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Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once.

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Book Cover for: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

The first time I went out canvassing, it was with the queer caucus and we had lots of materials and I also had a few printed out broadsheets of Wilde's The Soul Of Man Under Socialism and we hit up Julius'

Paperback, 2016

$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Vera; Or, the Nihilists (1880): Play, Oscar Wilde

Vera; Or, the Nihilists (1880): Play

Oscar Wilde
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

“Oh no my best friend Oscar Wilde has been arrested for deviancy, time to write an entire novel in a fever dream state for the actor I’m obsessed with to play in drama form.”

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Book Cover for: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

@swolecialism Understanding Wilde’s argument in the soul of man under socialism doesn’t make you sit down collective ownership

Hardcover, 2018

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, Giovanni Arrighi

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times

Giovanni Arrighi
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

@walletcheck @abrahamjoseph The this basically the thesis of Giovanni Arrighi's "The Long Twentieth Century." Which is discussed well here https://t.co/pfjcRd3wAr

Paperback, 2010

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Oscar Wilde
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

The first time I went out canvassing, it was with the queer caucus and we had lots of materials and I also had a few printed out broadsheets of Wilde's The Soul Of Man Under Socialism and we hit up Julius'

Paperback, 2021

$4.99$2.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dracula, Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram Stoker
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

It’s like how there’s no way Bram Stoker could’ve put every single one of the late Victorian Bourgeoisie’s Anxieties into Dracula if hie set out to do it. It had to come organically and without him really aware he was doing it.

Paperback, 2003

$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dracula, Stoker Bram

Dracula

Stoker Bram
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

It’s like how there’s no way Bram Stoker could’ve put every single one of the late Victorian Bourgeoisie’s Anxieties into Dracula if hie set out to do it. It had to come organically and without him really aware he was doing it.

Hardcover, 2014

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Metropolis, Thea Von Harbou

Metropolis

Thea Von Harbou
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

RT @charliehillart6: Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS - Released on this day in 1927 - British edition of Thea von Harbou's novel - Art by Aubrey Ha…

Paperback, 2018

$10.25$5.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Answered Prayers, Truman Capote

Answered Prayers

Truman Capote
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(Truman Capote, no firsthand authority on the matter, described Rubi’s principal endowment in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, as an “eleven-inch café-au-lait sinker as thick as a man’s wrist.”)

Paperback, 1994

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Metropolis, Thea Von Harbou

Metropolis

Thea Von Harbou
John Leavitt 🌹John Leavitt 🌹

RT @charliehillart6: Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS - Released on this day in 1927 - British edition of Thea von Harbou's novel - Art by Aubrey Ha…

Paperback, 2015

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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