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Maps to the Other Side

The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer

Sascha Altman DuBrul

Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story—Maps to the Other Side is a self-reflective shattered mirror, a twist on the classic punk rock travel...

Hobos to Street People

Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present

Art Hazelwood

Hobos to Street People offers a comparison of the culture and politics of homelessness as seen through artwork since the Great Depression. The book is based on the touring exhibition of the...

Suffled How it Gush

A North American Anarchist in the Balkans

Shon Meckfessel

Shon Meckfessel appropriates the peculiar slogan of an Albanian mineral water company as the title for this uniquely intellectual book. Equal parts journalism, history, and personal memoir,...

What's the Use of Walking if There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?

Black Hoboes & Their Songs

Gene Tomko

Another wonderful slice of history, political, cultural, and social history. Better yet, it comes 'illustrated' with a CD, with 25 original recordings. Plus, of course, the work is full of the...

Beggars of Life

Jim Tully

Beggars Of Life is easily the greatest of hobo autobiographies. First published in 1924, it holds up remarkably well because Jim Tully was one of the founders of the spare, gritty, unsentimental...

Hobohemia

Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & Other Agitators & Outsiders In 1920s/30s Chicago

Frank O. Beck

From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an...

Off The Map

Crimethinc

A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off The Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set...

You Can't Win

Jack Black

A legendary book, bestseller in 1926 and hovering at the edge of our memory since; the favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild...

Sister of the Road

The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha

Ben Reitman

Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout culture that gets left out of the stultifying...