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Looking at literature through class-struggle lenses. Ruminations and rants on books, reading and writing from Shelley Ettinger, author of Vera's Will.

Friday, May 29, 2009

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About Me

San Antonio, TX, United States
Author of the novel Vera's Will as well as short stories and poetry published in many literary journals. Compulsive reader. Lesbian. Socialist. Anti-Zionist Jew. Activist against racism and imperialist war, and for immigrant, LGTBQ, women's and labor rights.
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My work

My novel VERA'S WILL was published to, if I do say so myself, rave reviews in 2015. You can find it at any online bookseller.

My short fiction has been published in, among other places,

LIBERATION LIT
January 2010

NIMROD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(Mirrors & Prisms, Spring/Summer 2016; & Mexico/USA, Spring/Summer 2009)

CREAM CITY REVIEW
(#32.2, Fall 2008)

STONE CANOE
(2009)

AVERY ANTHOLOGY
(Issue 2)

CRATE
(2007)

BLITHE HOUSE QUARTERLY
(Fall 2002)

LODESTAR QUARTERLY
(Issue 4)

HAMILTON STONE REVIEW
(Issue 1)

My poetry has been in Mississippi Review, Mizna, New Verse News, Word Is Bond, failbetter.com, Mudlark, Blue Fifth Review, Facets and other journals in print and online.

With Larry Holmes, I co-authored the 1997 book 'We Won't Be Slaves': Workfare Workers Organize.

Books noted in this blog (favorably or hopefully) up through 2016 or so.

