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Once You Go Back Oblomov by Douglas Martin by Ivan Goncharov translated by Marian Schwartz FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, 2010 SLATE BEST BOOKS OF 2008 Racing While Black by Leonard T. Miller and Andrew Simon The Class (Entre les murs) by François Bégaudeau “BOOK TO READ FOR 2010" BY AUTOWEEK MAGAZINE translated by Linda Asher 10,000 Dresses PRIX FRANCE CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA PRIZE, 2006 by Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray CANNES PALME D’OR, 2008 (FILM VERSION) AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 2009 RAINBOW LIST NOMINEE, BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ACADEMY AWARD, 2008 HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT [FILM VERSION] LITERATURE, 2009 Rogue Economics Hello, Cruel World by Loretta Napoleoni by Kate Bornstein PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2008 FINALIST FOR LGBT NONFICTION LAMBDA STRAIGHT.COM FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008 LITERARY AWARD, 2009

HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT Derrick Jensen LITERATURE, 2009 ONE OF UTNE READER’S 50 VISIONARIES WHO ARE CHANGING YOUR WORLD Live Through This edited by Sabrina Chapdjiev PRESS ACTION’S DYNAMIC DOZEN, 2008

FINALIST FOR LGBT ANTHOLOGIES LAMBDA ERIC HOFFER AWARD, 2008 LITERARY AWARD, 2009 (for Thought to Exist in the Wild [NoVoice Unheard]) PRESS ACTION PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2006 Peter Phillips 2009 DALLAS SMYTHE AWARD, UNION FOR Voice Over DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATION by Céline Curiol translated by Sam Richard

Censored 2009 FINALIST, INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE, 2008 by Peter Phillips and Project Censored FINALIST, BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2008 PEN/OAKLAND LITERARY CENSORSHIP AWARD, 2008 BY THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE The Sun Climbs Slow FRENCH VOICES AWARD, 2008 by Erna Paris Life of Meaning FINALIST, SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE edited by Bob Abernethy and William Bole FOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2008 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER, 2008 GLOBE AND MAIL TOP NONFICTION BOOK, 2008 Coco Fusco The Possession by Annie Ernaux WHITNEY BIENNIAL ARTIST, 2008 translated by Anna Moschovakis A Field Guide for Female MORE MAGAZINE TOP TEN OF 2008 Interrogators by Coco Fusco Dreaming Up America by Russell Banks SHORTLIST, INDEX ON CENSORSHIP T. R. FYVEL AWARD, 2008 BLOOMSBURY REVIEW EDITORS' FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 6

Fall/Winter 2010–11 “A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT AND BETWEEN THE FENCES LOVE LIKE HATE INCH OF ME” Before Guantánamo there was the A Novel The Letters of Barney Simon to Port Isabel Service Processing LINH DINH 10 Lionel Abrahams Center THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO BARNEY SIMON 38 TONY HEFNER 62 TED RALL 12 DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE TALK SOFTLY THE TORTURER IN THE MIRROR Strategy to Save the Planet A Memoir RAMSEY CLARK, HAIFA ZANGANA, ARIC McBAY, LIERRE KEITH CYNTHIA O’NEAL 64 and THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER 14 and DERRICK JENSEN 40 THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORY BODY POLITIC STOLEN IMAGES Conversations with W. G. Sebald Dispatches from the Women’s Screenplays and Writings edited by LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ 66 Health Revolution RAOUL PECK SAILOR & LULA edited by BARBARA SEAMAN translated by CATHERINE TEMERSON 42 The Complete Novels with LAURA ELDRIDGE 16 WORLD REPORT 2011 BARRY GIFFORD 68 FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 44 OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS My Life as a Weatherman TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’S A Poet Encounters the Horror in CATHY WILKERSON 18 VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and CENSORED 2011 THE UNITED STATES AND YOUNG Palestine/Israel The Top Censored Stories of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE ALICE WALKER 70 2009–10 UNITED STATES JESUS OF NAZARETH MICKEY HUFF, PETER PHILLIPS, GAYLE OLSON-RAYMER 46 PAUL VERHOEVEN and PROJECT CENSORED 20 BIRTH MATTERS translated by SUSAN MASSOTTY 72 SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH INA MAY GASKIN 48 OF KINGS BARRY GIFFORD 22 Recent Releases ELEGY WRITTEN ON A IN OUR CONTROL About Seven Stories Press 75 CROWDED STREET The Complete Guide to Contracep- About Seven Stories Institute 76 tive Choices for Women Seven Stories Staff 77

CONTENTS A Novel Contact Information 78 PETER PLATE 24 LAURA ELDRIDGE foreword by JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER 52 THE SWEETEST THING Inside the World of Women’s Boxing FIDEL MISCHA MERZ 26 NÉSTOR KOHAN with illustrations by NAHUEL SCHERMA ROSE translated by ELISE BUCHMAN 54 INGA MUSCIO 28 GRAND CENTRAL WINTER GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN Stories from the Street KURT VONNEGUT 30 LEE STRINGER foreword by KURT VONNEGUT 56 LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD A Conversation about Writing BAD SHOES AND THE WOMEN KURT VONNEGUT and LEE STRINGER 32 WHO LOVE THEM LEORA TANENBAUM THE KILLING GAME illustrated by VANESSA DAVIS 58 The Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMY GARY WEBB How the War on Terror is edited by ERIC WEBB 34 Bankrupting the World LORETTA NAPOLEONI 60 MAMA’S BOY A Novel RICK DEMARINIS 36 F10_catalog_rev2:Layout 1 5/18/10 2:55 PM Page 8

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LOVE LIKE HATE A Novel

Linh Dinh

auded for his incisive short prose and poetry, Linh Dinh brings Lto his long-awaited first novel, Love Like Hate, an alphabet soup of characters struggling through the fall of Saigon and all that fol-

lowed. Spiraling around the relationship between café owner Kim Fiction • September 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback Lan and South Vietnamese army captain Hoang Long, who marry $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-909-5 APAPERBACKORIGINAL in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Dinh describes his mushroom- ing cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways. A vivid palette for his idiosyncratic characters and dark, deadpan Praise for Linh Dinh: humor, Love Like Hate embraces contradictions with the surreal “[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy, exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s Calvino. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.” —Village Voice

“[Linh Dinh’s Blood and Soap] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, but uses Borgesian metafiction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity, confusion, and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen.” —Matthew Sharpe, Brooklyn Rail “[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverence and experimental fun.” —AsianWeek

A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow- ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, LINHDINH is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap, one of the Village Voice’s best books of 2004; and four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Border- less Bodies, and Jam Alerts. He is editor of the anthologies Night, • Author Events: New York • Philadelphia Again and Three Vietnamese Poets. Love Like Hate is his first novel.

THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO Ted Rall

n arguably his most radical book, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall Ihas produced a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage

to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent Politics • September 2010 5 x 7 • 160 pages • Trade paperback 10 illustrations global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-933-0

APAPERBACKORIGINAL people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radically differ- ent form of government and economic infrastructure. Praise for Ted Rall But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right- “Rall is known first and foremost for his political cartoons, but, man, wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a he knows how to tell a story, too.” collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is —Publishers Weekly not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not “As tangible and real of a story as was ever put on paper. Raw, honest and completely visceral, [The Year of Loving Dangerously] is a in the future, but now. book for the ages.” —Comics Waiting Room

“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know is necessary. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for. Pick this book up. Read it. And then get ready to fight back.” —Derrick Jensen A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, TEDRALL is a syndicated political car- • Author appearances and book signing at Comic-Con toonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist, and occasional war correspondent whose work appears in hundreds of publications, • Features in Left Turn magazine and the Village Voice including the NewYork Times, the Washington Post, the VillageVoice, and the Los AngelesTimes. • Promotion targeting graphic novel and leftist publications • Promotion through the author’s Web site: www.rall.com Courtesy of Ted Rall

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THE TORTURER IN THE MIRROR Ramsey Clark, Haifa Zangana, and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

efore the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw Bthe infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the

White House with a question: what, according to the Constitution, Current Events / Politics • September 2010 5 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade paperback was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that $8.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-919-4 APAPERBACKORIGINAL line be moved? The White House lawyers’ answer—in the form of legal documents later known as the “torture memos”—became the US’s justification for engaging in torture. shows us how when one of us tor- The Torturer in the Mirror “If we hope to revive with any credibility our widely claimed tures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising commitment to constitutional government, the rule of law, freedom, and justice, and to provide for the common defense consistent with those essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US attorney general claims, the people who led us to torture must be held accountable.” Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer —Ramsey Clark, former United States attorney general teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is, RAMSEYCLARK was the US attorney general during the Johnson administration, and is how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners, founder of the International Action Center. and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers account- HAIFAZANGANA is an Iraqi political commentator and former prisoner of the Ba’ath regime. She is the author of City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance, pub- able. lished by Seven Stories Press. THOMASEHRLICHREIFER is associate professor of sociology at the University of San Diego, and an associate fellow of the Transnational Institute.

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BODY POLITIC Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution

Edited by Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge

ioneering feminist author Barbara Seaman spent the last forty Pyears on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Through- out her career, she was not only a tireless muckraker and book

writer, but also a relentless supporter of other women’s voices. Here Current Events / Health • September 2010 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 1120 pages • Trade Paperback she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and $29.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-844-9 commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm, activism, motherhood and birth control. The more than two hun- “In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doc- dred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan tors—calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women’s Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, liberation began at that moment.” —Barbara Ehrenreich Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Ross- ner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others. For this volume Seaman worked together with her friend, former assistant, and last collab- BARBARASEAMAN’s (1935–2008) first book, The Doctors’ Case Against orator, the young feminist health author Laura Eldridge. the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings, exposed the biases of the medical establishment regarding women’s health issues, and inspired women around the world to take control of their health. She was also the author of Free and Female (1972), Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977), Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline Susann (1987), The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women (2003), and The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause (2008). © Joan Roth LAURAELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, coauthored with Barbara Seaman, and In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Con- traceptive Choices for Women.

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FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN My Life and Times as a Weatherman

Cathy Wilkerson

lying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white, mid- Fdle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the

1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Vil- Biography & Autobiography • September 2010 6 x 8 1/2 • 432 pages • Trade paperback lage townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy of the $18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-925-5 movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have avoided: the absence of women’s voices then, and in the retelling; the incompetence and the egos; and the hundreds of bombs deto- “Unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personal nated in protest, which caused little loss of life but which were also passions that carried her to the town house [explosion].” ineffective in fomenting revolution. In searching for new paradigms —The New York Times for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional “[A] clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account.” —Los Angeles Times honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times— “You’ll want to plunge right into Cathy Wilkerson’s Flying Close to the Sun. If and somehow finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to you’re a ’60s survivor (as I am), you’ll know it’s the real thing.” offer neither. —Carol Brightman, Truthdig “At times exciting and at other times reflective, Flying Close to the Sun is always captivating.” —Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch

CATHY WILKERSON was active in the civil rights movement, SDS, and the Weather Underground. In 1970, she, along with Kathy Boudin, after surviving an explosion in the basement of her parents’ townhouse that killed three Weathermen, were forced underground. For the past twenty years she has worked as an educator. • Author Events: New York

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CENSORED 2011 The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009–10 Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips, and Project Censored Introduction by Kristina Borjesson • Cartoons by Khalil Bendib

ach year, as it has for the past quarter century, Project Cen- Esored lists the top twenty-five censored stories—the major new stories that were ignored or under-reported by a mainstream Media Studies/Journalism • October 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 416 pages • Trade paperback $19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-920-0 press too busy covering the latest junk food news story. Stories are APAPERBACKORIGINAL presented in depth, and the original reporters are given the opportunity to provide updates and comments on how their stories came about. “Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge Additionally, the project commissions articles on the hot-button this collection of suppressed stories allows us.” —San Diego Review issues of the year having to do with censorship, alternative media, “For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtual international news, and other relevant topics. road map for the coming year's news schedule.” —Village Voice

MICKEYHUFF is associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. He is the associate director of Project Censored, with which he has been involved since 2001. He blogs at www.mythinfo.blogspot.com and www.dailycensored.com.

“Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, PETERPHILLIPS, director of Project Censored, is associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent and well-informed citizens.” newspapers nationwide. He is the 2009 recipient of the Dallas Smythe Award, presented by —Los Angeles Times the Union for Democratic Communication. PROJECTCENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy • Events in Northern California and for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United New York City States. In 2008, Project Censored received the • National radio and TV interviews PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the • Excerpts in AlterNet and The Huffington Post publication of Censored 2009. For more information, visit www.projectcensored.org. • Promotion through the author's web site: www.projectcensored.org

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SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH OF KINGS Barry Gifford

oy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young Rman slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Sur- rounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charla- tans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls Fiction • October 2010 Young Adult Fiction • October 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 208 pages • Trade paperback 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Paper over board with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to B&W illustrations throughout B&W illustrations throughout $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-922-4 $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-948-4

navigate the compromises, disillusionments, and regrets that come APAPERBACKORIGINAL with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and fiction, the forty- two short stories in Sad Stories of the Death of Kings bring a Praise for Barry Gifford: city—and a boy’s growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life. “A master of the vignette ... Mr. Gifford also has a fine ear for dialogue. ... [He] gratifyingly kisses the past without entirely telling it.” —Jonathan Wilson, New York Times Book Review “Gifford’s great talent captures defining moments with the casual grace of anecdote. [He] makes the anecdotal monumental.” —Jonathan Keats, San Francisco Magazine

The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, BARRYGIFFORD writes distinctly American stories for millions of readers around the globe. His novel Wild at Heart was • Promotion targeting ﬁction and online reviewers, reading made into a film by David Lynch, which won the Palme d’Or at groups, and librarians • Promotion through the author's web site: the Cannes Film Festival, and his novel Perdita Durango was www.barrygifford.com made into a feature film by Alex de la Iglesia. For more informa- • Author Events: San Francisco • New York tion, visit www.barrygifford.com. © Bompiani

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ELEGY WRITTEN ON A CROWDED STREET Peter Plate

young black woman, Mary Anderson, is up on second-degree Amurder charges for killing her boyfriend in self-defense. He was a police informant in the Fillmore district, the Harlem of the West.

April Jones owns Universal Bail, “Your Freedom Is Our Job.” April Fiction • October 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 160 pages • Trade paperback gets Mary out of jail, and that’s when her troubles with the police $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-931-6 begin. Peter Plate drives a poetic narrative of gentrification, conscience, good clothes, and bad cops in a world where the only choice is life over the proximity of death.

“[Plate’s] San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squad car, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.” —San Francisco Chronicle

  lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Soon the Rest Will Fall, Fogtown, One Foot off the Gutter, Snitch Factory, Angels of Catastrophe, and Police and Thieves.

• Author Events: San Francisco • Los Angeles • © Nina Glaser Portland, OR • Seattle

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THE SWEETEST THING Inside the World of Women’s Boxing Mischa Merz

ournalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfils a long-held Jambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Laila Ali and Lucia Rijker Sports / Women’s Studies • November 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 304 pages • Trade paperback of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary $18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-928-6

APAPERBACKORIGINAL characters. Merz discovers the horrors and delights of the world of women's boxing and gains insights into this eccentric subculture’s place in American life. She also meets some of the pioneers and trailblazers of the contemporary rise in women’s boxing, as well as Praise for Mischa Merz’s memoir Bruising: some of the younger stars now hoping to make it onto the first “Merz makes her own body, discipline, and courage her subjects of experiment as she explores the terrors and the exhilarations of the female capacity for vio- women’s boxing team in the 2012 Olympic Games. lence with startling honesty. You can almost smell the sweat.” Written in a compelling and highly entertaining narrative style, —Inga Clendinnen Mischa Merz takes us right into the ring and reports, with a rare “The work fits (more) comfortably within the stylish nonfiction popularized by writers such as Dava Sobel, Helen Garner and Janet Malcolm.” insider’s view, on a sport that has for centuries defined our ideas —Mary Rose Liverani, The Australian about masculinity.

MISCHAMERZ is a journalist and author of fiction and creative nonfiction. She began training as an amateur boxer in 1995 and is the 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League women’s welter- weight champion. Her book Bruising, about her experiences as a boxer, was published to critical acclaim by Picador Australia in

• National radio and TV 2000 and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. Her journalism • Author tour to Los Angeles and New York City has appeared in numerous publications, including The Age, the • Promotion through the author’s web site: Sunday Age, and the Herald Sun. www.mischamerz.com © Jess D’cruze

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ROSE Inga Muscio

ith trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio Wexplores the impact of violence, abuse, war, and cultural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path

toward healthy and imaginative sex and love. The long-awaited fol- Current Events/Women’s Studies • November 2010 5 3/4 x 7 • 256 pages • Trade paperback low-up to Cunt, Rose breaks new ground in answering a $17.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-926-2 APAPERBACKORIGINAL fundamental question in feminist and antiracist writing: how do we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as individuals, as families, as communities, and as a country? Muscio's ability Praise for Cunt: to address dire topics with vigor and bravery allows her readers to “Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy.” confront the true brutality of a violent culture, then to react pow- —San Francisco Chronicle

erfully with righteous rage and hopeful determination. “Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high fiber diets—it reinvents Chilling, eye-opening, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rose offers a the oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious.” —Bust fresh and exhilarating perspective on achieving empowerment and “Cunt is one of the most dangerous books I ever read, ever.” self-possession. —Robin D. G. Kelley

INGAMUSCIO is the author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence and Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and lectures widely across the nation. For more information, visit www.ingalagringa.com.

