Each of us has imagined with dread the occurrence of just such an event outside our control that will permanently alter the course of our lives. Though Scott would survive, he suffered an injury that left him seriously brain impaired.

She woke to find that her beloved seventy five year old husband had fallen the nine feet from their sleeping loft and was lying on the floor below, naked and deathly still. on a coastal Maine island in a remote seaside cabin with no electricity, running water, or road to reach it where the very isolation that makes it a perfect artist’s retreat renders it as risky as life itself. For Alix Kates Shulman, it happened on July 22, 2004, at two a.m. The present, third edition, containing a new Foreword by Shulman and more accessible source listings, has been revised to situate the works more precisely in light of a burgeoning Goldman scholarship.Ī personal story of crisis, commitment, and hope from the best selling author of Memoirs of An Ex Prom Queen One day it happens, the dreaded thing that will change your life forever, the more dreadful because, though you ve half expected it, you don t know what form it will take or when it will come, and whether or not you will rise to the challenge. The second edition 1985, enlarged to serve an exploding interest in women’s studies, added three more essays plus an as*sessment of Goldman’s feminism by Alix Kates Shulman. The first edition of Red Emma Speaks 1972, with a biographical sketch, introduced Goldman to a new generation.

Red Emma Speaks on: anarchism, sex, prostitution, marriage, jealousy, prisons, religion, schools, violence, war, communism, and much more. In addition to nine essays from Goldman’s own 1910 collection ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS, three dramatic sections from her 1931 autobiography LIVING MY LIFE, and the Afterword to her MY DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA which the collapse of the Soviet Union has revealed as prescient, this book contains sixteen more pieces covering a great range of subjects, assembled here for the first time to offer a rich composite of Goldman’s life and thought. Unlike any other collection of Goldman’s work, Red Emma Speaks presents in a single, handy volume the full sweep of her opinions and personality.

Drinking the Rain by Alix Kates Shulman