Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Sunday, September 28, 2008

No Innocent Bystanders

News Flash: I have a new non-fiction book out (from CWG Press): No Innocent Bystanders: Riding Shotgun in the Land of Denial. While much of the material will be familiar to the regulars here, it’s the first time I’ve had all of complied together. The pitch:

No Innocent Bystanders: Riding Shotgun in the Land of Denial is a manifesto in fractals. Transcending labels and political parties, it gets to the heart of our planet’s rapid decline using a blend of facts, humor, vignettes, and relevant quotes and lists. Think: Derrick Jensen meets Arundhati Roy and Kurt Vonnegut.

On the liner notes for The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album, it’s stated that the song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” was written during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. “A desperate kind of song,” Dylan called it. “Every line in it is actually the start of a whole song,” he explained. “But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn’t have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.” No Innocent Bystanders has been created in that spirit.

As Rosa Luxemburg sez: “The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names.”

You can order my new book here