• Features in Bitch, Bust, Venus Zine, and other feminist and queer magazines

• Author Events: Los Angeles • San Francisco • Boston © Misty Muscio • New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Seattle

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GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN Kurt Vonnegut

od Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut’s in- Gtrepid investigative reporting from the afterlife, from when he was sent there in 1998 by local NPR affiliate WNYC to interview,

among others, Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, Fiction • November 2010 5 x 8 • 80 pages • Trade paperback Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and $11.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-60980-073-4 Kilgore Trout. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we “So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, live for, and how much it all matters in the end. God forbid, I hope someone will say ‘He’s up in Heaven now.’ From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.” —from God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian the cover, to the last word of the last entry, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian is a joy forever.

KURTVONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of contemporary American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does. His books endure as defiant, and charming, embodiments of the heights to which the human imagination will go in search of essential rights and freedoms. Vonnegut’s other books from Seven Stories Press include the national hardcover and paperback bestseller, A Man Without a Country, and, with Lee Stringer, Like © Art Shay Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing.

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LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD A Conversation about Writing

Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer Moderated by Ross Klavan • Foreword by Dan Simon • Photographs by Art Shay

n Like Shaking Hands with God, two distinguished writers— Iseparated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing

common goals and aspirations—talk about the place where the Literature • November 2010 5 x 8 • 80 pages • Trade paperback lives they lead meet the art they practice. That these two writers 4 B&W photos $11.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-60980-074-1 happened to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer made it a his- toric celebration. The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thurs- KURTVONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century Amer- day, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut ican letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less and Stinger took up the challenge of writing books that would than it does now. Vonnegut’s other books from Seven Stories Press include God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, and the national hardcover and paperback bestseller, A Man Without a Country. make a difference and the concomitant challenge of living from day LEESTRINGER is the author of the acclaimed Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street, to day. As Vonnegut said afterward, “It was a magical evening.” which chronicled his twelve years of homelessness in New York City. A former editor and columnist of Street News, his is also the author of Sleepaway School: A Memoir. He is at A book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing work on the forthcoming White People: Stories from the Suburbs. things down can be more important than the amount of memory DANSIMON is founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press; coauthor of Run, Run, Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman; translator of Pascal Bonafoux’s Van Gogh: Self Portraits; and coeditor in our computers. of three volumes on Nelson Algren: Nonconformity; The Man with the Golden Arm, critical edition; and Entrapment and Other Writings with Brooke Horvath. ROSSKLAVAN is a writer and performer in New York City. His critically acclaimed original screenplay Tigerland, based on his novel of the same name, was nominated for the Inde- pendent Spirit Award. ART SHAY is the author of Chicago’s Nelson Algren. His photographs have graced the covers of Life and have been in- cluded in the museum exhibits around the world.

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THE KILLING GAME The Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter

Gary Webb Edited by Eric Webb • Afterword by Bob Parry

ary Webb was best known for his three-part series, “Dark GAlliance,” that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in August

1996. In it, Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Journalism • December 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 256 pages • Trade paperback Los Angeles during the Iran-Contra scandal. By October of that year $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-932-3 APAPERBACKORIGINAL Webb was reeling from a concerted government-sponsored smear campaign that led to front-page vilification in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. However Webb’s findings Praise for Dark Alliance: were later confirmed, and Webb himself vindicated two years later “Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about the by the investigation of the CIA’s inspector general and the US Senate. CIA and drug traffickers. The CIA denied the charges, and every major His only published book, Dark Alliance, is still a classic of con- newspaper in the country took the agency’s word for it. Gary Webb was ruined. Which is a shame, because he was right.” temporary journalism. But Webb’s journalistic career consisted of —Charles Bowden, Esquire much more than this one story. The Killing Game collects the best of “Gary Webb wrote the truth. ...[Dark Alliance] brings to light one his investigative stories from his beginnings at the Kentucky Post to of the worst official abuses of our nation’s history.” —US Congresswoman Maxine Waters his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb’s series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the GARYWEBB (1955–2004) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist best known Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and for Dark Alliance.

on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games. ERICWEBB is Gary Webb’s youngest son. Surrounded by journalism all his life, he is now a journalism student in Southern California. The Killing Game, by illuminating Webb’s work outside of Dark Alliance, is a testament to investigative journalism at its best.

• National radio and TV interviews with Eric Webb

MAMA’S BOY A Novel

Rick DeMarinis

us Reppo’s parents have everything figured out for their son, Gright down to the county where they hope he’ll practice den- tistry. And when his parents follow him to the air force where he

enlists—who else will make sure he is served adequate meals?—he Fiction • December 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback realizes it’s not going to be easy shaking off his kin, or their Man- $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-911-8 APAPERBACKORIGINAL tovani obsession. After his mother introduces the possibility that his parents are not who they seem, Gus’s life takes a turn for the weird. But steadied by Rick DeMarinis’s hilarious prose and guid- Praise for Rick DeMarinis: ing hand, Gus’s world, though left a little wearier, is finally given “However similar the existential suffering of his characters, room to journey. DeMarinis expertly probes the contours of their condition. You simply can’t move your eyes from the page.” —Mark Smirnoff, New York Times Book Review

“DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition in “Rick DeMarinis has long been one of my favorite writers; American short story writing that, by way of Hawthorne, wherever he has cast his gaze, he has taught me something new Melville, Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and Cheever, is essen- about the way to see things.” tially religious and, because rooted in everyday, comic. ... —Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain His art, then, is comedy of a very high order.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review

RICKDEMARINIS is the author of eight novels, including The Year of the Zinc Penny, a New York Times Notable Book, and six short story collections, including Apocalypse Then and Borrowed Hearts. In 1990, he received an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts awards a short story prize in his name.

• Author events in Missoula, MT and Olympia, WA © Cynthia Farah

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“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT AND INCH OF ME” The Letters of Barney Simon to Lionel Abrahams

Barney Simon

et in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and Stold in the letters home of a young theater director to a friend

who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South Biography & Autobiography • January 2011 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 176 pages • Cloth Africa’s national treasures, co-founder of the Market Theatre, direc- $22.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-936-1 tor of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and mentor to a generation of South African actors, as he begins his artistic journey wrestling with the angels. “No one knows how many men and women who have become mak- ers of a unique black theatre and a unique non-racial theatre in South Africa known all over the world come from [Barney Simon’s] vision and patient energy as director/writer.” —Nadine Gordimer

BARNEYSIMON (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. The Market Theatre challenged the apartheid regime, armed with little more than the conviction that culture can change society, and became recognized as one of the most influential and distinguished theaters in South Africa and the world.

