Joe Bageant's essays in book form
The book I edited of Joe Bageant's essays was released six weeks ago in Australia, but today I was finally able to see and hold a copy. The first mailing of the book apparently is stuck in Mexican...
View ArticleBook with Joe's best essays now on Amazon
For those who prefer a real book rather than reading on a computer screen, a book with 25 of Joe Bageant's best essays is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best...
View ArticleIntroduction to book of Joe's essays
This is the introduction to Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant, a book released today and available through Amazon-US. It includes 25 of Joe's essays published online in the past...
View ArticleIn the footsteps of Neal Cassady's ghost
Early writing of Joe Bageant, "In the footsteps of Neal Cassady's ghost," published in The Colorado Daily, March 9, 1976. By Joe Bageant
View ArticleTribute to a white trash saint
Hiram Hank Williams was his full name and he was born in Georgiana, Alabama on Sept. 17, 1923, the son of a railroad engineer and a very crude and dominant mother whose character had been permanently...
View ArticleTim Leary and the Outer Space Connection
Joe Bageant on Timothy Leary. Not many people under 50, maybe 60, know about the impact that Timothy Leary had on American culture. Leary was a respected faculty member at Harvard when he conducted...
View ArticleWriting on Things Southern and Past
When visiting Joe and his wife Barbara six years ago in Winchester, Virginia, I convinced Joe to show me some of his unpublished writing. He was reluctant, appearing almost embarrassed, and said the...
View ArticleBlood and Poppies
See the introduction to this series of posts: Writing on Things Southern and Past By Joe Bageant My family's ancestral home on Shanghai Road, a great sagging clapboard thing perched on a hill with its...
View ArticleQueen of the Skies
As I drove through the decaying neighborhood in Winchester, Virginia the pain of growing up there came back -- the stabbing kind that only lasts a second but makes you flinch as you remember some small...
View ArticleLonzy Barker Is Missing
Lonzy Barker is missing. Has been for several months now. Nobody noticed it until that smelly old hermit didn't show up here at Dalton Bayles' post office store for his sardines and rock candy. "He...
View ArticleWhiskey, Snakes and Voltaire
See the introduction to this series of posts: Writing on Things Southern and Past By Joe Bageant I called the old man Grandpap. But most of my mother's family called him a son of a bitch. Which never...
View ArticleThe Panther in the Sycamore
See the introduction to this series of posts: Writing on Things Southern and Past By Joe Bageant It happens perhaps once or twice every August. A violent red Virginia sundown drapes the land, the kind...
View ArticleJoe's book on Congressman's six best list
Joe Bageant is in good company this week as his book Deer Hunting with Jesus was chosen as one of six "Best books" by U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, D-Minn.
View ArticleThe value of father-son respect
I look at those old pictures of my father, just returned from Korea with his khaki hat cocked at a devilish angle, leaning on the shiny black Plymouth. he looks happy and proud. I was six. He was my...
View ArticleA wonderful profile of Joe Bageant
The most thoroughly researched profile of Joe Bageant is in the current issue of The Baffler, a high quality print and online magazine. It is titled “Toxically Pure: Joe Bageant drops out”, written by...
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