Counterpoint/Soft Skull Spring 2014 Catalog

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Suspicion Nation
The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice
and Why We Are Doomed to Repeat It
Lisa Bloom
Many thought the election of our first African American president put
an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America
had moved into a postracial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on
the night of February 26, 2012, a black 17-year-old boy walking to a
friend’s home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink,
was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator, George
Zimmerman.
In July 2013, the trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the
public, as did his eventual acquittal.
In her provocative and landmark book, Suspicion Nation, Lisa
Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none
of this was a surprise. Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the
conditions that led to Trayvon Martin’s death and made George
Zimmerman’s acquittal by far the most likely outcome.
America today holds an unhealthy preoccupation with firearms
that has led to the expansion of gun rights to surreal extremes. America
now has not only the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the
world (almost one gun per American), but the highest rate of gun
deaths. Despite the strides America has made, fighting a bloody Civil
War to end slavery, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance,
and electing an African American president, racial inequality persists
throughout our country, in employment, housing, education, the media, and most institutions. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial
biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system. Suspicion
Nation captures a court system and a country conflicted and divided
over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.
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Of Note
• Bloom’s first book, Think, was a New York
Times bestseller
• Bloom’s television coverage of the trial and
her subsequent op-ed piece for the New York
Times gained widespread media attention
• Bloom’s insight into the Martin case and
the American legal system makes this a
landmark and definitive book
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Lisa Bloom is an award-winning journalist, legal analyst, trial attorney, and currently the
legal analyst for The Today Show and NBC News. A daily fixture on American television for the
last decade, Lisa appears regularly on CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. Bloom is also the author of the
bestselling Swagger and Think. She has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, The Today Show, Good
Morning America, and many other shows. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she runs her law
firm, the Bloom Firm.
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A provocative and
compelling examination
of race, gun laws, and
gun violence in America
through the lens of the
Trayvon Martin case
“When Trayvon Martin was first
shot, I said this could’ve been my
son. Another way of saying that is,
Trayvon Martin could have been
me 35 years ago.”
—President Barack Obama
“My message to you is please use
my story, please use my tragedy,
please use my broken heart to
say to yourself, ‘We cannot let this
happen to anybody else’s child.’”
—Sabrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother
Praise for Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass
Joblessness, and Thug Culture
“Lisa Bloom always gives it to us straight. Swagger shows parents exactly how to keep their sons on the right track when the
world our boys now inhabit so often lures them in the wrong direction. Packed with smart parenting tips that you can start using
today, Swagger is both a passionate wake-up call and a very useful handbook.” —Dr. Phil, television host and New York Times bestselling author
“Swagger is essential guidance for any parent of boys. It’s brutally honest, meticulously researched, and boldly impassioned.
It reveals a truth that is hiding in plain sight all around us, calling for our wisdom and commitment and love. I couldn’t put it
down.” —Marianne Williamson, New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love
“As the father of three sons (and six daughters), I am profoundly grateful to my friend Lisa Bloom for this timely and important
wake up call. Every parent and anyone who cares about the next generation of boys should read this book, today!”
—Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, New York Times bestselling author of 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children
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Fridays at Enrico’s
A Novel
don carpenter
FINISHED and introduced by jonathan lethem
Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists in the West. His first
novel, A Hard Rain Falling, published in 1966, has been championed
by Richard Price, and George Pelecanos called it “a masterpiece . . . the
definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our
criminal justice system.” His novel A Couple of Comedians is thought by
some the best novel about Hollywood ever written.
Carpenter was a close friend of many San Francisco writers, but
his closest friendship was with Richard Brautigan, and when Brautigan
killed himself, Carpenter tried for some time to write a biography of
his remarkable, deeply troubled friend.
He finally abandoned that in favor of writing a novel. Fridays at
Enrico’s is the story of four writers living in Northern California and
Portland during the early, heady days of the Beat scene, a time of youth
and opportunity. This story mixes the excitement of beginning with
the melancholy of ambition, often thwarted and never satisfied. Loss
of innocence is only the first price you pay.
These are people, men and women, tender with expectation, at
risk and in love. Carpenter also carefully draws a portrait of these two
remarkable places, San Francisco and Portland, in the ’50s and early
’60s, when writers and bohemians were busy creating the groundwork
for what came to be the counterculture.
The complete penultimate manuscript forgotten since the author’s death, was recently discovered, and we’re thrilled to see this
book into print.
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OF NOTE
• Jonathan Lethem, a great champion of
Don Carpenter, has taken on the task of
editing and developing this last draft into
the shape we imagine Carpenter would have
himself accomplished had he lived to see
this through. Lethem provides a wonderful
introduction to this book, to Carpenter,
and to the broad influence of his work that
resonates to this very day.
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Don Carpenter was born in Berkeley in 1932. Raised in Portland, he enlisted
in the air force and returned to the Bay Area at the end of his service. He published
10 novels during his lifetime, and he had a successful career as a screenwriter, living
for long periods in Hollywood. After years of poor health, he committed suicide in
Mill Valley in 1995.
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“He could be
hilarious, and he
could break your
heart, and he
could write about
ego and frailty as
well as anyone on
earth. I loved him
like crazy.”
—Anne Lamott,
on Don Carpenter
Excerpt from Fridays at Enrico’s
Her father, her poor old drunken father, worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and as Jaime
grew up and began to understand life, she also began to understand that her family was never going to
join the right, no matter how much she and her mother wanted them to. Her father, as it turned out, was
the wrong kind of writer.
Jaime dragged herself up the steps after Charlie let her off with a grin and a “See ya!” She did not
get over to North Beach that often. She knew North Beach was where most of the writers hung out, and
for that reason she tried to avoid it. But there was a fascination, she had to admit. Charlie was attractive,
too, but much too old for her, there were already wrinkles around the corners of his eyes. Pale eyes. Pale
brown, almost green. Nice eyes. And he wrote well, although messily and with some of the worst spelling
she had ever seen. Somehow his terrible spelling made her feel good. She was herself one of those people
who could spell.
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Here Comes the Night
The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the
Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues
Joel Selvin
Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business
of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the golden age of
rhythm and blues of the early ’60s and the harrowing, ultimately tragic
story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric
career was fueled by his pending doom. Berns was one of the great
originals; he prospered and thrived under the auspices of Atlantic
Records, a company devoted to authentic, vibrantly musical rhythm
and blues records at the forefront of the art form. His heart damaged
by rheumatic fever as a youth, Berns was not expected to live to see 21.
Although his name is little remembered today, Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era—Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ahmet
Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil Spector, Gerry Goffin
and Carole King, anyone who was anyone in New York rhythm and
blues. In seven quick years, he went from nobody to the top of the
pops—producer of monumental r&b classics, songwriter of “Twist
and Shout,” “My Girl Sloopy,” “Piece of My Heart,” and others.
His fury to succeed led Berns to use his Mafia associations to
muscle Atlantic Records out of their partnership and intimidate new
talents like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison, whom he had signed
to his record label. Berns died at age 38 from a long-expected heart
attack, just when he was seeing his grandest plans and life’s ambitions
frustrated and foiled.
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Of note
• Berns’s songs have been recorded by the
Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the
Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Otis
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• Selvin has worked in broadcast journalism
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The Music Journalism of Joel Selvin, Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, and Rock
& Roll, Free Love and High Time in the Wild West.
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“The greatest untold
story in rock and roll.”
—Rolling Stone,
on Bert Berns
Berns’s Greatest Hits
“A Little Bit of Soap” by the Jarmels
“Under the Boardwalk” by the Drifters
“Twist and Shout” by the Isley Brothers
“I Want Candy” by the Strangeloves
“Cry to Me” by Solomon Burke
“Tell Him” by the Exciters
“Cry Baby” by Garnet Mimms
“Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”
by Solomon Burke
“Hang On Sloopy” by the McCoys
“Are You Lonely for Me Baby” by Freddie Scott
“Piece of My Heart” by Erma Franklin
“Brown-Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison
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Modernist Women Poets
An Anthology
Edited by Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp
An anthology of poetry from early women modernists
The twentieth century was a time of great change, particularly in the
arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert
Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive anthology of poetry featuring the poems of Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge,
Amy Lowell, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Adelaide Crapsey,
Angelina Weld Grimké, Anne Spencer, Mina Loy, Hazel Hall,
Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, and Hildegarde
Flanner. With an introduction from Hass and Ebenkamp and detailed annotation throughout to guide the reader, this wonderful
collection of poems brings together the great female writers of the
modernist period and deconstructs the language and writing that
surfaced during that time.
Praise for Robert Hass
“[Robert] Hass has significantly broadened the role of poet laureate to
include not only his love for poetry but also his concern for literacy and
his passion for environmentalism.” —Los Angeles Times
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• Hass won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in
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to 1997 and as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001
to 2007. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and
teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
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sation with Jim Harrison and Gary Snyder, and Song of Myself, a collection
of poems by Walt Whitman. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.
The Object Parade
Dinah Lenney
An original and thoughtful collection of
interconnected essays by the bestselling author of
Bigger Than Life
This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative
premise: What if one way to understand your life was to examine the
objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do
they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell?
In recalling her experience, Dinah’s essays each begin with one
thing—real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story,
and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or
revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother,
actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and
inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the
little black dress that carries all of youth’s love and longing; the purple
scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles,
across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream.
Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic
of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of
coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of
dealing with upended notions about home and family, career, and
aging. They add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly
remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the
passage of time.
Praise for Bigger Than Life (Los Angeles Times bestseller, March 2007)
“A brilliant contribution to autobiographical, literary nonfiction; the
author takes us right into her consciousness, and re-creates thought and
feelings with passion and restraint. This book is a model of engaged and
engaging memoir-writing.” —Phillip Lopate
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American Lives Series at the University of Nebraska Press and excerpted
for the “Lives” column in The New York Times Magazine. She serves as core
faculty for the Bennington Writing Seminars and for the Rainier Writing
Workshop and in the writing program at the University of Southern
California. She has played a wide range of roles in theater and television,
on shows such as ER, Murphy Brown, Law & Order, Monk, Terminator: The
Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Sons of Anarchy. She lives in Los Angeles.
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• Lenney was Nurse Shirley on the critically
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• Lenney’s memoir, Bigger Than Life, was
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• Lenney has contributed to The New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the
Los Angeles Review of Books, among others
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Fading Hearts
on the River
A Life in High-Stakes Poker
Brooks Haxton
Centered around multimillion-dollar stakes and a series of nationally
televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story
of odds—the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds
of Congress passing a law that renders one’s online gambling income
inaccessible, the odds of drawing the right card on the turn or the river.
In this tale of fatherhood and worldly success, Haxton follows his son
Isaac’s unlikely career as a poker player, the nervous father often sitting
on the sidelines with his fingers crossed or staring at a casino monitor
while Isaac wins more in one hand of play than Haxton has earned
from all his books of poetry combined.
In this deftly crafted story, Haxton explores the propensity for
abstraction, logic, and memory all good poets and poker players share,
all the while taking readers on a rollicking tour of complex, intertwined
topics, ranging from game theory and financial strategies to medical
mysteries and lost love, to chess, Magic cards, and Texas hold ’em.
Guided by the through-line of a father’s love and admiration for his
talented son, Fading Hearts delivers a unique perspective on professional gambling and one family’s experience playing the odds.
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Of note
• The title is an idiom used by poker players;
when the player with a winning hand is
hoping that the last card turned up on the
board, the river card, will not complete his
opponent’s flush in hearts, he is said to be
“fading hearts on the river”
Praise for Fading Hearts on the River
“I was knocked out by the narrative power and polymath brilliance,
the elliptical beauty and elegance of thought inside a story with great
momentum. It’s a book about child rearing, money in absentia and in
abundance, poker, the nature of chance, the psychology of deception . . .
I can see this being a cult hit.” —Mary Karr
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Brooks Haxton
has published six collections of poems from Knopf. His
poems and prose have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review,
The New Yorker, and The Paris Review. He is the 2013 recipient of the Fellowship of
Southern Writers Hanes Award, recognizing a distinguished body of work by a poet
in midcareer. He lives with his wife and children in Syracuse and teaches at Syracuse
University.
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“Loved the book—
gave a sad groan
when I saw I was
out of pages—
hugely compelling,
kind, witty—an
utterly charming
and frank voice.”
—George Saunders
Praise for Brooks Haxton
“A poetic voice very much his own: laconic yet
intense, sceptical yet devout, rich in plangency
and in praise.” —Harold Bloom
“Extraordinary . . . strikingly original, rich,
comic, and beautiful in the use of language.”
—Walker Percy
“The best translations from Greek poetry we
have seen yet. Such juice, splendor, gall and
melancholy, sweeping over the centuries to,
simply enough, engulf and drown us in beauty.”
—Jim Harrison
Excerpt from Fading Hearts on the River
Under the floodlights on the veranda of the Atlantis Casino the chip leader leaned over the table with
face hidden behind dark glasses and shoulder-length brown hair. By the time I watched him on the video
I knew what was about to happen, because he was my son Isaac, and this had been the start of his career
in tournament play, but to see him in action, counting out chips and sliding a raise of more than forty
thousand dollars into the pot felt unreal.
In his jeans and T-shirt he still looked to me like a kid who wants his friends to let him front their
grunge band. He liked grunge. But the bloggers now were calling him the Lizard King. When I was in
high school I would have met the Devil after midnight where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog if he
let me bear that nickname. But I looked nothing like Jim Morrison. The closest I have ever come was in
late middle age when wise-ass friends said they had learned my true identity, as the love-child of James
Taylor and John Malkovich. Isaac, if you brush the hair back from his face and take off the dark glasses,
looks like me: sensitive with his guard up, brainy and ironic.
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Hop Alley
A Novel
Scott Phillips
Cottonwood (2004) was a huge step forward for the burgeoning king
of noir Scott Phillips, and his dark and gritty take on the Western
earned him praise from Michael Connelly and George Pelecanos. That
novel featured the Kansas town beginning in 1872 when it was just a
small community of run-down farms, dusty roads, and two-bit crooks.
Saloon owner and photographer Bill Ogden thought it could be more
and allied with wealthy developer Marc Leval to turn Cottonwood
into a wild boomtown. But problems followed the money and soon
Bill was confronting both the wicked family of serial killers as well as
his one-time friend Marc, having fallen into an affair with his beautiful
wife Maggie. Bill then turned up alone in San Francisco in 1890, having to face a past from which he could not run.
But what happened to him in those missing years? What happened
to Maggie, Bill, and their escape from the murderous Bender family?
Hop Alley answers all those questions as we return to the Wild
West and discover Bill Ogden, now living as Bill Sadlaw in Denver,
running a photo studio near the Chinese part of town known as Hop
Alley. Left by Maggie, Bill enjoys an erotic affair with Priscilla, a
fallen singer addicted to laudanum, who is also seeing his friend Ralph
Banbury, the editor of the local Denver Bulletin. Bill’s peaceful time
away from Cottonwood turns anything but as he must confront the
mysterious murder of his housekeeper’s brother-in-law, the increasing
instability of Priscilla as both men try to ease out of her clutches, and
an all-out riot across Hop Alley. And when the body count starts rising, Bill will soon start wishing he had never left Cottonwood at all.
