Shit Magnet

Biographies & Memoirs

Goad, Jim

True Crime

Obnoxious Books

Explores the mind and soul of one of society's favorite punch lines, exposing the truth about this very human group of people who have been scorned and insulted enough and are tired of being dubbed "white trash." 30,000 first printing.

The Redneck Manifesto

Business & Money

Economics

Simon&Schuster

Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group - the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.

The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hey, you! That’s right—YOU! Do you constantly find yourself grievously offended by racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, hatred, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, rape culture, and bigotry? When you look around, do you find nearly everything “unacceptable” and “problematic”? Do you take psychiatric medication to help you cope with all the world’s injustice? Do you walk around wearing diapers on your heart all the time? Are you relentlessly seeking “safe spaces” to get away from all the “microaggressions” that life unfairly hurls at you? Do you cry when people say mean things? Do you classify anyone who disagrees with you as a “fascist,” a “bigot,” a “hater,” a “white supremacist,” and a “Nazi”? Do you believe that “hate speech” is different than “free speech”? Do you often mistake mere words for literal violence? Do you think that people should be beaten up, jailed, or even murdered for harboring or expressing “right-wing” thoughts? Have you ever chanted in public with a group of likeminded, politically motivated individuals? Do you think that anyone who disagrees with you should lose their job? Have you ever told anyone to check their privilege? Are you convinced that you’re on the “right side of history”? Do you feel “oppressed” even though you’ve never worked an honest day in your life and still receive handouts from your parents and the government? Do you feel that “social justice” can be objectively defined and ultimately achieved? Do you think straight white males are the primary source of all human suffering throughout global history? If so... YOU’RE THE FUCKING PROBLEM, YOU UPTIGHT, CENSORIOUS, SELF-RIGHTEOUS ASSHOLE! AND YOU ARE RUINING THE WORLD WITH YOUR PSYCHOTIC WITCH-HUNTING, ENDLESS PROTESTING AND BOYCOTTING, AND MOST OF ALL YOUR ABSOLUTELY SMACKABLE LACK OF HUMOR! YOU MAKE THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS AND THE McCARTHY ERA LOOK LIKE A NICE WARM BUBBLE BATH BY COMPARISON! In "The New Church Ladies," beloved author Jim Goad uses weaponized words, violent rhetoric, debunked and discredited pseudoscience, and shocking, unforgivable hate speech to explain why the people who are always fighting “hate” are the most hateful jerkoffs on the planet...and why anyone who spends their life “shaming” others for not thinking like a perpetually miserable, microchip-implanted, ideologically clubfooted, progressive brainwashed zombie Social Justice Warrior should be ashamed of themselves.

The New Church Ladies: The Extremely Uptight World of "Social Justice"

Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Feral House

ANSWER Me! is a big black slab of trouble. Originally released as a series of magazines, then a collected edition which sold thousands before going out of print, ANSWER Me! has been blamed for a White House shooting and a triple suicide. It has been banned in several countries and put on trial for obscenity in the USA. Chock full of well-written rants, interviews, and articles on topics ranging from music and subcultures to sex, love, hate, murder, serial killers, and suicide, this fat, gorgeous anthology contains the legendary rant-zine’s first three issues in their entirety. It also contains sixty new pages of wistful ANSWER Me! memories and tasty new articles written by philanthropist and humanitarian Jim Goad. There’s a strong chance that this is the best book ever published. Only an idiot would refuse to buy it. 
ANSWER Me! was so wonderful because it reminded me of when my uncle Joey turned me on to National Lampoon when I was eight years old. After National Lampoon I was always looking for uglier forms of humor, and then comes along ANSWER Me! -- Shaun Partridge, Partridge Family Temple 
ANSWER Me! is a nasty little book ... more than worth its cover price for the jaw dropping serial killer and suicide guides. -- debased.com

ANSWER ME!

