The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics by Greg Mitchell Nonfiction — Politics Sinclair Books, 2011 Kindle edition 686 pages Upton Sinclair was a lot of things: journalist, Socialist, muckraker, author, politician. He’s probably best known for his novel, The Jungle (1906), about the […]

Zazen by Vanessa Veselka Fiction Red Lemonade, 2011 Kindle edition 274 pages From the publisher: Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last. Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but […]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday asks us to list our ten favorite blogs or websites that aren’t about books. This is going to be rather hard for me, because I read a lot of great blogs that aren’t specifically about […]

Lizz Free or Die: Essays by Lizz Winstead Nonfiction — Essays / Comedy / Memoir Riverhead Books; May 10, 2012 Hardcover 320 pages This is a book of essays about life. My life. It’s not a memoir, per se, as I decided to write about some specific moments that will give you some insight into […]

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn’t Enough) by Melissa Harris-Perry Nonfiction — Politics / Social Science Yale University Press, September 2011 Hardcover 392 pages From the pages of Sister Citizen: This book is not a work of history, but it relies on […]

When Skateboards Will Be Free by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Memoir — Political Dial Press, 2010 Paperback 320 pages From the back cover of When Skateboards Will Be Free: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s Iranian-born father and Jewish American mother were two very different people bound together by one unshakable belief:  that the workers’ revolution was coming, and coming quickly.  […]