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The Urchin Book Trunk
As we mentioned earlier, the Urchins are embarking on our first ever Urchin road trip. In preparation for our journey, we look to the interesting minds that have done it before us. Here it is – the Urchin Book Trunk! … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Literature, Travel
Tagged air-conditioned nightmare, america, america day by day, Beat Generation, beats, bennington, Bill Bryson, books, dogs, edna st vincent millay, electric kool-aid acid test, england, essays, expatriates, frasier, gothic literature, henry david thoreau, henry miller, Jack Kerouac, john steinbeck, london, mark twain, new journalism, nonfiction, novels, on the road, poetry, poodles, pulitzer prize, riding toward everywhere, road trip, roughing it, sal paradise, shirley jackson, simone de beauvoir, sixties, stephen fry, stephen fry in america, the lost continent, tom wolfe, train hopping, travel literature, travels with charley, urchin book trunk, urchin bookshelf, Vermont, walden, we have always lived in the castle, william t vollmann
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Bad Nature, Bad Words, and Bad People: Three More Revolutionary Books
By Geo Ong Part Three of the ongoing and hopefully infinite list of revolutionary books. If you haven’t yet read Part One: Begin from Within or Part Two: You Animals!, be sure to check out those posts, too! Civil Disobedience … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged art as social revolution, books, castro, civil disobedience, communism, communist manifesto, discrimination, essays, false consciousness, fox news, friedrich engels, gandhi, henry david thoreau, immigration, imperial, injustice, joseph mccarthy, karl marx, martin luther king jr, marxism, mccarthyism, mexican immigrants, mexican-american war, mexico, pol pot, poverty, resistance to civil government, revolution, revolutionary books, slavery, stalin, tariq ali, the idea of communism, War!, william t vollmann
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Where Were You at High Noon?
I think we can all agree that it’s Monday. It’s the perfect day for launching our new weekly Sunday post – High Noon Urchins. Every Sunday we’ll release a quick snap shot into the life of an Urchin. As always, … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning
By Geo Ong Spring cleaning is upon us here at the Urchin blog, which means it’s time to freshen up the only item of furniture we have in our virtual flat, the Urchin Bookshelf. We’ve been reading our bums off, … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged argall, books, bookstores, captain ahab, diesel bookstore, herman melville, libraries, moby-dick, urchin bookshelf, used books, william t vollmann
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Only in Los Angeles
By Geo Ong There I was, minding my own business, making steady progress in Vollmann’s Imperial (now that it’s an Urchie-Award winner, I thought I’d better read more of it), enjoying the calmbience of the coffeeshop, when a murder of … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Film & Television, Geo, Travel
Tagged hollywood, imperial, los angeles, networkers, networking, television, urchies, william t vollmann
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1st Annual Urchie Award Winners!
What a show! Sincere thanks to all who read and voted! Here they are, your winners! Book of the Year Imperial by William T. Vollmann Novelist (that’s right, novelist) William T. Vollmann spent ten years of his life on this … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Film & Television, Literature, Music, The Urchies, Travel
Tagged 826, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, award shows, Away We Go, beatles, belgium, books, brussels, cheryl cole, chris cleave, clean breaks, dave eggers, edinburgh, ewan mcgregor, george clooney, hanson, imperial, inglourious basterds, inherent vice, jackson browne, jeremy smith, kathryn bigelow, nonfiction, paul mccartney, richard hammond, scotland, st. vincent, The Hurt Locker, thomas pynchon, Up, urchie lifetime achievement award, urchies, vendela vida, Washington D.C., Where the Wild Things Are, william t vollmann
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1st Annual Urchie Award Nominations!
[UPDATE: Find out who won!] The day you have been waiting for is finally here. The Golden Globes and Grammys have passed. The Oscars loom forebodingly in the not-so-distant future. But none of that matters! The only important award show … Continue reading
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Tagged 826, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, academy awards, award shows, Away We Go, brussels, cheryl cole, chris cleave, clean breaks, dave eggers, edinburgh, ewan mcgregor, film of the year, george clooney, grammys, hanson, imperial, inglourious basterds, inherent vice, jackson browne, jeremy smith, judd apatow, little bee, long way round, Oscars, paul mccartney, Pixar, Quintin Tarantino, richard hammond, st. vincent, Stand Up Stand Up, The Hurt Locker, thomas pynchon, Todd Phillips, Up, urchies, vendela vida, Washington D.C., Where the Wild Things Are, william t vollmann
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Geo Takes a Survey
*Survey courtesy of Shelf Awareness On your nightstand now: An alarm clock-radio set to a country music station to ensure I bolt out of bed to turn it off, seven cents in pennies, a capsule of vegan multivitamins, my 2009 agenda … Continue reading
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Tagged a clockwork orange, anthony burgess, bertolt brecht, book covers, books, catch-22, country music, fiction, finnegans wake, gertrude stein, gravity's rainbow, hunter s. thompson, imperial, invisible man, james joyce, joseph heller, kathy wilburn, marian potter, nonfiction, novels, penguin, philip k. dick, prefaces to shakespeare, ralph ellison, reading, rebecca skloot, shelf awareness, soren kierkegaard, survey, the arcades project, the immortal life of henrietta lacks, the little red caboose, thomas pynchon, tony tanner, valis, walter benjamin, william t vollmann
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A Reward for Anyone Who Reaches the End of the Excerpt
By Geo Ong A short (in relation) excerpt from the 1344-page Imperial by William T. Vollmann, a work of nonfiction about the continuum between Mexico and America – more specifically, illegal immigration in Imperial County, a border region in Southeastern … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, That's What They Said
Tagged books, california, excerpts, imperial, mexican immigrants, mexico, nonfiction, salton sea, william t vollmann
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