The Car Thief by Theodore Weesner – Flint Book of the Week
The Car Thief (1972) is a gritty, deeply human coming-of-age novel set in 1959 Flint, Michigan, that follows 16-year-old Alex Housman, a troubled teen who has just stolen his fourteenth car. Initially, Alex doesn’t really know why he steals cars — he simply feels numb, invisible, and restless, using the thrill of driving stolen vehicles…
Hatchet-Man by Marvin L Easter – Flint Book of the week
Hatchet-Man by Marvin L. Easter is a compelling, historically grounded work that highlights the experiences of Black firefighters in Flint, Michigan, a city with a deeply rooted industrial and civil rights history. Through a blend of personal narratives, historical context, and community insight, Easter examines the challenges and triumphs of African American men who served…
15 Years of The Machine Shop by Jeffery Mintline – Flint Book of the Week
15 Years of The Machine Shop is a hardcover photographic retrospective capturing the first fifteen years of one of Flint, Michigan’s most iconic live music venues — The Machine Shop. The book was created by Jeffrey “Minty” Mintline, the venue’s longtime house photographer, and highlights memorable moments, performances, and personalities that defined the venue from…
Recalcitrance Volume 10: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters by Mary Wollstonecraft – Recalcitrance Publishing
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters is Mary Wollstonecraft’s early instructional treatise offering practical advice on how young women should be raised. Written before her major political works, the book…
Keep readingRecalcitrance Volume 9: Little Screw by Nikolai Yakovlevich Agnivtsev – Recalcitrance Publishing
Nikolai Yakovlevich Agnivtsev (Николай Яковлевич Агнивцев, 1888–1932) was a Russian poet, playwright, and satirist known for his wit, elegance, and nostalgic evocations of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. Born in Moscow, he…
Keep readingAmalgamation by Jay Fox – Rostie Publishing
“Amalgamation” argues that the principal weakness of the American labor movement is its fragmentation by craft (trade) unions, which limits the workers’ collective power. Fox contends that the path forward…
Keep readingWorld Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell – Rostie Publishing
World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism is a collection of essays written by journalist and literary critic Floyd Dell, exploring early 20th-century feminist thought and the cultural shifts it inspired.…
Keep readingDeportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America by Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman – Rostie Publishing
The year is 1919, and the United States has traded the Great War for the escalating domestic conflict of the First Red Scare. In this atmosphere of political hysteria, the…
Keep readingThe Anarchist Revolution by George Barrett – Rostie Publishing
A British Anarchist and Propagandist, George Barrett (born George Powell Ballard, 1888–1917) was a brilliant and tragically short-lived English anarchist writer, speaker, and organizer of the 1910s.Though he trained as…
Keep readingDiary of a Sitdowner by Francis L O’Rourke – Rostie Publishing
The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937 was a landmark labor protest that fundamentally changed industrial relations in the United States.The strike was organized by the fledgling United Auto Workers (UAW)…
Keep readingWHY WE ARE ANARCHISTS by Max Nettlau – Rostie Publishing
Originally a pamphlet signed by Max Nettlau, published in 1894 by the Commonweal Anarchist Group in London. It is a declaration of beliefs: setting out why anarchists hold the views…
Keep readingPoetry from The Masses 1911 – Rostie Publishing
With selections from TM Becker, Herbert Everett, Isaac Goldberg, Wilby Heard, Varl Holiday, Emanuel Julius, James C McNally, Reginald Wright Kauffman, and Horace Traubel.The Masses was a socialist magazine published…
Keep readingPoetry from The Liberator Vol 1, No 1, March 1918 – Rostie Publishing
The Masses was a socialist magazine published in America from 1911-19147. Its demise was brought on when the federal government brought charges against it for conspiring to obstruct conscription during…
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