November 21, 2009
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Utne Reader Book Reviews, May - June 2008

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May - June 2008
by Staff, Utne Reader 
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Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy
photography by Abby Banks; edited by Thurston Moore (Abrams Image)
Communal living got a swift kick in the rear from the punk movement as the DIY ethos was exported from the club to the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. In Punk House, photographer Abby Banks captures the magnificent clutter of dozens of group living spaces across the nation, from Anarchtica in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the Clown House in Portland, Oregon. These attitude-spattered, hygiene-challenged dens span a wide range of attributes and amenities: Some have libraries; some have tarps for roofs. To be sure, this is a drive-by view of punk house life, with no sign of the tempeh-clogged toilets, the straight-edge-versus-druggie tensions, or the strangely dented baseball bats under the angry skinhead’s bed. So Banks might be accused of romanticizing this way of living. But glamorizing it? It doesn’t seem possible. —K.G.

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