No book better captures what it's like to be a socialist who has jumped headlong into the fight for a better world than Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism. Thankfully, Verso has reissued it after the book was out of print for decades. Micah Uetricht talks to Alyssa Battistoni, Sean Estelle, and Meagan Day about it.

You can buy Romance from Verso here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3110-the-romance-of-american-communism

Read Alyssa's review here: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/bad-romance

Buy Bigger than Bernie for just $12.95 here: https://jacobinmag.com/store/product/69