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Authors: Rebecca Solnit
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book that first appeared at TomDispatch were studded with links to sources for statistics, anecdotes, and quotes. They would have made ponderous footnotes, so those sources are not given here but can be found in the online versions.
“Men Explain Things to Me,” “The Longest War,” “Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite,” as well as “Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force” all appeared at TomDispatch.
“In Praise of the Threat” is the only thing that I’ve ever published in the Financial Times . It came out there on May 24, 2013, as “More Equal Than Others: http://www.ft.com/intl /cms/s/2/99659a2a-c349-11e2-9bcb-00144feab7de.html.
“Grandmother Spider” was written for the one hundredth issue of Zyzzva Magazine , the San Francisco—based literary journal.
And the essay on Virginia Woolf was originally a keynote lecture to the binational Nineteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf in 2009 at Fordham University.
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Dispatch Books’ first effort, Terminator Planet , explored the military’s increasing use of remotely piloted
“Men Explain Things to Me,” “The Longest War,” “Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite,” as well as “Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force” all appeared at TomDispatch.
“In Praise of the Threat” is the only thing that I’ve ever published in the Financial Times . It came out there on May 24, 2013, as “More Equal Than Others: http://www.ft.com/intl /cms/s/2/99659a2a-c349-11e2-9bcb-00144feab7de.html.
“Grandmother Spider” was written for the one hundredth issue of Zyzzva Magazine , the San Francisco—based literary journal.
And the essay on Virginia Woolf was originally a keynote lecture to the binational Nineteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf in 2009 at Fordham University.
About Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a nonprofit, progressive book distributor and publisher, a project of the Center for Economic Research and Social Change. We believe that activists need to take ideas, history, and politics into the many struggles for social justice today. Learning the lessons of past victories, as well as defeats, can arm a new generation of fighters for a better world. As Karl Marx said, “The philosophers have merely interpreted the world; the point however is to change it.”
We take inspiration and courage from our namesakes, the Haymarket Martyrs, who gave their lives fighting for a better world. Their 1886 struggle for the eight-hour day, which gave us May Day, the international workers’ holiday, reminds workers around the world that ordinary people can organize and struggle for their own liberation. These struggles continue today across the globe—struggles against oppression, exploitation, hunger, and poverty.
It was August Spies, one of the Martyrs who was targeted for being an immigrant and an anarchist, who predicted the battles being fought to this day. “If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement,” Spies told the judge, “then hang us. Here you will tread upon a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, the flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which you stand.”
We could not succeed in our publishing efforts without the generous financial support of our readers. Many people contribute to our project through the Haymarket Sustainers program, where donors receive free books in return for their monetary support. If you would like to be a part of this program, please contact us at [email protected].
About Dispatch Books
As an editor at Pantheon Books in the 1970s and 1980s, Tom Engelhardt used to jokingly call himself publishing’s “editor of last resort.” His urge to rescue books and authors rejected elsewhere brought the world Eduardo Galeano’s beautiful Memory of Fire trilogy and Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus , among other notable, incendiary, and worthy works. In that spirit, he and award-winning journalist Nick Turse founded Dispatch Books, a publishing effort offering a home to authors used to operating outside the mainstream.
With an eye for well-crafted essays, illuminating long-form investigative journalism, and compelling subjects given short shrift by the big publishing houses, Engelhardt and Turse seek to provide readers with electronic and print books of conspicuous quality offering unique perspectives found nowhere else. In a world in which publishing giants take fewer and fewer risks and style regularly trumps substance, Dispatch Books aims to be the informed reader’s last refuge for uncommon voices, new perspectives, and provocative critiques.
Dispatch Books’ first effort, Terminator Planet , explored the military’s increasing use of remotely piloted
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