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• Phillips’ New York Times Notable Book and
bestseller, The Ice Harvest, was adapted into
a feature film starring John Cusack and Billy
Bob Thornton
• The Ice Harvest won the California Book
Award in 2001, a Silver Medal for Best First
Fiction, and was a finalist for the Edgar
Awards, the Hammett Prize, and the Anthony
Award
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Adjustment, and Rake. He was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and lived for many
years in France. He now lives with his wife and daughter in St. Louis, Missouri.
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A rollicking novel
of the Wild West
that serves as
both a sequel
and a prequel to
Cottonwood
Praise for Cottonwood
“Wit and gusto . . . Scott Phillips doesn’t
really write crime stories. He writes about
criminal behaviors—how they originate,
how they transform character, how they
become part of the cultural norm and,
most incisively, how they flourish in certain
environments.” —The New York Times
“Cottonwood’s rise from frontier lawlessness to respectability sweeps along briskly, unpacking surprises at every turn . . .
Phillips’ vision adds up to an indelible portrait of a haunted town, as starkly delineated and unsparing as an antique tintype.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“In the always interesting, often surprising online January Magazine, Bill Crider talks about the general lack of respect paid to
mysteries set in the Old West. Crider . . . will probably be as delighted as I am with this third book from Scott Phillips, whose
first two novels set in 20th century Kansas were bleakly comic affairs connected by a brilliant link of shared history. There’s a
similar link in Cottonwood, but you have to wait for the epilogue to fully appreciate it. Meanwhile, you can enjoy the pleasures
of Phillips’ unique and pungent prose, as well as his skill and daring in moving us through a landscape that at first glance might
seem to have been well-covered . . . . However, it’s not Phillips’ thoughtful, exciting plotting but rather his amazing ear for the
sad sounds behind the words of his people that make his novels so exceptional.” —Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
“Scott Phillips is dark, dangerous, and important. Cottonwood is crime fiction at its best.” —Michael Connelly
“Cottonwood is an adventurous, bawdy, and genre-bending epic. Scott Phillips cements his reputation as a fearless, ambitious
writer who never makes a false move.” —George Pelecanos
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“Wayne Ogden is a prince of a fellow, as long as you judge this bad-boy
protagonist of Scott Phillips’s caustic crime novel . . . according to his
own perverse code of ethics.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“What draws us to the book is Phillips’ taut and vicious vision, so clean
we cannot help but inhabit it, even when we find ourselves repelled.”
—Los Angeles Times
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Minding the Earth,
Mending the World
Zen and the Art of Planetary Crisis
Susan Murphy
A brilliant rethinking of the crisis we face, radically
reimagining the ways humanity might become the
solution, rather than the problem
TRADE PAPER ORIGINAL
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi founded the San Francisco Zen Center in
1962, and after 50 years we have seen a fine group of Zen masters
trained in the West take up the mantle and extend the practice of Zen
in ways that might have been hard to imagine in those first early years.
Susan Murphy, one of Robert Aitken’s students and dharma heirs, is
one of the finest in this group of young Zen teachers. She is also a
wonderful writer, and following on the teaching of her Roshi, she has
engaged her spiritual work in the ordinary world, dealing with the
practice of daily life and with the struggles of all beings.
We know that our earth is in crisis, but is the situation beyond
repair? Are we on a path of planetary disaster where the only proper
response is to prepare for our melancholic dystopian future? Is there a
way out of our suspicious cynicism?
In the tradition of Thomas Berry, using this spiritual opportunity
to challenge the very nature of our crisis, Minding the Earth, Mending
the World offers a profound message, subtly presented with clarity and
assurance, showing that engaged Buddhism provides a possible path
to necessary repair and healing.
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a filmmaker and producer. Her first book was Upside-Down Zen: Finding
the Marvelous in the Ordinary. She was authorized to teach by Robert Aitken
Roshi of the Diamond Sangha branch of the Harada-Yasutani lineage.
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The Extraordinary Life of
Rebecca West
A Biography
Lorna Gibb
The definitive biography of one of the great British
literary figures of the twentieth century
Rebecca West was a leading figure in the twentieth-century literary
scene. A passionate suffragist, socialist, fiercely intelligent, Rebecca
West began her career as a writer with articles in The Freewoman
and the Clarion. Her first book, a biography of Henry James, was
published when she was only 24, and her first novel followed just
two years later. She had a notorious affair with H. G. Wells, and their
illegitimate son, Anthony, was born at the beginning of the First
World War.
The author of several novels, she is perhaps best remembered for
her classic account of prewar Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
(published by Macmillan in 1941 and as relevant today as it was 60
years ago) and for her coverage of the Nuremberg Trials. When she
died in 1983 at the age of 90, William Shawn, then editor in chief
of The New Yorker, said: “Rebecca West was one of the giants and
will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century
wrote more dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more intelligently.”
Formidably talented, West was a towering figure in the British literary landscape. Lorna Gibb’s vivid and insightful biography affords a
dazzling insight into her life and work.
Praise for the UK edition of West’s World
“[I]t presents with discerning succinctness, a sharply etched portrait of a
true original . . . Cissie Fairfield remained alive and well inside her alter
ego, to judge from Lorna Gibb’s brisk and affectionate biography.”
—The Sunday Times
“[I]n this calm, well researched biography she does an excellent job of
reminding us why West was so ahead of her time.” —The Mail
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Of note
• Gibbs won the Granta Memoir Prize in 2013
for West’s World
• While writing this book, Gibbs stayed with
Oscar Wilde’s grandson, who shared his
father’s letters to Rebecca West with her
REMAINING RIGHTS: macmillan UK
Lorna Gibb holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. She is
currently visiting research fellow in history at University of Essex. She lives
in London. Her biography of Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Hester, was published to great acclaim in 2005.
© Alan Wesselson
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Distant Neighbors
Selected Letters from
Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry
edited by Chad Wriglesworth
In 1969 Gary Snyder returned from a long residence in Japan to
Northern California, to a homestead in the Sierra Foothills where
he intended to build a house and settle on the land with his wife and
young sons. He had just published his first book of essays, Earth House
Hold. A few years before, after a long absence, Wendell Berry left New
York City to return to land near his grandfather’s farm in Port Royal,
Kentucky, where he built a small studio and lived there with his wife as
they restored an old house on their newly acquired homestead. In 1969
Berry had just published The Long-Legged House. These two founding
members of the counterculture and of the new environmental movement had yet to meet, but they knew each other’s work, and soon they
began a correspondence. Neither man could have imagined the impact
their work would have on American political and literary culture, nor
could they have appreciated the impact they would have on one another.
Snyder had thrown over all vestiges of Christianity in favor of
becoming a devoted Buddhist and Zen practitioner and had lived
in Japan for a prolonged period to develop this practice. Berry’s discomfort with the Christianity of his native land caused him to become something of a renegade Christian, troubled by the church and
organized religion, but grounded in its vocabulary and its narrative.
Religion and spirituality seemed like a natural topic for the two men
to discuss, and discuss they did. They exchanged more than 240 letters
from 1973 to 2013, remarkable letters of insight and argument.
No one can be unaffected by the complexity of their relationship,
the subtlety of their arguments, and the grace of their friendship. This
is a book for the ages.
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Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest
History, Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
Literature and Theology
• Author events in and around Waterloo,
Ontario
Of note
• These letters chronicle more than 40 years
of friendship between Berry and Snyder,
encapsulating not only history, but also a
cultural and literary movement
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Wendell Berry lives and works with his wife, Tanya Berry,
on their hillside farm in Kentucky.
Gary Snyder still lives on his homestead in the Sierra
Foothills and is a neighbor and community activist in the Yuba
River Watershed.
Chad Wriglesworth is assistant professor of English at
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© Guy Mendes
Photo courtesy of San Simeon Films
St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo.
“To search for what
belongs where it is, for
what, scattered, might
come together . . . ”
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Stars Go Blue
A Novel
Laura Pritchett
Laura Pritchett is an award-winning author who is quickly becoming
one of the West’s defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble
ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura’s debut collection of short
stories Hell’s Bottom, Colorado and now in Stars Go Blue. They are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling
ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben’s
struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He is just on the cusp of dementia,
able to recognize he is sick but unable to do anything about it—the
notes he leaves in his pockets and around the house to remind him of
himself, his family, and his responsibilities are no longer as helpful as
they used to be. Watching his estranged wife forced into caretaking
and brought to her breaking point, Ben decides to leave his life with
whatever dignity and grace remains.
As Ben makes his decision, a new horrible truth comes to light: Ray,
the abusive husband of their late daughter, is being released from prison
early. This opens old wounds in Ben, his wife, his surviving daughter, and
four grandchildren. Branded with a need for justice, Ben must act before
his mind leaves him and sets off during a brutal snowstorm to confront
the man who murdered his daughter. Renny, realizing he is missing, sets
off to either stop or witness her husband’s act of vengeance.
Stars Go Blue is a triumphant novel of the American family, buffered
by the workings of a ranch and the music offered by the landscape and animal life upon it. With an unflinching look into the world of Alzheimer’s,
both from the point of view of the afflicted and the caregiver, the novel
offers a story of remarkable bravery and enduring devotion, proving that
the end of life does not mean the end of love.
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• Hell’s Bottom, Colorado won the Milkweed
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Laura Pritchett is the author of Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which received the
Milkweed National Fiction Prize and a PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. For Sky
Bridge, she received the WILLA Literary Award and was a finalist for the Colorado
Book Award. Pritchett lives with her family in the foothills of northern Colorado.
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© Janet Freeman
The compelling new
novel by the author of
Hell’s Bottom, Colorado
Advance Praise for Stars Go Blue
“Laura Pritchett’s is a fine new voice, fully her
own, with wise sensibilities. The deep territory
mapped here in the triangular boundary
between regret and endurance and hope is well
illuminated and finely wrought.”
—Rick Bass, author of The Sky, the Stars, the
Wilderness
“Stars Go Blue manages to be both warm-hearted
and violent at once—a complex deeply-imagined
family tale which finds unexpected gifts at its
conclusion. Laura Pritchett is a writer who
knows country life on the Rocky Mountain
Front Range thoroughly and she conveys this
physical world expertly, beautifully out of her
long experience. Within this specific place her
clear depiction of character and suspenseful
delivery of story compel us to the last exact
word.”
—Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong and Eventide
Excerpt from Stars Go Blue
She’s going to try. She wants to say something about a new important thought she has had. How spirits
go up, toward the sky, but souls go down, toward the earth and toward water. Water runs down because
the earth pulls it that way. The soul wants to go down, too, and grow roots, run like a river. And that
maybe death is like water running backwards. Could that be? That at death, you let go of the roots, and
instead let the spirit take over, and let you into the sky?
She wonders, for the both of them, if they’ll be brave enough to face it. They’ll have no choice, of
course, but it would be nice to know they could face it well.
But how can she put words to that?
She can feel the heat from the truck blasting on her feet. It feels like her feet are touching hell. She
needs to find some sky, some kindness, some love. And she better do it fast.
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Precious Cargo
How Foods from the Americas
Changed the World
Dave Dewitt
Precious Cargo tells the fascinating story of how Western Hemisphere
foods conquered the globe and not only saved it from mass starvation,
but greatly evolved culinary arts as well. Focusing heavily on American
foods—specifically the lowly crops that became commodities, plus one
gobbling protein source, the turkey—DeWitt describes how these foreign and often suspect temptations were transported around the world,
transforming cuisines and the very fabric of life on the planet.
Organized thematically by foodstuff, Precious Cargo delves into
the botany, zoology, and anthropology connected to New World foods,
often uncovering those surprising individuals who were responsible
for their spread and influence, including traders, brutish conquerors, a
Scottish millionaire obsessed with a single fruit, and a British lord and
colonial governor with a passion for peppers, to name a few.
Precious Cargo is a must read for foodies and historians alike.
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Of note
• This book was inspired by the culinary history
of the chili pepper
• DeWitt has produced the National Fiery
Foods & Barbecue Show in Albuquerque, NM,
for the past 25 years
• Four color illustrations throughout
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Dave Dewitt
is the author or coauthor of 45 books and has been an editor of
food magazines for 20 years. He is a nationally known proponent of chili peppers and
spicy foods and the founding producer of the major trade and consumer show for the
industry, the National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show, now in its twenty-fifth year.
He lives in New Mexico.
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© Sergio Salvador
A bestselling
food author,
horticulturalist, and
food-show impresario
tells the story of
New World foods
Praise for Dave DeWitt
“David DeWitt’s The Founding Foodies is that rare work
of historical writing—scholarly, immediately useful,
and great fun.”
—Alan Pell Crawford, author of Twilight at Monticello
Excerpt from Precious Cargo
At least Columbus knew his beans. He was the first European to notice that the natives of the New World
“have beans of kinds very different from ours.” Yet the similarity of New World beans to the beans of the
rest of the world, like fava beans, chick peas, lupines, and lentils initially baffled the herbalists. Historian
Lawrence Kaplan noted, “Had herbalists and botanical authors of the succeeding three centuries taken
account of Columbus’ recognition that these New World legumes were different from those of Europe, some
of the confusion might have been avoided. . . .”
Except for the turkey’s popularity in France, Italy, and England, American meats played no roles in
world food history and except for maize, other New World grains and nuts had little impact around the world
either. The only American nut that factors into other cuisines is the cashew, a popular ingredient in Indian,
Thai, and Chinese cooking. The Chinese love our unique pecans, and China is the number one importer of
them. But they’ve been planting tens of thousands of pecan trees in the past few years since the unshelled nuts
became a fad—their resemblance to eggs has some sort of symbolic meaning. Once those trees start producing, after eight years of growth, prices will fall precipitously in the United States. This sort of agricultural cycle
has been repeated endlessly.
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Young Ovid
A Life Recreated
Diane Middlebrook
Introduction by Maurice Biriotti, Afterword by Carl Djerassi
“There is almost no documentation of Ovid’s life
outside his poetry. The evidence inside his poetry is
all we have to go on.”
young
ovid
a life
recreated
diane
middlebrook
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Of Note
• This is an expert blend of biography and
history, sure to be a contender for major
literary awards
After writing two extremely well received biographies—the first
about Anne Sexton and the second about poets Ted Hughes and
Sylvia Plath—world-renowned scholar Diane Middlebrook undertook a study of Ovid’s work for her final project. Though he has been
dead for more than 2,000 years and left no personal records—not
even the name of his mother—Ovid’s poetry endures. Middlebrook
was convinced that her intimate knowledge of Ovid’s poetry and the
approach she used in Her Husband (winner of the Prix du Meilleur
Livre Étranger), combined with a deep immersion into the Rome of
Ovid’s time, would enable her to write what could, without bragging,
be called an Ovidian biography.
However, severe health issues interfered with Middlebrook’s
work, and she was ultimately unable to complete this ambitious project before her death in 2007. She left behind an extraordinary look at
the conditions and customs to which Ovid was exposed as a young
Roman, as well as an acute interpretation of his family and personal
life, gleaned from close readings of his poetry and letters from exile.
