Sarah Schulman has another intriguing book out: Gentrification of the Mind. It's on my short to-acquire list, along with Carol Anshaw's new novel, Carry the One and Saladin Ahmed's debut novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon.
Alas, I am doing the usual thing where I wrestle with too many books at one time. The current reads are Celluloid Activist, the bio of Vito Russo that was nominated for a Lammie, and Tom Disch's The Businessman is going down like a smoothie with maybe too many raspberry seeds in it. I keep having to stop to pore over pretty passages...
Anyway, here's an interesting interview with Sarah Schulman to whet your appetite for a hefty hardcover (or e-book but only in adobe editions): from 12th Street.
One of many good quotes:
"12th Street: Do you see Occupy’s strategy as queer?
Sarah: No. I think that having winnable doable goals backed up by direct action is a strategy of profoundly repressed people in crisis. Gandhi used it, Martin Luther King used it, and the Labor movement used it. People who have to have change or they will die use it."
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