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Some great new titles just in
by v/a
We're kind of in shock at how graphicaly wonderful our last book order turned out - with many new radical (or merely awesome) new titles on the shelves that are really some of the most visually-appealing books we've ever carried.
For instance, we've finally gotten around to picking up Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels,which reprints some amazing early-20th century work from artists like Franz Masereel and Lynd Ward, some of which is the direct inspiration for a lot of contemporary anarchist graphic art like Seth Tobocman or Eric Drooker. Check out this image from Masereel's Passion of Man:
Of course, no collection of radical graphic art would be complete without the work of Jose Guadalupe Posada, the intensely political Mexican engraver. While we've carried Posada books in the store before, none really compare to Posada: Mexican Engraver, a beautifully printed, oversized compendium of Posada's work. With all the skeletons, it'd make a great Day of the Dead present:
We've also got a local Baltimore entry in this order of eye-candy: Bruce Willen's and Nolen Straals' amazing Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces. Bruce and Nolen, besides running Post-Typography, one of the best design studios in Baltimore, are also the core of Double Dagger, the band that brought us the anti-gentrification anthem "Luxury Condos for the Poor". While Lettering & Type isn't a politically radical book, it can't hurt for us all to start stepping up our font game:
We've also, thanks to a tip from the amazing avant-blog A Journey Round My Skull , picked up Dino Buzzati's 1969 book Poem Strip , freshly translated and reprinted by the good folks at the New York Review of Books. We'll let the image speak for itsef on this one:
And finally, speaking of essential internet resources, we did get in one or two books this week that don't include pictures, including The Great Anger: Ultra-Revolutionary Writing in France from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang, published by a new project spinning off of the Marxist Internet Archive, one of the finest collections of free texts on the Internet (and there's a lot more in there than just Marxists - their Anarchism section, for instance, is more comprehensive than many anarchist-run online collections!) This book, with texts from Marat, Babeuf, Emile Henry, and many many more, is a pretty amazing slice of radical history.
Oh and did we mention Fredric Jameson's new Valences of the Dialectic? Zizek's First as Tragedy, then as Farce? Crumb's Genesis? Seriously, there's so much to read that you'd need some sort of organizer to keep track of it all - luckily we've got those too - the 2010 Slingshot organizer is in, in both pocket sized and large sprial bound versions:
Also, we're embarassed that it took us this long to figure out "Double Dagger" is a typographical term, thought it had something to with knives for years.
