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The Fall 2010 Frontlist Catalog from Seven Stories Press -- feel free to browse. To sign up to be alerted when books are available, please visit our website at http://www.sevenstories.com.
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SEVEN STORIES PRESS� FALL/WINTER 2010–11� RECENT RELEASES
Please visit www.sevenstories.com:
� complete backlist
� 25% discount on all web orders
� special offers for K-12 teachers and universityprofessors (www.sevenstories.com/textbook)
� tour and event information
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RECENT AWARDS HONORSOnce You Go Backby Douglas Martin
FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, 2010
Racing While Blackby Leonard T. Miller and Andrew Simon
“BOOK TO READ FOR 2010" BY AUTOWEEK MAGAZINE
10,000 Dressesby Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 2009 RAINBOW LIST
HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTLITERATURE, 2009
Hello, Cruel Worldby Kate Bornstein
FINALIST FOR LGBT NONFICTION LAMBDALITERARY AWARD, 2009
HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTLITERATURE, 2009
Live Through Thisedited by Sabrina Chapdjiev
FINALIST FOR LGBT ANTHOLOGIES LAMBDALITERARY AWARD, 2009
Peter Phillips
2009 DALLAS SMYTHE AWARD, UNION FORDEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATION
Censored 2009by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
PEN/OAKLAND LITERARY CENSORSHIP AWARD, 2008
The Sun Climbs Slowby Erna Paris
FINALIST, SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZEFOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2008
GLOBE AND MAIL TOP NONFICTION BOOK, 2008
The Possessionby Annie Ernaux
translated by Anna Moschovakis
MORE MAGAZINE TOP TEN OF 2008
Dreaming Up Americaby Russell Banks
BLOOMSBURY REVIEW EDITORS' FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008
Oblomovby Ivan Goncharov
translated by Marian Schwartz
SLATE BEST BOOKS OF 2008
The Class (Entre les murs)by François Bégaudeautranslated by Linda Asher
PRIX FRANCE CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA PRIZE, 2006
CANNES PALME D’OR, 2008 (FILM VERSION)
NOMINEE, BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ACADEMY AWARD, 2008[FILM VERSION]
Rogue Economicsby Loretta Napoleoni
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2008
STRAIGHT.COM FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008
Derrick Jensen
ONE OF UTNE READER’S 50 VISIONARIES WHO ARECHANGING YOUR WORLD
PRESS ACTION’S DYNAMIC DOZEN, 2008
ERIC HOFFER AWARD, 2008(for Thought to Exist in the Wild [NoVoice Unheard])
PRESS ACTION PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2006
Voice Overby Céline Curiol
translated by Sam Richard
FINALIST, INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE, 2008
FINALIST, BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2008BY THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE
FRENCH VOICES AWARD, 2008
Life of Meaningedited by Bob Abernethy and William Bole
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER, 2008
Coco Fusco
WHITNEY BIENNIAL ARTIST, 2008
A Field Guide for FemaleInterrogatorsby Coco Fusco
SHORTLIST, INDEX ON CENSORSHIPT. R. FYVEL AWARD, 2008
and
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Fall/Winter 2010–11
LOVE LIKE HATEA NovelLINH DINH 10
THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTOTED RALL 12
THE TORTURER IN THE MIRRORRAMSEY CLARK, HAIFA ZANGANA,
and THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER 14
BODY POLITICDispatches from the Women’sHealth Revolutionedited by BARBARA SEAMAN
with LAURA ELDRIDGE 16
FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUNMy Life as a WeathermanCATHY WILKERSON 18
CENSORED 2011The Top Censored Stories of2009–10MICKEY HUFF, PETER PHILLIPS,
and PROJECT CENSORED 20
SAD STORIES OF THE DEATHOF KINGSBARRY GIFFORD 22
ELEGY WRITTEN ON ACROWDED STREETA NovelPETER PLATE 24
THE SWEETEST THINGInside the World of Women’s BoxingMISCHA MERZ 26
ROSEINGA MUSCIO 28
GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIANKURT VONNEGUT 30
LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GODA Conversation about WritingKURT VONNEGUT and LEE STRINGER 32
THE KILLING GAMEThe Writings of an IntrepidInvestigative ReporterGARY WEBB
edited by ERIC WEBB 34
MAMA’S BOYA NovelRICK DEMARINIS 36
“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT ANDINCH OF ME”The Letters of Barney Simon toLionel AbrahamsBARNEY SIMON 38
DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the PlanetARIC McBAY, LIERRE KEITH
and DERRICK JENSEN 40
STOLEN IMAGESScreenplays and WritingsRAOUL PECK
translated by CATHERINE TEMERSON 42
WORLD REPORT 2011HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 44
TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’SVOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OFTHE UNITED STATES AND YOUNGPEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THEUNITED STATESGAYLE OLSON-RAYMER 46
BIRTH MATTERSINA MAY GASKIN 48
Recent Releases
IN OUR CONTROLThe Complete Guide to Contracep-tive Choices for WomenLAURA ELDRIDGE
foreword by JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER 52
FIDELNÉSTOR KOHAN
with illustrations by NAHUEL SCHERMA
translated by ELISE BUCHMAN 54
GRAND CENTRAL WINTERStories from the StreetLEE STRINGER
foreword by KURT VONNEGUT 56
BAD SHOES AND THE WOMENWHO LOVE THEMLEORA TANENBAUM
illustrated by VANESSA DAVIS 58
TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMYHow the War on Terror isBankrupting the WorldLORETTA NAPOLEONI 60
BETWEEN THE FENCESBefore Guantánamo there was thePort Isabel Service ProcessingCenterTONY HEFNER 62
TALK SOFTLYA MemoirCYNTHIA O’NEAL 64
THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORYConversations with W. G. Sebaldedited by LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ 66
SAILOR & LULAThe Complete NovelsBARRY GIFFORD 68
OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESSA Poet Encounters the Horror inRwanda, Eastern Congo, andPalestine/IsraelALICE WALKER 70
JESUS OF NAZARETHPAUL VERHOEVEN
translated by SUSAN MASSOTTY 72
About Seven Stories Press 75About Seven Stories Institute 76Seven Stories Staff 77Contact Information 78CO
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FALL/WINTER2010–11
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Lauded for his incisive short prose and poetry, Linh Dinh brings
to 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
Lan and South Vietnamese army captain Hoang Long, who marry
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
humor, Love Like Hate embraces contradictions with the surreal
exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo
Calvino.
• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia
10 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
LOVE LIKE HATEA Novel
Linh Dinh
Praise for Linh Dinh:
“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy,Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.”—Village Voice
“[Linh Dinh’s Blood and Soap] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, butuses 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 irreverenceand experimental fun.”
—AsianWeek
A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow-ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH is theauthor of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood andSoap, one of the Village Voice’s best books of 2004; and four booksof poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Border-less Bodies, and Jam Alerts. He is editor of the anthologies Night,Again and Three Vietnamese Poets. Love Like Hate is his first novel.
Fiction • September 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback
$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-909-5
A PAPERBACK OR IG INAL
11© Brian Doan
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In arguably his most radical book, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall
has 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
global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of
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.
But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right-
wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a
collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is
not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not
in the future, but now.
“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know isnecessary. 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
• Author appearances and book signing atComic-Con
• Features in Left Turn magazine andthe Village Voice
• Promotion targeting graphic novel andleftist publications
• Promotion through the author’s Web site:www.rall.com
12 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTOTed Rall
Praise for Ted Rall
“Rall is known first and foremost for his political cartoons, but, man,he knows how to tell a story, too.”
—Publishers Weekly
“As tangible and real of a story as was ever put on paper. Raw, honestand completely visceral, [The Year of Loving Dangerously] is a
book for the ages.”—Comics Waiting Room
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F.Kennedy Journalism Award, TED RALL is a syndicated political car-toonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist, and occasional warcorrespondent whose work appears in hundreds of publications,including the NewYork Times, the Washington Post, the VillageVoice, andthe Los AngelesTimes.
Politics • September 20105 x 7 • 160 pages • Trade paperback
10 illustrations$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-933-0
A PAPERBACK OR IG INAL
13
Courtesy of Ted Rall
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Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw
the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the
White House with a question: what, according to the Constitution,
was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that
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.
The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tor-
tures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising
essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US attorney general
Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is,
how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners,
and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers account-
able.
14 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
THE TORTURERIN THE MIRRORRamsey Clark, Haifa Zangana,
and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
RAMSEY CLARK was the US attorney general during the Johnson administration, and isfounder of the International Action Center.
HAIFA ZANGANA 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-lished by Seven Stories Press.
THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER is associate professor of sociology at the University of San Diego,and an associate fellow of the Transnational Institute.
Current Events / Politics • September 20105 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade paperback
$8.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-919-4
A PAPERBACK OR IG INAL
15
© Cindy H. Rice © Hela Faik © University of San Diego
“If we hope to revive with any credibility our widely claimedcommitment to constitutional government, the rule of law, freedom,
and justice, and to provide for the common defense consistent with thoseclaims, the people who led us to torture must be held accountable.”
—Ramsey Clark, former United States attorney general
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16 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Pioneering feminist author Barbara Seaman spent the last forty
years 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
she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and
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-
dred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan
Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, 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-
orator, the young feminist health author Laura Eldridge.
BODY POLITICDispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution
Edited by Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge
17
“In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doc-tors—calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women’s
liberation began at that moment.”—Barbara Ehrenreich
BARBARA SEAMAN’s (1935–2008) first book, The Doctors’ Case Againstthe Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings, exposed the biases ofthe medical establishment regarding women’s health issues, andinspired women around the world to take control of their health.She was also the author of Free and Female (1972), Women and theCrisis in Sex Hormones (1977), Lovely Me: The Life of JacquelineSusann (1987), The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women(2003), and The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause (2008).
LAURA ELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latestbooks are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, coauthored withBarbara Seaman, and In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Con-traceptive Choices for Women.
Current Events / Health • September 20106 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 1120 pages • Trade Paperback
$29.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-844-9
© Joan Roth
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• Author Events: New York
FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUNMy Life and Times as a Weatherman
Cathy Wilkerson
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white, mid-
dle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the
Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the
1960s. CathyWilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Vil-
lage townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy of the
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-
nated in protest, which caused little loss of life but which were also
ineffective in fomenting revolution. In searching for new paradigms
for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional
honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times—
and somehow finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to
offer neither.
“Unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personalpassions that carried her to the town house [explosion].”
—The New York Times
“[A] clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account.”—Los Angeles Times
“You’ll want to plunge right into Cathy Wilkerson’s Flying Close to the Sun. Ifyou’re a ’60s survivor (as I am), you’ll know it’s the real thing.”
