On Subbing: The First Four Years
10 best books like On Subbing: The First Four Years (Dave Roche): We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism, Teacher, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, Stolen Sharpie Revolution: A DIY Zine Resource, The Fart Party, Vol. 2, Monsters, Zine Scene: Do It Yourself Guide to Zines, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities, A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution, This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey
We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism
| Author | Verso |
| ISBN | 1859844472 |
We Are Everywhere is a whirlwind collection of writings, images and ideas for direct action by people on the frontlines of the global anticapitalist movement. This is a movement of untold stories, because those from below are not those who get to write history, even though we are the ones making it. We...
| Author | Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
| ISBN | 0671617680 |
TEACHER was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient...
| Author | Pete Jordan |
| ISBN | 0060896426 |
Dishwasher is the true story of a man on a mission: to clean dirty dishes professionally in every state in America. Part adventure, part parody, and part miraculous journey of self-discovery, it is the unforgettable account of Pete Jordan's transformation from itinerant seeker into "Dishwasher...
| Author | Alex Wrekk |
| ISBN | 0972696725 |
When this book came in the mail, it was delivered in a shipping envelope from the author, and the only thing I really knew about it is what Sage told me. It really was not what I expected at all. This is like the cutest little book ... ever. It's small, like the size of my hand. When you see it, your first thought...
| Author | Julia Wertz |
| ISBN | 0978656946 |
After trying and failing at a long distance relationship with her boyfriend in the original Fart Party collection, Julia quits her job and travels from coast to coast, meeting many strangers who will soon become a huge part of her world. She returns to San Francisco to wisecrack her way through a mundane...
| Author | Ken Dahl |
| ISBN | 0979960940 |
Part fiction and part deranged educational film strip, Monsters focuses both on the physical symptoms and the traumatic emotional damage of an STD that rarely affects two people the same way. Following his acclaimed collection of short comics, Welcome to the Dahlhouse, Ken Dahl cements his status...
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 0965975436 |
Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library...
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
| Author | Yantra Bertelli |
| ISBN | 1604861096 |
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with...
| Author | Karen Green |
| ISBN | 0312155352 |
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of zines.
On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and under...
Wonderful book of flash fiction and flash essays detailing Almond's advice on writing. This book can only be bought at readings, I believe, so keep an eye out for him at your local writing conferences. He's an amazing speaker and writer, and his small gems are inspiring:
"We are living in an era...
A compilation of the first nine issues of the author’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine, this volume reflects the do-it-yourself attitude of the 1990s punk music scene and includes humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, and nuanced descriptions of odd locales...
| Author | Cindy Gretchen Ovenrack Crabb |
| ISBN | 0972696784 |
Even the simplest, most common thingsplaying music, childhood, cooking, or sexresonate with universal understanding in this collection of issues of the zine Doris. Making sense of more complex things, the essays touch on the satisfaction from doing useful work, natural curiosity, the ability...
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0972696768 |
Nicole J. Georges captures her adventures and thoughts in unique, heartfelt illustrations and stories. Five years of dog mothering, chicken raising, coffee-shop crushes, drama, low paying jobs, heartbreaking romance, inspiring friendships, vegan snacks, and more! This exhaustive collection...
What Kerouac was to the Beat generation, Aaron Cometbus is to the punk scene in Berkeley, California. In this first novel, his slacker kids ponder life's mundane questions with the seriousness of ancient philosophers: how to get by on no money, where to scam free photocopies, and the finer points of...
| Author | Bee Lavender |
| ISBN | 1888451793 |
It is one of the many charms of this book that Lavender is not only aware of the conventions of such autobiographies but that she consciously rejects them. Her powerful, elegant memoir should be read by everyone.... as an example of what truly well-written and unflinching self-examination can be like.
-The...
| Author | Hib Chickena |
| ISBN | 0970910134 |
A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off The Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off to Europe. Wandering across that continent, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole - a squatted...
This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers's bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers's early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his "voyage of discovery and surprise." We meet fellow travelers from schools...
| Author | Kyle Bravo |
| ISBN | 0972696792 |
Kyle Bravo has assembled a comprehensive book along with dozens of other instructional articles that tell you how to do just about everything. Topics include getting active, direct action, gardening, how to make wine, homeschooling, fixing a toilet, audio phone patch, how to make envelopes, shoe...
| Author | Stephen Duncombe |
| ISBN | 1859841589 |
Slug & Lettuce, Pathetic Life, I Hate Brenda, Dishwasher, Punk and Destroy, Sweet Jesus, Scrambled Eggs, Maximunrocknroll—these are among the thousands of publications which circulate in a subterranean world rarely illuminated by the searchlights of mainstream media commentary. In this...
Hot Damn and Hell Yeah! Recipes for Hungry Banditos and the Dirty South Vegan Cookbook
| Author | Ryan Splint |
| ISBN | 0977055701 |
Two great vegan cookbooks have been combined in this incredible compilation: an anthology of The Dirty South issues 1-3 and Hot Damn and Hell Yeah. A unique take on southern cooking, vegan style with some tasty delectables, The Dirty South is especially for those not afraid of garlic or baking. Hot Damn...
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 1570270740 |
"Passionate Mistakes" helped catapult the nascent queer girl culture of San Francisco's Mission district to the world. The novel charts the turbulent adventures of one girl in America as she moves from Boston's teenage goth world to whoring in New Age Tucson before finally arriving in San Francisco's...
| Author | John Porcellino |
| ISBN | 1894937910 |
The definitive collection of the influential comic zine
John Porcellino has long been considered the greatest of all cartoonists coming from the self-publishing and zine movement of the early '90s. His spare approach with words and pictures focuses on the smallest of details, revealing...
