So much good writing!
There’s so much good writing — and so many good writers — out there!
In recognition of that, this weekend I want to shut my own piehole (ooh! or maybe keep it busy by <EATING PIE!!!> ) and share some recommendations. If you want to jump to the recs, scroll past Mr. Bunny!
For anyone out there awaiting Part III of “The Right’s Rollercoaster to Hell,” I plan to publish it next week. Part III will focus on the Right’s real life effects in the present, the hole they’re digging, and where they’re likely to go next. (In other words, more people will find it engaging than the specific historical and linguistic groundings of Part II.)
Then, I want to do a similar but shorter analysis of the Left at this present juncture, and put a neat little bow on the whole thing with a newsletter about sensible strategies for survival and maybe even revolution in our current circumstances.
You can check out Parts I and II of Rollercoaster along with any of my other newsletters on the website, Surviving Leviathan.
Okay, reading recommendatiooooooooooons!!!
This one feels like a propitious lil magic spell for starting:
James Freitas is packing his own library, and he wrote an appreciation of his books. I enjoyed thinking about, when we need to move, when we want to move, how important and also sentimental it can be to bring our books with us, putting them into boxes in anticipation of a new room they’ll soon pour their musty spirits out into.
Here’s Margaret Killjoy speaking some truth. I’m also so glad to hear that the Shenandoah Valley has an anarchist bookfair! How things have grown and shifted since I lived there…
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