  • 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border
  • 1918
  • A Case of Exploding Mangoes
  • A Fire in Their Hearts
  • A Long and Happy Life
  • A Map of Home
  • A Mercy
  • A Moment in the Sun
  • A Naked Singularity
  • A People's History of Science
  • A People's History of the United States
  • A Socialist History of the French Revolution
  • A Tale for the Time Being
  • A Thousand Acres
  • A Voice from Harper's Ferry
  • Across the Wire
  • Affinity
  • All Over Creation
  • American Prometheus
  • And the Band Played On
  • Annie Kilburn
  • Anti-Duhring
  • Apex Hides the Hurt
  • Assata
  • At Swim, Two Boys
  • Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing"
  • Away with All Pests
  • Basketball Jones
  • Bel Canto
  • Ben in the World
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Between Each Line of Pain & Glory
  • Beyond Chutzpah
  • Beyond Katrina
  • Big Bang
  • Black Reconstruction in America
  • Black Water Rising
  • Blonde
  • Blood Colony
  • Blood Dazzler
  • Blood on the Forge
  • Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
  • Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  • Brother, I'm Dying
  • Capital
  • Caramelo
  • Carpentaria
  • Cellophane
  • Cement
  • Century of the Wind
  • Chicago: City on the Make
  • City of Refuge
  • Claudia Jones: A Life in Exile
  • Cloudsplitter
  • Coal Camp Days
  • Coal Camp Justice
  • Comrade Chiang Ching
  • Dancing in the Dark
  • Day of Reckoning
  • Death at an Early Age
  • Death in the Haymarket
  • Death of a River Guide
  • Dread
  • Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme
  • Easter in Kishinev
  • Edward Carpenter: Life, Liberty, Love
  • Erasure
  • Essays
  • Everyday Life
  • Faces & Masks
  • Fanon
  • Fanshen
  • Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
  • Fingersmith
  • Fire on the Mountain
  • Flight Behavior
  • Footnotes in Gaza
  • Foundations of Christianity
  • Frances Bacon: 1909-1992
  • Freedom Road
  • From Slavery to Freedom
  • Gate of the Sun
  • Gaza: Symbol of Resistance
  • Genesis
  • Germinal
  • Girl Meets Boy
  • H: A Hiroshima Novel
  • Haiti: A Slave Revolution
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  • Haymarket Eight
  • Haymarket: A Novel
  • Haymarket: A Play
  • Hester Among the Ruins
  • Hidden from History
  • Hiroshima
  • His Dark Materials
  • HIV & AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology
  • Homefront
  • Hotel World
  • Hottentot Venus
  • How Late It Was, How Late
  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
  • Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
  • I Am an Executioner
  • I Am Not Sidney Poitier
  • I Feel Good
  • I Hotel
  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
  • In the Kitchen
  • In the Lake of the Woods
  • In the United States of Africa
  • Inquisitions
  • Into the Beautiful North
  • Jailhouse Lawyers
  • Jane Eyre
  • Jews Without Money
  • John Brown
  • John Brown, Abolitionist
  • John Crow's Devil
  • John Henry Days
  • Johnny Got His Gun
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  • Jude the Obscure
  • Judy Garland
  • Juliet Takes a Breath
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  • Kieron Smith, Boy
  • Labor's Untold Story
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  • Lark & Termite
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  • Liberation Lit
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  • Like Trees Walking
  • Literature and Revolution
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  • Live From Death Row
  • Living to Tell the Tale
  • Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary
  • Loot
  • Love
  • love belongs to those who do the feeling
  • Low-Wage Capitalism
  • Man Gone Down
  • Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle
  • Maus
  • Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante
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  • My Life: Leon Trotsky
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  • NW
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  • Palestine's Children
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  • Private Demons: the Life of Shirley Jackson
  • Proust and the Squid
  • Pym
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  • Red Dirt
  • Red Star Over China
  • Revolt on Goose Island
  • Rock Hudson: His Story
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  • Sacred Games
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  • Season of Migration to the North
  • Selected Writings of Clara Zetkin
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  • Shadow Partisan
  • Shadow Tag
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  • So Much Pretty
  • Song of Solomon
  • Songs in Ordinary Time
  • Sor Juana's Second Dream
  • Southern Discomfort
  • Southland
  • Spartina
  • Stone Butch Blues
  • Strange As This Weather Has Been
  • Strong Women, Dangerous Times: Gender & AIDS in Africa
  • Sudden Fiction Latino
  • The Age of Dreaming
  • The Age of Empathy
  • The Age of Shiva
  • The Ancestor's Tale
  • The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
  • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party
  • The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Award
  • The Barbarian Nurseries
  • The Black Jacobins
  • The Book of Night Women
  • The Book of Salt
  • The Buddha in the Attic
  • The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
  • The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
  • The City Always Wins
  • The Civil War in France
  • The Clash of Fundamentalisms
  • The Cloud Collector's Handbook
  • The Communist Manifesto
  • The Company and the Union
  • The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
  • The Crab-Canning Ship
  • The Cultural Front
  • The Death of Vishnu
  • The Debt
  • The Devil's Highway
  • The Dew Breaker
  • The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker
  • The Dirty Girls Social Club
  • The Disinherited
  • The Duel
  • The Empire Trilogy
  • The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
  • The Falls
  • The Fifth Child
  • The Fifth Season
  • The Gnostic Gospels
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • The History of the Russian Revolution
  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon
  • The Holocaust in American Life
  • The Holocaust Industry
  • The House on Mango Street
  • The Huey P. Newton Reader
  • The Hummingbird's Daughter
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • The Impressionist
  • The Inheritance of Loss
  • The Intuitionist
  • The Invention of Everything Else
  • The Invisible Mountain
  • The Jaguar's Children
  • The Jungle
  • The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
  • The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
  • The Lecture
  • The Maintenance of Headway
  • The Making of the English Working Class
  • The Memory of All That
  • The Mezzanine
  • The Nantucket Diary
  • The Necessary Hunger
  • The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home
  • The Obelisk Gate
  • The Old Garden
  • The Origin of Species
  • The Other Side of Paradise
  • The People in the Trees
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • The Plague of Doves
  • The Poverty of Philosophy
  • The Price of a Child
  • The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast
  • The Rebel Girl
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • The Right to Be Lazy
  • The Rings of Saturn
  • The Roots of Lesbian and Gay Oppression
  • The Scar of David
  • The Shame of the Nation
  • The Siege of Krishnapur
  • The Sound of Freedom
  • The Spiral Ascent
  • The State and Revolution
  • The Surrendered
  • The Thing Around Your Neck
  • The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
  • The Untelling
  • The Wall
  • The Wall
  • The Warmth of Other Suns
  • The Wretched of the Earth
  • Tipping the Velvet
  • Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!
  • Tomatoland
  • Toys of Desperation
  • Transmission
  • Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
  • Turn the Guns Around
  • U.S.!
  • Ulysses
  • Virginia Woolf: an Inner Life
  • Vogliamo Tutto
  • W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1919
  • Wading Home
  • We the Animals
  • Wench
  • What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
  • Wild Nights!
  • William Dean Howells & the Haymarket Era
  • Wizard of the Crow
  • Woman at Point Zero
  • Woman: An Intimate Geography
  • Women, Resistance & Revolution
  • Women's Barracks
  • World Without End
  • You Are Not the One
  • You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
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