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DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE Strategy to Save the Planet

Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen

or years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think Fthis culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane

and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes. Ecology / Current Affairs • February 2011 6 x 9 • 592 pages • Trade paperback Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement $22.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-929-3 APAPERBACKORIGINAL leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technol- ogy can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla war- fare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful.

It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruit- ARIC MCBAY is a writer, activist, and small-scale organic farmer living in Ontario, Canada. His first book was Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash. His most recent ment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and book is What We Leave Behind, co-written with Derrick Jensen. underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture LIERREKEITH is a writer, small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of two novels, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She’s been of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. arrested six times. She lives in Humboldt County, California. Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, DERRICKJENSEN is author of fifteen books, including Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, What We Leave Behind, and A Lan- to fight for this planet—and win. guage Older Than Words.

• Promotions tied to Earth Day in April • Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the authors’ speaking engagements • Promotion through the authors’ web sites: www.inthewake.org (Aric McBay); www.derrickjensen.org; www.lierrekeith.com © Aric McBay © Richard Katz © Karen Tweedy Holmes

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STOLEN IMAGES Screenplays and Writings

Raoul Peck Translated by Catherine Temerson

mong today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen Asuch a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to

Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Film / Social Science • February 2011 8 x 8 • 320 pages • 100 b&w plates Trade Paperback Raoul Peck, whose documentary Lumumba took the world by $28.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-935-4

APAPERBACKORIGINAL storm when it appeared in 1992. Collected here for the first time are Peck’s screenplays and pierc- ing images from nine major features and documentary films, including Lumumba, the award-winning feature about Republic of

Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, and The Man by the “A filmmaker with a fine eye for people and landscapes.” Shore, the first Haitian film ever to be screened in theaters in the —New York Times United States and the first Caribbean film ever entered into com- petition at the Cannes Film Festival. With over one hundred production stills, storyboards, and poster art.

RAOULPECK’s feature films and documentaries explore interna- tionalist themes of inequality and offer compelling depictions of Haiti under political duress. In addition to filmmaking, Peck has served as Haiti’s minister of culture. In 2001 he received the Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. His most recent film is Moloch Tropical. CATHERINETEMERSON’s most recent translations include Amin

© Philippe Mazzoni Maalouf’s Origins, Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance, Florence Noiville’s Isaac B. Singer: A Life, and Hiner Saleem’s My Father’s Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan. • Author book and film events in New York City

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WORLD REPORT 2011 Human Rights Watch

uman Rights Watch, under director Kenneth Roth, leads the Hstruggle to focus the world’s eye on human rights issues at home and abroad. Its annual World Report, written in straightfor-

ward, nontechnical language, conducts a systematic investigation Current Affairs • February 2011 6 x 9 • 624 pages • Trade paperback of human rights abuses in every country from Afghanistan to Zim- $25.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-921-7 babwe, with a particular focus on the roles played in each country by key domestic and international figures. Then—in incisive essays written by staff, scholars, and activists—the report describes the “A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where way forward to a more humane future. emotion tends to dominate.” Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the US and inter- —Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times (London) national press every year, World Report—collecting reports on “The reports of the New York–based Human Rights Watch (HRW) have become extremely important. ... Cogent and eminently practical, human rights issues from 2010—is an invaluable resource for jour- these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses nalists, diplomats, and citizens. in the country.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books

HUMANRIGHTSWATCH is the largest US-based international human rights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curb human rights abuses in over seventy countries. For more information, visit www.hrw.org.

• Author event in New York City • National drive-time radio tour KENNETH ROTH © Human Rights Watch

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TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’S VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND A YOUNG PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Gayle Olson-Raymer

Education • February 2010 oward Zinn’s influential books have inspired students and 6 x 9 • 400 pages • Trade paperback $21.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-897-5 Hactivists of all ages, affirming the power of the people to influ- APAPERBACKORIGINAL ence the course of events. From the classic A People’s History of the United States, to the primary sources in Voices of a People’s History of the United States, to the stories of young leaders in A Young People’s History of the United States, arises a symphony of our nation’s original voices, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience. In this teaching guide, history professor Gayle Olson-Raymer provides insight into how to apply Voices of a People’s History of the United States and A Young People’s History of the United States in the classroom. It includes questions for discussions, exams, and essays; creative ideas for in-class activities and group projects; and suggestions for teaching

Voices alongside Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. GAYLEOLSON-RAYMER is professor of history and education at In conjunction with the newly launched Zinn Education Proj- Humboldt State University and a participating professor in the Teaching American History program in two California elemen- ect—a collaboration between Teaching for Change and Rethinking tary and high school districts. She is the author of Terrorism: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective and Instructor’s Manual Schools—Olson-Raymer’s teaching guide will bring the writings of for Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey. Howard Zinn to the most critical population: our youth.

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BIRTH MATTERS Ina May Gaskin

enowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low inter- Rvention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international no- toriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader

of a movement that seeks to stop the hypermedicalization of Women’s Studies / Health & Fitness • March 2011 5 x 7 • 128 pages • Trade paperback birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in Amer- $12.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-927-9 APAPERBACKORIGINAL ica to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which Praise for Ina May Gaskin: women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is the act “Simply put, midwife Ina May Gaskin is the most important person that perhaps most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctu- in maternity care in North America, bar none.” ally human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how —Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s and Children’s Health, World Health Organization to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a “There is no better guide to have at your side than the legendary Ina May!” process as old as our species. —Harvey Karp, MD, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block “Ina May Gaskin is an American treasure.” —Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth and Misconceptions

