THE ANARCHOVILLAGE PAGE
This is just a small site that covers some of the historical background of a writers colony that was once located at 1838 East 7th Street (that's it up there) in Long Beach, California (the port city that is part of the port of Los Angeles)(so far as we know, this is the only writers colony that was ever in Long Beach). Everyone has long since moved on with Chris Schaefer ultimately earning the title of being both the first and last Anarchovillage resident, having been the first to live there and the last to leave. And, sadly, there have been several casualties over the years: short story writer John Staib (apartment #8) died of a heart attack there, Sam Konkin passed away in early 2004 (apartment #3), and Steve MacIntosh and John Strang (both former residents of the only house on the property) are now gone as well.
But of the original group (and affiliated writers, i.e., writers who have personal ties to the writers there and who have stayed at the Anarchovillage as guests at various times or were closely part of the Anarchovillage social circles), there have been stacks of awards and nearly a hundred books and quite a number of produced screenplays as a result. Or another way of looking at it is, by sheer volume, the total number of books (not including produced screenplays) created by the Anarchovillage and affiliated writers exceeds the total output of the entire group of Lost Generation writers in Paris (Hemingway, Miller, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Stein) although they haven't had as much of an impact . . . yet. But the awards, and the books, keep coming, and this is one site that will try to keep some record of where it all began, and also provide links to the various writers's and individuals's webpages who were all once part of or associated with the Anarchovillage.
