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2011 Spring Newsletter 
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
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Join us at the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair
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DRUNKEN POETRY!
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OF THE MONTH
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Hours may vary without meaning or purpose.
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LAST WORD BOOKS EVENTS CALENDAR:
Saturday, April 9
7:30pm
Crossing the Gates of Alaska
Monday, April 18
7:30pm
Drunken Poetry
Monday, May 16
7:30pm
Drunken Poetry
Tuesday, May 31
6:00pm
Elwin Cotman & Kim
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Greetings Bibliophiles,
2011 is rapidly passing around us, like the pages of a scary book we can't put down, even when it makes us nauseous. The world turns, times change, people die, we wage wars and spend money and build bombs and buildings and nuclear reactors. Some struggle to clean up this mess we've made before its too late. Others lethargically lounge around, utilizing whatever resources are at our disposal, growing fat, lazy and insolent and generally not caring about our rapidly worsening state of affairs.
Which of these parties will you be attending? How will you educate and inspire yourself to attain your goals and create a better life for those close to you? That's where we come in. We here at Last Word Books & Press firmly believe in the fundamental power of words to affect physical change on the world. That's why we do what we do. Not because we're getting filthy rich (trust us!), not because we're unemployable by most standards (though we are), not because we don't have anything better to do (beach? beer? good book?)... its because these humble jobs of bookseller, printer, activist, poet... these jobs are noble, and carry with them a sense of social justice, true democracy, and community development. It's because we see the change we affect in the world on a local level every day in the faces of our customers, in their words and smiles and passions, in their gratitude.
Of course, if you shop at a corporate, chain bookstore you get none of this, and 80% of your money leaves town immediately, and all your local, independent bookstores will eventually atrophy and disappear, along with all the little individual bits of culture they embody and nurture.
Think hard in the months to come, about your life and the lives of others. Think hard about the economic choices you make and the ripple effect they have on the world at large. Think hard about the environment and politics and energy and the future. And if you come up with any questions, drop us a line. We will happily help you find your moral compass, and the next few books on your reading list.
Ridiculously, literarily yours,
Last Word Books
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(crash, bang, rumble...) The clamorous din subsides only to be replaced with swearing so foul most sailors would blush.
"F*cking, goddamn motherf*cking piece of sh*t, worthless, no-good..."
As you can tell it's another busy day at Last Word Press. The editor-in-chief is cursing up a storm of vitriol towards congressmen, salesmen and Mormon missionaries. Why the latter? Because they annoy him just as devout socialists annoy him. He's had a bad day, a bad week, a bad month (you see where this is going?) Tired and overworked, he continues to pull the disparate pieces of the print shop into the 21st century with little support.
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Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (The American Moment) Steven Mintz 3.75 USD
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