Book with Joe's best essays now on Amazon
For those who prefer a real book rather than reading on a computer screen, a book with 25 of Joe Bageant's best essays is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant will be available for distribution in the USA April 1. This book was first published last November in Australia by Scribe.
Before he died one year ago, Joe and I had talked about such a book, even though he initially had doubts that people would pay for something that's available for free on the web. But, many emails from his readers convinced Joe that enough people wanted the essays in book form to make the project worthwhile. After Joe died, Henry Rosenbloom, Joe's friend and Australian publisher, asked me to select and edit essays for the book.
I've managed Joe's website since its launch nine years ago. Way back then, Joe had started sending his essays to various online opinion sites, such as Counterpunch, SmirkingChimp, AlterNet, and many others. I convinced him that he needed his own website, if nothing else to serve as an archive for his work.
Joe spent the last two years of his life living in a small studio apartment in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico -- just a few blocks from my apartment. While in Ajijic, Joe wrote his second book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, banging away on a god-awful small netbook with his two-finger typing.
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