Speaker’s Book:
Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by US Office of Strategic Services
Operation Pastorius: The Nazi Plot to to Terrorize New York
Online:
- Sabotage in New York Harbor: The explosion on Black Tom Island packed the force of an earthquake. It took investigators years to determine that operatives working for Germany were to blame ~ Smithsonian
- Erol Araf: Hitler’s plot to kidnap the Pope ~ National Post
- The Keystone Kommandos ~ The Atlantic
Print:
- Peculiar Liaisons in War, Espionage, and Terrorism of the Twentieth Century, by John Craig.
- They Came to Kill: The Story of Eight Nazi Saboteurs in America, by Eugene Rachlis
- The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and the Epic Hunt for Justice, by Chad Millman
If the Shoe Fits: A Soleful Etymology of Sabotage
Online:
- 1801: Punched Cards Control Jacquard Loom ~ Computer History Museum
- The Jacquard Loom ~ Columbia University
- Ada Lovelace Birography ~ Biography
Our Own Worst Enemy
Online:
- Self-Sabotaging: Why We Get in Our Own Way ~ Psych Alive
- Childhood Origins of Self-destructive Behavior ~ B.A. van der Kolk, J.C. Perry, J.L. Herman
Print:
- Get Off Your “But”: How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself, by Sean Stephenson
- Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction, by Sabrina Chapadjiev
A Penny for the Guy: The Death and Afterlife of Guido Fawkes
Online:
- 9 Things You Never Knew About Guy Fawkes – The Telegraph
- Terror At The Tower Of London – 400 Years Since The Gunpowder Plot ~ Culture24
- The Gunpowder Plot Society
- The Gunpowder Plot, 1605 – Luminarium
- Guy Fawkes: History ~ BBC
- Apprehending Guy Fawkes, with the help of his garters ~ The History of Parliament
Print:
- The Gunpowder Plot, by Antonia Fraser
- Remember, Remember The Fifth Of November (Profiles in History), by J.A. Sharpe
- Gunpowder: The Players Behind the Plot, by James Travers
- God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England, by Jessie Childs
- God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot, by Alice HoggeGuy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason, by William Harrison Ainsworth
Oliver Twist – Sabotage by the Pen
Online:
- Oliver Twist ~ Charles Dickens Info
Print:
- Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
- Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor, by Ruth Richardson
- Charles Dickens (Bloom’s BioCritiques), by Harold Bloom
Of Black Cats & Stray Paths: The Industrial Workers of the World
Online:
- Industrial Workers of the World (Official Website)
- Sabo-Tabby vs. The Bosses: The Political Cartoons of North America’s Most Radical Union ~ Ad Astra Comix
Print:
- Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Leonard Apeltsin, Isolde Honore, Joule Adler, Frederic Lightning Leist, Arthur Kay, and Jonathan Pirro. Thank you!