—Carol Brightman, Truthdig
“At times exciting and at other times reflective, Flying Close to the Sunis always captivating.”—Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch
CATHY WILKERSON was active in the civil rights movement, SDS, andtheWeather Underground. In 1970, she, along with Kathy Boudin,after surviving an explosion in the basement of her parents’ town-house that killed threeWeathermen, were forced underground. Forthe past twenty years she has worked as an educator.
Biography & Autobiography • September 20106 x 8 1/2 • 432 pages • Trade paperback$18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-925-5
19© Ann W. Olson
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Each year, as it has for the past quarter century, Project Cen-
sored lists the top twenty-five censored stories—the major
new stories that were ignored or under-reported by a mainstream
press too busy covering the latest junk food news story. Stories are
presented in depth, and the original reporters are given the oppor-
tunity to provide updates and comments on how their stories came
about.
Additionally, the project commissions articles on the hot-button
issues of the year having to do with censorship, alternative media,
international news, and other relevant topics.
• Events in Northern California andNew York City
• National radio and TV interviews
• Excerpts in AlterNet and The Huffington Post
• Promotion through the author's web site: www.pro-jectcensored.org
20 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
CENSORED 2011The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009–10
Edited by Mickey Huff,
Peter Phillips, and Project CensoredIntroduction by Kristina Borjesson • Cartoons by Khalil Bendib
“Required reading for broadcasters, journalists,and well-informed citizens.”
—Los Angeles Times
MICKEY HUFF is associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. He isthe associate director of Project Censored, with which he has been involved since 2001. Heblogs at www.mythinfo.blogspot.com and www.dailycensored.com.
PETER PHILLIPS, director of Project Censored, is associate professor of sociology at SonomaState University. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independentnewspapers nationwide. He is the 2009 recipient of the Dallas Smythe Award, presented bythe Union for Democratic Communication.
PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacyfor and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United
States. In 2008, Project Censored received thePEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for thepublication ofCensored 2009. Formore information,visit www.projectcensored.org.
Media Studies/Journalism • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 416 pages • Trade paperback
$19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-920-0
A PAPERBACK OR IG INAL
21© Steve Keller© Meg Huff
“Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledgethis collection of suppressed stories allows us.”
—San Diego Review
“For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtualroad map for the coming year's news schedule.”
—Village Voice
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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young
man 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
with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to
navigate the compromises, disillusionments, and regrets that come
with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and fiction, the forty-
two short stories in Sad Stories of the Death of Kings bring a
city—and a boy’s growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life.
• Promotion targeting fiction and online reviewers, readinggroups, and librarians
• Promotion through the author's web site:www.barrygifford.com
• Author Events: San Francisco • New York
22 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
SAD STORIES OF THE DEATHOF KINGSBarry Gifford
The author of more than forty published works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eightlanguages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories formillions of readers around the globe. His novel Wild at Heart wasmade into a film by David Lynch, which won the Palme d’Or atthe Cannes Film Festival, and his novel Perdita Durango wasmade into a feature film by Alex de la Iglesia. For more informa-tion, visit www.barrygifford.com.
Young Adult Fiction • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Paper over boardB&W illustrations throughout$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-948-4
Fiction • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 208 pages • Trade paperbackB&W illustrations throughout$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-922-4
A PAPERBACK ORIG INAL
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© Bompiani
Praise for Barry Gifford:
“A master of the vignette . . . Mr. Gifford also has a fine ear for dia-logue. . . . [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 casualgrace of anecdote. [He] makes the anecdotal monumental.”
—Jonathan Keats, San Francisco Magazine
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• Author Events: San Francisco • Los Angeles •Portland, OR • Seattle
24 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
ELEGY WRITTEN ON A CROWDED STREETPeter Plate
Ayoung black woman, Mary Anderson, is up on second-degree
murder 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
gets Mary out of jail, and that’s when her troubles with the police
begin. Peter Plate drives a poetic narrative of gentrification, con-
science, good clothes, and bad cops in a world where the only
choice is life over the proximity of death.
lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Soon theRest Will Fall, Fogtown, One Foot off the Gutter, Snitch Factory,Angels of Catastrophe, and Police and Thieves.
Fiction • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 160 pages • Trade paperback
$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-931-6
25
© Nina Glaser
“[Plate’s] San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squadcar, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
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Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfils a long-held
ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a
series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinat-
ing journey she meets her idols, including Laila Ali and Lucia Rijker
of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary
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
some of the younger stars now hoping to make it onto the first
women’s boxing team in the 2012 Olympic Games.
Written in a compelling and highly entertaining narrative style,
Mischa Merz takes us right into the ring and reports, with a rare
insider’s view, on a sport that has for centuries defined our ideas
about masculinity.
• National radio and TV
• Author tour to Los Angeles and New York City
• Promotion through the author’s web site:www.mischamerz.com
26 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
THE SWEETEST THINGInside the World of Women’s Boxing
Mischa Merz
Praise for Mischa Merz’s memoir Bruising:
“Merz makes her own body, discipline, and courage her subjects of experimentas she explores the terrors and the exhilarations of the female capacity for vio-
lence with startling honesty. You can almost smell the sweat.”—Inga Clendinnen
“The work fits (more) comfortably within the stylish nonfiction popularizedby writers such as Dava Sobel, Helen Garner and Janet Malcolm.”
