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American Scream
Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accountin...
Dark Day, Dark Night
In the seemingly bucolic town of Sonoma, California, all is not as it appears. The wine industry is being challenged by marijuana growers and distributors in the area. Tioga Vignetta, a private investigator or "op" as she calls herself, becomes tangled in a web of murder, distrust, lies, bacchanalian parties, false leads, Mexicans, Yaqui Indians, and many white suspects. Come to the party and ride along with the "op" on an exhilarating and frightening ride.
For the Hell of It
As cultural revolutionary, media celebrity, Yippie, lost soul, and tragic suicide, Abbie Hoffman embodied the contradictions of his era. In this riveting new biography, Jonah Raskin draws on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman; hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and former comrades; and careful scrutiny of FBI files, court records, and public documents. For the Hell of It is a must-read not only for those interested in this ultimate iconoclast, but also for all who seek a fuller understanding of Abbie Hoffman's America.
Rock 'n' Roll Women
ROCK 'N' ROLL BROKE INTO MY LIFE when a teenage girl older than I blasted Bo Diddley on her record player. She was a dishwasher with curly hair. I heard the music come out of her bedroom window and could not get it out of my head. Later, at school at lunch hour in the gym when guys danced with girls, I heard Carl Perkins and I haven't been the same person since. I had grown up on folk music and on rhythm and blues-I played Leadbelly records everyday for a year-and rock 'n' roll sounded in my ears as though it had come out of black bars, the black ghetto, and the juke joints of the South. Soon after the British Invasion of the 1960s, when rock 'n' roll bands such as the Beatles and the Stones...
Field Days
"This is an insider's view, and Raskin offers readers insights into a hidden California. The impact of his book is to return culture to agriculture in a state dominated by agribusiness."—Gerald Haslam, author of The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland “Jonah Raskin has lived and taught in this area for well over thirty years and has the credibility to write about the evolution of farming here. His book is a magical mixture of journalism and memoir. I loved his interviews with local farmers and growers. He explores the questions that we all are asking about our relationship to food and what it means to eat locally, who grows it, and will they be able to continue to do so.”—Ia...
To Decipher America (With Original 33,190 Word Essay by Jonah Raskin about Jack London Life and Work)
To decipher America (With original 33,190 word essay by Jonah Raskin about Jack London life and work). By the hands of Jonah Raskin, this well-known professor-intellectual-journalist-writer-gadfly, who brings us an original, profound, dense and tense original, 33,190 word essay, let us search in Jack London, that exacerbated individualist who longed for fraternity and justice, the DNA of America that exists and, in its mutation, the DNA of a desired America.Many people say that it has always been like this and that's why it will continue to be so forever.I prefer and want to believe it does not. Knowledge, ethics and rationality advance the path of the human species, despite the powerful ret...
Dark Past, Dark Future
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. At the same time, the sea in which the fictional characters swim and sometimes drown is as real as twenty-first century domestic violence, crimes perpetrated by men against women, and sexual assaults, all of which have reached epic proportions around the world. They have been exasperated during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the time in which this book was written and edited. While Dark Past, Dark Future doesn't purport to provide answers and solutions to an age-old problem and a growing global crisis, it seems fair and just to remind readers that tangible help is available from a variety of groups and organizations. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), https://www.nsvrc.org/organizations, provides a directory of organizations in every state in the U.S. It's a good place to begin an effort to stop the war against women.
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