tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post8453755241537137260..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Friday's "Forgotten" Books, College Edition: DREAM MAKERS II: Interviews by Charles Platt; ESSENTIAL WORKS OF ANARCHISM, edited by Marshall ShatzTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-42017451918455546232010-08-20T23:07:42.492-04:002010-08-20T23:07:42.492-04:00And even if a CopProgger, you're hardly revolt...And even if a CopProgger, you're hardly revolting...revolving/evolving perhaps!Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-22383985802348852562010-08-20T23:06:29.467-04:002010-08-20T23:06:29.467-04:00Yup...the increasingly dull and increasing rightwa...Yup...the increasingly dull and increasing rightward swing of THE ATLANTIC and the generalized triviality of UTNE READER put me off...but OUR GENERATION and SOCIAL ANARCHISM and PROFANE EXISTENCE (which published a short essay by me that made its way, in part, into someone else's commercially-published thesis, which I was made aware of on the same day I bought my first car. Now, THERE's bourgeois life in a capsule for you...particularly since it was Ford station wagon) were livelier or more solid or both. The books are worth knowing, the Platt clearly more original than than the (noble name) Shatz, but they did me right. And, thanks. Query me for the grimmer details sometime if you want. Mostly me being an ass with people who deserved better. Then again, I called our current US Vice President on his bullshit on two occasions to his face, back in his Senatorial daze.<br /><br />And HARPER'S in the '80s made me happier. Less impressive now, but still better than THE ATLANTIC or THE NEW YORKER...much less VANITY FAIR.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-88997948532669072742010-08-20T22:38:36.748-04:002010-08-20T22:38:36.748-04:00I don't know the book, but I enjoyed reading y...I don't know the book, but I enjoyed reading your recap of the college years. I'm afraid my own didn't enlighten me all that much -- or as much as later studies would -- and I quickly grew disenchanted with the bourgeois liberal mindset that had very little to say to me and was far too conservative for my increasingly radical notions, ditto <i>Utne</i>, <i>Atlantic</i> and the rest of the supposedly lefty and liberal MOR stuff.<br /><br />But my revolutionary ideals are more Blakeian than movement oriented, so I am revolting on my own. <br /><br />I will try not to read into my WV: copprogrC. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-24220657815392393772010-08-20T19:18:39.437-04:002010-08-20T19:18:39.437-04:00Yes...the first volume and this one, II, are prett...Yes...the first volume and this one, II, are pretty impressive. Just don't settle for the the boiled down 1987 volume. Douglas Winter and Ed Gorman have had comparable books of horror fiction and crime fiction writer interview/profiles out.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-19793158664056548422010-08-20T17:06:41.846-04:002010-08-20T17:06:41.846-04:00Dream Makers sounds like a must have.<i>Dream Makers</i> sounds like a must have.Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-21581556182127395602010-08-20T10:28:57.274-04:002010-08-20T10:28:57.274-04:00George, I agree. Platt's FREE ZONE, for exampl...George, I agree. Platt's FREE ZONE, for example, is an excellent novel, about a litertarian socialist limited state in a near-future North America. DREAM MAKERS the first was issued while I was in high school, and read then...the 1987 "best of" harcover reprint, taking interviews from both volumes and rather confusingly calling itself simply DREAM MAKERS is an inadequate substitute for both earlier volumes.<br /><br />Patti--well, I certainly mostly though not by any means in every way preferred life in the Oahu city (though administered as a part of Honolulu) of Kailua to life in Londonderry, NH, where I'd spent the previous three years. And, of course, this is quite a gloss, particularly over my Virginia undergraduate years, and barely touches on, for example, my non-political social life. Though my social life was rather politically charged in those years.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-62389998309790033112010-08-20T10:07:24.643-04:002010-08-20T10:07:24.643-04:00I actually own this book (and DREAM MAKERS I). An...I actually own this book (and DREAM MAKERS I). And I always thought Charles Platt was an underrated writer.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-35222919867284426702010-08-20T09:35:46.306-04:002010-08-20T09:35:46.306-04:00Wow. This is a nice retrospective of you college y...Wow. This is a nice retrospective of you college years. Being in Hawaii would take me in all kinds of different directions than the ones I took.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com