—Mary Rose Liverani, The Australian
MISCHA MERZ is a journalist and author of fiction and creative non-fiction. She began training as an amateur boxer in 1995 and isthe 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League women’s welter-weight champion. Her book Bruising, about her experiences as aboxer, was published to critical acclaim by Picador Australia in2000 and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. Her journalismhas appeared in numerous publications, including The Age, theSunday Age, and the Herald Sun.
Sports / Women’s Studies • November 20105 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 304 pages • Trade paperback
$18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-928-6
A PAPERBACK OR IG INAL
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© Jess D’cruze
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With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio
explores 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-
low-up to Cunt, Rose breaks new ground in answering a
fundamental question in feminist and antiracist writing: how do
we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as individu-
als, as families, as communities, and as a country? Muscio's ability
to address dire topics with vigor and bravery allows her readers to
confront the true brutality of a violent culture, then to react pow-
erfully with righteous rage and hopeful determination.
Chilling, eye-opening, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rose offers a
fresh and exhilarating perspective on achieving empowerment and
self-possession.
• Features in Bitch, Bust, Venus Zine,and other feminist and queer magazines
• Author Events: Los Angeles • San Francisco • Boston• New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Seattle
28 SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Praise for Cunt:
“Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high fiber diets—it reinventsthe oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious.”
—Bust
“Cunt is one of the most dangerous books I ever read, ever.”—Robin D. G. Kelley
INGA MUSCIO is the author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independenceand Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil. She lives in the PacificNorthwest and lectures widely across the nation. For more infor-mation, visit www.ingalagringa.com.
Current Events/Women’s Studies • November 20105 3/4 x 7 • 256 pages • Trade paperback$17.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-926-2
A PAPERBACK OR IG INAL
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©Misty Muscio
ROSEInga Muscio
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“So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever,God forbid, I hope someone will say ‘He’s up in Heaven now.’
Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.”—from God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters ofcontemporary American letters, one without whom the very termAmerican literature would mean much less than it does. Hisbooks endure as defiant, and charming, embodiments of theheights to which the human imagination will go in search ofessential rights and freedoms. Vonnegut’s other books from SevenStories Press include the national hardcover and paperback best-seller, A Man Without a Country, and, with Lee Stringer, LikeShaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing.
Fiction • November 20105 x 8 • 80 pages • Trade paperback
$11.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-60980-073-4
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© Art Shay
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut’s in-
trepid 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,
Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and
Kilgore Trout.
What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes evolved
into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we
live for, and how much it all matters in the end.
From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces
the cover, to the last word of the last entry, God Bless You, Dr.
Kevorkian is a joy forever.
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GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIANKurt Vonnegut
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In Like Shaking Hands with God, two distinguished writers—
separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing
common goals and aspirations—talk about the place where the
lives they lead meet the art they practice. That these two writers
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-
day, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut
and Stinger took up the challenge of writing books that would
make a difference and the concomitant challenge of living from day
to day. As Vonnegut said afterward, “It was a magical evening.”
A book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing
things down can be more important than the amount of memory
in our computers.
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LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GODA Conversation about Writing
Kurt Vonnegut and Lee StringerModerated by Ross Klavan • Foreword by Dan Simon • Photographs by Art Shay
KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century Amer-ican letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much lessthan 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 ManWithout a Country.
LEE STRINGER is the author of the acclaimed Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street,which chronicled his twelve years of homelessness in New York City. A former editor andcolumnist of Street News, his is also the author of Sleepaway School: A Memoir. He is atwork on the forthcoming White People: Stories from the Suburbs.
DAN SIMON is founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press; coauthor of Run, Run, Run: TheLives of Abbie Hoffman; translator of Pascal Bonafoux’s Van Gogh: Self Portraits; and coeditorof three volumes onNelson Algren:Nonconformity;TheMan with the Golden Arm, critical edi-tion; and Entrapment and OtherWritings with Brooke Horvath.
ROSS KLAVAN is a writer and performer in New York City. His critically acclaimed originalscreenplay 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 pho-tographs have graced the covers of Life and have been in-cluded in the museum exhibits around the world.
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• National radio and TV interviews with Eric Webb
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Gary Webb was best known for his three-part series, “Dark
Alliance,” that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in August
1996. In it, Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in
Los Angeles during the Iran-Contra scandal. By October of that year
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
were later confirmed, and Webb himself vindicated two years later
by the investigation of the CIA’s inspector general and the US Senate.
His only published book, Dark Alliance, is still a classic of con-
temporary journalism. But Webb’s journalistic career consisted of
much more than this one story. The Killing Game collects the best of
his investigative stories from his beginnings at the Kentucky Post to
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
Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and
on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games.
The Killing Game, by illuminating Webb’s work outside of Dark
Alliance, is a testament to investigative journalism at its best.
THE KILLING GAMEThe Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter
Gary WebbEdited by Eric Webb • Afterword by Bob Parry
GARY WEBB (1955–2004) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist best knownfor Dark Alliance.
ERIC WEBB is Gary Webb’s youngest son. Surrounded by journalism all his life, he is now ajournalism student in Southern California.
Journalism • December 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 256 pages • Trade paperback
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Praise for Dark Alliance :
“GaryWebb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about theCIA and drug traffickers. The CIA denied the charges, and every majornewspaper in the country took the agency’s word for it. GaryWebb was
ruined.Which is a shame, because he was right.”—Charles Bowden, Esquire
“Gary Webb wrote the truth. . . . [Dark Alliance] brings to light oneof the worst official abuses of our nation’s history.”
