Not For Rent: Conversations with Creative Activists in the U.K.

by Stacy Wakefield

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

94 pages, Paperback

First 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.

Reviews

[jack]

read this one a long time ago, but remember liking it. ive been back thru parts of it recently and still like it.

[Craven · Rating 3 out of 5]

This a lengthy collection of interviews with UK activist, squatters, free partiers, punks and the like. It's has a lot of information and stuff. For some reason I couldn't really get that into it. I don't know if it was just overbearing or if my interests have changed but it was kind of hard for me to concentrate on it. Either way it is a good source of information.