Daley's Nonfic Picks for Punk Rock Witches
Some favorites from our new Marketing and Publicity Supervisor, Daley!
White Magic
Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends:…
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
In 2006, Osa Atoe was the only Black kid at the punk show in Portland, and created her now-legendary zine Shotgun…
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy…
We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet - The Collected Interviews (Expanded and Revised Edition)
In this collection of interviews, discover conversations with the greatest minds of the punk underground up through…
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Michael Azerrad is a music journalist who humanized Kurt Cobain in Come As You Are. This book, however, deserves a…
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Originally published in 1974 and written when Angela Davis was 25, this is a fine telling of the situations and struggle…
First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer, and a fearless critic not…
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers [SUNSET]
The demonization of badass women proves to be a historical trend, bred from the reeking loins of male fear. Witches,…
Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
Amanda Yates Garcia, professional witch and co-host of Strange Magic podcast, writes about her journey of…
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the…
Afterglow (a dog memoir)
This book is for you dog lovers looking to read a touching, poetic memoir about a human and man's best friend. If you've…
We Were Witches
Our phallocentric culture often demonizes women, but especially single mothers who dare live a life outside of male…
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
The coming-of-age memoir of Alicia Armendariz, aka Alice Bag, taking us on a journey through her violent, male-dominated…
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
In 1977, when mainstream audiences couldn't get enough of Star Wars, there was another fable cum manifesto that took…
Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Reimagine your favorite women authors as badass witches! Part encyclopedia, part poetry, part illustrated manuscript,…
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The term Zami comes from the Carriacou word to describe women working together as friends, lovers, and companions. In…
M Train
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the…
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women
We tend to think of witch hunts as a thing of the past, carried out by paranoid and superstitious religious communities.…
Rent Girl
Like Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl, Michelle Tea's Rent Girl is an illustrated novel about a young dyke's…
Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock
A new edition includes 11 new interviews and over 30 new profiles of even more incredible musicians, including…
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a Bangladeshi Muslim, struggled to fit in. In attempts to assimilate, she…