—US Congresswoman Maxine Waters
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Gus Reppo’s parents have everything figured out for their son,
right 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
realizes it’s not going to be easy shaking off his kin, or their Man-
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-
ing hand, Gus’s world, though left a little wearier, is finally given
room to journey.
“DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition inAmerican short story writing that, by way of Hawthorne,
Melville, Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and Cheever, is essen-tially religious and, because rooted in everyday, comic. . . .
His art, then, is comedy of a very high order.”—Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review
• Author events in Missoula, MT and Olympia, WA
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MAMA’S BOYA Novel
Rick DeMarinis
Praise for Rick DeMarinis:
“However similar the existential suffering of his characters,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
“Rick DeMarinis has long been one of my favorite writers;wherever he has cast his gaze, he has taught me something new
about the way to see things.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain
RICK DEMARINIS is the author of eight novels, including The Year ofthe Zinc Penny, a New York Times Notable Book, and six shortstory collections, including Apocalypse Then and Borrowed Hearts.In 1990, he received an Academy Award for Literature from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year, Cutthroat: AJournal of the Arts awards a short story prize in his name.
Fiction • December 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback
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Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and
told 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
Africa’s national treasures, co-founder of the Market Theatre, direc-
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.
“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT ANDINCH OF ME”The Letters of Barney Simon to Lionel Abrahams
Barney Simon
“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 SouthAfrica known all over the world come from [Barney Simon’s] vision
and patient energy as director/writer.”—Nadine Gordimer
BARNEY SIMON (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 withlittle more than the conviction that culture can change society,and became recognized as one of the most influential and distin-guished theaters in South Africa and the world.
Biography & Autobiography • January 20115 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 176 pages • Cloth
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For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think
this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane
and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement
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-
ment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and
underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture
of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined
to fight for this planet—and win.
• Promotions tied to Earth Day in April
• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with theauthors’ speaking engagements
• Promotion through the authors’ web sites:www.inthewake.org (Aric McBay);www.derrickjensen.org; www.lierrekeith.com
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DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the Planet
Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen
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 recentbook is What We Leave Behind, co-written with Derrick Jensen.
LIERRE KEITH is a writer, small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the authorof two novels, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She’s beenarrested six times. She lives in Humboldt County, California.
Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, DERRICK JENSEN is authorof fifteen books, including Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, WhatWe Leave Behind, and A Lan-guage Older Than Words.
Ecology / Current Affairs • February 20116 x 9 • 592 pages • Trade paperback
$22.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-929-3
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Among today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen
such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to
Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as
Raoul Peck, whose documentary Lumumba took the world by
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
Shore, the first Haitian film ever to be screened in theaters in the
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.
• Author book and film events in New York City
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STOLEN IMAGESScreenplays and Writings
Raoul PeckTranslated by Catherine Temerson
“A filmmaker with a fine eye for people and landscapes.”—New York Times
RAOUL PECK’s feature films and documentaries explore interna-tionalist themes of inequality and offer compelling depictions ofHaiti under political duress. In addition to filmmaking, Peck hasserved as Haiti’s minister of culture. In 2001 he received theHuman Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. His mostrecent film is Moloch Tropical.
CATHERINE TEMERSON’s most recent translations include AminMaalouf ’s Origins, Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance, FlorenceNoiville’s Isaac B. Singer: A Life, and Hiner Saleem’s My Father’sRifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan.
Film / Social Science • February 20118 x 8 • 320 pages • 100 b&w plates
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Human Rights Watch, under director Kenneth Roth, leads the
struggle 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
of human rights abuses in every country from Afghanistan to Zim-
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
way forward to a more humane future.
Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the US and inter-
national press every year, World Report—collecting reports on
human rights issues from 2010—is an invaluable resource for jour-
nalists, diplomats, and citizens.
• Author event in New York City
• National drive-time radio tour
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“A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality whereemotion tends to dominate.”
—Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times (London)
“The reports of the New York–based Human Rights Watch (HRW)have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical,these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses
in the country.”—Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is the largest US-based international humanrights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curbhuman rights abuses in over seventy countries. For more infor-mation, visit www.hrw.org.
Current Affairs • February 20116 x 9 • 624 pages • Trade paperback
$25.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-921-7
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KENNETH ROTH© Human Rights Watch
WORLD REPORT 2011Human Rights Watch
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GAYLE OLSON-RAYMER is professor of history and education atHumboldt State University and a participating professor in theTeaching American History program in two California elemen-tary and high school districts. She is the author of Terrorism: AHistorical and Contemporary Perspective and Instructor’s Manualfor Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey.
Education • February 20106 x 9 • 400 pages • Trade paperback
$21.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-897-5
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Howard Zinn’s influential books have inspired students and
activists of all ages, affirming the power of the people to influ-
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 origi-
nal 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 pro-
vides insight into how to apply Voices of a People’s History of the United
States and AYoung 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.
In conjunction with the newly launched Zinn Education Proj-
ect—a collaboration between Teaching for Change and Rethinking
Schools—Olson-Raymer’s teaching guide will bring the writings of
Howard Zinn to the most critical population: our youth.
TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’SVOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORYOF THE UNITED STATES AND AYOUNG PEOPLE’S HISTORY OFTHE UNITED STATESGayle Olson-Raymer
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Renowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low inter-
vention 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
birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in Amer-
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
women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is the act
that perhaps most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctu-
ally human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how
to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a
process as old as our species.
