The Huffington Post, “Nine sci-fi and fantasy authors who will blow your mind”
This approach has helped her to craft unique and memorable worlds, and made her one of the first and most well-known fantasy authors to write settings that couldn’t be boiled down to “medieval Europe, but with magic.” Her work explores themes such as anarchism, taoism, race, gender and environmentalism. Continue Reading
Ithaca Times, “Local writer pens dense critique on modern man”
James Thomas Lukasavage, a local author and avowed pacifist anarchist, takes the reader through a deeply-sourced meditation on the world today, what has gone wrong and how it can be saved. It’s the type of book that, when described as it just was, sounds completely unappealing and aggressively disinteresting unless coming from someone with an […]
Riverfront Times, “Chavisa Woods’ Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country Leads Readers Deep into Rural America”
Woods was also an early resident of C.A.M.P., a south city anarchist collective still in existence today. Even then she was already seriously pursuing writing, choosing to work part-time whenever it was feasible in order to dedicate time and energy to her craft. “That means I have made less money than I could have, and […]
Vice, “8-Ball Loves Zines, Hates Capitalism”
As we’ve moved along I’ve done more research and found out about other organizations before us doing similar things. There are so many great ones, like anarchist groups like Black Mask, who were producing a lot of work in the 60s in the Lower East Side that were similar to what we do. Paper Tiger […]
Jezebel, “Don’t Forget Your Mary Wollstonecraft While Reading Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility”
Even before her death, her illicit relationship with the anarchist philosopher William Godwin had put her firmly in the sights of conservative thinkers. If Sense and Sensibility is a work of the 1790s or very early nineteenth century, then it looks as if it were written as a deliberately and self-consciously feminist one. By 1811, […]
The New Yorker, “The Art and Activism of Grace Paley”
She called herself a “somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist.” The F.B.I. declared her a Communist, dangerous and emotionally unstable. Her file was kept open for thirty years. Continue Reading
Mountain Xpress, “Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair offers community building, networking, presentations, workshops, live music, and dance parties in May”
Anarchists have a vision of community where everyone (neighbors, coworkers, artists, parents, children, friends) can have justice, agency, shelter, enough to eat and more through horizontal and respectful engagement. The authoritarian and frightened vision of the POTUS and his ilk, based of reaction and retraction, is no way forward together. Instead, we propose a world […]
Vancouver Sun, “Canada 150: Prolific writer George Woodcock helped create Canada’s literary voice”
He also became a prolific writer. He wrote about anarchism; a biography of George Orwell that won a Governor-General’s prize; about First Nations art and culture; about Doukhobors; about eccentric provincial premier Amor de Cosmos; about B.C.’s social history. In all, he produced about 140 books. Continue Reading
The Stranger, “What Americans Can Learn from Badass Russian Dissident Reporter Victoria Lomasko”
Several years ago, Lomasko says, she and other writers were looking for a venue to launch an anarchist newspaper called Volya, which means “Will” in Russian. A bookstore owner offered up his store for the event. The very next day, the police showed up: “Do you want to have a bookstore or do you want […]
Financial Times, “Notes on . . . George Orwell”
Nineteen Eighty-Four, we recall, ends pessimistically with Winston killing time until it suits the state to kill him. But Orwell was, in life, no pessimist. He fought in Spain alongside anti-Stalinist Marxists and anarchists, whom he must have known were glorious losers. Continue Reading