Not for rent, conversations with creative activists in the U.K.

by Stacy Wakefield, Grrrt

Interviews with squatters, road protesters, underground rave organizers, and kids who put on shows in collectively run spaces about how and why they want to create idealistic alternatives to mainstream consumerism.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

Stacy Wakefield published her first book about squatting, the underground classic Not for Rent, in 1994. Her first novel, which follows a young woman who arrives in New York City in the mid-90s and joins the squatting scene, is called The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory. It will be published by Akashic Books in May 2015.

Wakefield studied book design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands and at Rhode Island school of Design. In the 90s, she produced many artists’ books and zines with the imprint Evil Twin that she collaborated on with her sister Amber Gayle. She is cocreator, with Nick Zinner and Zachary Lipez, of the photo/essay book Please Take Me Off the Guest List.

Wakefield grew up in the Pacific Northwest and lives in Brooklyn and the Catskill Mountains with her husband, musician Nick Forte.