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COUNTERPOINT
SOFT SKULL
SPRING 2013
COUNTERPOINT
Orkney
“Sackville reminds
us of the pleasure
in being carried to
far‑off worlds by
words alone.”
—The New York Times
Book Review
Amy Sackville
Following her wonderful debut, The Still Point, Sackville returns with
a strangely beautiful short novel about love and sex and obsession. A
literature professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years
his junior, and at her request he 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 white-haired young wife.
They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic
and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, known as “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.
Praise for The Still Point
“Many novels explore the sliding planes, the archaeology of past, present
and future and the still points where the fabric of time is rent and
characters slip through. This is a lot to juggle, especially in a debut novel,
but Amy Sackville pulls it off—thrillingly, seductively, dreamily. Not only
do all the moving parts hold together, but a new fictional voice emerges
here as well; not harsh, brash and shiny, not overly self-conscious and
sentimental—somewhere between the calm beauty we expect from novels
that invoke Victorian England and the raw edges of modern life.”
—Los Angeles Times
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Of Note
• The Still Point was long-listed for the 2010
Orange Prize, and was the winner of the John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• It was also selected as one of the Financial
Times’ Books of the Year and one of The
Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year
for 2010
© Peter Schiazza
Yesterday morning, at home, I woke beside her for the first time. Well, that is not quite true; last night I slept
beside her for the first time, but by dawn I had woken beside her a dozen times, a hundred times, sometimes
from a sleep so shallow I couldn’t call it waking. Again and again I turned to find another body in my bed, an
unfamiliar warmth alongside my own, and wondered where I was and what I had done, before remembering and
sinking again into a grateful doze—only to wake again moments later. Each time, as the brown abstraction of my
surroundings resolved into the ordinary shapes of my own bedroom, there was still that body beside me, a living
residue of an impossibly optimistic dream. All night, the rise and fall of her form, the snuffle and snore.
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Amy Sackville was born in 1981. She studied English and Theatre Studies at
Leeds, and went on to an MPhil in English at Exeter College, Oxford, and an MA in
Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmiths. She teaches creative writing at the University
of Kent.
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“A quiet but significant debut about identity and family.”
—Financial Times
“Amy Sackville’s The Still Point, a story of turn-of-the-century arctic
pioneering and contemporary emotional frozen states, has an Eliotic
calm that seems almost uncanny in a debut writer, and a narrative
voice that’s subtle and original.” —The Times Literary Supplement
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The Wrong Dog Dream
A True Romance
Think you found
your perfect life?
Think again . . .
Jane Vandenburgh
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 had 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 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, 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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Praise for A Pocket History of
Sex in the Twentieth Century
“Intense, controlled, a memoir-as-feverdream.”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“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.”
—The Washington Post
Praise for Jane Vandenburgh’s other books
“Rarely has a first novel so beautifully communicated the intelligence and despair of the insane as Vandenburgh’s exquisite
Failure to Zigzag.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“The Physics of Sunset admirably grapples with the idea that doomed passion can have a place in our lives . . . A curious mix of
breathtaking erotic defiance and unabashed romantic existentialism—much like adultery itself.” —New York Newsday
“Jane Vandenburgh’s ability to clarify the wheres and hows of writing fiction, her gentle instructions on where to begin, how
to listen as the story and its characters reveal themselves to us, how to soar as a novelist while keeping things simple and real,
almost make me want to write another novel.” —Anne Lamott on Architecture of the Novel
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Jane Vandenburgh is the award-winning author of two novels, Failure to
Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset, as well as Architecture of the Novel: 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. A native of Berkeley, she has returned to
live with her family in the West, and with Wayne Thiebaud, her new dog.
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Spiritual American Trash
Prisoner of Zion
Portraits from the Margins of Art & Faith
Mormons, Muslims, and Other Misadventures
Greg Bottoms
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Sometimes madness encapsulates the most
beguiling beauty
Out of a desire for a life without fear, Carrier
challenges us to reconsider terrorism and retaliation
In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the
examination of eight “outsider artists” and inhabits the spirit of their
work and stories in engaging vignettes. From the janitor who created
a holy throne room out of scraps in a garage, to the lonely wartime
mother who filled her home with driftwood replicas of Bible scenes,
Bottoms illustrates the peculiar grace in madness.
Using facts as scaffolding he constructs intimate narratives
around the artists, painting their poor and difficult circumstances on
the outskirts of American society and demonstrating their struggles’
influence on their largely undiscovered art. Both mournful and
celebratory, these profiles embrace eight compulsive creators with
empathy and visceral sensory details.
Each sentence reads with the cadence of a preacher who engages
the art of the spirit and passion that often strays into obsession.
Raised in the working-class South as a devout Christian with a
deeply troubled brother, Bottoms understands how these outsiders
“made art for a higher power and for themselves.”
Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11, it became
clear the United States would invade Afghanistan. Writer and
“This American Life” radio producer Scott Carrier decided to go
there too. He wanted to see for himself: Who are these fanatics,
the fundamentalists, the Taliban, and the like? What do they want?
In his new book, Prisoner of Zion, Carrier writes about his
adventures, but also about the bigger problem. Having grown up
among Mormons in Salt Lake City, he argues it will never work to
attack true believers head-on. The faithful thrive on persecution.
Somehow, he thinks, we need to find a way—inside ourselves—to
rise above fear and anger.
