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Ruminations on the reading life of a communist. Looking at words through class-struggle lenses.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

OK, she's not Michael ...

... but damn, she's feeling it!

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My work

Recent: My short fiction has recently been published in

LIBERATION LIT
January 2010

NIMROD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(Mexico/USA, 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 GuerrillaWearhouse.com

What I'm reading now

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Books noted in this blog (favorably or hopefully)

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 People's History of Science
A People's History of the United States
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
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
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
Faces & Masks
Fanon
Fanshen
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
Fingersmith
Fire on the Mountain
Footnotes in Gaza
Foundations of Christianity
Frances Bacon: 1909-1992
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
Haymarket
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
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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
Labor's Untold Story
Lake Overturn
Lark & Termite
Leaving Atlanta
Liberation Lit
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Like Trees Walking
Literature and Revolution
Little Bird of Heaven
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
Medical Apartheid
Middle Passage
Mirror to America
Missing from Haymarket Square
Montecore
Mornings in Jenin (former title: The Scar of David)
Mother
Ms. Hempel Chronicles
My Dream of You
My Life: Fidel Castro
My Life: Leon Trotsky
My Year of Meats
Natalie Wood
Ninth Ward
Oil!
Olive Kitteridge
Open Veins of Latin America
Orange Mint and Honey
Our Guys
Our Roots Are Still Alive
Pages for You
Palestine
Palestine's Children
Peripheral Vision
Planet of Slums
Poetic Injustice
Poets for Palestine
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Private Demons: the Life of Shirley Jackson
Proust and the Squid
Pym
Radical Representations
Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
Red Dirt
Red Star Over China
Revolt on Goose Island
Rock Hudson: His Story
Rosa Luxemburg
Sacred Games
Sag Harbor
Season of Migration to the North
Selected Writings of Clara Zetkin
Shadow Country
Shadow Partisan
Shadow Tag
Silver Sparrow
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 Barbarian Nurseries
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 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 Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
The Falls
The Fifth Child
The Gnostic Gospels
The Grapes of Wrath
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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 Invisible Mountain
The Jungle
The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You
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 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 Sound of Freedom
The Spiral Ascent
The State and Revolution
The Surrendered
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Untelling
The Wall
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Wretched of the Earth
Tipping the Velvet
Tomatoland
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
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's Barracks
Women, Resistance & Revolution
World Without End
You Are Not the One
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

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