• National drive-time radio tour
• Features in Bitch, Bust, Midwifery Today, Ms., NewYork Magazine, Salon.com, and Venus Zine
• Author Events: San Francisco • Boston • Ann Arbor, MI• New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Nashville,Memphis, and Summertown, TN • Seattle
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BIRTH MATTERSIna May Gaskin
Praise for Ina May Gaskin:
“Simply put, midwife Ina May Gaskin is the most important personin maternity care in North America, bar none.”
—Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s andChildren’s Health, World Health Organization
“There is no better guide to have at your side than the legendary Ina May!”—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, INA MAYGASKIN has practiced for nearly forty years at the internationallylauded Farm Midwifery Center. She is the only midwife for whoman obstetric maneuver has been named (Gaskin maneuver). She isthe author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth,and Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding.
Women’s Studies / Health & Fitness • March 20115 x 7 • 128 pages • Trade paperback
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Combining meticulous research and an understanding of the
real-life issues that influence birth control choices, Laura
Eldridge has crafted an accessible guide to contraception for men
and women of all ages. She not only urges her readers to consider
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.
Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method or
want to know more about your current contraceptive choices, In
Our Control will empower you to make critical decisions about your
sexual health.
“Laura Eldridge carries the torch for women’s health advocacy withthis important new book.”
—Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report
• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia •Providence, RI • Boston • Bridgeport, CT
• College tour in September 2010
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IN OUR CONTROLThe Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women
Laura EldridgeForeword by Jennifer Baumgardner
“A wonderfully engaging and accessible book that will help women tonavigate today’s contraceptive maze.”
—Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicineat McGill University, author of Devices and Desires
“Real choice requires information. . . . In Our Control is a handbook forrevolution from the inside out.”
—Holly Grigg-Spall, Bitch blog
“Wow! I couldn’t put [In Our Control] down. Reading Laura Eldridge’shistory about contraception blew my mind. We cannot allow pharmaceutical
companies to endanger women lives! This book is about to regalvanizethe women’s health revolution!”
—Betty Dodson, author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving
LAURA ELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latestbooks are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic:Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution, both authoredwith women’s health pioneer Barbara Seaman. In Our Control isher first book as a solo author.
Health & Fitness / Women’s Studies • July 20106 x 9 • 384 pages • Trade paperback
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NÉSTOR KOHAN, born in Buenos Aires in 1967, is the author of a number of Spanish-lan-guage books on Marxism, Che Guevara, and social movements in Latin America.
NAHUEL SCHERMA is an Argentinian filmmaker and documentarian. Fidel is his first book ofillustrations.
ELISE BUCHMAN worked in children’s theater for twenty years. This is her first book-lengthtranslation.
M. JONES is an illustrator and fiction writer living in Austin, Texas.
Graphic Novel / Current Affairs • June 20105 x 7 1/4 • 192 pages • Trade Paperback$14.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-782-4
Spanish-language edition:$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-783-1
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In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare
on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a dictator, some say
he is a liberator. In Fidel, Néstor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present
one of the towering figures of the twentieth-century as he is seen by
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-
trations, is the man who, inspired by decades of Latin American
Marxist thinking, fought from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra
to free his country—the man who walked the razor’s edge between
military threats by the United States and political coercion by the
Soviet Union—the man who became a leader in the revolution
against colonial governments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin
America—the man who fought, above all, to transform the con-
science of his people, spreading literacy, culture, and free medical
care to everyone on the island. Here is Fidel—the man who became
the symbol of the revolution in the New World.
FIDELNéstor KohanIllustrated by Nahuel Scherma • Translated by Elise BuchmanAdditional illustrations by M. Jones
Fidel también será publicado en español por Siete Cuentos Editorial.
Con historietas y fotos divertidas, este texto corto expone las ambiciones de Cas-tro, el líder que quiso dar rasgos creativos, inteligentes, y humanitarios a la caradel socialismo. Fidel nos muestra un hombre que no puede ser distinguido ni desu revolución, ni de su patria.
“A man of austere habits and insatiable illusions . . . incapable ofconceiving any idea that is not colossal.”
—Gabriel García Márquez, from “The Fidel I Think I Know”
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With humane wisdom and biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles
the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence running a
graphic design company and his odyssey of survival on the streets of
New York City. Whether he is writing about taking shelter under-
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-
plexity of “normal” life on the street. Gestures of human kindness,
even heroism, stand alongside acts of wanton violence and desper-
ation, creating in the end one of the most remarkable urban
memoirs of our time.
This revised paperback edition features four never-before-
published chapters, and a startling new ending.
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GRAND CENTRAL WINTERStories from the StreetExpanded 2nd Edition
Lee StringerForeword by Kurt Vonnegut
A New York Times Notable Book
A USA Today Top Ten Pick
As seen in People and USA Today and featured onCBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR
“Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born ofpain but delivered with style and heart.”
—John Jiler, New York Times Book Review
“Stringer’s crisp detail, straight no-chaser wit, and uncompromisingfrankness are as bracing as his subject is significant.”
—Booklist
LEE STRINGER lived on the streets from the early eighties until themidnineties. A former editor and columnist of Street News, hisother books include Sleepaway School: A Memoir and, with KurtVonnegut, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation AboutWriting. He is at work on the forthcoming White People: Storiesfrom the Suburbs. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.
Memoir • May 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 256 pages • Trade Paperback
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Bad Shoes & theWomenWho LoveThem is a lighthearted but highly
informed 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-
ing, the feminist critique (or celebration) of high heels, and the history
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
you’re wondering: yes, it is possible to make good footwear decisions
without sacrificing style! Tanenbaum shows you how.