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“Driven by painful memories of a schizophrenic brother who had visions
and turned to Christian fundamentalist thinking, Bottoms sought out
religious outsider artists, hoping to discover whether artistic expression
helps relieve the suffering of visionaries who hover between madness and
ecstasy . . . His poignant book, imbued with troubling thoughts of his
brother’s illness and his own uneasiness about his motives in seeking out
marginalized artists, ends on a positive note: the creative process does
indeed have life-affirming powers.” —Publishers Weekly
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An essayist, memoirist, critic, and story writer, Greg Bottoms is
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© Amy Miller
Sunday morning, 1962, a family restaurant. A husband, wife, and two
young sons are eating lunch after attending church. The mother is dressed
like Jackie Kennedy—white pillbox hat, long white gloves. The father
wears a black suit like Joe Friday on Dragnet. The boys have black suits
like their father’s, and crew cuts, freckles, and glasses that are taped
together and hang sideways on their noses. The boys are uncomfortable
in their Sunday clothes. The father is uncomfortable with his family. The
mother asks her sons, “Well, what did you learn from the sermon this
morning?”
“The minister was saying God listens to our prayers,” says the
younger son, age five, “so I was praying, asking God to move the light
hanging from the ceiling, as a sign. Nothing happened.”
“I don’t believe in God,” says the older son, age six.
The mother is shocked. “Don’t say that. There most certainly is a God.”
“It’s a lie,” the boy says. “There is no God.” He’s angry.
• Swallowing the Past was long-listed for the
Frank O’Connor Story Prize
• Bottoms has contributed to Bookforum,
Killing the Buddha, Salon, and Oxford
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Scott Carrier is a writer, photographer, and radio producer. He was
born, raised and still lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. His print articles and
photos have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Mother
Jones. Carrier’s radio stories have been broadcast by NPR’s “All Things
Considered” and “Day to Day,” APM’s “The Story,” “Savvy Traveler,” and
“Hearing Voices from NPR,” and PRI’s “This American Life.” He’s also the
author of Running After Antelope.
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Cold Mountain Poems
I Told You So:
Gore Vidal Talks Politics
Twenty-Four Poems by Han-Shan
Interviews with Jon Wiener
Translated by Gary snyder
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In 1953, Gary Snyder returned to the Bay Area and, at age 23,
enrolled in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley,
to study Asian languages and culture. He intensified his study of
Chinese and Japanese, and taking up the challenge of one of his
professors, Chen Shih-hsiang, he began to work on translating
a largely unknown poet by the name of Han Shan, a writer with
whom the professor thought Snyder might feel a special affinity.
The results were magical. As Patrick Murphy noted, “These poems
are something more than translations precisely because Snyder
renders them as a melding of Han Shan’s Chinese Ch’an Buddhist
mountain spirit trickster mentality and Snyder’s own mountain
wilderness meditation and labor activities.” The suite of 24 poems
was published in the 1958 issue of The Evergreen Review, and the
career of one of America’s greatest poets was launched.
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written out by hand in italic by Michael McPherson. We are doing a
new augments edition based on the old, with a new design, a preface
by Lu Ch’iu-yin, and an afterword by Mr. Snyder where he discusses
how he came to this work and what it meant to his development as a
writer and Buddhist.
On May 11, 2012, for the Stronach Memorial Lecture at The
University of California, more than fifty years after his days there
as a student, Snyder offered a public lecture reflecting on Chinese
poetry, Han Shan, and his continuing work as a poet and translator.
This remarkable occasion was recorded and we are including a CD
of it in our edition, making this the most definitive edition of Cold
Mountain Poems ever published.
“The four most beautiful words in our common
language: ‘I told you so.’”
“I exist to say, ‘No, that isn’t the way it is,’ or ‘What you believe
to be true is not true for the following reasons.’ I am a master of
the obvious. I mean, if there’s a hole in the road, I will, viciously,
outrageously, say there’s a hole in the road and if you don’t fill it in
you’ll break the axle of your car. One is not loved for being helpful.”
Gore Vidal, one of America’s foremost essayists, screenwriters,
and novelists, died July 31, 2012. He was, in addition, a terrific conversationalist. Dick Cavett once described him as “the best talker
since Oscar Wilde.” And Vidal was never more eloquent, or caustic,
than when let loose on his favorite topic: the history and politics of
the United States.
This book is made up from four interviews conducted with
his long-time interlocutor, the writer and radio host Jon Wiener, in
which Vidal grapples with matters evidently close to his heart: the
history of the American Empire, the rise of the National Security
State, and his own life in politics, both as a commentator and
candidate.
The interviews cover a twenty-year span, from 1988 to 2008,
when Vidal was at the height of his powers. His extraordinary
facility for developing an argument, tracing connections between
past and present, and drawing on an encyclopedic knowledge of
America’s place in the world, are all on full display. And, of course,
it being Gore Vidal, an ample sprinkling of gloriously acerbic oneliners is also provided.
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Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco on May 8, 1930. He won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and was elected to The American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987. In addition to the Bollingen Prize
and the Ruth Lily Award, he won The Wallace Stevens Prize from the
American Academy of Poetry in 2012. He lives in the foothills of the Sierra
on a homestead he established there more than forty years ago.
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Gore Vidal was the author of numerous novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and essays. A winner of the National Book Award, he was also a tireless political activist and, running as Democratic candidate for Congress in upstate New
York, received more votes for that district than any Democrat in a half-century.
Jon Wiener is a contributing editor to The Nation and a professor of history
at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of How We Forgot the
Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America, Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon
FBI Files, and Professors, Politics and Pop, and the editor (with Tom Hayden) of
Conspiracy in the Streets.
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The Last Pilgrimage
My Mother’s Life and Our Journey to
Saying Goodbye
A heartbreaking
look at the former
First Lady of Los
Angeles and her
family’s brave fight
against cancer
Linda Daly
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 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. All along Linda stayed by her mother’s side, facing the
fear of the unknown, as she struggled with both her mother’s diagnosis
and her own lifelong issues with faith and religion. Out of choices and
almost out of time, Linda and her mother put their rocky faith in one
last pilgrimage: a visit to a Brazilian faith healer, John of God, during
his residence in upstate New York.
