https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/fungi-from-jamaica-to-cop-city-and-beyond/
"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label essays. Show all posts
Friday, November 7, 2025
Saturday, September 24, 2022
New Collection titled Living the American Nightmare--New edition
The content is the same, but the book is set up more formally.
This is just a small collection of some of my essays and articles published on Counterpunch since January 2019. It is currently only available on Amazon, but should be available via other distributors in a week or so. Although you can find the pieces herein online, this is just in case you want to have a print or ebook version. Here's the First edition's back cover blurb "
The concept of an American Dream has been promoted like the latest Hollywood smash for decades. For too many residents of the United States, that dream has been more unattainable than true romance. In the twenty-first century, the American Dream is revealing itself to be a nightmare--something it's always been for many in the US and abroad. This collection of essays asks the question-is a nightmare still a dream? Is the American Dream a nightmare? "
Friday, April 10, 2015
Friday, December 26, 2014
The Sense of Disconnection is Unreal
Originally appeared in Torture:Asian and Global Perspectives
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/26/the-sense-of-disconnection-is-unreal/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/26/the-sense-of-disconnection-is-unreal/
Friday, November 15, 2013
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Selling the Family Home
Thoughts on my recent visit to help clear out the family home before my dad closed on the deal.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/11/selling-the-family-home/#more-51465
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/11/selling-the-family-home/#more-51465
Friday, March 1, 2013
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Tripping Through the American Night Now Available in print
Previously only available as an ebook, my collection of essays and other musings titled Tripping Through the American Night is now available in print. That's right--real paper and covers and everything. You can order it here or at Amazon.com. It will also be available soon at many other stores and through your local bookseller. For the first couple of weeks, you can get it at a $4.00 discount if you order through the link that says "here" above. Just type in the discount code NUJMWMG3 during checkout.
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