“A witty, insightful, highly readable, and frankly shockingexploration of high heels that is a must-read.”
—Liz Funk, author of Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the SecretCrisis of Overachieving Girls
“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) toyour nearest bookstore and save your sole.”
—Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways, Manifesta, andAbortion & Life
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BAD SHOES & THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEMLeora TanenbaumIllustrated by Vanessa Davis
“Being dressed to kill shouldn’t mean killing your feet! It’s time to liberateourselves from the tyranny of shoes that hobble our mobility and disfigureour 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
“Someone finally gets it! . . . Please, this is necessary reading for anyperson who wishes to remain safe, comfortable, and ambulatory in
their life. Please read this book—it can save your wheels.”—Dr. Johanna S. Youner, DPM, FACFAS
LEORA TANENBAUM is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with aBad Reputation; Catfight: Rivalries Among Women; and TakingBack God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. Shelives in New York City.
VANESSA DAVIS is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Her firstbook, Spaniel Rage, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005,and her second is due out from Drawn & Quarterly in 2010.
Self-Help / Women’s Studies • May 20106 x 6 • 192 pages • Trade paperback
$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-904-0
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While we feared that al-Qaeda might destroy our world, Wall
Street 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-
sis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that
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
the black market economy, and the war on terror prompted a rise in
oil prices that led to food riots and distracted governments from the
trillion-dollar machinations ofWall Street. Consumers and taxpayers,
spurred by propaganda, accepted crushing global debt.
Napoleoni shows that if we do not face up to the many serious
connections between our response to 9/11 and the financial crisis,
we will never work our way out of the global recession that now
threatens our way of life.
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TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMYHow the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World
Loretta Napoleoni
Praise for Rogue Economics:
“Timely and fascinating, Napoleoni’s top-notch reporting, in whichher attention turns from Viagra to blood diamonds to the banana
price wars in a few pages, works in the vein of Freakonomics and EricSchlosser’s Fast Food Nation, but much grimmer.”
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Terror, Incorporated:
“A masterpiece . . . This book should be required reading for every-one in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon.”
—Greg Palast
LORETTA NAPOLEONI is the author of the bestselling book Rogue Eco-nomics: Capitalism’s New Reality, which has been translated intofourteen languages, and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the DollarsBehind the Terror Networks, which has been translated into twelvelanguages. One of the world’s leading experts on money launder-ing and terror financing, she has worked as a Londoncorrespondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Republica, ElPaís, and Le Monde.
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In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas
in 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.
The guards follow orders and keep quiet.
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
story of the systematic sexual, physical, financial, and drug-related
abuses by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers,
and the incredible courage of the author, several fellow guards, and
many brave detainees who stood up against it. With 400,000 immi-
grant detainees in US custody annually, Between the Fences is a call
to action demanding that we look inside the detention centers on
our own soil and consider how they are run.
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BETWEEN THE FENCESBefore Guantánamo, there was the Port IsabelService Processing Center
Tony Hefner
“Tony Hefner’s descriptions of human rights abuses at the Port IsabelCenter mirror the complaints that continue to emerge from thefacility—including reports from over one hundred detainees who
went on a hunger strike there in 2009.”—Catherine Tactaquin, executive director of the National Network for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights
“People who care about social justice and America’s image in theworld should read former prison guard Tony Hefner’s disturbing
account of sexual and physical abuse at Port Isabel.”—Carol M. Swain, editor of Debating Immigration
TONY HEFNER created the Bearing Precious Seed Ranch ministry insouthern Texas for local Hispanic children while employed by theINS detention camp Port Isabel. After witnessing human rightsabuses within the camp, he began a fight for justice that is stillraising awareness about the treatment of detainees in America.Tony and his wife Barbara now live in northern Michigan.
Politics • May 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 288 pages • Trade paperback
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Cynthia O’Neal was living “the good life”—married to the
famous 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
to many brilliant musicians and performers. When the AIDS epi-
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
dirty apartments: anywhere a patient needed a hug, a hand held, or
confidence boosted. And when Patrick became ill and passed away
in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead of
someone else’s, and she found her life transformed again.
An extraordinary testament to what we can achieve when people
come together with a shared purpose, Talk Softly is both one
woman’s story and a universal tale.
“[A] beautifully written memoir of a ‘noisy life,’ intricatelystructured, heartbreaking as well as joyous, and tense as athriller. With its wide cast of characters . . . it is a deeplymoving portrait of our time. I keep thinking that this is
what civilization means.”—Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient
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TALK SOFTLYA Memoir
Cynthia O’Neal
“This utterly winning book seems to sweep up the most devastating years ofthe 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 andwoman during those murderous times. . . . Nothing has escaped her gaze, and
nothing seems outside her enormous, indelible compassion.”—Mark Doty, author of the National Book Award–winning
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
“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
with me, a fine spirit to have around.”—Susan Minot, author of Rapture
CYNTHIA O’NEAL is the founder and president of Friends In Deed,a New York City crisis center that provides emotional and spiri-tual support for anyone diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, andother life-threatening illnesses. This is her first book.
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When German authorW. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the
age 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
and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of
the late author, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinch-
ing explorations of modern history, dislocation, and the role of
memory. Includes essays from Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin,
Michael Silverblatt, and others.