Fleeing the dubious practices of the faith healer, and with
Nancy’s time quickly running out, Linda and her siblings embarked
on a final road trip home, in a rented, unruly RV, to bring Nancy back
to her beloved City of Angels. What Linda learned on their final pilgrimage together would change her forever and speaks to the issues
faced by many adult sons and daughters 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.
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Praise for The Last Pilgrimage
“This is a story of love and strength, the
importance of family and friends, and
mostly about a woman who refused to see
the bottle as half empty even when it was
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—Carole Bayer Sager
• Daly has contributed to the Los Angeles
Times Magazine
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Even though Western medical intervention had given her much more time than had originally been thought,
my goal-oriented mom decided to look elsewhere. For her, there was another world of available options. All her
previous dabbling in the world of alternative cures was just practice for what the next few months would hold.
All the recommendations we had gotten before were dusted off and invited in to conquer the house of cancer. The
time had arrived for her to fight from a different place now. She continued with a renewed fervor, her exploration
in alternative ways to cure her cancer and calm her soul.
The time had come for a real miracle.
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Linda Daly
served as the environmental expert at the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and
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.
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The Ice Bridge
New work by the
critically acclaimed
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Breton Road
A Novel
D. R. MacDonald
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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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, a “book of heart-stopping beauty”
by Alistair MacLeod, and became a national bestseller. His second novel, Lauchlin of
the Bad Heart, was long-listed for the Giller Prize. MacDonald teaches at Stanford
University, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and summers in Nova Scotia.
“Compelling in its beauty and set against a
landscape that is depicted with exquisite
care, this novel crackles with suspense and
will transport the reader to the heights and
depths of intimacy.”
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The stars were like ice-points . . . Only faintly was she aware of a car curving down the mountain road she had
just travelled, it seemed almost alien in the stillness, slowing as it gained the causeway and climbed to the bridge
above. She could hear the soft rumble of its exhaust, and then a door seemed to open. She looked up at the figure
at the railing backlit by headlights, something in his arms. He flung it upward as if releasing a bird, and Anna saw
a silhouette of legs scrambling in air, the animal giving out a single, tortured bark as it plummeted, turning over
several times before; with a tiny splash, it penetrated the sinuous currents beneath the bridge.
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wonderful stories have been a revelation to me . . . MacDonald is
an extraordinary writer.” —Richard Ford
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Between My Father and the King
Names for the Sea
New and Uncollected Stories
Strangers in Iceland
JANET FRAME
Sarah Moss
Previously uncollected—and in many cases
unpublished—stories by the brilliant Janet Frame
This new collection of twenty-eight 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.
One story, “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, NZ Listener, New Zealand 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 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.” —The Dominion Post (New Zealand)
“A poetic soul has rarely come better disguised.” —Jane Campion
“One of the most sensitve, forthright, and adventurous illuminators of
human consciousness.” —Booklist
© Bill Beavis
Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained
by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an
advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on
a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life
in Kent. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland’s economic
collapse, which halved the value of her salary, by the eruption of
Eyjafjallajökull, and by a collection of new friends, including a poet
who saw the only bombs to fall on Iceland in 1943, a woman who
spoke to elves, and a chef who guided Sarah’s family around the
intricacies of Icelandic cuisine.
Moss explored hillsides of boiling mud and volcanic craters and
learned to drive like an Icelander on the unsurfaced roads that link
remote farms and fishing villages in the far north. She watched the
northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds, and
as the weeks and months went by, she and her family learned new
ways to live.
Names for the Sea is her compelling, beautiful, and very funny
account of living in a country poised on the edge of Europe, where
modernization clashes with living folklore and ancient ways.
Praise for Names for the Sea
“It’s then that you realize this isn’t the usual hack piece about the
foreigner’s pratfalls with no speaking da lingo, etc. This is a work of
humour, for sure, and I loved her puncturing of Icelanders tales of
derring-do, the obsession with pride and shame. More than that, it’s a
work of strange intelligence that jars like poetry . . . it has beauty enough
to feel fictional.” —The Times (UK)
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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 which inspired Jane Campion’s internationally acclaimed film.
Throughout her long career, Frame received a wide range of awards, including
honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Literature.
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“One of the most enjoyable travel books I’ve read . . .
this book [has] beauty enough to feel fictional.”
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Cold earth
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Sarah Moss
was educated at Oxford University and is associate
professor of creative writing at Warwick University. She is the author of
two critically acclaimed novels, Cold Earth and Night Walking, which was
selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and is the coauthor of
Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009–10 as a visiting lecturer at the
University of Iceland and now lives in west Cornwall.
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All the Dead Yale Men
A Novel
The long-awaited
sequel to Nova’s
classic novel
The Good Son
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 by 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 Mackinnons’ 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,
his 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. This novel heralds the arrival of a new American
classic.
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• Nova is the author of thirteen books and his
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Praise for The Good Son
“The Good Son is the work of an artist in full command, and those of you entering it for the first time can only be envied.”
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
“An exquisitely delineated battle between father and son . . . The structure and the language of this novel are almost without
fault.” —John Irving, The New York Times Book Review
Praise for The Constant Heart
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Craig Nova is the award-winning author of twelve novels and one autobiography.
