David Lale's Last Stop Salina Cruz was selected as Novel of the Year 2007 by 3:AM Magazine.

Tom Bradley's Fission Among the Fanatics was picked as the 3:AM Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2007.

Go to 3:AM Magazine for a complete list of this year's 3:AM Awards.

Joe Sacco has a show at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, Oregon) called Graphic Articles. He is featured as Person of the Week by the Portland Tribune.

You can read the MindBuck interview HERE. And this piece by the Guardian, I DO COMICS, NOT GRAPHIC NOVELS, if you want to.

He will be speaking this evening, January 17, at 7pm at the First Unitarian
Church (1011 SW 12th, between Salmon and Main) in Portland.

He's going to read a bit from his book American Methods: Torture and the
Logic of Domination, and discuss the policy decisions behind the United
States' current torture practices.

In particular, he'll be arguing that both parties share responsibility for the government's use of torture, and that the coming elections are unlikely to have much effect on its practices.

From the book:

"What do Chloë Sevigny, Molly Ivins, Allen Ginsberg, R. Crumb, Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker), Yoko Ono, and Germaine Greer all have in common? They have all been guests at Jim Haynes's studio in Paris. A dynamic and loveable American ex-pat, Jim Haynes welcomes anywhere fifty to a hundred people for food, fun, and conversation every Sunday in his home. These informal parties, now approaching their thirty-year mark, are the inspiration for Throw a Great Party and illustrate how to entertain a crowd at home without being overwhelmed."

You can buy a copy of Mary Bartlett's cookbook, Throw a Great Party (inspired by evenings in Paris with Jim Haynes), by clicking here.

Read Matthew Coleman's article on Henry Miller over at Dogmatika.

A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

by Sharon Rudahl

New York: The New Press, 2007

115 pages, $17.95


reviewed by Kristian Williams



Emma Goldman lived a full and fine life. She wrote, lectured, agitated, organized, and took direct action for the cause of labor, for free speech, for free love, for birth control, for art, and for anarchy. She took numerous lovers, wrote several books, and witnessed the collapse of two revolutions. And she was repeatedly denounced in the press, arrested, imprisoned, and exiled.

A Dangerous Woman recounts the major events of Red Emma's life, but it does so rather too quickly, at too much a one-thing-then-another clip. Very large and complex events -- such as the Haymarket Affair and the Spanish Civil War -- are presented without sufficient context or detail. Worse, the book really fails to capture Goldman's fire and charm -- either as they appeared in her speeches and writing, or as they were reflected in her life itself.

The result is not a poor biography, but a deeply unsatisfying one. The reader perhaps learns some things that he did not know before; but chiefly he is left wanting more -- more detail, more of the lovely pictures, more background on the historical events, and most of all, more of Emma Goldman.



Kristian Williams is the author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America and American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination (both from South End Press). He is presently at work on a book about Oscar Wilde and anarchism.