Arts & Photography

Scapegoat

"A beautiful looking object that is literally packed with great writing. You will want to own this, and return to it again and again." (Tony O'Neill, '3am Magazine')" A very unusual literary magazine for a number of reasons... [especially in] that all the short stories in it are worth reading." (Nick Mamatas, 'The Smart Set') 'The Savage Kick: The Early Years' collects the first four years of the influential - and controversial - literary magazine. Among the extensive 351 page book is an early 2005 interview with Doug Stanhope, a previously unavailable Joe R. Lansdale story, full page sections from 'The Cartoon Diary of Joe Matt', and an extensive and exclusive 2006 interview with Jim Goad. The style is adult, with brutally confessional stories and somehow-even-darker-than-noir tales. Suicide attempts, drugs, alcohol and murder feature heavily in stories that descend into tailspins of self destruction. But it's not all morose despair... with many tales having a strong undercurrent of pitch black humour.The stories are accompanied by beautiful black-and-white art from Richard Watts and Steve Hussy.Full contents:--- 'Renewal' by Dan Fante --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Dan Fante --- 'Role of a Lifetime' by Mark SaFranko --- 'Tara' by Steve Hussy --- 'The Parks' by Thomas Salter --- 'Deviation' by Anna Caffrey --- 'Red' by Ricardo Daire --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Joe R. Lansdale --- 'Drive-In Date' by Joe R. Lansdale --- 'Balls' by Tony O'Neill --- 'Toothpick Whore' by Peter Wollman --- Exclusive Interview with Doug Stanhope --- 'Dance of the Seven Dwarfs' by Zsolt Alapi --- Savage Kick's article on great authors --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Mark SaFranko --- 'Haunting Refrain' by Mark SaFranko --- '2 Days - 2 Nights' by Frank Baron --- Savage Kick's article on comic-book writers --- 'Peepshow' by Joe Matt --- Exclusive Interview with Jim Goad --- 'Overture: Drowning In Shit' by Jim Goad --- 'Wilson' by Steve Hussy --- Savage Kick's Exclusive Interview with Joe Matt --- 'Peepshow: Sexaholics Anonymous' by Joe Matt --- 'Marooned' by Tony O'Neill --- 'Walk on Gilded Splinters' by Megan Hall --- 'Thought Crime' by Steve Ely --- Exclusive Interview with Tommy Trantino --- 'Captain Delicious and the Kid' by Tommy Trantino --- Savage Kick's battle with an online poet --- '3 New Poems' by Dan Fante

The Savage Kick Literary Magazine - The Early Years: Issue #1, #2, #3, #4 (Murder Slim Press XXX)

Literature & Fiction

LANSDALE, Joe R.

O'Neill, Tony

Matt,Joe

Fante, Dan

Stanhope, Doug

Hussy, Steve

SaFranko, Mark

Trantino, Tommy

Literary

Independently published

All heart, no politics this time around. Forty-two gut-ripping, heart-stomping, mind-stabbing essays about brain surgery, heartache, broken friendships, shattered families, drugs, religion, PTSD, and fatherhood. More raw emotion than you'd expect from the man his friends call the Iron Marshmallow. This bleedingly personal collection starts off with what Jim considers to be the best thing he ever wrote by FAR—“Ode to Bucky Goad,” the harrowing life story of his deaf brother who was murdered in Paris.Chapter titles:Ode to Bucky Goad • Blood Is Thicker Than Logic • Born Spastic • The Bomb Inside My Brain • Why You’re Dead to Me • Boys Don't Cry • I Hate Your Happy Family • The Bad Mom • Combat Training for Toddlers • 10 Commandments for My Son • Uncle Juney and Aunt Marion • Love Among the Damaged • Slow-Dancing in Wheelchairs • You Didn’t Mean That? Yes, You Did • Why I’m Now Against Abortion • Teenage Jesus Freak • Fuck You, Father Jones • The First Time I Got High • Why I'm an Agnostic • Serenity Now! • Talking to My Father While Tripping Balls • Acid Beatdown • Where Has All the Angel Dust Gone? • No Need to Die Twice: Why I’ll Never Do Ketamine Again • Doin’ Propofol and Lovin’ It • Madman of the Catskills • Better Dead Than on Meds • Sometimes I Don't Feel So Bad When an Ex-Friend Dies • When People Love Animals Too Much • Pug Fag • Why Pit Bulls Are the Best Kissers • Feeding the Nutria • Don't Fuck With the Masons • You Meet the Nicest People in Prison • The Only Convict Who Couldn't Get Into Australia • A Small Sip of Success • Halloween in Da Hood • Shout at the Jersey Devil • The Sweetest Man Alive • My Penis Is Better Than Yours • Toss Another Bag of Coal on the Christmas Fire • A World Without Politics

The Bomb Inside My Brain

Professionals & Academics

In painstaking and often painfully funny detail, this book focuses on 500 cases where people died in ironic, unusual, or outright horrifying ways. Whether they died on roller coasters, in wood chippers, by shark bite, answering a Craigslist ad, while texting, in the course of masturbating, or simply because they laughed too hard, this book ties them all together in one big bloody red ribbon. You’ll read about severed penises, concert tragedies, kids who killed their parents, moms who killed their kids, women who murdered their husbands, couples who killed for fun, and felonious Santa Clauses. As this book illustrates in lurid detail, death is never fun—but it doesn’t have to be boring.

Life Never Ends Well: A Cavalcade of Murders, Suicides, Accidental Deaths, & Tra

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

If Andy Warhol could have anticipated the Internet, he would have said it’s where everyone will be stalked for at least 15 minutes. Notorious underground author Jim Goad describes himself as “a lowly neutrino in the vast universe of celebrity,” yet he attracts a certain breed of demented fan that treats him as if he’s the second coming of Christ—that is, until they feel he’s somehow snubbed them, at which point he transforms into Satan. "The Headache Factory" documents Jim’s extensive experiences fending off fans who morphed into stalkers. By turns terrifying and amusing, the book demonstrates how social media enables the antisocial to reach out and touch anyone they want—even if their target doesn’t want to be touched.

The Headache Factory: True Tales of Online Obsession and Madness

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