His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine,
and Men’s Journal, among others. He has received an Award in Literature from the
American Academy of 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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“Superb in prose and its evocations of character and nature, The Constant Heart is a wonderful novel by a writer whose
range continues to dazzle me. As a writer, I marveled at 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
“Nova has again produced expertly drawn characters and carefully measured, suspenseful prose with some surprises, all
with undertones orbiting around Einstein’s cosmological constant theory of relativity.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
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“[A] meditative, philosophical, and beautifully realized novel about
the nature of embattled American manhood. Both Jake and his
father are deeply sympathetic characters, and Nova celebrates
perhaps most fundamentally here the compassionate and honorable
way they treat the women in their lives. This is a novel of deep
maturity and thoughtfulness.” —Library Journal
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The Guy Davenport Reader
Inconvenient People
Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
Guy Davenport
Selected with an afterword by Erik Reece
Sarah WISE
“The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center,
between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach
and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a
bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity,
and destiny, is before all else a difference of imagination.
The imagination is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and
must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and
to trace its ways we need to re-educate our eyes.” —Guy Davenport
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Modernism spawned the greatest explosion of art, architecture, literature, painting, music, and dance of any era since the Renaissance.
In its long unfolding, from Yeats, Pound, and Eliot to Picasso and
Matisse, from Diaghilev and Balanchine to Cunningham and
Stravinsky and Cage, the work of Modernism has provided the cultural vocabulary of our time.
One of the last pure Modernists, Guy Davenport was perhaps
the finest stylist and most protean craftsman of his generation.
Publishing more than two dozen books of fiction, essays, poetry, and
translations over a career of more than forty years, he was awarded
a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990. In poetry and prose, Davenport
drew upon the most archaic and the most modern of influences to
create what he called “assemblages”—lush experiments that often
defy classification. Woven throughout is a radical and coherent
philosophy of desire, design, and human happiness. But never
before have Davenport’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations
been collected together in one compendium. Eight years after his
death, The Guy Davenport Reader offers the first true introduction
to the far-ranging work of this neglected genius.
A captivating look into the social history of madness
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. Girl, Interrupted is only a recent
example. And 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 manifest 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 constitutes
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
liberty and freedom of people who were perhaps simply “difficult,”
but were turned into victims of this unscrupulous trade.
Filled with stories almost impossible to believe, this book is
one the reader will not soon forget.
Praise for The Italian Boy
“Wise lights up a very dark chapter of London’s history . . . Her
achievement allows us to grasp some of the terrible secrets those
mysteries concealed.” —The Boston Globe
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Guy Davenport was born in South Carolina and lived for more than forty years
Sarah Wise studied at Birkbeck College at the University of London.
in Lexington, Kentucky, where he died in 2005. The author of more than twenty books,
including Geography of the Imagination, Eclogues, and The Death of Picasso, he was also a
distinguished professor at the University of Kentucky and a MacArthur Fellow in 1990.
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 Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Nonfiction. She lives in
London.
Erik Reece, himself a student of Davenport and now his literary executor, is also the
author of Lost Mountain, An American Gospel, and Field Work.
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asylum after recovering from a breakdown
© Katie Vandyck
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Rake
Michael Connelly
called Scott Phillips
“dark, dangerous,
and important”
A Novel
Scott Phillips
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 primetime shows in France. And this newfound fame, as enriching as it
is unexpected, is not wasted on Crandall, who is 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 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 is the latest noir classic from the author of The Ice Harvest.
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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Fiction, and was a finalist for the Edgar
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Award
• This will be published in October by Editions
La Branche in France.
• Rake is currently under film option to Les
Films Arianne
Praise for The Adjustment
“This is Wayne’s story, and what makes
it memorable is his hulking presence,
drifting through the world as hungry
and blank-eyed as a shark . . . There’s
something compelling about that sort of
rage, about its compression, its control
. . . But 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.”
Excerpt from Rake
You know me, or more precisely you have the distinct impression that you know me; it probably amounts to the same
thing, from your point of view at least. For five years I played Dr. Crandall Taylor, dissolute, randy, ne’er-do-well
bastard son of Senator Harwood Taylor on an American soap opera called Ventura County. No one paid the show
any attention at all back home, where it ran five days a week at eleven in the morning, watched only by the loneliest
and horniest of housewives and the laziest of college students. In Europe, though, they had the bright idea of
running us in the evening, right at the start of prime time, and to everyone’s surprise we turned into a massive hit.
With each one-hour episode cut in half, our five-year run will last ten over here, and though the show’s been out of
production for three years we’re still a success in most of Europe, with several years’ worth of episodes still to run.
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in France.
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“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.”
“Written in pitch-perfect noir form.” —Library Journal
“Sly and worthy . . . Crime fans, especially those who favor a vivid sense of
place and time, will love it.” —Booklist
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© Tex Lebeauf
“The author’s unapologetic depiction of a thoroughly bad egg will appeal
to hard-boiled fans who don’t need redeeming features to become
engaged with a character.” —Publishers Weekly
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Castaways of the
Image Planet
Stolen Glimpses,
Captive Shadows
Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle
Writing on Film 2002–2012
geoffrey o’brien
geoffrey o’brien
“A series of encounters and re-encounters with
movies of several decades . . . A smooth after-dinner
drink.” —Publishers Weekly
One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years’ worth of
essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention
of cinema to contemporary F/X aesthetics and from Shakespeare on
film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 1930’s screwball comedies,
Hong Kong martial arts movies, to the roots of spy movies, and the
televising of Clinton’s grand jury testimony.
O’Brien emphasizes the unpredictable interactions between
film as a medium apt for expressing the most private dreams and
film as the mass literature of the modern world. Several of the
pieces are profiles of individual actors or directors— Orson Welles,
Michael Powell, Ed Wood, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock,
Dana Andrews, The Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby—whose careers
are probed to look for the point where obsession meets public mythmaking.
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Praise for Geoffrey O’Brien
“No one writes more thoughtfully, fair-mindedly and elegantly about
film these days than Geoffrey O’Brien. In a lucid if understated manner,
he keeps piling insight upon insight until you have to gasp at his overall
brilliance, erudition and mastery of the critical enterprise.”