Middlebrook’s portrayal of Ovid is certain to be read for years to come.
Praise for Anne Sexton: A Biography
“A wonderful book, just, balanced, insightful, complex in its sympathies
and in its judgment of Sexton both as a person and as a writer . . . a deeply
moving account.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Judicious and canny. [Middlebrook] appreciates both Sexton’s gifts
as a poet and her attractive side as a human being . . . but looks at her
destructive weaknesses with a steady eye.” —Time
“Sympathetic but resolutely unsentimental . . . intelligent, sensitive, at times
harrowing.” —Joyce Carol Oates, Washington Post Book World
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Diane Middlebrook was an American biographer, poet, and
teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University.
She is best known for New York Times bestseller Anne Sexton: A Biography,
the critically acclaimed Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, A Marriage, and
Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton.
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© Jerry Bauer/Viking
The Bride Stripped Bare by
Her Bachelors, Even
A Novel
Chris F. Westbury
“Living is more a question of what one spends than
what one makes.” —Marcel Duchamp
This is a wonderful comic novel about philosophy, the nature of art,
the beauty of the ordinary, and quirky victims of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Charming, overanxious, germophobic friends Isaac and
Greg take a road trip from Boston to Philadelphia. They are both obsessed with Marcel Duchamp, his art and his ideas, and thus the destination has to be the largest collection of Duchamp in the world, the
Philadelphia Art Museum, the actual place “The Bride Stripped Bare
by Her Bachelors, Even” was to be delivered when it was cracked and
broken in shipment. The piece is sometimes known as “The Large
Glass,” and today it sits in the middle of a large gallery proudly displayed in its broken state, which Duchamp repaired and then certified
had been his intention all along.
The two men make their journey in a rented disinfected
Winnebago driven by Kelly, a beautiful art scholar who smells like a
mixture of lemons and fresh sawdust. Every action has its own suitable reaction, and then some. Isaac hopes eventually to overcome his
devotion to his many obsessions and to reenter the world, evidently
his version of the real world. He is not an unreliable narrator, he is a
hyperreliable narrator; consumed by his own attention and thrilled
with the connections he sees everywhere all at once.
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• This novel is named after “The Bride Stripped
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Duchamp, 1923
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Chris F. Westbury is a cognitive neuropsychologist at the University
of Alberta in Edmonton. His work focuses on understanding the functional
structure of language processing and the neurological underpinnings of
psychotherapy. This is his first novel.
© Zoe Nicoladis
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No Man’s War
Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
Angela Ricketts
Raised as an army brat, Angela—Angie—Ricketts thought she knew
what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin—then an infantry lieutenant—on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since then,
Darrin, now a colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four of
those tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts has lived every one
of those deployments intimately—distant enough to survive the years
spent apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common
purpose and a lifestyle they both love.
With humor, candor, and a brazen attitude, Ricketts pulls back
the curtain on a subculture many readers know, but few will ever experience. Counter to the dramatized snapshot seen on Lifetime’s Army
Wives, Ricketts digs into the personalities and posturing that officers’
wives must survive daily—whether navigating a social event at the
base, suffering through a husband’s prolonged deployment, or reacting
to a close friend’s death in combat.
At its core, No Man’s War is a story of sisterhood and survival. As
Ricketts states: “We tread those treacherous waters together. Do we
sometimes shove each other’s heads under water for a few seconds?
Maybe even on purpose? Of course. Are we sometimes dragged underwater ourselves by the undertow created by all of us struggling together
too closely? Without a doubt. But we never let each other drown. Our
buoyancy is our survival.”
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Of note
• Ricketts has been part of a military family
her entire life, first as an “army brat” and now
as an “army wife”
• Ricketts was featured in a documentary by
Meg Prior entitled Outside the Wire,
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Angela Ricketts holds a master’s degree in social psychology/human relations
and an undergraduate degree in sociology. She worked part-time for the American
Red Cross in Germany in the 1990s, but since then she has used her formal education
to navigate the politics and personalities that come with being an officer’s wife. Her
husband remains on active duty but transitioned to Homeland Defense in 2012. She
lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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© Katrine Johnson of KJ Wanderlust
I’ve never seen
combat but I’ve
lived every step of
war. Senior Army
wives of combat
infantry officers
like me eat it,
breathe it, and live
it as if we were the
ones fighting.
Excerpt from No Man’s War
I’m a fresh start girl. Today is Day One. Today we start counting down the days, 455 to go. I walk into
the bathroom and stare at his sink with his few “personal hygiene” things neatly lined up. If I had to look
at that tube of deodorant for fifteen months, pick it up to dust under it, I would surely lose my mind. No.
My way is better. Fresh. I feel limp. Everything is gray. I decide to lie down before I start my ritual. The
bed smells like him and it does not comfort me. I want that smell gone. It’s going to be fifteen months
and I won’t be one of those women sleeping with some old t-shirt, clinging to his long faded scent.
Part of my deployment ritual is to remove his daily things right away. It’s easier for me. I compartmentalize his crap, and I compartmentalize my emotions. That ugly faux leather recliner of his. I want
this done before the kids return, so I drag it out to the garage. It does not come willingly; it fights me
the whole way. It slams one of my toes, bringing a new round of tears and anger to my face. The chair
refuses to comply, but I won’t let it stop me. Eventually it ends in the garage, pissed at me and defeated,
but satisfied at having the last word by leaving a huge gouge in the new hardwood floors. That will be my
one constant reminder of this day for the next fifteen months.
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The Hour of Lead
A Novel
Bruce Holbert
Lonesome Animals was named a Best Book of 2012 by both The Seattle
Times and Slate, a literary debut sparking with beautiful language set
against the rugged landscape of 1920s Washington State. Holbert
returns with The Hour of Lead, an epic family novel and coming-ofage story that is once again imbued with the mythology of the West.
After losing both his twin and his father in a brutal, unexpected
snowstorm, Matt Lawson must take over the family ranch. As his
mother disappears into grief, Matt learns the hardest lesson the West
has to teach: He is on his own. The necessity of work stabilizes young
Matt against the pitfalls of first love with Wendy, the daughter of a
local grocer, and their ragged end will send Matt on a journey across
the county, leaving Wendy to tend the ranch with local schoolteacher
Linda Jefferson and her unwieldy son Lucky. It will take decades for
Matt to learn his way back home, and that long journey will have great
impact on all those around him.
Invoking the same beautiful landscape and language of his critically acclaimed debut, The Hour of Lead is a wider, more expansive
novel, less violent but just as affecting, another important contribution
to the literature of the West.
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Of note
• Holbert’s debut, Lonesome Animals, was
widely reviewed with much acclaim
• Lonesome Animals was a finalist for the Spur
Award, Best Western Short Novel; House of
Crime and Mystery shortlist/Best U.S. crime
novel; Slate Best Novels 2012; Seattle Times
Best Mysteries 2012; Track of the Cat Best
Western Novel 2012; Finalist Spotted Owl
Award 2012; and Seattle Mystery Bookshop
Best of 2012 selection
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Bruce Holbert is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Other Voices, The Antioch
Review, Crab Creek Review, West Wind Review, Cairn, and The New York Times. Bruce
Holbert grew up on the Columbia River in the shadow of the Grand Coulee and a
stone’s throw from the Okanagan Mountains. His great-grandfather was an Indian
scout and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee.
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The author of the
critically acclaimed
Lonesome Animals
returns with an
epic coming-of-age
story imbued with
the mythology of
the west
Praise for Lonesome Animals
Seattle Times list of Best Mysteries 2012
Slate Magazine Best Books 2012
Finalist for the Spur Award for Fiction
“Like much of Larry McMurtry’s work, which it resembles in some ways, Lonesome Animals is both a powerful story and an
elegy for a disappearing era. The writing is nearly biblical in its stateliness, shot through with compressed, poetic description
and its main figure’s sense of righteousness . . . a brilliant and utterly compelling debut.” —The Seattle Times
“Lonesome Animals is dark, beautiful, compelling, strange, vivid; part Western, part detective story, altogether brilliant. With
the authority of myth, it is a book obsessed with justice and history, and its two main characters—the retired lawman Russell
Strawl and his prophet son Elijah—are as harrowing and moving a marriage as I have read in years. It’s an incredible book by
an incredible author. It will break your heart and leave you gasping.” —Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant’s House “Lonesome Animals is exhilarating. The dialogue will blow your hair back, the description of land is prose poetry, and the
violence is shocking for its intensity and sudden occurrence. This is a study of morality in a world that has lost its morals, a
work that transcends its epic story of good versus evil. No character is spared and neither is the reader. Bruce Holbert’s fierce
novel will enter the canon as a classic.” —Chris Offutt, author of Kentucky Straight “Lonesome Animals is an impure marvel. This cowboy noir is loaded with lyrical detail, black humor, and a kind of antic
despair. At its center is the compromised lawman Russell Strawl, a pilgrim making slow progress through the blasted ruins
of Western myth. He turns violence into a kind of brutal music and provides the weary, stubborn heart of this astonishing
debut.” —Max Phillips, Shamus-winning author of Fade to Blonde
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Generation
A Story of Dope, Death, and
America’s Opiate Crisis
Erin Marie Daly
What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter
our family? When did we first begin losing Pat?
These are the harrowing questions that plagued Erin Marie Daly
after her youngest brother, Pat, an OxyContin addict, was found dead
of a heroin overdose at the age of 20. In just a few short years, the powerful prescription painkiller had transformed him from a fun-loving
ball of energy to a heroin addict so hell-bent on getting his next fix that
he was willing to lie, steal, and hurt everyone he loved. Yet even as Pat’s
addiction destroyed his external life, his internal struggle with opiates
was far more heart wrenching. Erin set out on a painful personal journey to learn what had really happened to her little brother; as a journalist, she was startled to discover a new twist to the ongoing prescription
drug epidemic. That kids are hooked on prescription drugs is nothing
new; what is new is the rising number of young heroin junkies whose
addiction began with pills in suburban bedrooms, and how a generation of young people playing around with today’s increasingly powerful
opioids are finding themselves in the frightening grip of heroin.
While many books have tackled the topic of Big Pharma, drug
addiction, and our increasingly overmedicated society, Generation Rx
offers an entirely new look at what the prescription pill epidemic
means for today’s youth and the world around them.
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• Promotion through the author’s websites:
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Of note
• Daly’s website Oxy Watchdog has elicited
more than 1 million unique views
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Erin Marie Daly was a senior reporter for Law360, a New York City–based legal
newswire where she covered the pharmaceutical industry and product liability litigation for the past five years. In 2007, she was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award
for Outstanding Digital Journalism. Daly has also reported in countries such as India,
Bosnia, and Russia. She holds an MA in cultural reporting and criticism from New
York University. Her feature writing has appeared in a myriad of publications.
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© Sarah Deragon
A personal
investigation into
the connection
between OxyContin
and heroin abuse
Excerpt from Generation
I met George in the summer of 2010 after reading about his story in a newspaper. I had traveled across
the country from California with a story of my own: my youngest brother, Pat, was also addicted to
OxyContin and died of a heroin overdose in February 2009, just six months shy of his twenty-first birthday. I was seeking answers, both as a sister, and on a broader scale as a journalist. Shortly after Pat’s death,
I had started researching prescription painkiller addiction, and had started blogging about my findings.
Privately, I had also begun researching my brother’s life, trying to piece together his downfall.
Pat was my baby. Mostly because I was ten years old when he was born, and so he was the perfect
addition to the pretend scenarios for which I had already bossily recruited my other younger brother and
sister. But also because like a baby, he was incontrovertibly lovable. Even as he grew older—even as he
fell into painkiller and heroin addiction—he could charm anyone with his laugh and gaping grin. He told
silly jokes and poured sugar on everything and did ollies on his skateboard and played the guitar while
wearing my sister’s leopard-printed slippers, which he sported with a proud indifference. He was goofy
and sweet and random and endearing. He was the kind of person you always wanted to be around.
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Poison Blossoms from
a Thicket of Thorn
Hakuin Zenji
translated by Norman Waddell
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
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Hakuin Ekaku Zenji (1686–1769) was one of the greatest Zen masters to ever live. In addition to being the author of the most famous
koan ever written, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” he is
credited with reviving the Rinzai sect of Zen in Japan, perhaps the
most important and most rigorous branch in the Golden Age of
Buddhism. His “Song of Zazen” is chanted in monasteries daily all
over the world. Hakuin taught that there are three essentials to Zen
practice: Great Faith, Great Doubt, and Great Resolve. Only Dogen
comes close to matching the power and breadth of his writing and
teaching.
Norman Waddell has spent his life reading and commenting on
the vast work of Hakuin. He has published several previous selections, all leading to his work on this major, monumental gathering,
the Keiso Dokuzui, never before translated into any foreign language.
Translating sacred texts requires years of practice and intimate familiarity with the material in its original language, as well as complete
mastery of the available commentary. There’s no one alive better capable of handling this important and difficult offering.
For this collection, Hakuin gathered more than 200 individual
pieces, consisting of commentaries, memorials, poems, koans, and
teisho (lectures). They were offered to the many students living
around his temple as well as to the countless lay followers around the
country, and Hakuin spent his life offering these teachings together
with his own commentary. The result is an organic, growing collection of understanding and advice, certain to engage Zen students as
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Hakuin Zenji was born in Hara, Japan, on January 18, 1686. He began monastic studies as a teenager, studied with the great master Shoju Rojin, and developed his own teaching with Torei Enji, his first dharma heir. An enormously popular teacher during his lifetime, he died one day shy of his eighty-fourth birthday,
in Hara where he had begun, and is said to have left more than 90 dharma heirs.
Norman Waddell was born in Washington, DC, in 1940. He has pub30
lished more than a dozen books and is considered one of the finest translators of
Japanese sacred texts of our time.
Prague Summer
A Novel
jeffrey condran
A riveting tale of expatriatism and espionage
Stefanie and Henry are Americans living in Prague; she works for the
State Department, he is a rare books dealer. They live the life of a
comfortably married couple—morning coffee at the same café every
day, social events with the same small group of friends, a little too
much to drink in the evenings, and a single episode of Poirot every
night before bed. Until one day their world is turned upside down by
the arrival from the States of Stefanie’s old friend, Selma Al-Khateeb,
whose husband has been mysteriously arrested and indefinitely imprisoned. At first it appears that Selma has come to escape her problems, but soon her reasons for coming to Prague grow sinister and
murky. Stefanie and Henry’s placid existence is upended in ways they
couldn’t have imagined.
Excerpt from Prague Summer
“Maybe I don’t care what you believe,” she says. “I just need
your help.”
Ah, my help. Selma has mentioned in at least one email
that while she’s here she wants to see literary Prague. This is
about the only thing I’ve been allowed to know. She wants
to see the house where Kafka lived, the Café Slavia where
all the sixties writers and intellectuals drank their coffee and
slivovitz, and perhaps even make a foray or two into the contemporary scene. Selma’s bachelor’s degree was in English
Literature, so as they say, she has an interest. And I suppose
this is what I had in mind when I said that we should find
something for her to do.
