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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler

10 best books like Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler (Thomas Frank): Planet of the Apes, Stranger in a Strange Land, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Heads of the Colored People, Jesus' Son, A Man Without a Country, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Planet of the Apes
AuthorPierre Boulle
ISBN0345447980
"I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!"

With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world,...
Stranger in a Strange Land
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0441788386
Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.

This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
AuthorDee Brown
ISBN0805066691
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account...
The Crossing
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0394574753
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on...
Cities of the Plain
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0679747192
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
Heads of the Colored People
AuthorNafissa Thompson-Spires
ISBN1501167995
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...
Jesus' Son
AuthorDenis Johnson
ISBN0060975776
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...
A Man Without a Country
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this era—or any era—holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. Whether he is describing his coming of age in America, his formative war experiences,...
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
AuthorDavid Graeber
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
AuthorMark Fisher
ISBN1846943175
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture
AuthorNoam Chomsky
ISBN0896084582
This is one of a series of Chomsky paperbacks republished in 2015 which collectively offer a truly radical and transformative review of America's role in world affairs. It is surely essential reading for anyone seeking a rational explanation for seemingly crazy situations. After the virtual insurrection...
Airships
AuthorBarry Hannah
ISBN0802133886
Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South — a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg...
Actual Air
AuthorDavid Berman
ISBN1890447048
David Berman reinvents the overlooked and seemingly ordinary details of everyday life--from the suitcase of a departing girlfriend to a baseboard electrical outlet. His poems chart a course through his own highly original American dreamscape in language that is fresh, accessible, and remarkably...
The Orchard Keeper
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0330314912
"They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust."
-- Cormac...
The Chomsky Reader
AuthorNoam Chomsky
ISBN1852421177
At the centre of pratically every major debate over America?s role in the world, one finds Noam Chomsky?s ideas - sometimes attacked, sometimes studiously ignored, but always a powerful presence. Drawing from his published and unpublished work, The Chomsky Reader reveals the awesome range of this...
The Pugilist at Rest
AuthorThom Jones
ISBN0316473049
Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991. Within six months his stories appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Mirabella, Story, Buzz, and in The New Yorker twice more. "The Pugilist at Rest" - the title story from this stunning collection - took first place in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry...
Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry
AuthorGareth Murphy
ISBN1250043379
Cowboys and Indies is nothing less than the first definitive history of the recording industry on both sides of the Atlantic.

From the invention of the earliest known sound-recording device in 1850s Paris to the CD crash and digital boom today, author and industry insider Gareth Murphy takes...
White Shoe: How a New Breed of Wall Street Lawyers Changed Big Business and the American Century
AuthorJohn Oller
ISBN1524743259
The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world

"Entertaining."--The Wall Street Journal

The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale--folksy...
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