—Philip Lopate
Splendors and surprises of the movie-watching
experience, explored in depth
“We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also
moving fast,” writes Geoffrey O’Brien in the beginning of Stolen
Glimpses, Captive Shadows. This collection—gathering the best of
a decade’s worth of writing on film by one of our most bracing and
imaginative critics—ranges freely over the past, present, and future
of the movies, from the primal visual poetry of the silent era to the
dizzying permutations of the merging digital age.
Here are thirty-eight searching essays on contemporary
blockbusters like Spider-Man and Minority Report; recent innovative
triumphs like The Tree of Life and Beasts of the Southern Wild; and the
intricacies of genre mythmaking from Chinese martial arts films
to the horror classics of Val Lewton. O’Brien probes the visionary
art of classic filmmakers—von Sternberg, Fod, Cocteau, Kurosawa,
Godard—and the implications of such diverse recent work as
Farenheit 9/11, The Passion of Christ, and The Sopranos. Each of
these pieces is alert to the always-surprising intersections between
screen life and real life, and the way that film from the beginning
has shaped our sense of memory and history.
Praise for Geoffrey O’Brien
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“Geoffrey O’Brien displays an impressive personal scholarship that
reflects both an emotional and intellectual reaction to Hollywood movies
and popular culture. This book is a must-read for anyone interested
in serious thinking about mass entertainment and the wider shores of
cinema.“ —Molly Haskell
“O’Brien presents a series of encounters and re-encounters with movies of
the past seceral decades . . . A smooth after-dinner drink. —Kirkus
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Geoffrey O’Brien is
editor-in-chief of the Library of America and a
regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His latest books are Early
Autumn and The Fall of the House of Walworth (September 2012). He is a widely
published poet, critic, editor, and cultural historian and has been honored with a
Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New
York Institute for the Humanities. He lives in New York City.
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The People’s Advocate
The Life and Legal History of America’s
Most Fearless Public Interest Lawyer
The inside story
of over a dozen
landmark cases of
the last forty years
Daniel sheEHan
The People’s Advocate is the autobiography of American Constitutional
Trial Attorney Daniel Sheehan. Sheehan traces his personal journey
from his working-class roots through Harvard Law School and his
initial career in private practice. His early disenchantment led to his
return for further study at Harvard Divinity School. Eventually his
role as president and chief trial counselor for the famous Washington,
D.C.–based Christic Institute would help define his role as America’s
preeminent cause lawyer.
In The People’s Advocate, Sheehan details “the inside story” of over
a dozen historically significant American legal cases of the twentieth
century, all told from the point of view of a central lawyer. The
remarkable cases covered in the book include both The Pentagon Papers
Case of 1971 and The Watergate Burglary Case of 1973. In addition,
Sheehan served as the chief attorney on The Karen Silkwood Case in
1976, which additionally revealed the C.I.A.’s Israeli Desk had been
smuggling 98 percent bomb-grade plutonium to the State of Israel
and to Iran. In 1984, he was the chief trial counsel on The American
Sanctuary Movement Case, establishing the right of American church
workers to provide assistance to Central American political refugees
fleeing Guatemalan and Salvadoran death squads. His involvement
with the sanctuary movement ultimately led to Sheehan’s famous
Iran/Contra Federal Civil Racketeering Case against the Reagan/
Bush administration, which he investigated, initiated, filed, and then
litigated. The resulting Iran/Contra Scandal nearly brought down
that administration, leading Congress to consider the impeachment
of over a dozen of the top-ranking officials of the Reagan/Bush
administration.
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The key historically significant cases in The People’s Advocate:
The American News Journalist’s Confidential News
Source Case, 1968–1972
Eisenstadt v. Baird, 1969–1972
The Pentagon Papers Case, 1971
The Attica Prison Riot, 1971
The Watergate Burglary Case, 1972–1974
The Wounded Knee Occupation Case, 1973–1974
The Karen Silkwood Case, 1974–1979
The Three-Mile Island Case, 1979
The Greensboro Massacre Case, 1979–1985
The First-Degree Murder Defense of Mississippi
Mayor Eddie Carthan, 1981–1982
The American Sanctuary Movement Case in Texas,
1984
The Iran/Contra Case, 1986–1991
The Colonel James Sabow Murder Case, 1991–2000
Daniel Sheehan’s forty-year legal career is distinguished by his aggressive
and successful work as a federal civil rights attorney. He graduated from Harvard Law
School, where he founded the Harvard Civil Rights Law Review and later returned to
study at the Harvard Divinity School. He was the president and general counsel for
the Christic Institute, as well as the co-director of Mikhail Gorbachev’s State of the
World Forum. He is still active in public interest law and teaches at the University of
California, Santa Cruz.
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Search Party
New stories
of astonishing
grace in an
unpredictable
world
Stories of Rescue
Valerie Trueblood
In the epigraph to this volume, Penelope Fitzgerald tells us: “If a
story begins with a finding, it must end with a searching,” and so
we discover each story here to follow the arc of a search, just as each
also contains a rescue. What is immediately apparent is that it will be
impossible to guess the form this rescue will take or even who it is
who’ll require it.
Instead, the astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has
imbued each story with its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes
as a surprise to the reader, who is in intimate sympathy for the soul
in extremity. And these are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser
hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security
guard; the stolid, nineteen-year-old nurses’ aide who will not be
going to art school; the cynical radio producer who is dying of breast
cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes.
In these fourteen stories linked by a common transcendent
humanity, the writing is confident and clear and original, and often
drop-dead stunning, as if the stories were being told by the most
casually eloquent among us. Here people expect to be saved and they
are saved, sometimes against all odds, not by divine intervention but
by other human beings, reminding us how tightly bound we are by
earthy bonds of attachment and affection.
