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"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 1968. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Friday, May 24, 2019
Friday, April 13, 2018
Friday, March 30, 2018
Sous Le Pave, Le Plage--May '68
Labels:
1960s,
1968,
anarchism,
antiwar,
book review,
capitalism,
Counterpunch,
France,
May 1968,
rebellion
Friday, May 6, 2016
Psychedelic Rangers Extraordinaire
Labels:
1960s,
1968,
1970s,
americana,
avantgarde,
bohemians,
book review,
counterculture,
drug war,
graffiti,
Grateful Dead,
lsd,
repression
Friday, April 8, 2016
Friday, January 23, 2015
Friday, May 30, 2014
From Stokely to Kwame
Labels:
1960s,
1968,
1970s,
Algeria,
anti-imperialism,
Black history,
Black Panthers,
book review,
civil liberties,
civil rights movement,
COINTELPRO,
free speech,
history,
left,
socialism,
violence,
voting
Friday, August 9, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Seventies Series for sale!
"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian
Communist Party!) that crime fiction is way of talking about social
inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties (not to
mention dope, guns, f*cking, and imperialism) 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."
--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher of PM Press/noir enthusiast
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