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Leah Ryan is fiction editor at Punk Planet magazine and editor of the semi-retired zine Violation Fez. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Through The Kitchen Window, More Monologues By and For Women, and Best of Temp Slave, as well as in several small magazines. Her plays have been performed in theaters across the United States. She got her first dishwashing job at the age of 16. She lives in New York City and teaches creative writing.
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"Whether those who reveal their experiences in this candid and insightful collection find their jobs unbearable or gratifying, Ryan seems to hope that readers will glean wisdom from -- and feel empathy for -- these voices from behind the scenes."
--Publisher's Weekly

For Here or To Go Cover
For Here or To Go
Life in the Service Industry
edited by Leah Ryan
$10.37 (35% off the cover price!) + postage (U.S.)
isbn: 1891053442

design by IDK & Karen Ocker
195 pages
softcover
cartoons, photography, artwork
nonfiction/fiction/labor


Leah Ryan presents a brilliant selection of interviews, cartoons, photos and stories for and by service workers. From the diary of a dishwasher to the grind of an exotic dancer, For Here or To Go details the human struggle behind America's transformation into a service economy.


Books are shipped via the U.S. Postal Service. Expect 3 to 7 days for delivery.

"For Here Or To Go simultaneously celebrates the pride that you can get from 'working for a living' while also bringing forth the hard reality that these jobs can suck the life right out of you in a matter of weeks, if not days."
--Rock Star Journalist

"Ryan's For Here or To Go is an enjoyable read with some really good storytelling that had me sympathizing with the lows of the characters and chuckling at the more absurd moments that we've all experienced or witnessed."
-Maximum Rock'n'Roll

"If you're currently working a crappy job, [For Here or To Go will] cheer you up to know that somebody, somewhere, has it just as bad as you, and if you're not currently working a crappy job, it'll make you very thankful for that."
--Razorcake Magazine

"Devilishly delightful -- sink your teeth into this book and you might never take it to go again."
--Alec Michod, Author of The White City

"Luminous storytelling from the world of the under-employed."
--Abram Shalom Himelstein, Author of Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing

"Through an intriguing combination of interviews, short stories, diary entries, and essays, Leah Ryan's For Here or To Go makes visible the invisible worls of the service industry. From strippers to coffee jockeys, cab drivers to bartenders, Ryan's book -- equal parts entertaining and disheartening -- helps us to understand the disparate humanity that lurks behind the sweat, tears and grease of the shit job."
--Daniel Sinker, Punk Planet


Further Reading:
Waiter Rant

Garrett County Press is the distinguished, award-winning publisher of the Pat Robertson Coloring Book, Living Lost, Even a Daughter is Better Than Nothing, Letters From New Orleans, Voice of Leningrad, Guinea Pig Zero, Best of Temp Slave, Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass, For Here Or To Go, Little Tenement on the Volga, A Terrible Thunder: The Story of the New Orleans Sniper, the George W. Bush Coloring Book and What the Hell Am I Doing Here?

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