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• Trueblood was a finalist for the Frank
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• She has contributed to The American Poetry
Review, One Story, Yes! Magazine, Narrative,
The Northwest Review, The Seattle Review,
The Iowa Review, The Seattle Times, The
Seattle Weekly, Social Education, and
International Short Story Forum (UK)
Praise for Seven Loves
“Utterly exquisite. An achingly beautiful
portrayal of a woman’s life and loves and
losses.”
—Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive
Kitteridge
“Intelligent and beautifully written . . . as
intricate and perfectly constructed as the
movement of a fine Swiss watch.”
—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
Excerpt from Search Party
I didn’t want to think, on this trip. It’s as simple as that. But it’s too late. My mind, steered by force away from my son’s
sleeping form in the dark bedroom where my husband must have finished reading to him hours ago, wanders and fidgets
over his routines, and alights on his school. I can’t stand his teacher. I say this to myself with deep, poisonous pleasure, up
here in the sky. Not just because of her “Mom,” her “Let us take care of everything.” She’s the only teacher, so who is this us ?
The living? The little Flores boy, this snub-nosed young woman says with an apologetic grimace, just pollutes the classroom.
That’s her word, pollutes. I wonder if she would say it on tape.
It’s Rafe, the boy my son is afraid of, of course. Ms. Lemoine is recommending that he be steered to a more suitable
school, where there are other children with a similar learning style.
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“That’s Rafe,” my son says with pride, indicating with his shoulder, afraid to point at him. No one plays near Rafe. He
kicks over the Lego buildings, pees in the sandpile. Of course he does. Tortures the cat saved from the pound to show the
kindergarten Birth.
He is heading for major trouble. He’s heading for the pound himself.
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MARRY OR BURN
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“A large-hearted, utterly human collection of life-experienced
narratives so full that it is difficult to read more than one
consecutively.” —The Irish Times
“Marry or Burn resolutely probes the idea and range of marriage,
letting us gaze at a variety of couplings from differing angles, forming
a dangerous, sharp-edged mosaic.” —The Seattle Times
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Original Death
A Mystery of Colonial America
Eliot Pattison
The third book in The Bone Rattler series throws the reader into
the heart of colonial America. 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 which he must resolve.
While trying 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 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.
A compelling
drama marked
by the forces
shaping
America’s
early days
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• Pattison’s most recent book, Ashes of the
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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)
“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.”
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Eliot Pattison is the author of The Skull Mantra, winner of an Edgar Award and
finalist for The Gold Dagger; Water Touching Stone; Bone Mountain; Beautiful Ghosts;
Prayer of the Dragon; Bone Rattler; The Lord of Death and most recently Eye of the Raven.
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’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)
“[A] sure winner.” —Booklist
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Everyone Says That at
the End of the World
SOFT SKULL
OWEN egerton
An outrageous, edge-of-your-seat ride through the
last days of life on Earth
Earth is the mental asylum of the universe and humans are the
incurable inmates. Now the asylum is being shut down. Everyone
Says That at the End of the World traces the adventures of a ghosthaunted slacker-couple expecting their first child, an outrageously
arrogant television actor seeking redemption, and a prophetic
hermit crab on a cross-country quest as they struggle to endure the
final four days of life on Earth. Inter-dimensional time-travelers,
Jesus clones, and prosthetic limbs all play a role in the catastrophic
events leading to the planet’s end.
Combining humor, philosophical inquiry, and unforgettable
characters, Egerton leads us through the most bizarre apocalypse
ever put to paper.
Praise for The Book of Harold
“A lively and beautifully crafted novel about the anguish of belief.”
—Kirkus
“I love every word that Owen Egerton writes or utters and The Book of
Harold bumps my admiration up to a new level. It takes a brave author to
attempt satire these days. But it takes Owen Egerton to make it the wise,
hilarious, finely-observed, and, ultimately, compassionate ring-tailed
delight that The Book of Harold is.” —Sarah Bird, author of The Gap Year
“Only Owen Egerton can create a new religion around a former computer
salesman and make you want to up and take a pilgrimage to Austin with
the rest of the Haroldians. Egerton has the gift of walking that fine line
between hilarity and heart with grace. Follow.” —Elizabeth Crane,
author of All This Heavenly Glory
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Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area
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april
• The Book of Harold was optioned by Warner
Bros. Television
• Egerton was voted favorite author in 2007,
2008, and 2010 by readers of The Austin
Chronicle
Owen Egerton is one of the talents behind the award-winning
The Sinus Show and Master Pancake Theater at the Alamo Drafthouse
Theater, and for several years was the artistic director of Austin’s National
Comedy Theatre. He’s written screenplays for Fox, Warner Bros. and
Disney Studios. He is also the author of the one-man play The Other Side of
Sleep and the novel The Book of Harold, which is currently in development as
a television series with Warner Bros. Television. He lives in Austin.
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The Ethical Butcher
How to Eat Meat in a Responsible
and Sustainable Way
A former
militant vegan
infuses the
food revolution
with new vigor
BERLIN REED
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 who try to be healthy and green,
are not really eating what they think they are eating. The Ethical
Butcher shines a light on these untruths and shows a better way towards 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.
978-1-59376-505-7
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6" × 9"
434 pages
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• Outreach to local food movements
• Outreach to Transgender and Queer
organizations and publications
• Marketing with farmers’ markets and whole
food retailers
podcasts, and interviews with major outlets
www.theethicalbutcher.blogspot.com
• Events in New York City, Montreal, Los
Angeles, Austin, the Pacific Northwest, and
the San Francisco Bay Area
Of Note
• Reed has contributed to The Atlantic,
Decolonizing Diets, and Original Plumbing
$26.00
food memoir
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april
Excerpt from The Ethical Butcher
My hand was steady, but my head was spinning. Billy’s eyes were two fixed and glazed cloudy marbles. I traced the
topography of the outstretched goat carcass before me with my eyes, then with my hands. When you are so acutely
aware of every choice that led you to what you’re about to do, thoughts swirl in the mind. In these moments,
for better or worse, we are made most human. The air is charged with energy, caught somewhere between
construction and destruction.
