Book Excerpts

The American Dissident
A Literary Journal of Critical Thinking
In the Samizdat Tradition of Writing against the Machine
A Forum for Examining the Dark Side of the Academic/Literary Industrial Complex

The following are excerpts from published books and unpublished manuscripts. Please contact the editor if interested in publishing one or several of manuscripts.

1. Between Death Row and Pri$neyland by Dahn Shaulis, published by ContraOstrich Press, 46 pp long with color and b&w illustrations. For a copy, send $8 to The American Dissident, 1837 Main St., Concord, MA 01742.

2. Total Chaos: Behind the Scenes of a National Blue-Ribbon High School by G. Tod Slone, published in 2001 by People's Press, 315-page autobiographical novel. Publisher found. For a copy, send $12 to The American Dissident, 1837 Main St., Concord, MA 01742.

3. Où c’qui faut pas/Where One Ought Not by G. Tod Slone, to be published in 2007 by Gival Press, 50 poems in French and English critical, for the most part, of the Quebec literary scene (See Quebec litteraire).

4. The Poet: An Indictment of Intellectuals, 735 pages.

5. Harshly Critical: Writing from Concord (Open Letters to Henry David Thoreau, Poems and Essays)

6. Ah, O'Neillians! 10-page, one-act play critical of the Eugene O'Neill Society. 10 pages.

7. Berthing. 60-page novella critical of the US Navy's educational program afloat.

8. Berthing. 60-page three-act play.

9. Suburbanitica: Journal of a Citizen Lost in Alienation in America. 300-page autobiographical novel critical of suburban life in Concord, Massachusetts.

10. Loser: Whistleblower On The Unemployment Line. 300-page autobiographical novel critical of America.

11. Year of the Citizen. 75-page three-act play critical of a public college in Massachusetts.

12. Backseat Professor. 300-page autobiographical novel critical of a private upstate New York college.

13. Essays in and of Futility. 1,000 pages of essays (many published) critical of higher education, poetry, literature, and America in general.

14. Literary Cartoons. 1,000 highly caustic literary cartoons.