Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight!

Cultural Writing. Essays. !WORKERS OF THE WORD, UNITE AND FIGHT! examines current crises in the literary landscape and book culture of the United States. Nowak's influential essay on not-for-profit literary centers in the era of corporate mergers is republished here in conjunction with his previously unavailable essay, "Neoliberalism, Collective Action, and the American MFA Industry"--a challenge to public intellectuals, culture workers, and collectives to impede and revise the American MFA industry and its subsidiary industries through cultural adjustments. This new essay also outlines the interventions of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers in its struggle to organize a Borders bookstore in Minneapolis.