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• Condran was nominated for a Pushcart
(2012) and received the Sewanee Writers’
Conference Georges and Anne Borchardt
Scholarship in Fiction, and an Adele Schiff
Prize Honorable Mention by The Cincinnati
Review
Jeffrey Condran is the author of the forthcoming story collection
from Press 53, A Fingerprint Repeated. His work has been honored with
several awards, including The Missouri Review’s 2010 William Peden Prize
and Pushcart Prize nominations.
© Maria Boada
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Pitiful Criminals
Greg bottoms
drawings by W. david powell
“Bottoms makes a sincere attempt to infuse his
accounts . . . with empathy and understanding.”
—Library Journal
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• Swallowing the Past was long-listed for the
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• Bottoms has contributed to Bookforum,
Killing the Buddha, Salon, and Oxford
American
When Greg Bottoms runs into an old friend from high school, neither man is sure if it’s worth starting their first conversation in more
than a decade. As teens, they had run with a rough crowd—standard
hooligans, in Bottoms’s mind, until his friend became cruel in his
violence, exhibiting “pure, gleeful meanness.” Years later, as they cross
paths at an ATM in their hometown, the friend can’t believe Bottoms
went to college—grad school—and is a writing professor with a wife
and kids. The friend has been in and out of prison for drugs and
drunken brawls and has a son with a black eye waiting in his truck.
Such is the juxtaposition between Bottoms and many of his
childhood acquaintances. In a Southern town with starkly drawn
class lines, crime was not uncommon. What Bottoms finds, though,
is not so much a matter of social standing or economic opportunity,
but the tragedy of untreated mental illness and its often deadly impact on anyone near the afflicted. Pitiful Criminals takes a fictionalized close look at the author’s hometown, examining 12 cases of
violence committed by those who were too young, too intoxicated,
or too mentally unstable to truly know any better. Bookending these
pieces is the story of Bottoms’s own brother, who, in a spiraling
schizophrenic episode, set fire to the house with his sleeping family inside, convinced the home would be purged of his demons if he
could just burn them out.
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“Economics, semantics and sociology percolate through Greg Bottoms’
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Greg Bottoms is the author of a memoir, Angelhead: My Brother’s
Descent into Madness; two books of narrative essays about American selftaught religious artists, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art ;
and Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith;
and three genre-blurring collections of autobiographical short prose,
Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks, Fight Scenes, and Swallowing the Past.
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soft skull
Cocaína
A Book on Those Who Make It
Magnus Linton
Translated by john eason
When Pablo Escobar, Colombia’s “King of Cocaine,” was killed, the
world thought—or hoped—the cocaine industry would crumble. But
10 years later the country’s production had almost quadrupled, and
since 2001, Colombia has produced more than 60 percent of all the
cocaine consumed in the world.
Cocaine is both a curse and a salvation for Colombians. Farmers
grow coca for cash but fear discovery. Families must cooperate with
drug-funded guerrillas or go on the run. Destitute teens become
trained killers for a quick buck in a ruthless underworld where few
survive for long.
At the same time, tension grows between Colombia’s right-wing
government and its socialist neighbors in Latin America. With the
failed US War on Drugs playing into this geopolitical brew, the future
of cocaine is about more than what happens to street dealers and their
customers.
Based on three years of research and more than 100 interviews
with growers, traffickers, assassins, refugees, police, politicians, and
drug tourists, Cocaína is a brilliant work of journalism and an insight
into one of the world’s most troubling industries.
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Of note
• Published to wide acclaim in Sweden and has
been translated into five languages
• Beautifully blends travelogue with a portrait
of the cocaine industry
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Magnus Linton is
a Swedish writer and the author of several praised nonfiction books on controversial topics in postmodern society.
John Eason is an American translator and educator based in Stockholm. He
holds a PhD in Scandinavian studies from the University of Wisconsin, where he has
taught Scandinavian literature and Swedish. John has also been a guest lecturer at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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© Alfonso Jaramillo
Breathtaking
investigative
journalism from the
front lines of the
cocaine trade
Excerpt from Cocaína
On the evening of 18 August 1989,
I was in a taxi in Bogotá, on the way
to meet a friend. The car was cruising down the colonial quarter, dodging potholes, but it was not until the
headlights swept across the road as we
crossed Avenida Jiménez that I was able
to get a good look, and I realized the
city center was dead. No one was hanging out by the statue in the park; no
one but los gamines, street kids, sitting
around like lifeless shadows with their
noses stuck in bags, inhaling glue in an
effort to numb their bodies against the
impending cold of the night.
“¡Mataron a Galán! Galán’s been murdered,” said the driver.
Luis Carlos Galán was a liberal left-wing politician running for president in the upcoming 1990
election, and he had been the clear frontrunner. He had promised to reform Colombia’s backward landownership structure, but first and foremost he had attacked the way the elite was protecting a man who
would go down in history as one of the most bloodstained mobsters of all times: the “King of Cocaine,”
Pablo Escobar Gaviria.
We continued across the city. I wanted to keep talking about the murder, but the driver just shrugged
his shoulders and dropped his head in what I would later recognize as a very common Colombian gesture. At the same time he uttered two words, a phrase that I would one day come to understand as a
verbal accompaniment to the gesture. When poor Colombians say lo mataron—literally “they murdered
him,” but meant more in the sense of “he was murdered” so as to avoid the agent—they make a dismissive gesture in which the neck muscles relax, causing the head to drop. The motion signifies that the
topic is closed for discussion; that you have touched on an issue foreigners seem unable to understand:
the fact that almost everyone in Colombia has a friend or relative who has been murdered. A child. A
parent. A friend. A sibling. It is a collective experience.
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In the Course of
Human Events
A Novel
Mike Harvkey
Clyde Twitty could use a break, a helping hand. He’s a young man
lost—in his finances, in his family—and stuck deep within the fastsettling muck of a dwindling rural Missouri town that has, in every
way, given up hope. The hand that reaches down, lifts him up, and
leads him forward belongs to a fiercely charismatic patriarch named
Jay Smalls, a man who exerts a kind of gravitational force—and breeds
fierce purpose in those who find themselves caught in it. Unrattled
by the increasingly sinister racial undertones of Jay and his posse, and
desperate to look forward and not down, for once in his life, Clyde
hardly stumbles when the path he’s being ushered down takes a dark
and irrevocable turn.
In this thrilling debut novel—equal parts satire and morality play
—Harvkey shines a sharp light on the dark and radical underbelly of
the floundering American Midwest. As he plunges us into the violent
spiral of a desperate youth, he explores with unflinching acuity the ugly
nature of hate, the untempered force of personality, and the sometimes
horrific power of having someone believe in you.
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Mike Harvkey
grew up in rural northwest Missouri, near the city of
Independence, a crystal meth stronghold long before Breaking Bad. When he moved
to New York in 2001 to attend Columbia’s Creative Writing MFA Program as a
Bingham Fellow, he began training in Kyokushin, a brutal form of martial art known
for bare-knuckle fighting, and was promoted to black belt in 2006.
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© JoshWeil
“A gripping, bold and
daring novel unlike any
I’ve had the pleasure of
reading before.”
—Dinaw Mengestu, author
of The Beautiful Things
That Heaven Bears
“Mike Harvkey writes scenes of uncommon
imagination, characters that leap to life at a
single stroke. They will grab you in a bear hug,
or by the throat (and sometimes both), and
carry you along through a story every bit as
gripping. . . . Add to that the fact that it’s also so
damn funny and here comes one hell of a book.”
—Josh Weil, author of The New Valley
“In the Course of Human Events is at once a harrowing descent into the white supremacist underground and a timely
portrait of 21st-century American malaise. Mike Harvkey well understands his bleak Midwestern landscape, beaten down
by recession, and casts an unflinching eye upon the casual violence and hate-consumed paranoia of the subculture such a
hopeless world can nurture.” —Mark Binelli, author of Detroit City Is the Place to Be
Excerpt from In the Course of Human Events
Clyde was exhausted. His feet were so sore he stood on their outer edges. The muscles of his legs burned
and his inner thighs were raw and hot. The gi hadn’t been washed since the last class and was dirty and
stiff, like cardboard. When he came out of the trailer Jay was looking into a pit down the road. He walked
to the next one. Maybe he’d murdered Dale and wanted to show Clyde where the body was. Goddamn,
that would have made Clyde happy. Clyde followed in the street as Jay went from pit to pit. Clyde came
up beside him and smelled ammonia and decomposing animals. Dale’s corpse was nowhere in sight. A
busted cement mixer lay half submerged in the middle crowded with food wrappers and disintegrating
boxes from KFC and McDonald’s and Long John Silver’s. Something hissed, a possum; it crawled over
a pile of bricks, its pink-rimmed eyes blank and crazy.
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Slavery Inc.
The Untold Story of International
Sex Trafficking
Lydia Cacho
Translated and Foreword by Roberto Saviano
Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that
continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians,
eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this
groundbreaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK,
to expose the trade’s hidden links with the tourist industry, Internet
pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs,
money laundering, and even terrorism.
This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be
bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho’s powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to
escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange.
Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc. is an exceptional book, both
for the colossal scope of its enquiry and for the tenacious bravery with
which Cacho pursues the truth.
Praise for Lydia Cacho
“Cacho is not somebody who can be silenced.” —The Guardian
“Confronted by these abhorrent practices, Cacho tries to understand how,
ethically, we as a society can allow sex slavery to exist and thrive. She boldly
questions every aspect of our civilization, including sacrosanct values such
as free speech, free markets, and liberty.” —Bookslut
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Ginetta Sagan Amnesty Award 2007;
OXFAM award 2007; IWMF award; CNN
Hero; UNESCO- Guillermo Cano freedom of
expression award; The Wallemberg Medal;
The Tucholsky Award; PEN Canada Award;
UNANIMA World Press International Hero
2010 (for the International Press Institute
in Vienna)
• Roberto Saviano is the author of the
internationally-acclaimed Gomorrah, an
insider account of organized crime in
Naples, Italy
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Lydia Cacho is a Mexican journalist, author, and feminist activist. She has pub-
lished seven books, including the award-winning Manual to Prevent, Detect and Heal
Child Sexual Abuse (Con Mi Hijo No). Currently, Ms. Cacho is a columnist with El
Universal, the main daily newspaper in Mexico. She teaches workshops on successful
approaches to help trafficking victims and Community Schools for Peace, a holistic
approach to negotiate conflicts.
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© Marco Alar
A searing,
harrowing look
into the global
slave trade
“Lydia Cacho is an impressive investigator
renowned for pursuing stories often at great
personal risk.” —Socialist Review
Excerpt from Slavery Inc.
When I was seven years old, every time
my sister Sonia and I went out on the
street, our mother warned us to stay
away from the “child-snatcher,” an old
woman, well known in our neighborhood, who stole girls. She would entice
girls by offering them candy and then
she would kidnap them and sell them
off to strangers. Of course, the word
“kidnapper” refers to the snatching of people of all ages, not just children. Forty years later, I discovered
that the lesson of my childhood, which could have been taken from Charles Dickens, has now become
one of the most serious problems of the twenty-first century. Society in general tends to consider
trafficking in women and children as a throwback to a time when the “white slave trade” was a smalltime business run by pirates who kidnapped women to sell them to brothels in faraway countries. We
thought that modernization and strong global markets would eradicate this type of slavery and that
the abuse of children in the darkest corners of the “underdeveloped” world would simply disappear
through contact with Western laws and market economies. My research for this book shows the exact
opposite. There is a world-wide explosion in organized-crime syndicates that kidnap, buy, and enslave
women and children; the same forces that were supposed to eradicate slavery have strengthened it on an
unprecedented scale. All over the planet, we are witnessing a culture that considers the kidnapping, disappearance, trade, and corruption of young girls and adolescents as normal. They become sexual objects
for rent and sale, and our global culture celebrates this objectification as an act of freedom and progress.
In a dehumanizing market economy, millions of people assume that prostitution is a minor evil. They
choose to ignore the fact that what underlies prostitution is exploitation, abuse, and the tremendous
power of organized crime, exercised on a small and large scale around the world.
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The Full Ridiculous
A Novel
Mark Lamprell
If you go under, most likely you get brain-squeezingly
run over by one or more wheels. You go over, at least
you’ve got a chance
Michaelo O’Dell is hit by a car, and when he doesn’t die, he is both
surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move, frozen in the crash
position. He can’t concentrate, control his anger and grief, or work
out what to do about much of anything. His professional life begins
to crumble, and although his wife, Wendy, is heroically supportive, his
teenage children only exacerbate his postaccident angst. His daughter
Rosie punches out a vindictive schoolmate, plunging the family into a
special parent-teacher hell. Meanwhile, his son Declan is found with
a stash of illicit drugs, and a strange policeman starts harassing the
family, causing ordinary mishaps to take on a sinister desperation.
Equal parts hilarious and painful, this compelling novel delves
into the difficulties of family, marriage, and the precarious business
of being a man. Mark Lamprell’s extraordinary debut examines the
terrible truth: Sometimes you can’t pull yourself together until you’ve
completely fallen apart.
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Mark Lamprell has worked in film and television for many years.
He cowrote the film Babe: Pig in the City and wrote and directed the awardwinning feature My Mother Frank. He lives in Australia. The Full Ridiculous
is his first novel.
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© Phil Rich
The Ministry of Thin
How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control
Emma Woolf
“Emma Woolf’s study of our obsession with being
thin should serve as a wake-up call to all women.”
—The Guardian
We’re obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the
food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a
war with our own bodies that we’ll never win and that will never make
us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look
at how the modern, international obsession with weight loss, youth,
beauty, and perfection has spun out of control. Emma Woolf, author
of An Apple a Day, explores how we might all be able to stop hating
and start liking our own bodies again. She rallies against the industries of food, health, exercise, beauty, sex, and surgery that seek to create a world that verges on the Orwellian—with the victims of this onslaught trapped and dominated by the societal pressures to conform.
Ultimately she dares to ask: If losing weight is the answer, what
is the question?
Praise for The Ministry of Thin
“Woolf sets her stall out with brio. Woolf ’s skill in is in adding intellectual
and emotional ballast to the debates that interest her . . . this book emerges
as a hypnotist’s finger-click signaling women to wake up.”
—The Guardian
Praise for An Apple a Day
“It takes guts to admit something’s wrong and to resolve to do something
about it. It takes even more to do your therapy in public . . . it’s clear that
Emma Woolf ’s column ‘An Apple a Day’ about her recovery from anorexia
has helped many by articulating some complex truths about anorexia, and
charting a way forward into recovery.”
—Mind, Nomination for Journalist of the Year 2012
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is the great-niece of Virginia Woolf. After studying English at Oxford University, she worked in publishing, then became
a full-time writer. She is a columnist for The Times and The Daily Beast
and also writes for The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, Harper’s Bazaar,
Red, Grazia, and Psychologies. She was a copresenter on BBC Channel
4’s Supersize vs Superskinny; other media appearances include Newsnight,
Woman’s Hour, and Radio 4’s Four Thought. Emma’s first book, An Apple a
Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia, was shortlisted for the
Beat Award for Recovery Inspiration. She was also nominated for Mind’s
Journalist of the Year. She lives in London.
