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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: Milton Rokeach’s Psychological Case Study
by Geo Ong In 1959 Milton Rokeach, a social psychologist, brought together three paranoid schizophrenics at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in an attempt to treat their delusions. All three men were of different ages and of different backgrounds, … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged books, clyde benson, identity, jesus christ, joseph cassel, leon gabor, mental illness, milton rokeach, nonfiction, nyrb classics, paranoid schizophrenia, psychiatry, psychology, schizophrenia, social psychology, the three christs of ypsilanti, ypsilanti state hospital
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At Verso, Books Burn You!
By Geo Ong Verso Books claims to be ‘the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world’ and there seems very little reason to doubt them. Verso’s catalogue tackles many challenging topics as straightforwardly as your distant aunt telling … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged activism, books, fiction, green gone wrong, guatemala, i rigoberta menchu, indigenous societies, italian resistance, marxism, none of us were like this before, nonfiction, publishers, publishing companies, quiche, radical literature, radical publishing, rebel rank and file, revolutionaries, rigoberta menchu, rosa luxemburg, rossana rossanda, spartacus league, verso, verso books, wu ming
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That’s What She Said
A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I’d go looking for the England … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, That's What They Said, Travel
Tagged 84 charing cross road, books, england, english literature, helene hanff, nonfiction, uk
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Made in Detroit
The following is an excerpt from Paul Clemens’s wonderful new book Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant. Here he attends a parts auction, as equipment from the now-closed ThyssenKrupp Budd plant is sold to other plants around … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged america, auto plants, books, cars, detroit, letourneau, money, nonfiction, Paul Clemens, punching out
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Add Your Books to the Urchin Bookshelf!
Us again! Sorry to interrupt, but would you mind turning down your Urchin Mix Tape for a hot minute? We have a special announcement to make! One of the things that brought the Urchins together, aside from our astronomical London … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Guest Urchins, Literature
Tagged books, fiction, nonfiction, novels, urchin bookshelf, urchin mix tape
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Banned Books Week, 25 September – 2 October 2010
To you zealots and bigots and false patriots who live in fear of discourse. You screamers and banners and burners who would force books off shelves in your brand name of greater good. You say you’re afraid for children, innocents … Continue reading
The New Urchin Bookshelf – Eat Your Heart Out, IKEA!
Here are the books we’ll be burying ourselves inside in the coming months. Our bookshelf has everything from classics revisited to contemporary fiction, from histories to drama, from the women of the twentieth century to the objects in your cellar. … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature
Tagged a short history of nearly everything, anton chekhov, at home, Bill Bryson, books, Chinatown, contemporary fiction, day out of days, dreamers of a new day, england, feminism, fiction, i hotel, karen tei yamashita, london, Mrs. Dalloway, nonfiction, novels, play, russia, sam shepard, san francisco, sheila rowbotham, sixties, the cherry orchard, urchin bookshelf, virginia woolf, western, wild west
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