I have repeated this act countless times in the years since, but that day was my very first turn to break down,
or cut up, a whole animal on my own. I had named the goat carcass “Billy.” How a vegetarian of fourteen years
ends up at a butcher counter, knife in hand, is where my story begins. This slow and deliberate action, taking in
every detail of the animal lying before me is an action every bit as moving to me now as it was that day. Butchers
know a certain primal satisfaction as their knives move through flesh and fat, skin and bone. Our skilled carving
turns death into life, a carcass into meat.
Berlin Reed
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© Julee Lebert
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 fifty 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,
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. Reed lives in Montreal.
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Secrets & Wives
Approaching the Future
The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy
64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then
sanjiv bhattacharya
Ben Hammersley
Travels through the landscape of Mormon
fundamentalism, where behind every good man there
are several good women
revised TRADE PAPER
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• National media campaign targeting
publications and websites that focus on
religion, marriage, and women’s issues
www.sanjivb.com
Of Note
• This revised edition includes a new
introduction, updates on The Order and the
True and Living Church, as well as a new
chapter about the 4 o’clock murders
What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists—
not fictional ones like the Henrickson family on HBO’s Big Love?
We’ve seen the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints in the news, the underage brides in pioneer dresses
on a Texas ranch. But the FLDS is just one of many groups that
have broken with mainstream Mormonism to follow those parts of
Joseph Smith’s doctrine disavowed by the LDS Church.
Gaining unprecedented access to these communities, journalist
Sanjiv Bhattacharya reveals a shadow country teeming with small
town messiahs, dark secrets, and stories both heartbreaking and
strange. Polygamy’s dark side—incest, forced marriages, and
physical abuse—is laid bare. But Bhattacharya also finds warmth
in the fundamentalist diaspora and even finds himself taking an
ideological stand for polygamy’s legalization.
More than just an exposé of Mormon polygamy, Secrets and
Wives is the personal journey of a foreign atheist and liberal, a
stranger in a strange land who grapples with hard questions about
marriage, monogamy, and the very nature of faith.
Praise for Secrets and Wives
“Many of us recognize the stock images of polygamy . . . [But] in Secrets
and Wives, British journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya pushes past these
caricatures to show what Mormon polygamists are really like.” —Slate
“Though fundamentalist Mormon polygamy is portrayed in a benign light
on TV (e.g., Big Love ), the reality is for the most part much grimmer . . .
This is a riveting read for both Bhattacharya’s wry and heartfelt style and
the nature of the material.” —Library Journal
978-1-59376-521-7
revised Trade papeR
6" × 9"
352 pages
$17.95
religion/current affairs
Territory: W
april
Sanjiv Bhattacharya has written for Details, Los Angeles Times
Magazine, and Maxim. He has appeared as an expert on polygamy,
discussing his Channel Four documentary, The Man with 80 Wives, on
MSNBC Live, Montel Williams, and elsewhere. He lives in Connecticut.
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“You can feel your mind expanding with each page.”
—Financial Times
In Approaching the Future, Editor-at-Large for Wired magazine Ben
Hammersley offers the essential guide to things we need to know
for life in the twenty-first century. Explaining the effects of the
changes in the modern world, and the latest ideas in technology,
culture, business, and politics, this book will demystify the Internet,
decode cyberspace, and guide you through the innovations of the
revolution we are all living through. This is for everyone who wants
to truly understand the modern world, to no longer be confused by
the changes in society, business, and culture, and to truly prosper in
the coming decade.
Excerpt from Approaching the Future
Writing a book about the future is, in most ways, futile. We can’t possibly
construct a narrative that will be true. The world is already too weird.
But what we can do is show some of the dominant ideas that are shaping
the future, and our present, and from those gain an understanding of the
direction we’re traveling in. That is what I have tried to do in this book.
The sixty-four ideas are all interrelated and are, I believe, changing
how we live, work, and relate to each other in ways that are completely
new. Understanding them is the first and best step to dealing with our
collective future. Each of the sixty-four is an ingredient, which added to
another can make something delicious, or potentially very nasty. As we
move solidly through the second decade of the twenty-first century, we do
well to pay attention to these forces as they shape our lives. Thank you for
reading, and please be in touch.
Marketing
• National print campaign
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Of Note
• Hammersley has been a fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts, Royal Geographical Society,
and the British American Project
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434 pages
$16.95
social science/media
studies
Territory: US
april
• The author is actively traveling around
Europe and the US lecturing
Ben Hammersley is a British technologist, journalist, and broadcaster. He is editor-at-large of Wired magazine; the Prime Minister’s
Ambassador to Tech City, London’s Internet Quarter; and a member of
the European Commission High Level Group on Media Freedom. He is
based in London.
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Iris Has Free Time
Iris Smyles
Fresh out of college and on her own in Manhattan, Iris narrates
an exuberant, comic and wistful picaresque about the struggles
of growing up. A touching evocation of youth in its twilight, a
celebration and also a farewell, Iris Has Free Time is a paean to the
beauty, sadness and joys of youth on the long eve of adulthood.
Whether passed out drunk in The New Yorker’s cartoon office
where she’s interning, tanking her first job interview, assigning Cliffs
Notes when hired to teach humanities at a local college, aspiring to
write the great American novel but settling for a blog about her exboyfriend’s penis instead, trying to piece together the events of yet
another puzzling blackout—“I prefer to call them pinkouts, because
I’m a girl”—Iris is never short on misadventures. From the quarter life
crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris charts a madcap, melancholic
course through her rocky entry into the real world.