© Thomas Skovsende
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Four Corners
A Novel
Wally Rudolph
Four Corners is a bareknuckled debut novel in the style of Daniel
Woodrell, Barry Hannah, and Charles Bowden. Both a savage, meanstreets thriller and a heartbreaking story of unfortunate love, Four
Corners is carved from the rich, distinct voices and landscapes of the
American Southwest. It manages to be brutal and beautiful at the
same time.
For the better part of 37 years, Frank Bruce has hobbled through
his life, dragging his hunger for amphetamines, alcohol, and crime
behind him like a tarnished weight. Now, emboldened by the love of
his child-fiancée Maddie Nicole, Frank turns his back on all his addictions and runs away from New Mexico hoping for a second chance.
Frank goes on the lam through the drug underworld of the
Southwest trying to save a young boy from his meth-riddled father
and Machiavellian grandfather, the casino mogul Marcus Shenk,
whose brutal tyranny crosses over all four corners of the Southwest.
Trapped by his crooked past but determined to protect everything he
loves, Frank looks for help from his onetime mentor, drug kingpin
and murderer Jon Santer. But in doing so, Frank unknowingly drags
himself and all that he is trying to keep safe into a final, vile reckoning
with Shenk, his henchmen, and his terrible, corrupt legacy.
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Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrant parents, Wally Rudolph smoked marijuana for
the first time at the age of 14. The joint, rolled from pages from the book of Revelations of a
pocket-size bible, was the start of a 15-year affair with illicit drugs that led him to drop out of
college and took him back and forth across the American Midwest. A graduate of the Second
City Conservatory in Chicago, Rudolph now resides with his family in Los Angeles. As an actor,
he has appeared in numerous films and TV shows including Street Kings, Bang Bang, and Sons
of Anarchy.
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© Kory Alden
A striking debut
about an addict
running for
his life across
four states in
the American
Southwest
Praise for Wally Rudolph
“Wally Rudolph’s meth-and-cocaine-addled
protagonists reel through a nonstop catastrophe
of violence, flight, and revenge, too selfdestructive to have anything more than a
prayer—but they are real. They suffer and love
and worship, however crazily. The action is
urgent and compelling, the details are as crisp
as the light that falls on Santa Fe. Wally knows
the territory. And the territory is the human
heart.” —Jack Butler, Pulitzer Prize Nominee
for Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
Excerpt from Four Corners
Maddie’s eyes opened as we crossed
Pueblo, Colorado’s southern limit—forty
miles from her folks’ place in Cañon City.
“I took the liberty,” I said. “I figured we should break the news proper to your family.”
She wiped the sleep from her face, not even surprised we were on the highway, and put her small
hand over mine on the steering wheel.
“My mother’s not going to believe her little girl is engaged.”
It was late in the morning of New Year’s Eve 1999, and Maddie said her parents were just like us. I
didn’t see it, and in another hour, when they finally put their eyes on me, neither did they. While Maddie
spooned instant coffee into four boiling mugs, her folks stared at me in silence. Her father was a long
time coward—one of them tall balding numbers, older than his wife with big hands and uncomfortable
with his own size. He whispered into his little wife’s ear instead of speaking to me straight and when
she opened up her arms to embrace me, this substantial man shot me a look of womanly envy and hate.
Maddie’s mother smiled and smiled till she took all of me in, and then she got quiet and didn’t know
what to do with her face. She followed me around their sitting room, tapping at her perm and straightening her jeans. I didn’t let down. I groped all their favorite holiday decorations down to an ancient portrait
of Father Christmas, his tiny glasses barely curbing his bloated greedy nose.
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Hope for Film
From the Frontline of the
Independent Cinema Revolutions
Ted Hope with Anthony Kaufman
An inspiring, tell-all look at the independent film business from one
of the industry’s most passionate producers, Hope for Film captures the
rebellious punk spirit of the indie film boom in 1990s New York City,
its collapse two decades later, and its current moment of technologyfueled regeneration. Ted Hope, whose films have garnered 12 Oscar
nominations, draws from his own personal experiences working on
the early films of Ang Lee, Eddie Burns, Alan Ball, Todd Field, Hal
Hartley, Michel Gondry, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Solondz, and other
mavericks, relating those decisions that brought him success as well as
the occasional failure.
Whether navigating negotiations with Harvey Weinstein over final cuts or clashing with high-powered CAA agents over their clients,
Hope offers behind-the-scenes stories from the wild and often heated
world of low-budget cinema—where art and commerce collide. As
mediator between these two opposing interests, Hope offers his unique
perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art
while staying true to yourself. Against a backdrop of seismic changes
in the independent film industry, from corporate co-option to the rise
of social media, Hope for Film provides not only an entertaining and
intimate ride through the ups and downs of the business of art house
movies over the last 25 years, but also hope for its future.
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• Some of the major features Hope has
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The Savages, and Happiness
• He is a prolific voice on Twitter with more
than 32,000 followers and has contributed
to numerous publications, including The New
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Ted Hope is one of the most respected voices in independent film. In 1990 he cofounded
with James Schamus the production and sales powerhouse Good Machine. His 65-plus films
includes many highlights and breakthroughs in independent cinema, including The Ice Storm,
American Splendor, 21 Grams, Happiness, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Adventureland. Known
within the industry for having an extraordinary ability to recognize emerging talent, Hope
has more than 20 first features to his credit, including those of Alan Ball, Todd Field, Michel
Gondry, Hal Hartley, and Nicole Holofcener. As the creator, editor, and regular contributor to
HopeForFilm.com blog, Hope provides a must-read forum for discussion and engagement about
the critical issues filmmakers and artists face.
Battles, breakdowns,
and beauty from
the wild and often
heated world of
independent cinema
Excerpt from Hope for Film
It was January 1991 and bitterly cold.
Why in the hell were we out on the streets
of New York City shooting a movie? The
U.S. military had just launched its massive air campaign in Iraq. The nightly infrared news images of the bombing of Baghdad looked a bit like
the high contrast black-and-white film stock we were using on the film that had brought us together, a
short called Keep It for Yourself. Directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis, it was my first project for the
film company, Good Machine, that I had just co-founded with James Schamus.
Our office was above one of the strip clubs on Warren Street in Tribeca. My longtime girlfriend
and I had split up and I was through with silly things like romance. There was only one thing I wanted
to do: work, work, work. I should have been in heaven, but the production was going horribly wrong.
The crew didn’t trust Claire or her cinematographer Agnes Godard—they were insisting on shooting
in chronological script order to help the nonprofessional actors reach a level of emotional truth. What
is good for the actors can be something else for the crew and jumping back and forth across the room
with your camera is not considered the most efficient way to shoot a movie. “Who are these European
rank amateurs?” the crew was saying. They were threatening mutiny. Then light streaks kept mysteriously
showing up on the exposed film stock—unbeknownst to us at the time, because it was thirty degrees, the
celluloid was conducting static electricity. In order to continue, the camera crew was nestling the film
stock in their down jackets or putting hot water bottles around the film magazines.
Anthony Kaufman is a highly respected film journalist who has covered independent cinema since 1997. He
was one of the founding editors of Indiewire.com and continues to write about films and the film industry for a variety
of publications, including Variety and The Village Voice, for which he wrote the July 1999 cover story on The Blair Witch
Project. He has also been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal,
and Slate, among others.
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Octopus Summer
A Novel
W. Malcolm Dorson
A young man realizes there might be more to life than
black-tie affairs
Callum Littlefield walks a fine line between arrogant overconfidence and self-deprecating insecurity. After being ostracized by his
peers and getting thrown out of his New England boarding school,
Callum’s parents exile him to his aging grandmother’s Gold Coast estate on Long Island. He is promptly put to work with her smattering
of servants and is forced to interact with his old Macumba-practicing
Brazilian nanny.
Though Callum reunites with old friends and tries his hand at
the prep school party scene, he soon tires of his duties and escapes
back to his family’s empty Manhattan townhouse. There he meets a
young girl named Layla, who changes his life in more ways than even
he can understand.
In one summer, Callum finds love, adventure, death, and heartbreak, all the while offering us a detailed social commentary on his
blue blood, Eastern surroundings.
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audience Excerpt from Octopus Summer
Back to the bartender. I was furious. No chance in hell was
I going to be defeated, so I just stood there and stared him
down. Who the hell was this middle aged, balding, overweight,
no class, assclown to not serve ME a drink. Look around, ass.
Sure I was on the younger side, but LOTS of these kids were
still in school and underage! I was about to explode. Layla was
going to think I was a complete joke. I had to put this embarrassing bar scene behind me and go introduce myself. I looked
for her back in the crowd when suddenly another hand tapped
me on my shoulder. This one with long red nails.
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Orkney
A Novel
Amy Sackville
Following her wonderful debut, The Still Point, Sackville returns with
Orkney, a strangely beautiful short novel about love, sex, and obsession.
A literature professor marries his prize student, a woman 40 years his
junior, and at her request takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. He
is embarked on his life’s work, a book about enchantment-narratives in
literature, most all of them involving strange girls and women, but soon
finds himself distracted by his own enchantment for his new whitehaired young wife.
They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and
Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, “the Seal Islands,” a barren
place of extraordinary beauty. And as the days of their honeymoon
pass, his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his
normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe.
He is consumed.
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• The Still Point was reviewed by The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Los
Angeles Times
Praise for Orkney
“A haunting novel set on a beautifully described remote island in Orkney . . .
It’s like a folk ballad, full of otherworldly emotion and strange impulses.”
—Marie Claire
“Sackville writes like a dream (in all senses), conveying both the uncanny
power of love and the inscrutable heartbreak of loss.”—Kirkus
“Sackville’s novel will appeal to literature aficionados: a Lolita-esque love,
a romance born out of academia, and folklore come to life.” —Booklist
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and life writing at Goldsmiths. Her first novel was The Still Point. She teaches creative
writing at the University of Kent.
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“Sackville wields
language like a wand . . . Her prose reminds
us of the pleasure in
being carried to far-off
worlds by words alone:
the feat feels magical,
not technical.”
—The New York Times
Book Review
Praise for the UK edition of Orkney
“Sackville’s second novel is poetic, dreamlike and
beautifully written.” —The Times
“Lyrical and compelling . . . readers will be
gripped from start to finish . . . Orkney is entirely
original. Sackville’s beautiful and poignant novel
reminds us of the real nature of tradition, which
is not only to insist on retelling old stories, but
also to remake them in our own image, for our
own time . . . In Orkney myth slips free from the
dust and politesse of the library, and assumes
a vivid, dangerous and unparaphraseable
existence.” —Times Literary Supplement
“Orkney is a short, strange novel about a couple on their honeymoon. He is an ageing English professor on sabbatical. She is
his star pupil . . . What begins as a familiar, almost fairytale-like narrative ends as something more fragmented, unsettling, and
odd . . . Providing a brooding, bruised, ever-changing backdrop to all this is Orkney, the book’s most compelling character of
all. In a tribute to Virginia Woolf ’s experimental masterpiece, The Waves, the sea in Orkney functions as a kind of rhythmic
talisman, its ebb and flow mirrored in the actions, ideas, and themes of the book. More than anything, Sackville’s Orkney is a
breathtaking place in the most literal of senses.” —Scotsman
“A truly remarkable feat of writing . . . it sets Amy Sackville up as one of the UK’s most exciting new writers . . . she is a genius
with her turn of phrase: deft, evocative and clever. One of those writers who so vividly illustrates her story it’s actually
physically satisfying to read.” —Stylist
“A dark, intense tale of the mysteries of marriage and the never ending lure of the sea . . . the intense beauty of the language
beguiles the reader with its lilting poetic rhythms and we can hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea . . . Sackville is a great
literary talent, one to watch in the future.” —Bookmunch
“Sackville has written her own rich and rhythmic book of enchantment, a book possessed and of possession, sharing themes
with A.S. Byatt, although stylistically the novelists are worlds apart . . . Amy Sackville has written a rich and remarkable book,
whose language and structure mirror the minds and surroundings of her central characters.” —Words of Mercury
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Careless Rambles
A Selection of His Poems
John Clare
chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt, introduction by robert hass
A new selection of poems from one of England’s
greatest nature poets, with gorgeous watercolor
illustrations
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Born in 1793, John Clare lived and worked during the Golden Age
of British poetry, the time of Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Coleridge.
In the grand tradition of English nature writing, he stands alongside Wordsworth as a poet of extraordinary humanity and great spirit.
Clare was 18 years old when the first Luddite riots occurred. He was
deeply resistant to the first years of England’s Enclosure, and he offers
a contemporaneous look at what the world was like for those struggling with the impact of the first Industrial Revolution. Uneducated
but remarkably well-read, Clare was briefly celebrated in London,
only to spend his final years in a lunatic asylum. He died in one on
May 20, 1864, almost exactly one year before William Butler Yeats
was born and the world set out on the path to modernism.
As James Reeves, an early critic and admirer, has said, “The existence of Clare the poet is, of course, a miracle . . . This is its most
precious gift. Clare was a happy poet; there is more happiness in his
poetry than in that of most others. This was no mere animal contentment of body and senses, but a quiet ecstasy and inward rapture. Such
happiness is not to be had except at a price.”
Tom Pohrt’s drawings and watercolors have been widely admired. There are few alive whose sensibility more properly matches
Clare’s—it’s as if Samuel Palmer had taken the commission to illustrate a selection of the peasant poet. Pohrt has himself made the
selection of poems from the vast quantity that survived Clare’s chaotic life. Robert Hass joins the project to place Clare’s work in the
larger context of nature poetry in the West. The result is a book sure
to please those who know already of Clare’s fine poems and those for
whom this book will be their exciting introduction.
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16 books and various periodicals. He has traveled extensively in Cuba since
1999, where he and his wife were married in her hometown of Ciego de
Avila in 2002. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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The Ethical Butcher
How to Eat Meat in a Responsible and Sustainable Way
Berlin reed
A former militant vegan infuses the food revolution
with new vigor
America is in the midst of a meat zeitgeist. Butchers have emerged as
the rock stars of the culinary world, and cozy gastropubs serving up pork
belly, lamb burgers, and sweetbreads rule the restaurant scene. In New
York, the humble meatball enjoys entrée status from upscale Gramercy
Tavern to newcomer the Meatball Shop. Across the country in San
Francisco, savvy chefs flock to hip meat markets like the Fatted Calf.
If butchers are our new rock stars, then Berlin Reed is their front man.
Berlin Reed is “The Ethical Butcher,” a former self-described
militant vegan punk who grudgingly took a job as a butcher’s apprentice in Brooklyn when he could find no other work. Shockingly, he
fell in love with the art of butchering, and a food revolution was born.
