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      • If you're as sick as I am ...
      • Reasons to stop reading in the first 20 pages
      • The horror! The horror!
      • I'm-a-pitiful-excuse-for-a-blogger links
      • Endurance-not-speed links
    • ►  October (22)
      • Songs in Ordinary Time
      • And now, a word from our sponsor
      • My Diva
      • Places to go, people to read
      • And yes, there are other books, so I shouldn't be ...
      • A tragedy of epic proportions
      • Another one bites the dust
      • Pissed because they're dissed
      • On the Harper's Ferry anniversary
      • Remind me again why this is a bad thing?
      • Links you'll get to before me
      • The raid on Harper's Ferry
      • Writer's recess
      • Wood, Powers, fiction & science
      • By way of occupying my attention
      • Here's a however for you
      • Zeitoun & the truth
      • To Tegucigalpa
      • Why more links?
      • Mercedes Sosa's beautiful voice is silenced
      • Weekender links
      • Happy 60th Birthday, People's Republic of China
    • ►  September (26)
      • Et tu, Debra Winger?
      • End the coup in Honduras!
      • How long is that in blog years?
      • Stand with the anti-fascist resistance in Honduras...
      • On Atwood's dystopia
      • Pittsburgh police state
      • More e-reader maunderings
      • They will find people's fists
      • Good work, Yes Men!
      • Ralph Nader's super-rich fantasy life
      • 1 million in Havana for 'Peace w/o Borders'
      • Because-they're-all-I-have-time-for links
      • FU very very much, GWB
      • Mary Travers
      • 27 years ago: the Sabra & Shatila massacre
      • Farewell, Norma Rae: killed by U.S. health system
      • City of Refuge
      • The bloodiest September 11
      • This book interests me ... I think
      • From book to movie
      • In Pittsburgh, in 12 days
      • Link-o-licious long weekend
      • The Gonzales Cantata
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      • Zionism is racism--against literature too
      • Australia
      • Class & love in fiction
      • Hooray-for-three-days-at-home links
      • What do white writers have the right to write?
      • By any means necessary
      • NY Loves Mountains Festival
      • Ghassan Kanafani & Gaza
      • Artists for Workers' Choice
      • No accounting for taste + no laughing matter
      • My mother the reader
      • John Brown's body
      • War in Pakistan: made in USA
      • Nine days of rain
      • Palestine Festival of Literature
      • Aw, who'm I kidding?
      • 29 years on: Kent State & Jackson State
      • Looking-forward-to-it links
      • May Day music & dance
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About Me

New York City
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My work

Recent: My short fiction has recently been published in

NIMROD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(Spring/Summer 2009)

CREAM CITY REVIEW
(#32.2, Fall 2008)

STONE CANOE
(2009)

AVERY ANTHOLOGY
(Issue 2)

CRATE
(2007)

Not so recent: Short fiction excerpted/adapted from my novel (at that time in progress) VERA'S WILL is in

BLITHE HOUSE QUARTERLY
(Fall 2002)

LODESTAR QUARTERLY
(Issue 4)

HAMILTON STONE REVIEW
(Issue 1)

My short fiction has also been published in La Petite Zine, Tattoo Highway and other journals.

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, which is available from Leftbooks.com

CONTACT ME

Email me at: shelleyettingerATyahoo.com

Books noted in this blog (favorably or hopefully)