Called “the midwife of modern midwifery” by Salon, INAMAY GASKIN has practiced for nearly forty years at the internationally lauded Farm Midwifery Center. She is the only midwife for whom an obstetric maneuver has been named (Gaskin maneuver). She is • National drive-time radio tour the author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, • Features in Bitch, Bust, Midwifery Today, Ms., New and Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding. York Magazine, Salon.com, and Venus Zine • Author Events: San Francisco • Boston • Ann Arbor, MI • New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Nashville, © Alex MacNaughton Memphis, and Summertown, TN • Seattle

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IN OUR CONTROL The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

Laura Eldridge Foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner

ombining meticulous research and an understanding of the Creal-life issues that influence birth control choices, Laura

Eldridge has crafted an accessible guide to contraception for men Health & Fitness / Women’s Studies • July 2010 6 x 9 • 384 pages • Trade paperback and women of all ages. She not only urges her readers to consider $21.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-907-1 the pros and cons of each method, she provides them with the information and perspective they need to take part in a productive dialogue on reproductive health. “A wonderfully engaging and accessible book that will help women to Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method or navigate today’s contraceptive maze.” —Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine want to know more about your current contraceptive choices, In at McGill University, author of Devices and Desires

Our Control will empower you to make critical decisions about your “Real choice requires information. ... In Our Control is a handbook for sexual health. revolution from the inside out.” —Holly Grigg-Spall, Bitch blog

“Wow! I couldn’t put [In Our Control] down. Reading Laura Eldridge’s history about contraception blew my mind. We cannot allow pharmaceutical companies to endanger women lives! This book is about to regalvanize “Laura Eldridge carries the torch for women’s health advocacy with the women’s health revolution!” this important new book.” —Betty Dodson, author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving —Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report

LAURAELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic: Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution, both authored with women’s health pioneer Barbara Seaman. In Our Control is her first book as a solo author.

• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia • Providence, RI • Boston • Bridgeport, CT • College tour in September 2010 © Jeremy Weinberg

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FIDEL Néstor Kohan Illustrated by Nahuel Scherma • Translated by Elise Buchman Additional illustrations by M. Jones

n the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare Ion the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a dictator, some say Graphic Novel / Current Affairs • June 2010 5 x 7 1/4 • 192 pages • Trade Paperback he is a liberator. In Fidel, Néstor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present $14.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-782-4 Spanish-language edition: one of the towering figures of the twentieth-century as he is seen by $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-783-1 APAPERBACKORIGINAL Latin Americans: as the leader who, for over fifty years, has stood up to the greatest military power in the world, and remained standing. Here, in Kohan’s incisive prose and Scherma’s passionate illus- Fidel también será publicado en español por Siete Cuentos Editorial. trations, is the man who, inspired by decades of Latin American Con historietas y fotos divertidas, este texto corto expone las ambiciones de Cas- Marxist thinking, fought from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra tro, el líder que quiso dar rasgos creativos, inteligentes, y humanitarios a la cara to free his country—the man who walked the razor’s edge between del socialismo. Fidel nos muestra un hombre que no puede ser distinguido ni de su revolución, ni de su patria. military threats by the United States and political coercion by the Soviet Union—the man who became a leader in the revolution NÉSTORKOHAN, born in Buenos Aires in 1967, is the author of a number of Spanish-lan- against colonial governments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin guage books on Marxism, Che Guevara, and social movements in Latin America. America—the man who fought, above all, to transform the con- NAHUELSCHERMA is an Argentinian filmmaker and documentarian. Fidel is his first book of illustrations. science of his people, spreading literacy, culture, and free medical ELISEBUCHMAN worked in children’s theater for twenty years. This is her first book-length care to everyone on the island. Here is Fidel—the man who became translation. the symbol of the revolution in the New World. M. JONES is an illustrator and fiction writer living in Austin, Texas.

“A man of austere habits and insatiable illusions ... incapable of conceiving any idea that is not colossal.” —Gabriel García Márquez, from “The Fidel I Think I Know”

Courtesy of Néstor Kohan © Elena Kohary

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GRAND CENTRAL WINTER Stories from the Street Expanded 2nd Edition

Lee Stringer Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut

ith humane wisdom and biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles Wthe unraveling of his seemingly secure existence running a

graphic design company and his odyssey of survival on the streets of Memoir • May 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 256 pages • Trade Paperback New York City. Whether he is writing about taking shelter under- $14.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-918-7 neath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day, whether saving a stranger from a pair of robbers or stealing from a friend, Stringer powerfully conveys the paradoxes and emotional com- A New York Times Notable Book plexity of “normal” life on the street. Gestures of human kindness, A USA Today Top Ten Pick even heroism, stand alongside acts of wanton violence and desper- As seen in People and USA Today and featured on ation, creating in the end one of the most remarkable urban CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR memoirs of our time. “Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born of This revised paperback edition features four never-before- pain but delivered with style and heart.” published chapters, and a startling new ending. —John Jiler, New York Times Book Review “Stringer’s crisp detail, straight no-chaser wit, and uncompromising frankness are as bracing as his subject is significant.” —Booklist

LEESTRINGER lived on the streets from the early eighties until the midnineties. A former editor and columnist of Street News, his other books include Sleepaway School: A Memoir and, with Kurt Vonnegut, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing. He is at work on the forthcoming White People: Stories from the Suburbs. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.

