Sep 12
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Dennis Cooper (1953–), a sex-and-violence gay fiction writer, stirs up scandal with his rather darkly gory novels (such as Try). He comes from the 1970s punk scene and he edited and ran a zine for years before working for Spin. In an interview with 3 A.M. Magazine in in 2001, he said, “I’m an anarchist, by philosophy. I believe everyone has everything they need within themselves to make the right decisions.”

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Gabriel Boyer (1976–) is a musician, a playwright, a singer, a publisher, a writer, an anarchist, and a wanderer. He and a friend run Mutable Sound, a book publisher and music label, which has released three of his books, including A Survey of My Failures Thus Far, a collection of seven books from schizophrenic detective novels to gaming manuals for the creation of the game. He wrote and directed an anarchist musical, Free-Thinking as Commodity, while living on an anarchist farm outside Eugene, and he traveled the country practicing bedroom theatre, performing plays in people’s bedrooms.

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Jens Bjørneboe (1920–1976), once called “the greatest failed novelist of the twentieth century,” was a Norwegian novelist, playwright, and anarcho-nihilist. Jens wrote honestly and angrily, a trait that found him convicted of obscenity and resulted in his novel Without A Stitch being banned in Norway for a time. Perhaps his strongest allegorical work is his last novel, The Sharks. He also wrote anarchist theory, expounding on the idea that anarchism was scientific (contrasting with the dogmatic Marxism) and existed in varying degrees. After a lifetime of controversy and alcohol, he took his own life.

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