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CONTACT INFORMATION 10 Fall 2018 Titles EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jamia Wilson [email protected] 17 Amethyst Editions EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Lauren Rosemary Hook [email protected] 18 Feminist Folktales SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER Jisu Kim [email protected] 19 Ordinary Terrible Things 20 Backlist Highlights 24 Rights & Permissions CONTENTS 2 Spring 2018 Titles

The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian gang, recovering alcohol- ics, and teenage runaways: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human fig- ures populating America’s fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these lives, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways.

MICHELLE TEA is the author of numerous books including Black Wave, Modern Tarot, and How to Grow Up. She is the creator of Sister Spit and RADAR Productions.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

“An entrancing collection of irreverent and flamboyant essays.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

May 2018 • $18.95 • 978-1-936932-18-4 • 320 pages • Rights: World

SPRING 2018 TITLES 2 YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN FAT Virgie Tovar

Virgie Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

VIRGIE TOVAR is an author, activist, and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is also the editor of the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion.

“Virgie Tovar’s words provide crucial guid- ance, clarity, and support for all those who champion universal body liberation.”

—JESSAMYN STANLEY

August 2018 • $14.95 • 978-1-936932-31-3 • 128 pages • Rights: World x UK x Spain x Brazil

3 SPRING 2018 TITLES THOUGH I GET HOME YZ Chin

In these short stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: a grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains, a consort finds herself a new assignment, a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a small- town girl transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia’s most notorious detention camp. Insightful and urgent, this collection illustrates how people’s personal motivations both persist and shift in the face of changing global circumstances.

YZ CHIN was born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia. She now lives in New York and works as a software engineer by day and a writer by night.

The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize is awarded to the best debut work by women and “YZ Chin’s tender and furious debut is a long nonbinary writers of color in order to continue gaze into a black sky; her characters are Meriwether’s legacy and diversify the literary defiant enough to find light.” canon. —CATHERINE LACEY

April 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-16-0 • 224 pages • Rights: World

SPRING 2018 TITLES 4 YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE Beth Pickens

As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has worked as a consultant empowering artists. A candid guidebook about art making in the midst of oppression, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists of all kinds build a sustain- able practice while navigating the world of MFAs, residencies, and institutional funding.

BETH PICKENS is a Los Angeles–based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation as well as grant writing and fundraising assistance to clients across the United States.

“This book is crucial—a slim, necessary revelation.” —MAGGIE NELSON

April 2018 • $14.95 • 978-1-936932-29-0 • 136 pages • Rights: World

5 SPRING 2018 TITLES LA BASTARDA Trifonia Melibea Obono | Translated by Lawrence Schimel Afterword by Abosede George

The first novel by an Equatorial Guin- ean woman to be translated into English, La Bastarda is the story of the orphaned Okomo, who lives under the watchful eye of her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. Forbidden from seeking him out, she enlists the help of other village outcasts: her gay uncle and a gang of “mysterious” girls who revel in their so-called indecency. Drawn into their illicit trysts, Okomo finds herself falling in love with their leader and rebelling against the rigid norms of Fang culture.

TRIFONIA MELIBEA OBONO is a journalist and political scientist, as well as a professor and researcher on women and gender in Africa. She has been a professor at the National University of Equatorial Guinea in Malabo since 2013 and is currently finishing her “An invaluable contribution to lesbian and PhD at the University of Salamanca. gay literary culture.” —CHERYL CLARKE LAWRENCE SCHIMEL is an award-winning author and anthologist, and has been inter- nationally recognized for his queer antholo- gies, gay and lesbian erotica, and poetry.

April 2018 • $15.95 • 978-1-936932-23-8 • 112 pages • Rights: World English x Africa

SPRING 2018 TITLES 6 TENEMENTAL: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady Vikki Warner

Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, twenty-six-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a rundown three-story house in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotating cast of colorful tenants. Adulthood comes with unforeseen challenges: backed-up sewage, gentrification, global economic downturn. Told with grit and good humor, this memoir is a candid exploration of how sharing space profoundly reshapes our lives and forces us to grow into ourselves.

VIKKI WARNER is an acquisitions editor with Blackstone Audio and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in BUST, the Boston Globe, and Zagat, among others.

