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Maps to the Other Side

The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer

Sascha Altman DuBrul

Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story—Maps to the Other Side is a self-reflective shattered mirror, a twist on the classic punk rock travel...

Suffled How it Gush

A North American Anarchist in the Balkans

Shon Meckfessel

Shon Meckfessel appropriates the peculiar slogan of an Albanian mineral water company as the title for this uniquely intellectual book. Equal parts journalism, history, and personal memoir,...

Cheap Motels And A Hot Plate

An Economist's Travelogue

Michael D Yates

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has an economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and...

Lessons In Taxidermy

Bee Lavender

Diagnosed with cancer at age 12 ad perilously pregnant at 18, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: Sometimes you can't believe Bee Lavender is still alive; sometimes you think nothing could...

Beggars of Life

Jim Tully

Beggars Of Life is easily the greatest of hobo autobiographies. First published in 1924, it holds up remarkably well because Jim Tully was one of the founders of the spare, gritty, unsentimental...

Hobohemia

Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders In 1920s/30s Chicago

Frank O. Beck

From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an...

You Can't Win

Jack Black

A legendary book, bestseller in 1926 and hovering at the edge of our memory since; the favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild...

Sister of the Road

The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

Ben Reitman

Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout culture that gets left out of the stultifying...

Juice is Stranger than Friction

Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim

T-Bone Slim

"A working stuff, a hobo, and an irreconcilable revolutionist...second only to Joe Hill as the IWW's most popular songwriter, T-Bone Slim incontestably was the Wobblie's greatest "man of letters"....