Along the way he saw how corporate greed, unsustainable food practices, and outright misinformation gave birth to such falsities as the
USDA label “organic” and the conglomerate of eco-friendly supermarkets. Most people, even those that try to be healthy and green, are
not really eating what they think they are eating. The Ethical Butcher
will shine a light on these untruths and show a better way toward food
justice and the sustainable living of a mindful omnivore.
Through the lens of Berlin’s personal story, The Ethical Butcher
educates readers about how they can improve the meat industry by
participating in it. It’s a memoir in cuts—and Berlin’s return to eating
meat illustrates for readers and foodies alike how they can change the
meat industry by making better choices.
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“Part food memoir and part an argument for supporting sustainable, locally
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production and locally sustained agriculture that may change the way
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Berlin Reed launched The Ethical Butcher blog in 2009 and now travels
the country hosting informative farm-to-table dinners that seek to educate the
public about how to be sure their choices as consumers match their intentions.
He was profiled as one of the country’s top 50 butchers in the book Primal
Cuts and is a charter member, and the voice of, the newly formed Butcher’s
Guild. He’s been featured in O Magazine and on Today.com and has appeared
several times on NPR. He is currently at work on a pilot episode for a TV
series that documents his farm-to-table dinners across the country.
© Julee Lebert
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Between My Father
and the King
New and Uncollected Stories
Janet frame
This new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame’s
career and contains some of the best she wrote. None of these stories
have been published in a collection before, and more than half are published for the first time in Between My Father and the King.
The piece “Gorse Is Not People” caused Frame a setback in 1954,
when Charles Brasch rejected it for publication in Landfall and, along
with others for one reason or other, deliberately remained unpublished
during her lifetime. Previously published pieces have appeared in
Harper’s Bazaar, New Zealand Listener, The School Journal, Landfall, and
The New Yorker over the years, and one otherwise unpublished piece,
“The Gravy Boat,” was read aloud by Frame for a radio broadcast in
1953.
In these stories readers will recognize familiar themes, scenes,
characters and locations from Frame’s writing and life, and each offers
a fresh fictional transformation that will captivate and absorb.
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Praise for Between My Father and the King
“This posthumous collection is a must-read for Janet Frame fans.”
—The Daily Beast
“This new collection of twenty-eight short stories that span [Frame’s] career
(many of which have never been published) showcases her extraordinary
gifts as an imaginative storyteller with a singular viewpoint . . . These
stories—with themes of despair, disappointment, and wonder, underscored
by Frame’s melancholy and vivid turns of phrase—are beautifully rendered.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Janet Frame (1924–2004) was one of New Zealand’s most distinguished writers.
She is best known for An Angel at My Table, which the Sunday Times of London called
“one of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century,” and inspired Jane
Campion’s internationally acclaimed film. Throughout her long career, Frame received
a wide range of awards, including every literary prize for which she was eligible in New
Zealand, honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Literature.
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“So much of Frame’s
writing simply
endures, no matter
the place or time.”
—The New York Times
“The title story stands as the epitome of her
traits and merits in the short form . . . This
and all the other stories in the collection
demonstrate writerly genius in every sentence,
are told with charming and often wicked wit,
boast visual images conjured with nimble
wordplay (“The sky sagged in the middle, there
didn’t seem to be enough head-room”), and
display a warm intimacy between the author and
her prose as she writes close to the psychological
and autobiographical bone.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“A powerful collection.” —Kirkus
Praise for Janet Frame
“Like every writer worth remembering, Frame exploits—or creates on the page, to be absolutely puristic about it—her peculiar
sensibility, her private window into the universe.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss. Frame is, and will remain, divine.” —Alice Sebold
“Quite simply, she’s a stunning writer.” —Dominion Post (New Zealand)
“A poetic soul has rarely come better disguised.” —Jane Campion
“One of the most sensitive, forthright, and adventurous illuminators of human consciousness.” —Booklist
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The Wrong Dog Dream
A True Romance
Jane Vandenburgh
“Profound, brilliant, honest, painful, gorgeous,
precise and wild, funny and real.” —Anne Lamott
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The author calls this “a true romance,” saying it’s the part of her personal history she, being superstitious, was almost afraid to write. She’d
grown up accustomed to bad luck, but had—by accident or miracle—
survived her own circumstances: being orphaned, her own misspent
youth, the chaos of a broken marriage. She’d more than survived;
she’d even triumphed and awakened into a kind of charmed splendor
to find herself living in a white marble city with storybook castles,
knowing famous people, being invited to the White House to listen
to her husband discuss Yeats with the president of the United States,
as Bill Clinton drinks Diet Coke from the can.
And into this fabled chapter of the writer’s life comes the perfect
dog, an English springer spaniel named Whistler who arrives not only
as the family pet, but also as her private symbol of triumph over all
that age-old sadness. She wants to ignore it but can’t help but see that
their perfect pup is something of a neurotic mess, snarling at manhole
covers, barking at children, growling at people in wheelchairs.
The writer herself is not seemingly done with the anxieties
born of all that early trauma and loss either, and she begins to worry
obsessively about losing this difficult dog, the one they so love.
Wrrrrnnnggdgggg! she begins to dream. Wrrrrrnnnnng dgggg!
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“Intense, controlled, a memoir-as-fever-dream.”
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“It’s a rare pleasure to be in the hands of a memoirist both old enough and
good enough to wring this kind of coherence from life’s chaos.”
—Alison Bechdel, The New York Times Book Review
“Like a string of Chinese firecrackers.” —Washington Post
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A Writer’s Handbook and The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century:
A Memoir. She has taught writing and literature at UC Davis, the George
Washington University, and, most recently, at Saint Mary’s College in
Moraga, California.
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The Patriot
A Novel
Evan S. Connell
“Connell’s style is a model of economy; it reveals the
care of an artisan whose works should be collected.”
—Time
Another brilliant example of Evan Connell’s art, The Patriot deals
with an American boy who grew to maturity during World War II.
He had learned his father’s patriotism, and then, through the impact
of firsthand experience, formulated his own.
Melvin Isaacs, aged 17, became a Navy Air Force cadet in 1942.
His course of training as a flyer was an education in fear and death,
even though it had its wonderfully comic times and a sense of comradeship that was new to him. Perhaps it was in the air—for Melvin
loved to fly—that the first feelings of aloneness stirred his mind.
Melvin, who queried the whys and wherefores of his regimented
training life, became, despite all efforts to conform, a maverick. This
portion of the novel is a touching and true mixture of human comedy
and tragedy, and it also embodies scenes of flight and danger that are
unmatched in pure vividness and sensate realism.
The story of Melvin after the war is a continuation of the absurdities that can pursue a man so constituted that he must think
for himself. And here the implications of the novel become clear. It
is partly the age-old story of a father and son in conflict, of an older
generation’s notions that are insupportable to the younger, a human
dilemma that has no possible resolution. It is also the story of Melvin’s
final rejection of war, of his unshakable conviction that a man today
must think and act for the good of the planet, Stephen Decatur’s slogan notwithstanding. With too many excellences to catalogue and
extol, the novel has a total effect of a new voice telling a new story of
this old familiar world.
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“Evan Connell has perfected a style that is all onwardness, losing no richness
of detail to the fastness of his pace.” —The New York Times Book Review
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The Ice Bridge
A Novel
D. R. Macdonald
“The Ice Bridge is a breathtaking novel about the
landscape of love and spirit and a particularly
special place, a book of considerable intrigue and
remarkable beauty.” —Scott Turow
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Epoch
Anna Starling flees a dissolving marriage in California to save herself
and her artistic career and rents a house in the isolated landscape
of Cape Breton. There, her life intersects with that of her neighbor
Red Murdock, a cabinetmaker who has recently lost Rosaire, the great
love of his life, to cancer. Surrounded by the old ghosts of this landscape and the echoes of the indigenous Scottish culture that once
lived in this isolated community, Anna and Murdock slowly come
together just as the modern world encroaches on their town. When
a local drug-smuggling ring starts to impede on their natural landscape, Anna finds herself caught in the crosshairs, and both she and
Murdock must shake off the past in order to contend with the dark
forces swirling all around them.
Part love story, part moral fable, and part quest for home and
heart, The Ice Bridge is a superbly crafted tale of love after love, a
novel rich in atmosphere and infused with lyrical descriptions of land
and sea. It is about timeless characters caught in a distinctly modern
world. Written with an ear for the cadences of Cape Breton and a
profound understanding of the many emotional shadings that exist
between the sexes, The Ice Bridge is another superb work from D. R.
MacDonald.
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“The Ice Bridge is full of nice words that come together in a sweet way, but it
is part of MacDonald’s maturity as a writer that he does not pretend that
beauty—the beauty of words or a landscape or a lovely face—can resolve
life’s contradictions.” —The Washington Post
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was born in Cape Breton and grew up mostly in
the United States. He has received two Pushcart Prizes, an Ingram Merrill
Award, and an O. Henry Award for his short fiction. His first novel, Cape
Breton Road, was called “a jewel of literary craftsmanship” by Scott Turow
and a “book of heart-stopping beauty” by Alistair MacLeod, and it became
a national bestseller. His second novel, Lauchlin of the Bad Heart, was longlisted for the Giller Prize. MacDonald teaches at Stanford University and
spends his summers in Nova Scotia.
The Last Pilgrimage
My Mother’s Life and Our Journey to Saying Goodbye
Linda daly
“This book is two stories, a child’s and a dying
parent’s, and each of us has both of those stories in
us too, whether we tell them in a book for the world
to read or tell them for ourselves alone, around the
family table, as our turn comes to care for the dying
and then, eventually, to be among them.”
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times
Linda Daly had a seemingly charmed life: her mother, Nancy, was
married to the head of Warner Bros., and her parents were one of the
most influential and prominent couples in Los Angeles. Even their
divorce couldn’t test the bond between mother and daughter, and
their family grew: Her mother married Dick Riordan, mayor of L.A.;
her father married songwriter Carole Bayer Sager. The extended family used their combined resources to help a number of cultural and
philanthropic concerns across the country until they encountered the
one thing they could not overcome: Nancy’s diagnosis of stage four
pancreatic cancer.
So mother and daughter teamed up to begin a search for a miracle cure—a roller-coaster ride through the rigors of Western medicine, the surgeries and chemotherapies, and the untested boundaries
of alternative medicine. What Linda learned on their final pilgrimage together would change her forever and speaks to the issues many
adult sons and daughters face today: how to help those who gave you
life face the end of their own.
Ultimately, The Last Pilgrimage is Linda’s love letter to her mother,
proof that the end of life can offer a peaceful and comforting farewell.
“There are so many elements to this journey . . . It’s moving, compelling and,
time and time again, downright funny.”
—Nancie Clare, former editor of Los Angeles Times Magazine
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Linda Daly
served as the environmental expert at Los Angeles Times
Magazine, where she also maintained the blog Pretty in Green. Linda was a
founding board member of Vintage Hollywood, which raises funds to help
children in Southern California, and Global Hunger Foundation, which
seeks to alleviate hunger around the globe through small grants to women’s
groups interested in sustainable farming. She currently lives in Los Angeles
with her husband and two children. They have four dogs, a duck, a horse,
and too many tomato plants.
© Carolyn Hampton
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Rake
A Novel
SCott Phillips
“With Rake, Scott Phillips proves himself the unparalleled
master of the noir anti-hero.” —Megan Abbott
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bestseller, The Ice Harvest, was adapted into a
feature film starring John Cusack and Billy Bob
Thornton
• The Ice Harvest won the California Book Award
in 2001, a Silver Medal for Best First Fiction,
and was a finalist for the Edgar Awards, the
Hammett Prize, and the Anthony Award
• This will be published in October 2013 by
Editions La Branche in Paris
• Rake is currently under film option to Les Films
Ariane
The landscape of contemporary Paris, the best restaurants, the trendiest bars and clubs, is usually filled with the wealthy, the famous, and
le rake or le roué, the charming, educated sophisticate with little or no
conscience. Into this cushy world bursts “Dr. Crandall Taylor”—or
rather the actor who plays him—the star of a dated American soap
opera that is now one of the hottest prime-time shows in France. And
this newfound fame, as enriching as it is unexpected, is not wasted
on Crandall, eager to put his dark and often violent American past
behind him and enjoy all the fruits—and the women—that Paris and
fame have to offer him.
But TV fame isn’t enough. Randall wants a feature film. Every
actor wants a feature film, and so Crandall uses his charm and intellect to draw into his narcissistic web four different women: an executive at the network that runs his show, an American porn star reaching new heights on the Internet, a bookish university student with a
slightly nasty bent, and the beautiful would-be actress wife of an arms
dealer. Against his better judgment, Crandall accepts both the arms
dealer’s cash and his beautiful wife’s advances. Soon, Crandall is on
the run through the alleys and streets of Paris, trying not only to fund
a film but also simply to stay alive. But this is no ordinary chase—and
Crandall is no ordinary mouse—and soon his penchant for violence,
sex, and megalomania erupts into full-blown war.
Rake features a charming, despicable anti-hero and a funny, satiric take on modern entertainment culture. Phillips turns his gimlet
eye on the lush life of an actor who, on his destructive tour through
Paris, crosses the line from garden-variety narcissism into full-fledged
psychopathy.
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© Tex Lebeauf
Inconvenient People
Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
sarah wise
“An illuminating look at an area of social history that
inspired Wilkie Collins among others.”
—Sebastian Faulks, Telegraph
The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our
first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some
other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods,
moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law
and medical science, mad-doctors, alienists, priests, and barristers to
raise the matter to a level of “science,” capable of being used by conniving relatives, “designing families,” and scheming neighbors to destroy
people who found themselves in the way, people whose removal could
provide their survivors with money or property or other less frivolous
benefits. Reversing this sort of diagnosis and incarceration became increasingly more difficult, as even the most temperate attempt to leave
these “homes” or “hospitals” was deemed “crazy.” Kept in a madhouse,
one became a little mad, as Jack Nicholson and Ken Kesey explain in
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
In this sadly terrifying, emotionally moving, and occasionally hilarious book, twelve cases of contested lunacy are offered as examples of the
shifting arguments regarding what constituted sanity and insanity. They
offer unique insight into the fears of sexuality, inherited madness, greed,
and fraud, until public feeling shifted and turned against the rising alienists who would challenge the liberty and freedom of people who were
perhaps simply “difficult” but were turned into victims of this unscrupulous trade. This fascinating book is filled with stories almost impossible
to believe but wildly engaging, a book one will not soon forget.
Praise for Inconvenient People
“Ms. Wise delves deeply into her unsettling subject, finding bizarre humor in
it as well as tragedy . . . She extracts richly detailed material from the archives
and animates it with great narrative flair.” —The Wall Street Journal
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from the asylum after recovering from a
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Sarah Wise studied at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Her most recent book, The Blackest Streets, was shortlisted for the Ondaatje
Prize (2009), and her first book, The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery
in London, was shortlisted for the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the
Crime Writer’s Gold Dagger for nonfiction. She lives in London.
