Joe Bageant is alive and well, still kicking ass and writing a book!!

[DinahMoeHum]

And now he has a website of his own:
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2005/11/an_update_on_wh.html

Thanks and heads up to DU member <dweller> :pals: for passing along this information!

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(snip)
An update on what I've been doing lately
Greetings earthlings,

How strange it is to realize that six months have passed without writing an essay for the internet. The reason is I have discovered that I do not seem to do more than one thing at a time, in this case, focus to write a book and let my mind roam around in the essay process.

This summer I signed a book deal with Random House Crown, with the manuscript to be delivered May 1, 2006. The book is tentatively titled DRINK, PRAY, FIGHT AND FUCK: Dispatches from the American Class Wars. Whether such a title will make it onto the shelves at Borders next summer without asterisks may be a good indicator of how strong a grip America’s new neocon consciousness still has on freedom of speech.

Whatever the case, I have a great editor, Rachel Klayman, whose advice and suggestions -- such as "Stay out of the beer joints and write dammit!" -- are vital. Our backgrounds couldn't be more different. She is an urbane, educated middle class Jew and I am a pee dribbling old redneck who can't say three words without two of them being profanities. Consequently, communicating with the New York literary set can sometimes be like sending up smoke signals across the cultural gap and hoping we catch each other's drift.

Which of course is why the book is being written -- to entice liberals to consider looking at things in a new and more inclusive way, one which includes that great sea of the unwashed, the patriotic, Nascar, French hating, modular home dwelling, deer hunting Christian cigarette smokers. Needless to say, it’s a rather hard sell with the Starbucks set. Maybe it will take seeing Condi Rice or Jeb Bush nominated in ‘08 before we on the so-called left get the point that we must reach the very people who kicked our asses in the last elections, or nothing will really change even if we do manage to elect Democratic president. Meanwhile, out here the mainstream heartland majority is lacing up it boots to do some more ass kicking, though there are rather hopeful signs -- such as the president's ratings -- that they are not quite sure whose ass to kick this time. Rest assured the GOP will be ready to misdirect their rightful anger yet again.
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much more...

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[loftycity]

1. Joe is by far the best!!!

:bounce: :yourock: :applause:

Everyone here...you have to read Joe's work.. he is the greatest.

[QC]

2. Thanks for posting this!

I've been wondering what he was up to.