“Wry, smart, personal, and pretty damn punk rock.” —KATE SCHATZ

June 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-21-4 • 272 pages • Rights: World English

7 SPRING 2018 TITLES LOVE WAR STORIES Ivelisse Rodriguez

Puerto Rican girls are brought up to want one thing: true love. Yet they are raised by women whose lives are marked by broken promises, grief, and betrayal. While some believe they’ll be the ones to finally make it work, others swear not to repeat cycles of violence. This collection documents how these “love wars” break out across generations as individuals find themselves caught in the crosshairs of romance, expectations, and community.

Born in Puerto Rico, IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ earned a PhD in English creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an MFA from Emerson College. She has published fiction in All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, the Boston Review, and elsewhere.

“A tough, smart, dazzling debut by a tough, smart, dazzling writer. Rodriguez is a revelation.” —JUNOT DÍAZ

July 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-25-2 • 176 pages • Rights: World

SPRING 2018 TITLES 8 PRETTY THINGS Virginie Despentes | Translated by Emma Ramadan AUGUST 2018 AUGUST 2018 UNCORRECTED PROOF Claudine has always been pretty and Pauline A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the “perfect woman.” has always been ugly. But when Claudine

“ Pretty Things is the type of rare, enticing book you devour in a wants to become famous, she enlists gloomy fever. Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Virginie Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her Pauline—with her angelic voice—to pretend finger on the pulse of what it’s like to wear the daily drag of feminin- PRETTY THINGS ity—and then pressing down, slowly and calmly, right where it hurts.” they’re the same person. Yet just as things —ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine take off, Claudine commits suicide. Pauline “ Intensely visual and viscerally felt, Pretty Things is a biting commen- tary on the devil’s bargain of conforming to modern femininity. By the hatches a new scheme, pulling on her dead end, you’re left wondering what, exactly, the end result of this game of gender is all for, and what has been lost along the way.” | sister’s identity, inhabiting her apartment,

—VANESSA MARTINI, City Lights Bookstore VIRGINIE DESPENTES and reading her mail. As the impersonation VIRGINIE DESPENTES is an award-winning French author and filmmaker and a noted feminist and cultural critic. She is the author of many books, including Vernon Subutex, King Kong Theory, and Apocalypse Baby. continues, Pauline slowly realizes that the EMMA RAMADAN is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, cost of femininity is to dazzle on the out- where she is the co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim grant, an NEA Translation Fellowship, and a Fulbright. side while rotting away on the inside—and

PRETTY THINGS that womanhood is ultimately what killed her VIRGINIE DESPENTES | Translated by Emma Ramadan ISBN 978-1-936932-27-6 pbk sister. E-ISBN 978-1-936932-26-9 $17.95 pbk • PAGES: 224 • SIZE: 5.5 x 8 in. PUBLICATION DATE: August 2018 VIRGINIE DESPENTES A NOTE TO REVIEWERS: These are uncorrected proofs. is an award-winning Please do not quote from this text without checking with the publisher. For all other inquiries please author and filmmaker and a noted French contact: Jisu Kim, email: [email protected]; phone: (212) 817–7918. feminist and cultural critic. She is the author of many books, including Vernon “Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Pretty Subutex and Apocalypse Baby. Things is the type of rare, enticing book EMMA RAMADAN is a literary translator and co- you devour in a fever.” owner of Riffraff Bookstore. Her translations —ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN include Sphinx and Not One Day by Anne Garréta.

August 2018 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-27-6 • 224 pages • Rights: World English

9 SPRING 2018 TITLES MAGGIE TERRY Sarah Schulman

Post-rehab, Maggie Terry has one goal: keep her head down and rebuild her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a big case: actress strangled. If Maggie shakes her ghosts—dead NYPD partner, vindictive ex, steadfast drug habit— then maybe she’ll crack the case.

SARAH SCHULMAN is a well-known literary chronicler of the marginalized and subcul- tural, focusing on queer urban life. She is the author of several books, including The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse, and The Cosmopolitans.

“A page-turning mystery and an inspiring psychological portrait of a woman trying to make her way back from the edge.”

—DANNY CAINE

September 2018 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-39-9 • 280 pages • Rights: World

FALL 2018 TITLES 10 THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS Ali Liebegott

In a chronicle of mourning and survival, Ali Liebegott wallows in grief and overassigns meaning to everyday circumstance, cling- ing to an aging dog and obsessing over dead birds. But this unpretentious novel-in-verse is laced with compassion, as she learns to balance the sting of death with the tender strangeness of life.

ALI LIEBEGOTT is a poet, writer, and artist. She is the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she writes for the show Transparent.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

“A near mythic journey into life-stopping loss; a howl, a hymn to what’s mortal.”