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BAD SHOES & THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM Leora Tanenbaum Illustrated by Vanessa Davis

ad Shoes & theWomenWho Love Them is a lighthearted but highly Binformed wake-up call to women to make smart decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. It explores the significance of

shoes, the psychology behind the foot fetish, the history of foot bind- Self-Help / Women’s Studies • May 2010 6 x 6 • 192 pages • Trade paperback ing, the feminist critique (or celebration) of high heels, and the history $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-904-0 APAPERBACKORIGINAL of how they came to be. Illustrated throughout by artist Vanessa Davis, Bad Shoes also includes hilarious anecdotes from women who love shoes. And in case “Being dressed to kill shouldn’t mean killing your feet! It’s time to liberate you’re wondering: yes, it is possible to make good footwear decisions ourselves from the tyranny of shoes that hobble our mobility and disfigure without sacrificing style! Tanenbaum shows you how. our bodies in the name of sexiness. With this book, Leora Tanenbaum shows us how to take the first step.” —Audrey D. Brashich, author of All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty “A witty, insightful, highly readable, and frankly shocking “Someone finally gets it! ... Please, this is necessary reading for any exploration of high heels that is a must-read.” person who wishes to remain safe, comfortable, and ambulatory in —Liz Funk, author of Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret their life. Please read this book—it can save your wheels.” Crisis of Overachieving Girls —Dr. Johanna S. Youner, DPM, FACFAS

“In Leora Tanenbaum’s Bad Shoes, the woman who exposed slut- bashing, cat-fighting, and God-reclaiming takes on women’s masochistic relationship with their feet. Run (while you still can) to LEORATANENBAUM is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a your nearest bookstore and save your sole.” Bad Reputation; Catfight: Rivalries Among Women; and Taking —Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways, Manifesta, and Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. She Abortion & Life lives in New York City. VANESSADAVIS is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Her first book, Spaniel Rage, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005, and her second is due out from Drawn & Quarterly in 2010.

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TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMY How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World

Loretta Napoleoni

hile we feared that al-Qaeda might destroy our world, Wall WStreet ripped it apart. Economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link

between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic cri- Current Events • May 2010 5 1/4 x 8 • 192 pages • Trade paperback sis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-895-1 APAPERBACKORIGINAL politicians and the media have ignored. In launching military and propaganda wars in the Middle East, America overlooked the war of economic independence waged by al-Qaeda. The Patriot Act boosted Praise for Rogue Economics: the black market economy, and the war on terror prompted a rise in “Timely and fascinating, Napoleoni’s top-notch reporting, in which oil prices that led to food riots and distracted governments from the her attention turns from Viagra to blood diamonds to the banana trillion-dollar machinations of Wall Street. Consumers and taxpayers, price wars in a few pages, works in the vein of Freakonomics and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, but much grimmer.” spurred by propaganda, accepted crushing global debt. —Publishers Weekly Napoleoni shows that if we do not face up to the many serious Praise for Terror, Incorporated: connections between our response to 9/11 and the financial crisis, “A masterpiece ... This book should be required reading for every- we will never work our way out of the global recession that now one in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon.” threatens our way of life. —Greg Palast

LORETTANAPOLEONI is the author of the bestselling book Rogue Eco- nomics: Capitalism’s New Reality, which has been translated into fourteen languages, and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, which has been translated into twelve languages. One of the world’s leading experts on money launder- ing and terror financing, she has worked as a London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Republica, El País, and Le Monde. © Peter Hodsoll

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BETWEEN THE FENCES Before Guantánamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center

Tony Hefner

n the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas Iin the United States, good jobs are scarce and the Port Isabel Service Processing Center—one of the largest immigration deten-

tion centers in America—pays the best wages for a hundred miles. Politics • May 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 288 pages • Trade paperback The guards follow orders and keep quiet. $19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-912-5 APAPERBACKORIGINAL For five years, Tony Hefner served as a security guard at the detention facility and witnessed alarming corruption and constant violations of basic human rights. Between the Fences is the shocking “Tony Hefner’s descriptions of human rights abuses at the Port Isabel story of the systematic sexual, physical, financial, and drug-related Center mirror the complaints that continue to emerge from the abuses by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers, facility—including reports from over one hundred detainees who went on a hunger strike there in 2009.” and the incredible courage of the author, several fellow guards, and —Catherine Tactaquin, executive director of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights many brave detainees who stood up against it. With 400,000 immi- “People who care about social justice and America’s image in the grant detainees in US custody annually, Between the Fences is a call world should read former prison guard Tony Hefner’s disturbing to action demanding that we look inside the detention centers on account of sexual and physical abuse at Port Isabel.” our own soil and consider how they are run. —Carol M. Swain, editor of Debating Immigration

TONYHEFNER created the Bearing Precious Seed Ranch ministry in southern Texas for local Hispanic children while employed by the INS detention camp Port Isabel. After witnessing human rights abuses within the camp, he began a fight for justice that is still raising awareness about the treatment of detainees in America. Tony and his wife Barbara now live in northern Michigan.

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TALK SOFTLY A Memoir

Cynthia O’Neal

ynthia O’Neal was living “the good life”—married to the Cfamous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of two young sons, resident of The Dakota downstairs from John

Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and friend Biography & Autobiography • May 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Cloth 17 b&w photographs to many brilliant musicians and performers. When the AIDS epi- $22.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-906-4 demic hit the arts community hard, her life changed course suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. With the support of long- time friend Mike Nichols, she founded Friends In Deed and soon

found herself spending her days in hospitals, cramped rooms, and “This utterly winning book seems to sweep up the most devastating years of dirty apartments: anywhere a patient needed a hug, a hand held, or the AIDS epidemic and simply hold them, as if Cynthia O’Neal’s embrace is so capacious that she can somehow contain the suffering of every man and confidence boosted. And when Patrick became ill and passed away woman during those murderous times. ... Nothing has escaped her gaze, and in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead of nothing seems outside her enormous, indelible compassion.” —Mark Doty, author of the National Book Award–winning someone else’s, and she found her life transformed again. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems An extraordinary testament to what we can achieve when people “One cannot read this book without wanting, in the most gentle way, to do better, live better, and be better. Her story has stayed very much come together with a shared purpose, Talk Softly is both one with me, a fine spirit to have around.” woman’s story and a universal tale. —Susan Minot, author of Rapture

“[A] beautifully written memoir of a ‘noisy life,’ intricately structured, heartbreaking as well as joyous, and tense as a CYNTHIAO’NEAL is the founder and president of Friends In Deed, thriller. With its wide cast of characters ... it is a deeply a New York City crisis center that provides emotional and spiri- moving portrait of our time. I keep thinking that this is tual support for anyone diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and what civilization means.” other life-threatening illnesses. This is her first book. —Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient

THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORY Conversations with W. G. Sebald

Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

hen German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the Wage of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre we were just beginning to appreciate. Through

published interviews with and essays on Sebald, American novelist Biography & Autobiography • April 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 176 pages • Trade Paperback and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of $15.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-915-6 the late author, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching explorations of modern history, dislocation, and the role of memory. Includes essays from Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin,

Michael Silverblatt, and others. “Schwartz does a fine job of evoking this elusive author.” —David Ulin, Los Angeles Times “If this interesting book of criticism and interviews introduces you to Sebald or encourages you to return to him, it will have served a noble purpose.” “The great achievement of [Sebald’s] work is that he makes —Jerusalem Post it audible to his readers while still honoring the silence.” —Evelyn Toynton, Harper’s Magazine

W. G. SEBALD was born in Germany in 1944. His novels—The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He is also the author of three books of poems and a book-length essay. He died in December 2001.