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All the Dead Yale Men
A Novel
Craig nova
Originally published in 1982 to wide acclaim, The Good Son remains
Craig Nova’s undisputed masterpiece. This classic explored the complicated entanglements of fathers and sons—expressed in the story of
nouveau-riche father Pop Mackinnon, who used his wealth to manipulate his son Chip into the “right” kind of marriage upon the young
man’s return from World War II.
Chip eventually gave up the love of his life and married to secure his future—and what were the consequences of that decision? All
the Dead Yale Men answers that question in telling the story of Frank
Mackinnon, son of Chip, a prosecutor in Boston with a happy marriage and a daughter set to follow his footsteps into law school. Chip’s
death throws Frank into his family’s legacy, where he must contend
with the inheritance of the Mackinnon’s beloved land and a bevy of secrets that dates back three generations. And when Frank’s daughter Pia
falls under the sway of local bad boy Aurlon Miller, Frank’s grief over
his father’s death triggers the family legacy of social standing and manipulation to begin anew, leading Frank to the darkest edges of what a
father will do to protect the ones he loves.
All the Dead Yale Men examines the end of an era, how privilege
and inheritance often crumble in the face of the modern world, a story
enriched by the setting and mythology of Boston and its surroundings. The novel not only moves the Mackinnons’ story forward but also
recasts historical elements of the classic novel as well, heralding the
arrival of a new American classic.
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Magazine, and Men’s Journal, among others. He has received an Award in Literature
from the American Academy and Institute of the Arts and Letters and is a recipient
of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2005 he was named Class of 1949 Distinguished
Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
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“A great novel by
one of our great
novelists. A pleasure
on every page.”
—Dennis Lehane
Praise for All the Dead Yale Men
“The Good Son was a wonderful meditation
on ambitions, love, and parenthood. All the
Dead Yale Men takes up those themes at the
beginning of the new century, when it’s as
hard as it has ever been to be father . . . Nova
is especially adept at drawing dark characters,
and having their darkness creep up and catch
you by surprise. He creates a vivid portrait of
well-off New England and the Delaware River
Valley, with often-moving descriptions of the
natural world. Then Nova fills these backdrops
with seemingly normal and successful people
who become, from one moment to the next,
desperate, manipulative and self-destructive
. . . fans of The Good Son will enjoy seeing the
Mackinnon family’s obsessions play out in the
noir landscape of the early 21st century.”
“There’s a genuinely classical grandeur to Nova’s
tales of erotic derailment and titanic family conflict. There’s also a sense of life as an absurdist pageant, where the ridiculous is
so closely linked to the deadly serious that they seem like two facets of the same thing . . . . In Nova’s world, nature—like this
novel—is a real piece of work.” —The Seattle Times
“Nova’s career-defining 1982 novel The Good Son explored the relationship between a domineering, social-climbing father,
Pop Mackinnon, and his loyal but restless son Chip, a World War II veteran who returns home to an arranged marriage. This
equally impressive sequel follows Chip’s son Frank, now happily married and a Boston prosecutor, after his father’s death
by stroke unleashes long-buried family secrets and resentments . . . Nova’s scenic evocation of Boston is spot-on, as is his
emotional detailing of the fragile intricacies of family.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“‘Long-awaited’ is an overused phrase in publishers’ promotional blurbs, but Nova’s follow-up to his acclaimed 1982 novel The
Good Son merits that description as much as any recent fiction, and it has been well worth the lengthy wait. Nova now brings
forward more than one full generation his account of the Mackinnon family . . . [their] roots are in a richly described Delaware
Valley, but this dark saga is also set in a seamy New England familiar to readers of George V. Higgins’ classic The Friends of
Eddie Coyle or Geoffrey Wolff ’s Providence. It is told with comparable verve, wit, horror, and beauty—even when vulgar,
even repellent—and with images and set pieces that will haunt the reader long after they’ve put the book down. This gripping
and intelligent chronicle of love, legacy, and betrayal (the title may suggest a genre mystery, which this surely isn’t) captures a
complex clan entangled in a questionable moral universe. Nova’s Mackinnons, both here and in The Good Son, leave their edgy
mark on the modern American literary landscape.” —Booklist (starred review)
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“Superb in prose and its evocations of character and nature,
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the pure scope of Nova’s gifts as a storyteller. As a reader,
I simply enjoyed my ride through the emotional heart of
this affecting novel.” —Oscar Hijuelos
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Original Death
A Mystery of Colonial America
Eliot Pattison
Despite the raging war between the French and British, Scottish
exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the
fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian on his quest to find
the last surviving members of his tribe. But the joy they feel on reaching the little settlement of Christian Indians is shattered when they
find its residents ritually murdered. As terrible as the deaths may be,
Conawago perceives something even darker and more alarming: He is
convinced they are a sign of a terrible crisis in the spirit world that he
must resolve.
As he tries to make sense of the murders, Duncan is accused by
the British army of the crime. Escaping prison to follow the trail of
evidence, he finds himself hounded by vengeful soldiers and stalked by
Scottish rebels who are mysteriously trying to manipulate the war to
their advantage. As he pieces together the puzzle of violence and deception, he gradually realizes that it may not only be the lives of Duncan
and his friends that hang in the balance, but also the very survival of
the native tribes. When he finally discovers the terrible truth, Duncan
is forced to make a fateful choice between his beloved Highland clans
and the woodland natives who have embraced and protected him.
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and finalist for the Gold Dagger, Water Touching Stone, Bone Mountain, Beautiful
Ghosts, Prayer of the Dragon, Bone Rattler, The Lord of Death, Eye of the Raven, and
Ashes of the Earth. Pattison resides in rural Pennsylvania with his wife, three children,
two horses, and two dogs on a colonial-era farm.
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© Jed Ferguson
“Pattison pays tribute to
the conventions of the
murder mystery without
sacrificing excitement or
a nuanced look at the
final stage of the war
between the British and
the French for control of
North America.”
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Original Death
“Set during the French and Indian War, the
story vividly depicts the wilderness landscape,
the disparate Native Americans allied with
the English army, the Highlanders hoping to
start a new life, innocent settlers, missionaries,
and spies . . . Themes of disillusionment and
a vanishing way of life make this series in
some ways similar to Cooper’s Leatherstocking
Tales, though Pattison adds an element of
psychological suspense comparable to Jean
Zimmerman’s The Orphanmaster (2012) and a
degree of human complexity that suggests Sarah
Donati’s Wilderness novels.”
—Booklist (starred review)
Praise for Eye of the Raven
“Few writers can combine history and mystery as well as Edgar-winner Pattison . . . Evocative language, tight plotting, and
memorable characters make this a standout.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The pleasures of Eliot Pattison’s books, and Eye of the Raven is another smashing example, are threefold: high adventure in
perilous landscapes, a hero stubbornly seeking the truth, and the haunting mysteries of ancient cultures.”
—Otto Penzler, editor of The Vampire Archives
Praise for Bone Rattler
“Pattison’s moving characters, intricate plot and masterful evocation of the time, including sensitive depictions of the effects
of the European war on Native Americans, set this leagues beyond most historicals and augur well for future entries in this
series.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[A] sure winner.” —Booklist
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Winter 2014 Highlights
AN ATHEIST’S HISTORY OF BELIEF
Matthew Kneale
From the author of English Passengers, this is a refreshingly unbiased nonbelievers
account of what humans have believed across the ages, and why.
January | 978-1-61902-235-5 | Cloth | $26.00
BURY THIS
Andrea Portes
The new novel by the bestselling author of Hick that examines the 1979 murder of a
young woman and its effect on a small town in Michigan
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THE MAP OF ENOUGH
One Woman’s Search for Place
Molly CARO May
“Could a wanderer learn to stay put without stagnating? Could a woman brought up without
survival skills learn to build her own shelter, split firewood, grow food? . . . Molly Caro May
tackles all these questions, and more, in prose as candid and lucid as an April morning. She
holds the hard-won answers lightly, open to correction from fresh experience.”
—Scott Russell Sanders, Earth Works: New & Selected Essays.
January | 978-1-61902-236-2 | Cloth | $25.00
THE MARRIAGE ACT
The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us
About Love
Liza Monroy
“An irresistible blend of candor, humor, insight, lively prose, and plain old humanity,
this roller coaster of a memoir about relationships, place, and displacement is so much
fun to read!”—Phillip Lopate
IF ONLY YOU PEOPLE COULD FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
A Memoir
Jessica Hendry Nelson
American Booksellers Association Debut Dozen selection
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“The direction one should go is immediately to a book store and pick up a copy of If Only You
People Could Follow Directions. What a great reading experience. Jessica Nelson is a genius at
composing the perfect duet between autobiographical resonance and wholly inventive incident
. . . It’s like being read to by an excitable, melancholy, and vivid storyteller extraordinaire.”
—Howard Norman, author of Next Life Might Be Kinder
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MOTHERLAND
Maria Hummel
“A courageous and unsettling novel arising from the questions that Maria Hummel
had about her grandparents’ lives during the Third Reich. How much did they know?
How did they survive?” —Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
January | 978-1-61902-237-9 | Cloth | $26.00
TRUE TALES OF LUST & LOVE
Edited by Anna David
“Daring, delightful, sexy, cool, sweet, and poignant—Anna David’s compilation True
Tales of Lust and Love explores the dark, moist corners of the female psyche, armed with
pens, tears, and humor. I savored every word.” —Gigi Levangie Grazer
“A night of love lives gone wrong” captured just in time for Valentine’s Day. Including
pieces by Sara Benincasa, Rachel Shukert, Emma Straub, and Iris Smyles.
THE ANXIETY OF KALIX THE WEREWOLF
A Novel
Martin Millar
Martin Millar returns with the memorable third installment of the Kalix series.
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THE QUIET STREETS OF WINSLOW
Judy Troy
The first new novel in more than a decade from the award-winning author of West of Venus and From the Black Hills.
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BOX GIRL
My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation
Lilibet Snellings
“I’m contractually obligated to ignore you.”
When 22-year-old Lilibet Snellings moved to Los Angeles on a whim, she unintentionally became a “slash” to keep her head above water—a writer/waitress/actress/Box Girl. March | 978-1-59376-541-5 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
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CEMENTVILLE
Paulette Livers
“Paulette Livers is the real thing . . . a blazing talent with a fierce intelligence and a big
heart, big enough to encompass a horrible tragedy and the inner life of an entire community. She has written a brilliant and deeply compassionate study of grief, violence,
loneliness, and love. And her language sings. This is a stunning debut—a perfect novel
with deep implications for our own time.” —Lee Smith, author of Something in the Wind
March | 978-1-61902-243-0 | Cloth | $25.00
THE MEMORY PALACE
A Book of Lost Interiors
Edward Hollis
A brilliant, ambitious follow-up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns
his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past and present to the nowvanished chambers they once contained.
March | 978-1-61902-248-5 | Cloth | $28.00
PREGNANT BUTCH
Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
A. K. Summers
A graphic memoir chronicling a neurotic bulldagger’s unique perspective on pregnancy.
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PUSHKIN HILLS
Sergei Dovlatov
“One wishes that he’d lived longer, been published sooner, given us more.”
—Francine Prose
Populated with unforgettable characters—including Alikhanov’s fellow guides
Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev—Pushkin Hills ranks among
Dovlatov’s renowned works.
March | 978-1-61902-245-4 | Cloth | $24.00
SHADOW WARFARE
The History of America’s Undeclared Wars
Larry Hancock and Stuart Wexler
A fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the practices and pitfalls of America’s
secret warfare.
March | 978-1-61902-244-7 | Cloth | $28.00
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ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PERSONS
A Novel
Kevin Allardice
“A giddy and delirious romp through the back (bowling) alleys of memory, Any Resemblance
shows why history should always be written by the losers—by those obsessive failed actors
who either can’t or won’t untangle themselves from the cat’s cradle of their own fictional
constructions. If every life is, at bottom, a furious battle for authorship, then this hilarious
debut looks to be a winner by knockout.” —Robert Cohen, author of Amateur Barbarians
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COMPROMISE CAKE
Lessons Learned from My Mother’s Recipe Box
Nancy Spiller
“Nancy Spiller dips into her mother’s recipe box for a captivating confection of a memoir
and out comes the history of sugar, family history, California history and anecdotes both
humorous and of the heart. Illustrating the chapters are cozy watercolors in sugary pastels that, taken together with the delightful text, make Compromise Cake a great read and
a perfect gift for the holidays. ” —Susan Sherman, author of The Little Russian
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EMPIRE ANTARCTICA
Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins
Gavin Francis
Winner of the Scottish Book Award
“Empire Antarctica is the embodiment of everything I admire in travel writing—a great
journey, intense isolation, wide reading, vivid writing, scientific research and something
in the nature of an old-fashioned ordeal. I love this book.” —Paul Theroux
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GOD’S DOODLE
The Life and Times of the Penis
Tom Hickman
Nominated for the Indie Next List
“Tom Hickman tells the story of its ups and downs with enthusiasm
and a mostly straight face.” —The Economist
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GOOD INDIAN GIRLS
Stories
Ranbir Singh Sidhu
“Achingly merciless, London-born author Sidhu’s 12 short stories sharply delineate the
edges of identity and sanity . . . These haunting tales simultaneously attract and repel,
enchant and shatter . . . Sidhu creates inscrutable characters inhabiting bewildering
circumstances. Smart, provocative and poignantly disturbing, this collection, the
author’s U.S. debut, signals a writer to watch.” —Kirkus (starred review)
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THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION
Lamar Waldron
For the first time, this concise and compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to fully
document the small, tightly held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It
explains why he was murdered, and how it was done in a way that forced many records
to remain secret for almost 50 years. Some of the book’s revelations will be dramatized in
the upcoming film Legacy of Secrecy, produced by and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and
also starring Robert De Niro.
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IRIS HAS FREE TIME
Iris Smyles
“It’s hard to miss the surface parallels between Sex and the City and Iris Has Free Time
. . . But it would be a mistake to dismiss Iris as a Candace Bushnell knockoff . . . the
novel’s deeper themes dovetail far more with Girls . . . What’s more, it seems that unlike Carrie, Iris isn’t about to sign herself up for an extra decade of Peter-Pandom. As
she asks after surviving a series of benders, ‘When did all these games stop being fun?’”
—Elle Magazine
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KARA WAS HERE
A Novel
William Conescu
“Kara Was Here is a shape-shifter. Grief evolves into culpability before turning into
something much stranger and more surprising. William Conescu’s mesmerizing novel
is a taut, exquisitely written psychological tour-de-force.”
—David Gilbert, author of & Sons
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THE LAST ANIMAL
Abby Geni
American Book Association Debut Dozen selection
Indie Next Selection, November 2013
“I have known for a while that Abby Geni is a brilliant writer, and I’m happy that at last
the world will find out. These are sharp, incisive, thoughtful, and utterly original stories,
and I recommend this book with all my heart!”