—MARIE HOWE

March 2019 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-50-4 • 120 pages • Rights: World

11 FALL 2018 TITLES TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS Camille Acker

This debut collection of stories is a com- plicated love letter to Washington, DC, and those who call it home: a TSA agent who has never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, a teacher caught in the crosshairs of a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”—with its lessons on gentrification and respectability—and each fight to create their own sense of space and self.

CAMILLE ACKER holds degrees from Howard University and New Mexico State University. Her writing has appeared in Hazlitt, VICE, and others. Raised in Washington, DC, she currently lives in Chicago.

“Camille Acker navigates the lives of Afri- can American women wtih humor, heart, and grace. I loved these stories.”

—LISA KO

October 2018 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-37-5 • 224 pages • Rights: World

FALL 2018 TITLES 12 THE NAKED WOMAN Armonía Somers | Translated by Kit Maude Afterword by Elena Chavez Goycochea

When The Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be responsible for its shocking erotic content. In this searing critique of Enlightenment values, fantastic themes are juxtaposed with brutal depictions of misog- yny and violence, and frantically build to a fiery conclusion. Armonía Somers will reso- nate with readers of Clarice Lispector, Djuna Barnes, and Leonora Carrington.

ARMONÍA SOMERS (1914–1994) was a Uru- guayan feminist, pedagogue, novelist, and short story writer. Though considered to be part of the literary generation of 1945 in Uruguay, her style and use of a pseudonym set her apart.

KIT MAUDE is a Spanish-to-English translator based in Buenos Aires. His translations “Thanks to Kit Maude’s perceptive render- have been featured in Granta, the Literary ing, the English-speaking reader can now Review, and the Short Story Project, among discover one of the most original, and other publications. unfairly neglected, Latin American authors of the past century.” —ALBERTO MANGUEL

November 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-43-6 • 128 pages • Rights: World English

13 FALL 2018 TITLES FADE INTO YOU Nikki Darling

A teenage punk in the glorious wasteland of 1990s Los Angeles, Nikki Darling is a self- proclaimed “stoner chola.” She cuts class, sneaks cigarettes, and crushes on her gay best friend. In dreamy, subterranean prose, Darling perfectly captures the reckless defi- ance of girlhood—and the youthful insis- tence that everything will always remain wild, trashy, and free.

NIKKI DARLING is a writer, artist, and performer based in Los Angeles. Her music criticism and essays appear regularly in the Los Ange- les Times, LA Weekly, and Art Book Review.

“Fade into You hypnotizes with its poetry and slang, the edgy mystery of girl friend- ships, the uselessness of education and crucial importance of gossip.”

—MICHELLE TEA

November 2018 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-41-2 • 224 pages • Rights: World

FALL 2018 TITLES 14 LIVING ON THE BORDERLINES: Stories Melissa Michal

For the loosely connected Seneca community members living in Upstate New York, intergenerational memory slips into everyday life: a teenager struggles to understand her grandmother’s silences, a family seeks to reconnect with a lost sibling, and a young woman searches for a cave that’s called to her family for generations. With these stories, debut writer Melissa Michal weaves together an understated and contemplative collection exploring what it means to be Native.

MELISSA MICHAL’s writing has appeared in the Florida Review, Yellow Medicine Review, and other publications. She currently teaches Native American/Indigenous litera- tures at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

February 2019 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-46-7 • 250 pages • Rights: World

15 FALL 2018 TITLES MARS: Stories Asja Bakic | Translated by Jennifer Zoble Afterword by Ellen Elias-Bursac

Mars showcases a series of unique and twisted universes where every character is tasked with making sense of their strange reality. One woman will be freed from purga- tory once she writes the perfect book; another abides in a world devoid of physical contact. With wry prose and skewed humor, an emerging feminist writer explores post-Soviet promises of knowledge, freedom, and power.

ASJA BAKIC is a Bosnian poet, writer, and translator. She was selected as one of Liter- ary Europe Live’s New Voices from Europe 2017, and her writing has been translated into seven languages. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

JENNIFER ZOBLE is a writer, educator, and literary translator. She coedits InTranslation and teaches academic and creative writing at NYU. She currently lives in New York City.

March 2019 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-48-1 • 144 pages • Rights: World English

FALL 2018 TITLES 16 AMETHYST EDITIONS

Amethyst Editions is an imprint curated by Michelle Tea championing emerging queer writers who complicate the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a coming-out narrative.

