Member: lycanthropist

Hello. I admire the proletarian purity of your library. I see only we have Lifeitselfmanship. Wonderful.

posted by aidanbyrne at 12:27 pm (EST) on Nov 19, 2009

You're my hero.

posted by magisana at 10:35 am (EST) on May 18, 2009

Hey, rad lib -- added an image of the wonderful Lichtenberg / Hogarth. Enjoy! //Chuck

posted by chuck_ralston at 1:16 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2009

This is a truly radical collection. I also noticed some extremely hard to find cult titles.

posted by S_Meyerson at 1:55 am (EST) on Oct 4, 2008

Awesome collection of books!

posted by alexgalindo at 3:17 pm (EST) on May 17, 2008

Thanks! I appreciate you saying that. :)

posted by Zz9pluralzalpha at 9:55 am (EST) on May 12, 2008

Wow, we have 22 books in common. Gretings to another collector of De Sade-realted books, both written by him and about him. :)

posted by Zz9pluralzalpha at 4:48 am (EST) on Jan 20, 2008

Slug's Saloon, I think it was named, and on the advertisment flyers, in parentheses one would read: Slug's (In the Far East) -- funky little dive, south side of Avenue B somewhere. I used to walk there from a friend's crib on E. 6th St. off 2d Ave. Like walking through Dante's Inferno. But once inside, way in the back beyond the bar, was a little bandstand and BIG sound. Cecil McBee, I remember one night just into his double bass. Charles McPherson played fiercely. Jackie Mac! Circa 1965-1966. Another jazz venue in St. Mark's Place was the Dom, a Polish dance hall, basement entry with a long bar. Midway into the Dom to the left was the bandstand. The late Tony Scott worked the Dom. Also I remember Roy Haynes, Charlie Haden, Jeremy Steig -- the scene in New York was magical then. So many cats playing their asses off. Coltrane at the Half Note Cafe (Spring and Hudson). Rollins at the Village Gate. Monk at the Five Spot -- Coleman Hawkins too!

posted by chuck_ralston at 12:55 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2007

Of the near 200 books we share, I am pleased to see listed those pertaining to jazz -- Black music, Blues people, Chasin' the Trane, Gunther Schuller's Early jazz, Four lives in the bebop business, Hard bob, and Ornette's Harmolodic life. I would bet (a book or two) we may have shared also some quality listening time in NYC in the 1960s at the Five Spot, Half Note, The Dom, and Slug's (in the far east), and a few other now defunct clubs.

posted by chuck_ralston at 11:21 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2007

Thanks for the donation!

posted by provisionslibrary at 5:50 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2007

There are not many of us who own Dr. Vernon Gras's book European Literary Theory and Practice. No doubt it is neither unprecedented nor the last word - but Gras was a wonderful teacher (and my graduate advisor). He is retired now, but continues to write, currently from an ecologically conscientious perspective. In case you keep notes, as I do.

posted by benwaugh at 3:25 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2007

Hi! Although we share 108 books, my own "inventory" in no way matches yours. However, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze did stand out. Perhaps you have read it and could offer some helpful comments? I picked up this book about a year ago at a university book store with the intention to eventually read it. Now, as a consequence of "stuffing my collection" into Libray thing, coming across it again, I began reading it; and was quite sorry that I had not started it earlier as it would have made my "burrowing" through the existential "mountain" so much easier.

posted by Naren559 at 5:47 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2007

I see that you also have Eve and the New Jerusalem by Barbara Taylor. I was at Sussex University at the same time as her (undergraduate to her postgraduate). We both had J.F.C. Harrison as a teacher. He introduced me to millenarianism and groups like the Shakers and was an inspiring teacher. Barbara Taylor's book reflects both her enormous scholarship and the fascinating early socialist period. Have you seen a copy of Susan Lipshitz's edited volume "Tearing the Veil"? Taylor has a very early piece in it called "The Woman Power. Religious Heresy and feminism in early English Socialism". I suspect you would enjoy that.

posted by mandyl at 5:47 am (EST) on Sep 10, 2006

Someone else has Scenes From The Lives Of The Great Socialists! Thank goodness there are no ISBN numbers on my People's Republic Of China copies of Marxist texts, or I'd have exhausted my quota of books just on those.

posted by Hera at 8:50 pm (EST) on Aug 13, 2006

I'm always looking for more resources for socialist & labor history. Thanks for putting your library here -- I plan on perusing with relish! peace.

posted by tiggergrrl at 12:57 am (EST) on Jul 15, 2006

Really enjoyed your comment on the right-wing public librarian blog. I just joined librarything today and had no idea I'd see lycanthropist here again . . .

posted by asquonk at 3:15 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2006

I found your profile because I notice we were the only two with the three Bunuel script collection, "Viridiana, The Exterminating Angel, Simon of the Desert." I also noticed you've got a copy of his autobiography. He's one of my favorite directors, though I'll admit I haven't watched half of his work (but this is partly due to lack of availability). I'd like to hear what you thought of the scripts, or the auto-bio. Had a blast looking through your catalog, by the way.

posted by coffeezombie at 6:02 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2006

Looks like we have some books and a profession in common. I've posted on my wiki my recently completed master's thesis on McCarthyism and libraries if you're interested.

posted by stephenfrancoeur at 3:02 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2006

I notice you also have Socialism and the New LIfe by Rowbotham and Weeks. This was one of the most inspiring books I've ever read

posted by mandyl at 8:10 am (EST) on May 13, 2006