Sep 16
2009

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.

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

The Catastraphone Orchestra (2006–) might be one of the only bands of musicians that writes fiction together. A collection of chain-smokers, mad scientists, and drug-addled minds, they write in the long-antiquated “seasonal” style of fiction as well as penning manifestos and journalistic forays into the past.

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Sep 10
2009

From Mythmakers and Lawbreakers:

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is famous today as the author of A Clockwork Orange, but it was only one of his over 30 novels. He said that he deeply regretted how the film adaptation seemed to glorify sexual violence, and how easily people misread that book. He was also an anarchist: “I’ve never had any money, therefore I’ve no sympathy for capitalists … I suppose I end up as an anarchist” (from Anthony Burgess, a biography by Roger Lewis, 2002). In his younger life, while serving in the British army, he was often in trouble for defying authority, including being arrested for insulting Spanish fascist Franco. In addition to being a novelist, he was an accomplished literary critic, linguist, composer.

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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:

Fabrizio De André (1940–1999), a renowned Italian songwriter, poet, and anarchist, was known for his epic and political music. He translated the works of Leonard Cohen (among others) into Italian, and he wrote a novel, Un destino ridicolo (A Ridiculous Fate). He made the island of Sardinia his home, and was once kidnapped and ransomed by Sardinian rebels (terrorists/freedom-fighters, take your pick). After his father—a wealthy industrialist who had once been an anti-fascist partisan—paid his ransom, and the kidnappers were brought to trial, Fabrizio reportedly told the court that the rebels “They were the real prisoners, not I.” (Although he did not offer sympathy to the higher-ups in the rebel group, who were wealthy already.)

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