BLACK WAVE Michelle Tea

“An apocalyptic fantasia.” —NEW YORK TIMES

It’s San Francisco in 1999 and the world is ending. Drug-addled writer Michelle has alienated most of her friends and lovers with her drama and heads to LA to write a screenplay. With the world sliding into chaos, Michelle endeavors to make sense of her life, struggling to cast herself as a universal hero in her screenplay while squatting in an abandoned bookstore.

September 2016 • $18.95 • 978-1-55861-939-5 • 344 pages • Rights: World x UK

SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN Brontez Purnell WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION

Home for his uncle’s funeral, DeShawn ponders family, church, and his lifelong quest for love. This raw, funny novella traces a queer black man’s sexual and artistic awakenings as he stumbles—often painfully, sometimes joyously—down memory lane.

June 2017 • $17.95 • 978-1-55861-431-4 • 168 pages • Rights: World

WE WERE WITCHES Ariel Gore

“A singularly spectacular siren song.” —LIDIA YUKNAVITCH

Ariel’s a teen mom, aspiring writer, and feminist witch trying to get a college education in the early nineties during the first Bush administration. Basically she’s screwed.

September 2017 • $18.95 • 978-1-55861-433-8 • 296 pages • Rights: World

17 AMETHYST EDITIONS FEMINIST FOLKTALES SERIES Edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps Illustrated by Suki Boynton

A classic best seller from the Feminist Press is reissued and newly illustrated. Bring- ing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, and Peru, this series reminds us that girls everywhere have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries. PHELPS PHELPS KAMALA FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS

Introduction by GAYLE FORMAN | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON

What might we dream of after reading these tales?

In Kamala, the second volume in A classic best seller from the Feminist the Feminist Folktales series, stories Press is reissued in a newly illustrated, from countries such as India, Peru, four-volume series. In Tatterhood, tales China, and Ireland follow clever, from Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Sudan outspoken heroines—demonstrating feature decisive heroines of extraordinary how the courage and power of women courage, wit, and achievement—reminding hold our world together. us that girls everywhere have always been the heroes of their own stories.

“Who stole these fierce, “In these stories, girls might actually bawdy stories from the mouths of see themselves. Who they are. mothers and transformed the strong And who they dream of becoming.” girls into damsels in distress? Who cast —GAyle FormAn, If I Stay the spell . . . and how do we break it? With books like this, obviously!” —Kate Schatz, VOL. I Rad American Women A–Z VOL. II

isbn 978-155861-929-6 $14.95 Us isbn 978-155861-940-1 $14.95 Us

TATTERHOOD KAMALA July 2016 • 978-1-55861-929-6 October 2016 • 978-1-55861-940-1 Rights: World x Portuguese Rights: World x Portuguese

“These stories tell girls it’s okay to be afraid, to be flawed, to be hungry, to be curious, to be angry, to be imperfect.” —RENÉE WATSON

SEA GIRL THE HUNTER MAIDEN August 2017 • 978-1-55861-418-5 October 2017 • 978-1-55861-434-5 Rights: World Rights: World

FEMINIST FOLKTALES SERIES 18 ORDINARY TERRIBLE THINGS SERIES Anastasia Higginbotham

Ordinary Terrible Things is a feminist children’s book series that deals with common childhood crises and how children themselves find their own way to cope and grow.

DIVORCE IS THE WORST

“An asset to families.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Kids are told “it’s for the best”—and one day, it may be. But right now, divorce is the worst. With honesty and humor, Anastasia Higginbotham beautifully conveys the challenge of staying whole when your entire world, and the people in it, split apart.

April 2015 • $16.95 • 978-1-55861-880-0 • 64 pages • Rights: World

DEATH IS STUPID

“Smart and sensitive.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“She’s in a better place now,” adults say again and again. But it doesn’t seem better, it seems stupid. Grandma isn’t here anymore. This forthright exploration of grief and mourning recognizes the anger and confusion that a child feels around death while offering possibilities for celebrating life and love.

April 2016 • $16.95 • 978-1-55861-925-8 • 64 pages • Rights: World

TELL ME ABOUT SEX, GRANDMA “I love that it’s Grandma giving advice!” —GLORIA STEINEM

Patiently explaining lessons your parents redacted, this book stresses consent, sex positivity, and the right to be curious about your body. Grandma reminds readers that sex is not marriage or reproduction, and doesn’t look the same for everyone—but instead, it’s your own to discover, explore, and share if you choose.

