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Returning to Lovecraft
โThat is not deadย which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.โ โ H.P.L. NOTE: Contains minor spoilers. Donโt get me wrong โ I used to devour books and enjoyed other genres besides ...
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Bigfoot Cop and the End of Policing
โGoddamnit, Bigfoot!โ fumes the Portland police chief. โHow many goddamn times do I have to tell you that you canโt go around pulling off peopleโs arms, smashing goddamn cars, killing suspects โ and goddamn civilians โ ...
Growing old in โpost-recessionโ America
Like so many other children of aging parents, I will at some point assume the responsibility of looking after my mom. Her Social Security benefits are insufficient for her to live on and she relies on ...
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The Revolutionary Moment
What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within every mass movementโunions or workersโ councils, soviets or provisional government, abolition or free-soil, black power or civil rights, etc.โbut ...
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Bookstore adventures
From 1992 to 1998 I worked at a large independent bookstore. Mostly I worked in the store room. They started me on paperback literature which was a mess. My task was to alphabetize and stack the ...
David Ranney “Living and Dying on the Factory Floor” Upcoming NYC Book Tour
Hard Crackers is excited to co-sponsor a series of talks with David Ranney about his new book. Recently, Jarrod Shanahan caught up with David Ranney to discuss his book and the important lessons for today. Check ...
Morbid Symptoms, Part II: Attack on Rikers Island
This is the second of six reviews chronicling the pseudonymous Fred S. Kreiderโs Rikers Island Series, a horror franchise set on present-day Rikers Island. In the first installment we met narrator Nicholas Billings, a rookie guard ...
Bitterly Divided
The best-kept secret in U.S. history is the resistance of southerners, and especially southern nonslaveholding whites, to the slaveholders during the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois, in the chapter โThe General Strikeโ in Black Reconstruction in ...
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โIโm A Modern Man Who Knows How to Wailโ: A Hip-Hop Poet in Fin de Siecle Paris
โIโm the Outcast . . . the โdistinguishedโ chap/Who puts it all in poetry/Iโm more than half crushed to bits / Between the Bourgeoisie and the Worker/Iโm the bloke whose work one hates/Iโm a closet of ...
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On Reading Kenneth Fearingโs โThe Hospitalโ
โIโll never get used to this hospital smell of antiseptic, not even after all the times I visited Alice in Bellevue. Itโs the smell of the grave. Think of something without that smell. Think of something ...
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