prince who renounced wealth and privilege to embrace the cause of anarchy, the dying … Continue reading The Watch

N’Drea

One Woman’s Fight to Die Her Own Way Andréa Dorea     1998     90p     4 x 7 In 1985, Andrea, a member of Os Cangaceiros, learns that she has cancer. After 5 years confronting the psychological and physical effects of chemotheraphy, she decides to turn her back on the medical system, … Continue reading N’Drea

Recommended Reading

  Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!     Fredy Perlman   1983   296p   5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor.      Bastard Out of Carolina A Novel   Dorothy Allison   1992   320p   6 x … Continue reading Recommended Reading

The Bravest Battle

The Twenty-Eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Dan Kurzman     1976     386p     MMPB In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the … Continue reading The Bravest Battle

Before Night Falls

A Memoir Reinaldo Arenas     1992     336p     5 x 8 Written while dying of AIDS in New York City in the late 1980s, this is Arenas’ incredible story, told so movingly and elegantly in all its misery and beauty. Born in impoverished countryside of Cuba, Arenas ran away to join guerrillas at … Continue reading Before Night Falls