April 2017 • $17.95 • 978-1-55861-419-2 • 64 pages • Rights: World

19 ORDINARY TERRIBLE THINGS SERIES GO HOME! BUCHANAN HISAYO ROWAN

Where is home? How do you get there? Edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Does it exist? This anthology of Asian diasporic writers muses on the impossibility of Foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen the slur “go home!”

“ I readthisbookandseemypeople—seeus—andfeel,in “Language allows for many homes, and perhaps the ourcollectiveoutsiderhood,athome.” —OCEAN VUONG GO HOME! writers—and readers of the anthology too—will suc- “ T o be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes frombeingunderestimated,rarelycounted,hardlyseen. ceed in returning home, or finding a home, through Here,webegintodrawthehopefuloutlinesofacollective GO historyforthosesodisparateyetoftenlumpedtogether.” —JENNY ZHANG these words.” —NPR

“Againsttheracistdemandthatwegobacktowherewe HOME! comefrom,wesaythatwearealreadyathome.” —VIET THANH NGUYEN, Asian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty- fromtheforeword first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology isbn 978-1-936932-01-6 $18.95 Us moves beyond the model-minority myth and show- ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS’ WORKSHOP cases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong.

$18.95 • 978-1-936932-01-6 • 312 pages • Rights: World

THE RESTLESS Gerty Dambury Translated by Judith G. Miller

“A brilliant example of subtlety and sensitivity that brings to life one of the most important dates in the history of Guadeloupe.” —MARYSE CONDÉ

Structured like a Creole quadrille, this lyrical novel is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. While Dambury’s English- language debut is a memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, it is also a celebration of the vibrancy and resilience of Guadeloupeans.

$16.95 • 978-1-55861-446-8 • 256 pages • Rights: World x French

BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 20 HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES Written by Juniper Fitzgerald HOW Illustrated by Elise Peterson HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES MAMAS “This is the mothering book I’ve always dreamed of! How LOVE THEIR Mamas Love Their Babies shifts our narrow definition of BABIES what a mother is, what a mother does, what a mother WRITTEN BY ILLUSTRATED BY Juniper Fitzgerald Elise Peterson

ISBN 978-193693-200-9 $16.95

AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY looks like, and what caring OFfor NEW YORK our babies looks like.” FEMINISTPRESS.ORG —SARAH SOPHIE FLICKER

Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children—piloting airplanes, washing floors, or HOW dancing at a strip club—this book is the first to depict HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES MAMAS a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion LOVE of working mothers and challenges the idea that only THEIR some jobs result in good parenting. BABIES WRITTEN BY ILLUSTRATED BY Juniper Fitzgerald Elise Peterson

ISBN 978-193693-200-9 $16.95

AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG

$16.95 • 978-1-936932-00-9 • 48 pages • Rights: World

THE COSMOPOLITANS n The Cosmopolitans, Sarah Schulman recaptures the texture, beat, and soul of Sarah Schulman “Vivid and moving. Novels about the past that can 1950s New York, when it was an open celebrate it with intelligence rather than nostalgia are city, energized by difference. rare and are themselves to be celebrated.” —SAMUEL R. DELANY, author of IHarmonizing two classic novels, Cousin Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders Bette by Honoré de Balzac (1846) and Another Country by James Baldwin “A deep, smart, and satisfying novel.” (1962), Schulman juxtaposes complex, —RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of An Unnecessary Woman nuanced representations of interracial “The Cosmopolitans is a great read—weighty dilemmas, living across sexualities, in intimate “This novel is book club gold—weighty dilemmas, relationships created by exiles from uncomprehending backgrounds. SARAH SCHULMAN is a novelist, unforgettable characters, and a roller-coaster plot!” playwright,unforgettable screenwriter, nonfiction characters, and—TAYARI a JONES roller-coaster, author of Silver Sparrow plot!” The New York of The Cosmopolitans is a writer, AIDS historian, and journalist. dynamic mix of obstacle and opportunity Her seventeen books include Israel/ “The psychological insights Schulman shares with artful simplicity made possible by cheap rents and the Palestine and the Queer International, will shatter your heart. A masterpiece.” courage of those who have nothing to The Gentrification of the Mind, and ten —MICHELLE TEA, author of How to —TAYARIGrow Up JONES lose. novels including The Mere Future and Rat Bohemia. Her awards include a Uninhibited by the tyranny of positive Guggenheim, Fulbright, and the Kessler images, stereotypes, or the privileging of Prize for Sustained Contribution to any one gender, race, or sexuality, the LGBT Studies, among many others. novel is a glimpse of both the past and

Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking SARAH SCHULMAN She is cofounder of the ACT UP Oral reenwich Village, 1958. Earl, a black, gay actor, and Bette, a white present by one of our country’s most History Project and MIX: NYC Queer talented writers. secretary, have been neighbors for thirty years, forming a deep bond Experimentalplant, Film Festival. and Her plays andBette, a white secretary, have lived next to movies have been seen at Playwrights as refugees from small-minded hometowns. But when Hortense, Horizons, the Berlin International Film a wealthy young actress with links to Bette’s painful past, shows Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art. up, Earl and Bette’s hard-won assumptions are shaken to the core. The Schulmaneach is Distinguished other Professor of in the same Greenwich Village apartment Cosmopolitans is a beautifully written, page-turning novel about friendship, the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island; a love, and revenge set in the disappeared world of 1950s New York. fellow buildingat the New York Institute for forthe thirty years.G Everything changes when Humanities at NYU; and on the advisory ISBN 978-155861-910-4 $27.95 US board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes a novel by SARAH SCHULMAN to the city to “make it.” Based on Balzac’s Cousin Bette, The Cosmopolitans is a lush, inviting read framing the human need for love and recognition.

$15.95 • 978-1-55861-904-3 • 392 pages • Rights: World x Ukrainian x Russian

21 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, prison abolition, and Rihanna. The Crunk Femi- nist Collective blog, with an annual readership of nearly one million, fosters dialogue for critical homegirls stuck between loving hip hop and “ratchet culture” while hating patriarchy and sexism.

$24.95 • 978-1-55861-943-2 • 360 pages • Rights: World

“HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future Edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT In this groundbreaking collection, cutting-edge voices including Melissa FIFTY-SEVEN VISIONS OF A WILDLY BETTER FUTURE Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, and Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featuring essays, speculative fiction, interviews, and art, The Femi- nist Utopia Project challenges the status quo, describes affirmative visions, and exhorts us to demand a radically better future.

$19.95 • 978-1-55861-900-5 • 360 pages • Rights: World x Korean x Turkish

GIVE IT TO ME Ana Castillo

Winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for best bisexual fiction, this sexy novel follows Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, who takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster cousin recently released from prison.

$16.95 • 978-1-55861-850-3 • 256 pages • Rights: World x Italian

THE MADAME CURIE COMPLEX: The Hidden History of Women in Science Julie Des Jardins

Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predomi- nantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations—lack of resources, exclusion from social net- works of men—to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women’s contributions to the sciences.

$17.95 • 978-1-55861-613-4 • 352 pages • Rights: World x Turkish BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 22 THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK: The Politics of Producing Pleasure Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young

Addressing the fraught history of pornography and the rise of the antiporn movement, The Feminist Porn Book identifies the importance of porn made for and by feminists in one comprehensive collection.

$22.95 • 978-1-55861-818-3 • 328 pages • Rights: World x German x Spanish

WITCHES, MIDWIVES & NURSES: A History of Women Healers (Second Edition) Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

Witches, Midwives & Nurses, first published in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunts. This new edition builds on the demonization of women healers, and the political and economic monopolization of medicine.

$8.95 • 978-1-55861-661-5 • 112 pages • Rights: World x French x Japanese x Arabic x Spanish

CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution Edited by Josh MacPhee Foreword by Rebecca Solnit

Celebrate People’s History is a graphic history of dissent and activism around the world, and includes artwork by Cristy Road, Swoon, Nicole Schulman, Christopher Cardinale, Sabrina Jones, Eric Drooker, Klutch, Carrie Moyer, Laura Whitehorn, Dan Berger, Ricardo Levins Morales, Chris Stain, and more.

$24.95 • 978-1-55861-677-6 • 256 pages • Rights: World x Korean

YOU CAN’T GET LOSE IN CAPE TOWN Zoë Wicomb Introduction by Marcia Wright Afterword by Carol Sicherman

“Wicomb has mined pure gold,” says Toni Morrison. “Seductive, brilliant, and precious, her talent glitters.” Wicomb writes a sparkling narrative of a Coloured woman’s coming to maturity—and to writing—in the complex world of mixed-race citizens in apartheid South Africa.

$16.95 • 978-1-55861-225-9 • 240 pages • Rights: World x South Africa 23 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

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