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Derrick Jensen

Margaret — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:28:47 +0000

Derrick Jensen (1960–) is a radical environmentalist and author and is considered one of the most influential anti-civilization thinkers. He is more famous for his non-fiction works such as A Culture of Make-Believe and Endgame, but he has also written a couple of novels, a graphic novel, and a book about teaching creative writing—a subject which he has taught in both prison and college.

Author’s site:

derrickjensen.org

Wikipedia:

Derrick Jensen

Available directly from Derrick Jensen:

Both the novel Songs of the Dead and the graphic novel As the World Burns are available directly from Derrick Jensen’s site.

Jimmy T. Hand

Margaret — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:08:00 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Jimmy T. Hand (1984–) is an anarchist adventurer (to use his words) and writer. He’s written two autobiographical novellas, In the Hall of the Mountain King and The Road to Either Or. He ran away from home, never finished high school, and never regretted either. He’s been a part of anti-globalization, anti-war, and anti- logging activism, and has a tendency to travel.

Works available online:

The Seduction of the Wind and The World Below & Here Comes the Fucking Circus are available online for download from Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness. “Funny Thing About Horizons” available in issue #5 of SteamPunk Magazine.

Paul Goodman

Margaret — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:02:03 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Paul Goodman (1911–1972), was a lot of things to a lot of different people. To the psychotherapy world, he is known as one of the co-founders of Gestalt theory. To the literary world, he was a novelist. Perhaps his most famous novel is The Empire City, a story that follows a ’50s rebel in New York City. But he’s also well known as the author of Growing Up Absurd, and his works were hugely influential on the ’60s student radical movement, a movement he later criticized as sometimes both too dogmatic and too fickle.

Wikipedia:

Paul Goodman

Fiction available through Amazon.com:

Non-fiction works available for online reading:

From the Preservation Institute

Fly

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:56:51 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Fly (n.d.), a comic author, has been squatting in New York City for over two decades. Her stories are beautifully honest and strange, fictionalizing elements of her life on the streets and in squats and traveling the world. Her work has been collected into the books CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM! and Total Disaster, as well as the graphic novel Dog Dayz. Her comic “Zero Content” appeared in Slug & Lettuce for years, and she’s done the covers of countless books, zines, and records.

Author’s website:

flyspage.com

Book available from AK Press:

CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM!

Leslie Fish

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:47:10 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Leslie Fish (n.d.), an accomplished folk singer and one of the creators of the “Filk” tradition (science-fiction/fantasy themed music), is also an author, anarchist, and Wobbly. She once wrote a guide to surviving the apocalypse in the form of an album, Firestorm, in which she relayed information about making antibiotics, gunpowder, and lenses. She also practices that renown form of plagiarism, fan-fiction, having fan-published a novel taking place in the Star Trek universe. She took part in writing a collaborative fantasy trilogy, The Sword of Knowledge, of which she authored the first book, A Dirge for Sabis.

Author’s website:

lesliefish.com

Novel available from Amazon.com:

Dirge for Sabis

Video of song explaining why to aim carefully rather than turning your gun on full-auto:

Wikipedia:

Leslie Fish

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:17:29 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–), the famous beat poet, has long identified as a philosophical anarchist and a pacifist—it was only two weeks after Nagasaki was bombed that he, as an American solider, visited the ruins. In the ‘50s he started the City Lights bookstore and publishing company in San Francisco, where he published Ginsberg’s Howl and was therefore arrested and charged with obscenity. With the help of the ACLU, he won and set a legal landmark for other publishers of sex and drug literature. In addition to his poetry, he wrote two novels: Her (1960), a surreal and semi-autobiographical novel, and Love in the Days of Rage (1988), about a bourgeois anarchist caught up in the May ‘68 uprisings in Paris.

Novel available from City Lights:

Novel available from Amazon.com:

Love in the Days of Rage

Wikipedia:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Jim Dodge

Margaret — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:13:38 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Jim Dodge (1945–) is a bioregionalist theorist, an anarchist, and a writer. His novels explore a sort of modern folklore, often including magic amidst otherwise real-world events. In his bioregionalist essay “Living by Life”, he says that anarchy is an intrinsic value to bioregionalism, and says: “Anarchy doesn’t mean out of control, it means out of their control.”

Books available from Amazon.com:

Wikipedia:

Jim Dodge

Voltairine De Cleyre

Margaret — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:34:44 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Voltairine De Cleyre (1866–1912) was a poet and theorist who converted to anarchism in 1887 after the Haymarket trial shattered her faith in the American justice system. She was an early believer in “anarchism without adjectives,” which meant that she didn’t choose to identify specifically with communist, mutaualist, or individualist anarchism. She fought voraciously for the rights of women. The most famous piece of her fiction is “The Chain Gang,” a short story included in The Gates of Freedom.

Wikipedia:

Voltairine de Cleyre

Essays online:

From the Anarchist Archives

Audiobooks online:

From LibroVox

General fan site:

voltairine.org

Dennis Danvers

Margaret — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:28:10 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Dennis Danvers (1947–) is a professor and author who philosophically identifies with anarchism. Of particular note, he’s written a strange novel The Watch, in which Peter Kropotkin comes back to life in 1999 as a young man in Richmond, Virginia, but his The Fourth World and his as-yet-unpublished young adult book Cloverleaf deal with anarchist themes and politics as well.

Author’s website:

dennisdanvers.com

Wikipedia:

Dennis Danvers

Books available from Amazon.com:

Wilderness
Time and Time Again
Circuit of Heaven
End of Days
The Fourth World
The Watch
The Bright Spot (written as “Robert Sydney”)

Rick Dakan

Margaret — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:05:56 +0000

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Rick Dakan (n.d.) is the author of the Geek Mafia series of books that follows a group of radical hacker con-artists as they trick right-wingers and corporations out of millions of dollars.

Author’s website:

rickdakan.com