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The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling

A breakthrough examination of the professional wrestling, its history, its fans, and its wider cultural impactThe Squared Circlegrows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column “Dead Wrestler of the Week” (which boasts more than 1 million page views)—a feature on the ...

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility: Volume 1

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:--What does it mean to be an agent?--What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between m...

After the Galaxy

He said, ‘Captain’.And I said, ‘What Mirek?’ Are we going to die today?Yes, Mirek. We're going to die. • • •Four men huddled on the bow of the burning, 190-foot fishing vessel Galaxy as the crippled boat foundered on one of the world’s cruelest oceans. Captain Dave Shoemaker was seriously hurt. Afte...

INTERNATIONAL TATTOO ART Magazine October 2002 (Dave Burke, Philly 2002 National Convention, Dave Shoemaker)