Talk:Left Bank Books (Seattle)

Don't speedy

This asserts notability: it is a visitor attraction of a major city. --doncram 16:57, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

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• Left Bank Books - Oldest anarchist book store in the USA? Why wouldn't it get an article? Note: Be sure to include a list of published books by Left Bank Distribution. --Cast (talk) 18:14, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
  • Leftbankbooks.com
  • Left Bank Books Collective on Facebook
  • Left Bank Books on Myspace

• News
  • Reading Around Seattle: The Bibliophile's Tour (The New York Times travel section)
  • Jackson Brigade has proof (Ellensburg Daily Record, Mar 31, 1976 - The George Jackson Brigade mails proof of prison break to local newspaper; the LBB collective also receives proof in mail, provides comments.)
  • 'Anti-Americanism' Simmering Inside US (IslamOnline.net, October 9, 2005) [Archived May 15, 2006]
  • In hard times, an entrepreneurial few are finding creative ways to survive (Seattle Times, Jan. 25 2009 - the LBB takes part in a barter system alongside other local stores since the '80s to aid poor; passing reference.)

• Archived News (must be purchased)
  • Successful anarchy. (Bookstore).
  • Readings List (LBB hosts John Zerzan)
  • Reading Around Seattle: The Bibliophile's Tour
  • The Emerald City Seeeing Seattle from top to bottom-literally (Chicago Tribune travel section; passing reference.)
  • Protests Are Not All Bad For Business, Some Thrive Amid The Chaos (San Jose Mercury News)
  • From Top to Bottom, Seattle's fun (Boston Globe, 1992)
  • Books for Prisoners group to host street festival (Bellingham Herald, 2009) (story about prisoner book program hosted by LBB)

• Tourist books and shopping guides
  • The Stranger Guide to Seattle ("Perhaps Seattle's most satisfyingly visionary bookstore is downtown's Left Bank Books...")
  • The Rough Guide to Seattle ("The best left-wing bookstore in town...")
  • Frommer's Seattle 2010 (Not much useful on the bookstore ["a bookstore for anarchists and their kin"] but some information on the location, Pike Place Market: "Once the city's main produce market...")
  • Seattle City Guide ("This legendary bookstore and distributor is small but fierce...")
  • Frommer's Seattle day by day ("For nearly 4 decades, this employee-owned collective has reflected Seattle's labor-movement roots.")

• Passing references
  • All The Power
  • Performing Gender and Comedy: The War on the Home Front
  • Exquisite Rebel
  • Haunted Places: The National Directory (Apparently, Pike Place Market is supposed to be haunted. A small reference to LBB: "...strange footsteps have been heard by clerks at Left Bank Books.")
    • Weird Hauntings (more of the above)
• Communities directory: a guide to cooperative living, Volume 2 (minor reference to Left Bank Distribution, set up by LBB)
  • Pop culture references
    • Blood Colony [fiction] (Blood Colony: "Caitlin O'Neal kept her voice low, as if she'd been talking to herself, as she haunted the storefront of Left Bank Books at Pike Place Market.")
    • Contempt of court [fiction] (The author, Rik Scarce, has written several books on activists.)

• Media
  • File:Seattle - Left Bank Books.jpg
  • File:Left Bank Books Seattle.jpg

• Published by Left Bank (this gets a little bit confusing when doing google searches, as a lot of stuff that was just distro'd by Left Bank Distribution gets falsely listed as being published by Left Bank. This list should be pretty close to what was actually published by Left Bank.
  • Anti-semitism and the Beirut Pogrom by Fredy Perlman, pamphlet, 1982.
  • The ARM Statement by The Anti-Authoritarian Revolutionary Movement, 1977 (Left Bank Pamphlet No. 2)
  • Darlingtonia by Alba Roja, 2017
  • Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy by Max Blechman. Co-published with Autonomedia, 1994
  • Elements of Refusal by John Zerzan, 1988
  • The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy by Peter Gelderloos, 2013
  • International Blacklist by Brian Kane, 1992
  • The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921 by Lynne Thorndycraft (Left Bank Pamphlet No. 1)
  • Learning From Ferguson by Peter Gelderloos, 2015
  • Letters of Insurgents by Fredy Perlman, 2014
  • Love is not Enough by Frances Gregory, 2017
  • More Noise Please! By Steven Jesse Bernstein, 1991
  • Origins of the 1%: The Bronze Age by John Zerzan, 2012
  • People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy by Harold Barclay, first published by Left Bank in 1982 and again in 1990 ISBN 1-871082-16-1 (for the 1990 version)
  • The Polish August: Documents From the Beginnings of the Polish Workers' Rebellion, Gdansk, edited by Oliver MacDonald, 1981
  • Political Statement of the George Jackson Brigade, 1977 (this seems dubious, just found a PDF of what I think is the original, and aside from a shoutout to Left Bank, there is no mention of LB actually having published it. Maybe it was just distro'd?)
  • Radical History of Seattle's International District: A Walking Tour, 2015
  • Revolution in Seattle: A Memoir by Harvey O'Connor, 1981
  • The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Co-published with Rebel Press. Left Bank and Rebel Press did three printings of this, the first in 1983, the last in 1994. The second doesn't have a date on it, sometime between '83 and '94.
  • The Ring of Fire Anthology by ET Russian, 2014
  • Seattle General Strike, pamphlet, 2009 and 2013

Murderbike (talk) 19:12, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

• Interesting tidbit: One of the Left Bank's founders, Paul Zilsel, who was a physicist, was also the son of philosopher of science and historian Edgar Zilsel.

 czar 19:54, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Unresolved

Can someone check the coordinates for this article? I don't think they are correct. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:32, 9 November 2022 (UTC)