Category: Blog

Free Digital People’s Library

I’m taking Galleycat’s challenge and creating a free digital library for Occupy Wall Street. Starting, ahem, with mine. I recommend the free Bluefire Reader.

The American Book of the Dead

The American Book of the Dead

by Henry Baum

Occupy Consciousness

Essays

A Modern Utopia

A Modern Utopia

by HG Wells

The Iron Heel

The Iron Heel

by Jack London

It Can't Happen Here

It Can’t Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis

The Jungle

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

Walden

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Proposed Roads to Freedom

Proposed Roads to Freedom

by Bertrand Russell

Common Sense

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

A People’s History of the United States

by Howard Zinn

Daily Dish

Andrew Sullivan linked to a piece I wrote for Self-Publishing Review called “Bad Writing Doesn’t Matter Anymore.” Cool, cause I’m basically a daily reader of A.S. He had this to say about publishing recently:

It’s time to break the corrupt, inept, woefully inefficient book publishing industry.

Good discussion on SPR as well.

Update: Bruce Sterling links to it too.