Good Trouble : Building a Successful Life and Business with Asperger's (Real World) (Punx) - Softcover

Joe Biel; Joyce Brabner; Sander Hicks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621060098 ISBN 13: 9781621060093

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

A PUNK ROCK MEMOIR OF MISTAKES AND RECOVERY

Joe Biel overcame many obstacles - including Asperger's - to become the successful owner of a punk publishing house in Portland. Here he tells the story of how he beat the odds and found fulfilment.

In 1996, everything about Joe Biel's life seemed like a mistake. He was 18, he lived in Cleveland, he got drunk every day and he had mystery health problems and weird social ticks. All his friends were just as bad, or worse. To escape a nihilistic, apocalyptic worldview and to bring reading and documentation into a communal punk scene, he started assembling zines and bringing them in milk crates to underground punk shows.

Eventually, this became Microcosm publishing. But Biel's head for math was stronger than his ability to relate to people, and it wasn't until he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome that it all began to fall into place.

This is the story of how, over 20 years, one person turned a litany of continuing mistakes and seemingly wrong turns into a happy, fulfilled life and a thriving publishing business that defies all odds.

About this title

About the Author

Joel Biel is a writer, activist, filmmaker, teacher and founder of Microcosm Publishing and co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He shows his films on tour with the Dinner and Bikes program. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher's Weekly and Utne Reader. Sander Hicks is the founder of Soft Skull Press. Joyce Brabner is a writer of political comics who sometimes collaborated with her late husband Harvey Pekar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1621060098
• ISBN 13: 9781621060093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256