© Chris Buckapher LYNNESHARONSCHWARTZ has authored fourteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir Ruined by Reading. She won the PEN Renato Pogglioli Award for her translation from Italian of Liana Millu’s Smoke Over Birkenau.

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SAILOR & LULA The Complete Novels

Barry Gifford

Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination of the Heart

n the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gif- Fiction • April 2010 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 624 pages • Trade Paperback $19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-910-1 ford’s searing contemporary classic Wild at Heart, and of David O APAPERBACKORIGINAL Lynch’s Palme d’Or–winning film, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all seven of the books that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, “the Romeo and Juliet of the “I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wild South” (Booklist). world, and I wanted to go on that trip with them. ... It’s like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.” —David Lynch

“Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular— “[Sailor and Lula’s] talk comes from the hot dark of the innards, William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn reminding us that the world is ‘wild at heart’ and that we paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly—to forge the fear and love it that way.” stealth-epic of Sailor & Lula. His accomplishment looks —Washington Post Book World more and more like one of the permanent glories of recent storytelling, a set of crude masterpieces like Philip Guston’s late paintings. The compression and verve on view on every page of this compendium is as irresistible and dizzying as a dish of brandy-filled chocolates forged in shapes of pistols, hangmen’s ropes, convertible The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have been translated into twenty-eight automobiles, and unclad, steamy bodies, daring you languages, BARRYGIFFORD is one of the few contemporary Amer- to keep gobbling them up.” ican writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the —Jonathan Lethem world. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Alice Walker

n 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women Inter- Inational, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the af- termath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by the antiwar group

CODEPINK, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to History / Social Science • April 2010 5 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade Paperback $9.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-917-0

view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony. APAPERBACKORIGINAL Bearing witness to depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suffering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over “[Alice Walker] bears witness but steps in as an activist, acknowledging that as the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speech- global citizens, ‘allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.’ less by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We Read Overcoming Speechlessness to overcome despair.” —Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has and Global Exchange slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us. “Few books convey such a generosity of spirit, and such a commitment to the idea of sharing, in pain as in love. And even fewer express so eloquently the idea that a true peace can only be built on justice.“ —Saree Makdisi, author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation “Perhaps ordinary language cannot convey adequately the horrors of our time. Perhaps it takes a poet to reach into her own heart and into ours, to break out of silence and despair, to speak the unspeakable truth. Alice Walker ... declares, by her words and by her actions, that she Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, ALICE will not, that we must not, let this go on.” WALKER is the author of more than thirty books including The Color Purple and Sent by Earth. Her writings have been translated —Howard Zinn into more than two dozen languages. From her essays concerning the civil rights movement to cries for intervention on the Gaza Strip, Walker continually and eloquently calls attention to ignored injustices around the world.

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JESUS OF NAZARETH Paul Verhoeven Translated by Susan Massotty

uilding on the work of the great biblical scholars of the twen- Btieth century, filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical Jesus to reveal a man who is, after all, startlingly familiar to us. Gone

is the Jesus of the miracles, gone the son of God, gone the weaver Biography & Autobiography / Religion • April 2010 6 x 9 • 304 pages • Cloth of arcane parables whose meanings are obscure. In their place Ver- $23.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-905-7 hoeven gives us his vision of Jesus as a complete man, a man who has much in common with other great political leaders throughout history, human beings who believed that change was coming in

their lifetimes. Steeped in biblical scholarship but free of the insti- “[Verhoeven] reflect(s) an astonishing familiarity with the trends of scholarship tutional biases that so often dictate the terms of discussion of the during the last 150 years ... I recommend it with the utmost enthusiasm.” —Dr. Gerd Lüdemann, University of Göttingen, Germany historical Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth builds a bridge reaching back to “This is no zombie Jesus ... but a human being who breathes our air, risks, Jesus’ lifetime, and forward to the present, and from biblical schol- dreams, imagines, and makes mistakes.” ars to lay readers whose interest might be personal or political. —Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University and fellow of the Jesus Seminar

“With ... a filmmaker’s eye for detail, and a healthy skepticism about biblical scholarship, Verhoeven breaks PAULVERHOEVEN is the only non-theologian admitted to the Jesus down the gospels ... and reassembles them into a unique Seminar, a group of seventy-seven eminent scholars in theology, phi- and fascinating reconstruction of the historical Jesus.” losophy,linguistics, and biblical history.Their discussions are devoted —Robert J. Miller, author of Born Divine to determining what Jesus actually said and did. Verhoeven is the director of successful films such as Turkish Delight (1973), The Fourth “Paul Verhoeven’s reconstruction of the life of Jesus of Man (1983), RoboCop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), Starship Troopers Nazareth reflects throughout his profound understanding of (1997), and Black Book (2006). the ancient works that testify to Jesus’ words and deeds © Roy Tee SUSANMASSOTTY is an award-winning translator who has translated and the scholarly literature of the modern quest for numerous books, including The Diary of Anne Frank, My Father’s Jesus as a historical figure.” Notebook by Kader Abdolah, All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom, —W. Barnes Tatum, author of In Quest of Jesus and Wedding by the Sea by Abdelkader Benali, and The Kreutzer Sonata Jesus at the Movies by Margriet de Moor. She lives and works in the Netherlands.

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