—Dan Chaon, National Book Award Finalist, author of Stay Awake and Await Your Reply
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LOLA BENSKY
Lily Brett
“Lily Brett evokes one of rock ’n’ roll’s greatest eras—the 60s—in her new novel . . . a
poignant and autobiographical rumination on the inner life of an Australian music journalist named Lola Bensky . . . Brett creates a fascinating portrait of a woman searching
for meaning and connections stolen from her family.” —Publishers Weekly
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IN THE MEMORIAL ROOM
A Novel
Janet Frame
“Janet Frame proves the master of nostalgia, beauty, and loss.
Frame is, and will remain, divine.” —Alice Sebold 978-1-61902-175-4 | CLOTH | $24.00
NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MEATLOAF
A Sex Education Comic Book
Saiya Miller and Liza Bley
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Index
1616, 72
1912, 82
Absorbing Errand, An, 80
Accabadora, 78
Adjustment, The, 13
Age of Persuasion, The, 78
Aitken, Robert, 71
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, 79
All About Lulu, 73
All the Dead Yale Men, 60–61
Allardice, Kevin, 67
Anarchy!, 74
Andes, 75
Animal, Mineral, Radical, 76
Anti Lebanon, 80
Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf, The, 65
Any Resemblance to Actual Persons, 67
Appetites, 76
Apricot Jam, 81
Arnold, Daniel, 71
At Dawn, 75
Atheist’s History of Belief, An, 64
Back on the Fire, 81
Ballard, J. G., 71
Barbee, Jennifer, 73
Barcella, Laura, 71
Barsamian, David, 72
Berger, John, 71
Berkowitz, Eric, 71
Berriault, Gina, 71
Berry, Wendell, 16–17, 70, 71, 72, 75
Between My Father and the King, 52–53
Bird That Swallowed Its Cage, The, 77
Biriotti, Maurice, 22
Black Cool, 83
Black Flies, 72
Bley, Liza, 69, 78
Bloom, Lisa, 2–3
Blount, Roy, Jr., 72
Bollen, Christopher, 72
Bone Rattler, 63
Book of Silence, A, 77
Bottoms, Greg, 32
Box Girl, 65
Break of Noon, The, 76
Breaking Point, The, 76
Brett, Lily, 68
Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, The, 23
Bring the Noise, 79
Broch, Hermann, 72
Brody, Leslie, 72
Brown, James, 72
Burke, Shannon, 72
Bury This, 64
Cacho, Lydia, 38–39
Caldwell, Gail, 76
Capitalism Papers, The, 77
Careless Rambles, 50
Carpenter, Don, 4–5
84
Cassada, 80
Cataract, 71
Cementville, 66
Challenger, Melanie, 72
Chomsky, Noam, 72
Christensen, Thomas, 72
Clare, John, 50
Cobain, Ian, 72
Cocaína, 34–35
Cocaine Nights, 71
Cohen, Alexis, 73
Cohen, Nancy L., 73
Cold Mountain Poems, 81
Complicated Kindness, A, 82
Compromise Cake, 67
Condran, Jeffrey, 31
Conescu, William, 68
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut, 76
Connell, Evan S., 55, 73
Constant Heart, The, 61
Consulting the Genius of the Place, 75
Coyote, Peter, 73
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience, 76
Daly, Erin Marie, 28–29
Daly, Linda, 57
David, Anna, 65
Deeply Rooted, 74
Delirium, 72
Demirel, Selçuk, 71
Devall, Bill, 78
Devereaux-Nelson, Robin, 70
DeWitt, Dave, 20–21
Di Cintio, Marcello, 70
Distant Neighbors, 16–17
Disturbances in the Field, 80
Ditenhafer, Bill, 76
Djerassi, Carl, 22
Dōgen Zenji, 73
Dōgen’s Genjo Koan, 73
Dorson, W. Malcolm, 46
Doughty, Mike, 73
Dovlatov, Sergei, 66, 73
Down Among the Dead Men, 83
Down and Derby, 73
Drengson, Alan, 78
Dunlap, Susan, 73
Eason, John, 34–35
Ebenkamp, Paul, 8, 83
Ecology of Wisdom, The, 78
Eden Hunter, The, 75
Egerton, Owen, 73
Elsewhere, California, 75
Empire Antarctica, 67
Empires of Food, 74
Entertaining Disasters, 81
Ethical Butcher, The, 51
Etiquette of Freedom, The, 81
Every Night’s a Saturday Night, 76
Everyone Says That at the End of the World, 73
Evison, Jonathan, 73
Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West, The, 15
Extravagant Hunger, An, 83
Eye of the Raven, 63
Fading Hearts on the River, 10–11
Falk, Constance L., 76
Fight Song, 78
Flynn, Laura M., 73
Forest House, The, 74
Four Corners, 42–43
Frame, Janet, 52–53, 69
Francis, Gavin, 67
Fraser, Evan D. G., 74
Fraser, Joelle, 74
Friday at Enrico’s, 4–5
From the Forest, 77
Full Ridiculous, The, 40
Gaiman, Neil, 78
Gardner, Leonard, 71
Gary Snyder Reader, The, 81
Generation Rx, 28–29
Geni, Abby, 68
Ghosts of Afghanistan, 81
Gibb, Lorna, 15
Gillespie, William, 74
Ginsberg, Allen, 78
Giono, Jean, 74
Glassgold, Peter, 74
God’s Doodle, 67
Gold Diggers, 74
Goldberg, Burton, 83
Good Fairies of New York, The, 78
Good Indian Girls, 67
Gray, Charlotte, 74
Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of
Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, 76
Haenel, Yannick, 74
Hakuin Zenji, 30
Half in Love, 80
Hamilton, Lisa M., 74
Hancock, Larry, 66
Handmaking America, 75
Hannah Coulter, 71
Hargraves, John, 72
Harrison, Jim, 81
Hartmann, Thom, 82, 83
Harvkey, Mike, 36–37
Hass, Robert, 8, 50, 83
Haxton, Brooks, 10–11
Heart Sutra, The, 79
Here Comes the Night, 6–7
Herself When She’s Missing, 79
Hickman, Tom, 67
Hicks, Bill, 74
Hidden History of the JFK Assassination, The, 68
Hjortsberg, William, 74
Hobhouse, Henry, 74
Holbert, Bruce, 26–27
Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar, A, 79
Hollis, Edward, 66
Index
Holman, J. Martin, 76
Hooper, Meredith, 74
Hop Alley, 12–13
Hope for Film, 44–45
Hope, Ted, 44–45
Horack, Skip, 75
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, & Rent Boys, 82
Hour of Lead, The, 26–27
How the World Works, 72
Howe, Sean, 76
Hughes, Jobie, 75
Hugo-Bader, Jacek, 75
Hummel, Maria, 65
Hunt, Terry, 75
Hunters, The, 80
I Just Hitched in from the Coast, 77
I’m In the Band, 83
Ice Bridge, The, 56
If Only You People Could Follow Directions, 64
Imagination in Place, 71
In the Course of Human Events, 36–37
In the Memorial Room, 69
In Violet’s Wake, 70
Inconvenient People, 59
Iris Has Free Time, 68, 81
Irrepressible, 72
Ison, Tara, 75
It All Turns on Affection, 71
Ivey, Bill, 75
Jackson, Wes, 75
Jacobs, Michael, 70, 75
Jarrettsville, 78
Jayber Crow, 72
Jesus Land, 80
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 75
Joe Jones, 76
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks, 82
Johnson, Dana, 75
Jordan, Neil, 75
Joseph, Rajiv, 76
Joy of Man’s Desiring, 74
Jubilee Hitchhiker, 74
Kara Was Here, 68
Kaufman, Anthony, 44–45
Kawabata, Yasunari, 76
Keyhole Factory, 74
Keys, Bobby, 75
Kirschenmann, Frederick L., 76
Kissed by a Fox, 82
Knapp, Caroline, 76
Kneale, Matthew, 64
Koch, Stephen, 76
Kore, 82
Krassner, Paul, 76
LaBute, Neil, 76
Lament for the Makers, 77
Lamott, Anne, 76
Lamprell, Mark, 40
Lankavatara Sutra, The, 79
Lantz, Kenneth, 81
Last Animal, The, 68
Last Novel, The, 77
Last Pilgrimage, The, 57
Legacy of Secrecy, 82
Lenney, Dinah, 9
Lethem, Jonathan, 4–5, 76
Lightning People, 72
Linton, Magnus, 34–35
Lipo, Carl, 75
Literary Bible, A, 79
Little Russian, The, 80
Livers, Paulette, 66
Lola Bensky, 68
Lonely Werewolf Girl, 78
Lonesome Animals, 27
Long Time Leaving, 72
Longest Winter, The, 74
Looking for Transwonderland, 80
Loren, BK, 76
Lost Son, 72
Lourie, Bruce, 81
Love All the People, 74
Love, Inshallah, 77
Lovesong for India, A, 75
Mabanckou, Alain, 77
MacDonald, D. R., 56
Madonna and Me, 71
Maitland, Sara, 77
Malaparte, Curzio, 77
Mander, Jerry, 77
Map of Enough, The, 64
Maran, Meredith, 77
Markson, David, 77
Marriage Act, The, 64
Martin, R. J., Jr., 82
Maso, Carole, 77
Mattu, Ayesha, 77
May, Molly, 64
Maznavi, Nura, 77
Mazzarella, Silvester, 78
McClanahan, Ed, 77
McGuire, Judy, 77
Memoirs of a Porcupine, 77
Memories from Cherry Harvest, 82
Memory Palace, The, 66
Merwin, W. S., 77
Messenger, The, 74
Michael, Anne, 71
Michaels, Jesse, 70
Middlebrook, Diane, 22
Millar, Martin, 65, 78
Miller, Saiya, 69, 78
Minding the Earth, Mending the World, 14
Miniatures of a Zen Master, 71
Ministry of Thin, 41
Modernist Women Poets, 8
Mohr, Joshua, 78
Monroy, Liza, 64
Moore, Michael, 82
Morgan, Bill, 78
Mother and Child, 77
Motherland, 65
Mountains and Rivers Without End, 81
Mrs. Bridge, 73
Murch, Walter, 77
Murgia, Michela, 78
Murphy, Susan, 14
Naess, Arne, 78
Naiman, Arthur, 72
Nathan Coulter, 72
Nature as Measure, 75
Nelson, Jessica Hendry, 64
Nixon, Cornelia, 78
No Footprints, 73
No Man’s War, 24–25
Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf, 69, 78
Nova, Craig, 60–61
O’Reilly, Terry, 78
Oakes, Kaya, 78
Object Parade, The, 9
Octopus Summer, 46
Official Book of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll Lists,
The, 77
Old Capital, The, 76
On Dupont Circle, 81
On Extinction, 72
One D.O.A., One on the Way, 79
Original Death, 62–63, 69
Orkney, 48–49
Pancake, Anne, 78
Paris Was a Woman, 83
Past, The, 75
Patriot, The, 55
Patterson, Victoria, 69, 79
Pattison, Eliot, 62–63, 69
Peerless Four, The, 69
People’s Advocate, The, 69
Phillips, Scott, 12–13, 58
Pitiful Criminals, 32
Pitt, Leonard, 79
Place in Time, A, 71
Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century,
A, 82
Pohrt, Tom, 50
Points for a Compass Rose, 73
Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn, 30
Porter, Bill, 79. See also Red Pine
Portes, Andrea, 64
Practice of the Wild, The, 81
Prague Summer, 31
Precious Cargo, 20–21
Pregnant Butch, 66
Pritchett, Laura, 18–19
Prizes, 53
Program or Be Programmed, 79
Pure Cure, The, 83
Pushkin Hills, 66
Pyne, Daniel, 79
85
Index
Quiet Streets of Winslow, The, 65
Radical Reinvention, 78
Railtracks, 71
Rake, 58
Rebello, Stephen, 79
Red Pine, 79. See also Porter, Bill
Reed, Berlin, 51
Reynolds, Simon, 79
Ricketts, Angela, 24–25
Rimas, Andrew, 74
Road to Heaven, 79
Robber of Memories, The, 70
Robison, Mary, 79
Rockaway, 75
Rosenberg, David, 79
Rosenblum, Sarah Terez, 79
Rudolph, Wally, 42–43
Rushkoff, Douglas, 79
Sackville, Amy, 48–49
Saknussemm, Kris, 80
Salt to Summit, 71
Salter, James, 80
Saro-Wiwa, Noo, 80
Saviano, Roberto, 38–39
Scheeres, Julia, 80
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 80
Sea Monkeys, 80
Search Party, 82
Secret History of Torture, A, 72
Seeds of Change, 74
Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder,
The, 78
Selvin, Joel, 6–7
Sex and Punishment, 71
Sex, Death and Oysters, 83
Sexton, Linda Gray, 80
Shadow Warfare, 66
Sheehan, Daniel, 69
Sherman, Susan, 80
Shuker, Carl, 80
86
Sidhu, Ranbir Singh, 67
Silver Lotus, The, 82
Slanky, 73
Slavery, Inc., 38–39
Sleeping Where I Fall, 73
Slow Death by Rubber Duck, 81
Smith, Janna M., 80
Smith, Rick, 81
Smyles, Iris, 68, 81
Snellings, Lilibet, 65
Snyder, Gary, 16–17, 78, 81
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 81
Solzhenitsyn, Stephan, 81
Song of Myself, 83
Speaking Treason Fluently, 83
Spiller, Nancy, 67, 81
Srodes, James, 81
Stars Go Blue, 18–19
Statues That Walked, The, 75
Steele, Jonathan, 81
Steinbeck, Thomas, 82
Sterry, David Henry, 82
Stolen Pleasures, 71
Strange As This Weather Has Been, 78
Stuckey, Priscilla, 82
Suitcase, The, 73
Summers, A. K., 66
Suspicion Nation, 2–3
Swallow the Ocean, 73
Szczeklik, Andrzei, 82
Tennant, Mike, 78
Theft, 76
Theory of Small Earthquakes, A, 77
They Live, 76
This Day, 70
This River, 72
This Vacant Paradise, 79
Toews, Miriam, 82
Tomorrow, Tom, 82
Too Much Crazy, 82
Towards Another Summer, 53
Troy, Judy, 65
True Tales of Lust & Love, 65
Trueblood, Valerie, 82
Turney, Chris, 82
Two-Part Inventions, 80
Typewriter Is Holy, The, 78
Ultimate Sacrifice, 83
Uncanny Valley, 83
Valenti, Jessica, 71
Vandenburgh, Jane, 54, 82
Wachspress, Amy, 82
Waddell, Norman, 30
Waldron, Lamar, 68, 82, 83
Walker, Rebecca, 83
Walks Through Lost Paris, 79
Walls, 70
Walsh, Robb, 83
Weiss, Andrea, 83
Weschler, Lawrence, 83
Westbury, Chris F., 23
Wexler, Stuart, 66
Whispering Bodies, 70
White Fever, 75
White Like Me, 83
Whitman, Walt, 83
Williams, Michelle, 83
Wise, Sarah, 59
Wise, Tim, 83
Woolf, Emma, 41
Wriglesworth, Chad, 16–17
Writing on the Wall, The, 80
Wrong Dog Dream, The, 54
Wynters, Sharyn, 83
Young Ovid, 22
Yseult, Sean, 83
Zimmerman, Anne, 83
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