“The great achievement of [Sebald’s] work is that he makesit audible to his readers while still honoring the silence.”
—Evelyn Toynton, Harper’s Magazine
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THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORYConversations with W. G. Sebald
Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
“Schwartz does a fine job of evoking this elusive author.”—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
“If this interesting book of criticism and interviews introducesyou to Sebald or encourages you to return to him, it will have
served a noble purpose.”—Jerusalem Post
W. G. SEBALD was born in Germany in 1944. His novels—TheRings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have wona number of international awards, including the National BookCritics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, theBerlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He is alsothe author of three books of poems and a book-length essay. Hedied in December 2001.
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ has authored fourteen works of fiction,nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoirRuined by Reading. She won the PEN Renato Pogglioli Award forher translation from Italian of Liana Millu’s Smoke Over Birkenau.
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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
On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gif-
ford’s searing contemporary classic Wild at Heart, and of David
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
South” (Booklist).
“Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular—William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn
paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly—to forge thestealth-epic of Sailor & Lula. His accomplishment looks
more and more like one of the permanent glories of recentstorytelling, a set of crude masterpieces like Philip
Guston’s late paintings. The compression and verve on viewon every page of this compendium is as irresistible anddizzying as a dish of brandy-filled chocolates forged in
shapes of pistols, hangmen’s ropes, convertibleautomobiles, and unclad, steamy bodies, daring you
to keep gobbling them up.”—Jonathan Lethem
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SAILOR & LULAThe Complete Novels
Barry Gifford
“I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wildworld, 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
“[Sailor and Lula’s] talk comes from the hot dark of the innards,reminding us that the world is ‘wild at heart’ and that we
fear and love it that way.”—Washington Post Book World
The author of more than forty published works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that have been translated into twenty-eightlanguages, BARRY GIFFORD is one of the few contemporary Amer-ican writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around theworld. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
See page 22 for Sad Stories of the Death of Kings.
Fiction • April 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 624 pages • Trade Paperback
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In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women Inter-
national, 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
view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony.
Bearing witness to depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories
of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suf-
fering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over
the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speech-
less by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We
have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has
slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us.
“Perhaps ordinary language cannot convey adequately thehorrors of our time. Perhaps it takes a poet to reach intoher own heart and into ours, to break out of silence anddespair, to speak the unspeakable truth. Alice Walker . . .
declares, by her words and by her actions, that shewill not, that we must not, let this go on.”
—Howard Zinn
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OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESSA Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Alice Walker
“[Alice Walker] bears witness but steps in as an activist, acknowledging that asglobal citizens, ‘allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.’
Read Overcoming Speechlessness to overcome despair.”—Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace
and Global Exchange
“Few books convey such a generosity of spirit, and such a commitmentto the idea of sharing, in pain as in love. And even fewer express soeloquently the idea that a true peace can only be built on justice.“
—Saree Makdisi, author of Palestine Inside Out:An Everyday Occupation
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, ALICEWALKER is the author of more than thirty books including TheColor Purple and Sent by Earth. Her writings have been translatedinto more than two dozen languages. From her essays concerningthe civil rights movement to cries for intervention on the GazaStrip, Walker continually and eloquently calls attention to ignoredinjustices around the world.
History / Social Science • April 20105 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade Paperback
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Building on the work of the great biblical scholars of the twen-
tieth 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
of arcane parables whose meanings are obscure. In their place Ver-
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-
tutional biases that so often dictate the terms of discussion of the
historical Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth builds a bridge reaching back to
Jesus’ lifetime, and forward to the present, and from biblical schol-
ars to lay readers whose interest might be personal or political.
“With . . . a filmmaker’s eye for detail, and a healthyskepticism about biblical scholarship, Verhoeven breaksdown the gospels . . . and reassembles them into a uniqueand fascinating reconstruction of the historical Jesus.”
—Robert J. Miller, author of Born Divine
“Paul Verhoeven’s reconstruction of the life of Jesus ofNazareth reflects throughout his profound understanding ofthe ancient works that testify to Jesus’ words and deedsand the scholarly literature of the modern quest for
Jesus as a historical figure.”—W. Barnes Tatum, author of In Quest of Jesus and
Jesus at the Movies
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JESUS OF NAZARETHPaul VerhoevenTranslated by Susan Massotty
“[Verhoeven] reflect(s) an astonishing familiarity with the trends of scholarshipduring the last 150 years . . . I recommend it with the utmost enthusiasm.”
—Dr. Gerd Lüdemann, University of Göttingen, Germany
“This is no zombie Jesus . . . but a human being who breathes our air, risks,dreams, imagines, and makes mistakes.”
—Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University and fellow of the Jesus Seminar
PAUL VERHOEVEN is the only non-theologian admitted to the JesusSeminar, a group of seventy-seven eminent scholars in theology, phi-losophy, linguistics, and biblical history.Their discussions are devotedto determining what Jesus actually said and did. Verhoeven is thedirector of successful films such asTurkish Delight (1973),The FourthMan (1983), RoboCop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), StarshipTroopers(1997), and Black Book (2006).
SUSAN MASSOTTY is an award-winning translator who has translatednumerous books, including The Diary of Anne Frank, My Father’sNotebook by Kader Abdolah, All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom,Wedding by the Sea by Abdelkader Benali, and The Kreutzer Sonataby Margriet de Moor. She lives and works in the Netherlands.
Biography & Autobiography / Religion • April 20106 x 9 • 304 pages • Cloth
$23.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-905-7
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