Comments on: Dockers and Detectives http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 03:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stuart White http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/comment-page-1/#comment-224589 Stuart White Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:17:28 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/#comment-224589 I don't know this book, but will look it up. While I'm here I just wanted to give a general three cheers for Five Leaves who publish a lot of interesting and important work that probably otherwise wouldn't get published. I am looking forward to getting their recent collection of the writings of Nicolas Walter, anarchist thinker and meticulous historian of the libertarian left, edited by David Goodway, and just out! I don’t know this book, but will look it up. While I’m here I just wanted to give a general three cheers for Five Leaves who publish a lot of interesting and important work that probably otherwise wouldn’t get published. I am looking forward to getting their recent collection of the writings of Nicolas Walter, anarchist thinker and meticulous historian of the libertarian left, edited by David Goodway, and just out!

]]> By: harry b http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/comment-page-1/#comment-224569 harry b Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:11:39 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/#comment-224569 Oh, I love it. I think the Verso edition is sitting on my dad's mess of an office; but if its not I'll definitely be getting the new edition just to re-read and show support. Oh, I love it. I think the Verso edition is sitting on my dad’s mess of an office; but if its not I’ll definitely be getting the new edition just to re-read and show support.

]]> By: Hidari http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/comment-page-1/#comment-224547 Hidari Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:12:28 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/14/dockers-and-detectives/#comment-224547 This is the first public reference I have ever heard of to this book, which I read when it turned up by seemingly occult means in the bookshelf of my student flat. Nobody could recall bringing it in. I've never met anyone since who has even heard of it. It is an excellent book though, not least for its discussion of the still hugely under-rated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hanley" rel="nofollow">James Hanley</a>. This is the first public reference I have ever heard of to this book, which I read when it turned up by seemingly occult means in the bookshelf of my student flat. Nobody could recall bringing it in.

I’ve never met anyone since who has even heard of it.

It is an excellent book though, not least for its discussion of the still hugely under-rated James Hanley.

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