Jim Goad’s brief career as an
underground celebrity has been
studded with controversy, from an
obscenity trial over a
much-reviled “rape issue” of his online magazine, to a White House
shooting in which the
perpetrator quoted Goad’s writing, to a two-and-a-half-year stint in prison for assault. Shit Magnet is his manifesto, written while he was incarcerated. The book’s theme is guilt — how the act of blaming the enemy and slaying him is history’s propulsive force. Preferring the role of “shit magnet” to “pity sponge,” he explores the disabling effects of guilt; uncovers sinister forces behind fashionable stances on race, gender, and criminal justice; and offers his own life as an example of how “evil” can be imprinted on a person from an early age. Goad is the former publisher of the legendary zine Answer Me! and the author of The Redneck Manifesto. .
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