  • 1918
  • A Case of Exploding Mangoes
  • A Fire in Their Hearts
  • A Long and Happy Life
  • A Map of Home
  • A Mercy
  • A Paradise Built in Hell
  • A Voice from Harper's Ferry
  • Across the Wire
  • Affinity
  • All Over Creation
  • American Prometheus
  • Annie Kilburn
  • Anti-Duhring
  • Apex Hides the Hurt
  • Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing"
  • Away with All Pests
  • Basketball Jones
  • Ben in the World
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Between Each Line of Pain & Glory
  • Beyond Chutzpah
  • Big Bang
  • Black Reconstruction in America
  • Black Water Rising
  • Blonde
  • Blood Colony
  • Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  • Brother, I'm Dying
  • Capital
  • Caramelo
  • Carpentaria
  • Cement
  • Chicago: City on the Make
  • City of Refuge
  • 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
  • Essays
  • Fanshen
  • Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
  • Fingersmith
  • Fire on the Mountain
  • Foundations of Christianity
  • Frances Bacon: 1909-1992
  • From Slavery to Freedom
  • Fugue
  • Germinal
  • Ghosts
  • Girl Meets Boy
  • H: A Hiroshima Novel
  • Haiti: A Slave Revolution
  • Haymarket
  • Haymarket Eight
  • Haymarket: A Novel
  • Haymarket: A Play
  • Hester Among the Ruins
  • Hidden from History
  • Hiroshima
  • Homefront
  • Hotel World
  • Hottentot Venus
  • How Late It Was, How Late
  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
  • I Feel Good
  • 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
  • Jews Without Money
  • John Brown
  • John Brown, Abolitionist
  • John Crow's Devil
  • John Henry Days
  • Johnny Got His Gun
  • Journey to the Border
  • Jude the Obscure
  • Judy Garland
  • Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
  • Kieron Smith, Boy
  • Lake Overturn
  • Lark & Termite
  • Leaving Atlanta
  • Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
  • Like Trees Walking
  • Literature and Revolution
  • Living to Tell the Tale
  • Loot
  • Love
  • love belongs to those who do the feeling
  • Low-Wage Capitalism
  • Man Gone Down
  • Middle Passage
  • Mirror to America
  • Missing from Haymarket Square
  • Mother
  • My Dream of You
  • My Life: Fidel Castro
  • My Life: Leon Trotsky
  • My Year of Meats
  • Natalie Wood
  • Oil!
  • Open Veins of Latin America
  • Orange Mint and Honey
  • Our Roots Are Still Alive
  • Pages for You
  • Peripheral Vision
  • Planet of Slums
  • Poets for Palestine
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • Private Demons: the Life of Shirley Jackson
  • Radical Representations
  • Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
  • Red Star Over China
  • Revolt on Goose Island
  • Rock Hudson: His Story
  • Rogues' Gallery
  • Rosa Luxemburg
  • Sacred Games
  • Sag Harbor
  • Season of Migration to the North
  • Shadow Partisan
  • Song of Solomon
  • Songs in Ordinary Time
  • Sor Juana's Second Dream
  • Southland
  • Stone Butch Blues
  • Strange As This Weather Has Been
  • The Age of Dreaming
  • The Age of Shiva
  • The Ancestor's Tale
  • 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 Book of Night Women
  • The Book of Salt
  • The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
  • The Civil War in France
  • The Clash of Fundamentalisms
  • 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 Delivery Room
  • The Devil's Highway
  • The Dew Breaker
  • The Dirty Girls Social Club
  • The Duel
  • The Fifth Child
  • The Gnostic Gospels
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • The History of the Siege of Lisbon
  • The Holocaust in American Life
  • The Holocaust Industry
  • The House on Mango Street
  • The Hummingbird's Daughter
  • The Impressionist
  • The Inheritance of Loss
  • The Intuitionist
  • The Jungle
  • The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
  • The Link
  • 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 Old Garden
  • The Origin of Species
  • The Other Side of Paradise
  • The Passion
  • The Plague of Doves
  • The Poverty of Philosophy
  • 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 Sound of Freedom
  • The Spiral Ascent
  • The State and Revolution
  • The Untelling
  • The Wall
  • The White Tiger
  • The Year of the Flood
  • Tipping the Velvet
  • Toys of Desperation
  • Transmission
  • Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
  • U.S.!
  • Ulysses
  • Virginia Woolf: an Inner Life
  • W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1919
  • 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's Barracks
  • Women, Resistance & Revolution
  • You Are Not the One
  • You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

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LINKS

Workers World newspaper
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What I'm reading now

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie