Riverdale Avenue Books, the award-winning Bronx indie publisher, has collected essays, editorial cartoons, and poetry from best-selling authors, journalists, teachers, firefighters, and parents about how they are finding sanity and community through everyday acts of resistance.
Riverdale Avenue Books’ Publisher Lori Perkins, a former NYU professor of journalism, wondered how she could do more to resist the policies that were being enacted and the attitudes that were being expressed under the new regime. She realized that she was actively participating in resistance every day in both subtle and larger ways, and she was sure there were many just like her.
Said Perkins, “Hopefully, with this book we will inspire each other and give each other ideas about how to resist those forces that seek to shut down our efforts toward a more progressive, inclusive society. The purpose of this book is to let us all know we are not alone, and that we are part of a large community of common purpose.”
THE BOOK OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE is available FREE in digital form on Amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Google+, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords and wherever ebooks are uploaded (including your local library). A trade paperback edition will be available in bookstores and online for $20.99.
The book will be updated periodically. New essays and/or editorial cartoons can be sent to Perkins at lori@riverdaleavebooks.com.
About the Editor
Lori Perkins has been a newspaper editor, a literary agent, a book editor, a professor and an author for four decades. She considers herself a “word-slinger” because words are the ammunition that we all have. She encourages you all to use your power and fight the good fight.