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PROGRESSIVE NEWS and ACTION
ZNet
Rabble
Counterpunch
TomDispatch
Edge of Sports
Alternet
Dissident Voice
SleptOn
Dollars & Sense | blog
International Socialist Review
Black Agenda Report
Bad Subjects
Common Dreams
The Pinky Show
John Pilger

POLITICAL ART WEBLOGS and SITES
Art For A Change
Read Red
Goatmilk
Minimum Security
Visual Resistance
ULA Monday Reports
Karl Wenclas
Davey D
Axis of Justice
Pop and Politics
Xispas
DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency

POLITICAL ART and LITERATURE
Political Literary Criticism, 1903-2003:
Frank Norris to Howard Zinn – condensed

MAINSTAY PRESS
Orwell’s Problem & Partisan Fiction w/ links
Against Vicious Injustice – intv w/ Mickey Z
The Power of Political Fiction
Andre Vltchek – Interview w/ Lila Rajiva

GENERAL LIT SITES, ETC
Huffington Post Books
La Bloga
Blographia-Literaria
Contra James Wood
Las True Stories of San Antonio

Literary Saloon
Tayari Jones
Laila Lalami
electronic book review
Bookworm interviews
Isak
Foetry
Newpages.com
Identity Theory Interviews by Robert Birnbaum
Everyone Who’s Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing
Zine World: A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press
ReadySteadyBook
Blographia Literaria

Moby Lives
n + 1

MFA Creative Writing Programs

POLITICAL FICTION JOURNAL
POLITICAL FICTION COMMENTARY
Fiction and the University
Learn from the South?
Orwell’s Problem and Partisan Fiction [with links, clear quotes, see here]
The Bush Plan (to Abolish America)
Progressive Political Fiction
Write a Political Novel?
The Power of Political Fiction and Mainstay Press — Interview
A Few Notes on the Literary Establishment
Against Vicious Injustice — An Interview with Mickey Z
Politics and Art – The Personal is the Public and Private
Great Lit Is Based On Principle – Letter to ULA
Partisan Fiction – Its Public Function
The Future of Imaginative Literature – Roles for Novelists
The Fate of Plutocracy; Or, American White Slavery
Fiction and Social Change – Some Limits of DeLillo, Pynchon…
NYT Best Fiction Discussion and Artists in Times of War (Arundhati Roy)
“Best Work of American Fiction“
More on the NYT “best of” American fiction list
Barbara Kingsolver’s 2006 Bellwether Prize
The Politics of Literary Politics
Have They Been Banned? Iraq War Novels — Interview
Establishment Irresponsibility: Ana Marie Cox Wrong on Stephen Colbert…
Send a Novel Message
Nothing They Care to Hear — Stephen Colbert
The Possibilities of “Political Fiction“
The Power of Poetry
The Power and Import of Purpose in Fiction

POLITICAL ESSAYS
53-14: The Country-City Split
Can’t Blame the Weather: Class Aggression, Post-NAFTA
Hurricane Katrina and the Cuban Evacuation

POLITICAL FICTION MISCELLANEOUS
Pemmican - political poetry, fiction, criticism – 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Powerful Anti-War Cartoon Graphic at Xispas: Chicano Culture, Art, and Politics
Mainstay Press: Imaginative Literature and Social Change
Reviews of Robert Newman’s geo-political epic novel The Fountain at the Center of the World
Upton Sinclair — Mammonart — Who Owns the Artists?

TITLE AMERICA
American novels with some variant of America or United States in the title, 1767 to 2003

PRISON LITERATURE
Lockdown Prison Heart Intro
Lockdown Prison Heart
Radical Theater course
Imprisonment and Resistance – Prison Lit Course

LIBERATORY LIT
Some Classic Works

POLITICAL ART/LIT RESOURCES
JOURNALS
Writers Against War
Pemmican – political poetry, fiction, criticism
Partisan Review – political poetry
Re-Visions Magazine: Women, Art, Activism
Blue Collar Review
Aesthetics & Protest
Progressive Publications Network

WEBLOGS
Art For A Change Art for a Change site
Visual Resistance
Underground Literary Alliance
The Lefty Directory

HIP HOP
From the Holler to the Hood
Hip Hop and Social Change
Davey D: Hip Hop Political Articles
Political Commentary
FNV Newsletter

ANTI-WAR (specific)
Poets Against the War
Art Against War Links
Voices in Wartime
Theaters Against War
Political Graphics