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Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa — Ed Buryn
I first saw this book at a swap meet in Reedsport, on a card table under a tarp, in a box marked TWO DOLLAR EACH. The seller was an old…
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Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A letter to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, written in full knowledge that the post is bad. Dear Fyodor Mikhailovich, I have just finished your little book again. The third time in…
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The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard — Elbert Hubbard
I first read this book at nineteen, in a library in Bellingham, from a copy I did not own and could not afford to own. I remember thinking Hubbard was…
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The Art of Seeing — Aldous Huxley
Before I read this book, I thought Aldous Huxley was one man. I thought he was the man who wrote Brave New World in 1932 and The Doors of Perception…
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Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell
An imagined conversation with George Orwell. I get to ask the questions. He can answer however he wants. Me: Mr. Blair. Eric. George. Which do you prefer. Orwell: Whichever pays…
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The Iron Heel — Jack London
Jack London died in 1916, forty years old, of what the death certificate listed as uremia and the truth listed as everything. He had drunk, farmed, prospected, sailed, sold out,…
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Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
Verdict first: read this book young. If you miss the window, read it anyway, but know that you are reading it late. Steppenwolf is the novel Hermann Hesse wrote in…
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Roughing It — Mark Twain
There is a very small canon of books about young American men who went broke moving west and wrote about it afterward with a straight face and a crooked grin.…
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The Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)
My copy is a cheap paperback. Harper Perennial. The spine is broken in three places and there are coffee rings on the cover. I have owned it since 1998 and…
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The Book of the SubGenius
The received wisdom on The Book of the SubGenius is that it is a joke. A parody of self-help. A Reagan-era prank religion, cooked up in Dallas in 1979 by…
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Zeek: The Art of Shen Ku
I bought my copy in 2002 at Powell’s in Portland, in the used travel section, on a table with other oddballs that didn’t fit anywhere else. It cost me seven…
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The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
Dear Ursula, You died in 2018 and I’m still writing you letters. I hope you don’t mind. You were the first novelist who ever made me feel that an imagined…
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Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson
I read this book twice. The first time was October 2020, sitting in a apartment in Honolulu with every window open and the trade winds coming through and an unemployment…
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Lost in Transmedia
In 2004, a plane crashed on a mysterious island and millions of people lost their minds trying to figure out what it meant. Not just as television — as a…
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What Am I Doing Here? 52 Weeks of Wandering and Wondering in 2012
He was 40 years old, living in a Moroccan medina with a wife he could barely communicate with and a baby daughter who was learning to walk. He had no…
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The Anarchist Manifesto Project 2026
In 2000, CD Damitio wrote an anarchist manifesto. Twenty-six years later, he brought it back — but not that version. This is the result: twenty-six personas, twenty-six manifestos, three AI…
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Slackville Road
Jack Corgan is sitting in a prison cell getting beaten by detectives who want to know where the $1.3 million is. He’s happy to explain.
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Blue Eyed Bastards
In 2000, CD Damitio started writing a weird, surrealist noir about a drifter named Archie Walker and a bloodline of blue-eyed bastards. He abandoned it. He picked it up. He…
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Meliptimous Taggle and Other Tales of Ill Repute
Some names sound like they mean something. Some stories have no right to be as good as they are. Fourteen stories written in caves, on Google+, in Morocco, on the…
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Crypto Confidential
He co-founded a cryptocurrency. It went to a $1.8 million market cap. Then it didn’t. An inside account of the wildest years in crypto history.
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Not My America: A Stranger in My Strange Land
CD Damitio came back to America after five years living abroad — ready to believe the country he’d left might still be the one he’d imagined as a kid reading…
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Not My Morocco: My Maghrebi Life
He converted to Islam for 300 dirham. He got engaged to a woman he couldn’t quite reach. He lived in a medina apartment where the gas leaked and the sewer…
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The Fucking People
When the last Bodhisattva gave up on humanity, the universe screamed. Then everything went sideways. An apocalyptic novel that asks: is humanity actually worth saving?
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Rough Living: Tips and Tales of Vagobond
Before ‘van life’ was a hashtag, CD Damitio was living it. In 1996, he traded his TV and VCR for a broken-down VW bus and moved in.
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Vagabonds: Getting Lost Is the Point
Some people travel. Some people wander. And then there are the ones who can’t stop — the ones who gave up everything just to keep moving, who built their lives…
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