Juice Is Stranger Than Friction

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Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim

By T-Bone Slim
Edited and introduced by Franklin Rosemont
Charles H. Kerr Publishing

“A working stuff, a hobo, and an irreconcilable revolutionist…second only to Joe Hill as the IWW’s most popular songwriter, T-Bone Slim incontestably was the Wobblies’ greatest ‘man of letters.’ For two decades readers of IWW publications recognized him as the Union’s ‘most noted columnist.’ America’s finest hobo wordsmith and a remarkable aphorist, he also merits a place among the great American humorists. The aim of the present volume is to make available for the first time a representative selection of work by an important author who has suffered undeserved neglect. Every message of pure revolt deserves to be heard, and T-Bone Slim’s is one of the purest. His writing at its best has a remarkable flair, a deep and dazzling humor, a profound awareness of the sensuous alchemy of words. It also happens to be unlike anything else in the world.”—Franklin Rosemont, from the introduction