NonFiction
Midnight at the Palace: My Life As A Fabulous Cockette by Pam Tent
Add Toner by Aaron Cometbus
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Davis
Half Breed by Maria Campbell
Dinning in the Raw by Rita Romano
The Free Speech Movement by Robert Cohen and David
Rotten by Johnny Lydon
Female Ejaculation by Deborah Sundahl
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
Graffiti Women Street Art from Five Continents by Nicholas Ganz
The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
Complicated Women by Mick Lasalle
Girl Zines Making Media, Doing Feminism by Alison Piepmeier
Infinite Variety by Scot D. Ryersson, Michael Orlando Yaccarino and Quentin Crisp
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
Screened Out by Richard Barrios
Occupy Everything edited by Aragorn!
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
A Cavalier History of Surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy
America Beyond Capitalism by Gar Alperovitz
Fiction
Who Are You? by Anna Kavan
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Deathless by Catherynne Valente
City of Night by John Rechy
Wonder Tales edited by Marina Warner
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Forbidden Journeys edited by Nina Auerbach & U.C. Knoepflmacher
The Lost Ones by Samuel Beckett
The Resistible Rise of Artuto Ui by Bertolt Brecht
The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini
Amulet by Roberto Bolano
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Art & Poetry
The School Among the Ruins: Poems, 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich
Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg & Eric Drooker
Idols by Gilles Larrain
The Brinkley Girls edited by Trina Robbins
Zines
Baitline, No Gods No Mattress, Padjo Nome, Muchacha, Dreams of Donuts, The Match, Dwelling Portablly, Anything by Rob Noxious, Maximum Rock’n’Roll, Pipe Bomb, Rad Dad, Hack This Zine, Mission Mini Comix Doris, Absolutely Zippo, Cometbus, Communicating Vessels, Morgenmuffel, Full Metal Faggot
Young Adult/Children
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Valente
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Freak Show by James St. James
Baitline!
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (auto-bio in comics/graphic
novel form)
Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton, & Mercedes de Acosta by Hugo Vickers (interesting bio of this sexuality twisting love traingle. The radical Mercedes would at least be of interest to readers)———
I hope you can use some of these! If you do, you don’t have go give me credit (not sure how this works). The list is mostly women & queer type things. Women revolting, maybe not in the traditional sense, but by writing fairy tales, becoming living works of art such as the Marchesa Casati who wore live snakes & malfunctioning lights, genius physicist Emilie du Chatelet, artist of vibrant girl in motion Nell Brinkley…and Zelda Fitzgerald. She’s too often thought of as a crazy woman, harpy who brought Scott down, bah on that. She was a talented writer,
very lush sentences thick with atmosphere. Scott sometimes stold parts from her letters & diaries & put them in his books. The best parts of This Side of Paradise & The Beautiful & the Damaned are from what he took of her.
The Idols book by Gilles Larrainis pictures of beautiful gender bending people in the 70s. Some of the Cockettes make appearances!
Hard Love I read almost two years ago and made me nostalgic for zines, seeking them out again. Written over ten years ago so there’s references to Factsheet Five & zines at Tower Records in there.
Freak Show needs to be given to all Middle Schoolers & High Schoolers upon entering the building. I hope James St. James writes more fiction.
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Hi Slingshot creators!
I saw your call for submissions on We Make Zines blog and want to
submit the attached booklist for the 2013 Slingshot Organizer.
This book list was compiled by a radical librarian coworker of mine
from Hennepin County Library (Hennepin County, Minnesota).
Thank you for considering,
Sarah M. Sosa
Nonfiction
The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our
time / Karl Polanyi
The many-headed hydra: sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden
history of the revolutionary Atlantic / Peter Linebaugh and Marcus
Rediker
Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation /
Silvia Federici
The society of spectacle / Guy Debord
The coming insurrection / The Invisible Committee
A cavalier history of surrealism / Raoul Veneigem
The wretched of the earth / Frantz Fanon
The communist hypothesis / Alain Badiou
Trial / Tom Hayden
Pedagogy of the oppressed / Paulo Freire
An essay on liberation / Herbert Marcuse
Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison / Michel Foucault
Eaarth / Bill McKibben
Walking with the comrades / Arundhati Roy
America beyond Capitalism / Gar Alperovitz
Poetry
The Penguin book of Socialist verse / Alan Norman Bold, editor
First hymn to Lenin, and other poems / Hugh MacDiarmid
The school among the ruins: poems, 2000-2004 / Adrienne Rich