Reminiscent of Lena Dunham’s Girls and in the tradition
of Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce and Truman Capote’s Holly
Golightly, Iris is a new American anti-heroine, a unique voice treating
age-old subjects of love, sex, work, and identity with a freshness and
originality that will startle and charm.
“Iris Has Free Time is a hilarious, lyrical, and wise book about youth—its
beauty, its folly, and the belief that it will go on forever even as it’s slipping
away. You will love this book.” —Diane Keaton, author of Then Again
978-1-59376-519-4
6" × 9"
336 pages
The end of youth:
when childhood
is behind you,
and adulthood
remains just
out of reach
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• Author events in New York City
• Promotion through the author’s websites:
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www.irissmyles.com
Of Note
• This blurs the line between fiction and
memoir, as Iris Smyles has written herself as
her (fictional) protagonist
• Smyles has been awarded The Doris
Lippman Prize for Fiction, The Adria Schwartz
Award for Women’s Fiction, The Geraldine
Griffin Moore Short Story Award, The Meyer
Cohen Essay Award, and a Goodman Fund
Grant for her magazine Smyles & Fish
$15.95
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Territory: WE
MAY
Excerpt from Iris Has Free Time
Emily was the assistant to Bob Mankoff,
and I was the assistant to Emily who
seemed to like me, despite my poor work
performance. I conceded that while I was
no good as an assistant, I made a wonderful
office-friend. Taking my cues from Charles
Bukowski and various romantic comedies
where career girls discuss their love lives
at the water cooler and next to the copy
machine, I spent most of my time nursing
a hangover and telling Emily all about my
adventures with the various single men
we worked with, specifically Jed before he
became my boyfriend.
I first met Jed in the copy room. He said “hi,” and I jumped nervously because I’d been busy copying my own
cartoons for my Naked Woman zine instead of whatever it was I was supposed to be doing. I shook his hand and
scuttled away. Then I ran into him again in the magazine’s archives, while I was busy retrieving old cartoons to
photocopy for my personal scrapbook of favorites. His hello startled me just as it had the first time, and I raced
back to my cubicle. The next time he caught up with me in the kitchen; I was wedged between the refrigerator and
the coffee machine, trying inconspicuously to transfer the contents of my Colt 45 into a paper cup. He said “hi,”
and I began to sweat profusely, terrified the jig was up when he asked me out. I said yes just to get him off my back,
finished pouring my “coffee,” and left to hand out the faxes.
Later that day Emily charged me with the difficult task of handwriting the addresses on a whole pile of
outgoing mail. As I drank more “coffee,” my voice grew louder and my handwriting larger and loopier. Emily, still
laughing after my description of Jed’s “proposal” in the kitchen earlier, gently suggested that I write a little smaller.
“Perhaps you could write the address on only the middle of the envelope,” she said sweetly, “rather than using
all 8 x 11 inches.”
Iris Smyles has contributed to Nerve, New York Press, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency,
Guernica, KGB BarLit, and BOMB among other publications, as well as several anthologies. She
edited and wrote the afterword for The Capricious Critic, (Otis Books 2010), a collection of humor
essays she commissioned for her web-zine, Smyles & Fish, was awarded the Don Lippman Prize
for fiction, the Adria Schwartz Award for Women’s Fiction, the Geraldine Griffin Moore Short
Story Award, and the Meyer Cohen Essay Award, and is a frequent contributor to Splice Today.
She lives in New York.
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© Dawn Earles
37
An Apple a Day
A Memoir of Love and Recovery
from Anorexia
A brave and
triumphant study
of anorexia
Emma Woolf
I haven’t tasted chocolate for over ten years and now
I’m walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat.
Remember when Kate Moss said, “Nothing tastes as
good as skinny feels”? She’s wrong: chocolate does.
For Christmas I’m giving myself a fresh start. I
have to get some extra pounds of weight under my
belt; I want to make next year the year that everything
changes.
Marketing
At the age of thirty-two, after ten years of hiding from the truth,
Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge
of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise, and control, she was juggling
a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on
an apple a day.
Having met the man of her dreams (and wanting a future and
a baby together), she decided it was time to stop starving and start
living. And as if that wasn’t enough pressure, Emma also agreed to
chart her progress in a weekly column for The Times. Honest, hardhitting, and yet romantic, An Apple a Day is a manifesto for the
modern generation. This compelling, life-affirming true story is
essential reading for anyone affected by eating disorders (whether as
a sufferer or ally), anyone interested in health and social issues, and
anyone in the medical and health professions.
• Emma is the great-niece of Virginia Woolf
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256 pages
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• Radio campaign targeting health shows on
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• Online campaign
Praise for An Apple a Day
• Promotion through Twitter: @ejwoolf
“The contrast between her privileged life
and her personal misery is strikingly
established in this book before she begins
to deal positively with her long-standing
‘addiction to hunger’ . . . ‘Coming out’
about her condition and narrating the
process of recovery has been as much
agony as therapy, but it has been a needful
exercise for the writer and her support
group of readers.” —The Times
Of Note
• Practical and proactive, this offers hope and
inspiration to the many others with eating
disorders out there, and provides insight for
those close to sufferers
• This could be a great text for course adoption
“In An Apple a Day Emma comes across as brave, real and determined. I’m sure that in sharing her story many others will be
encouraged to speak out from the stigma of this horrible illness and realise that there is a life worth living beyond calorie
counts and scales. It is a battle worth fighting.” —Grace Bowman, author of Thin
“Emma is highly intelligent and self-aware, and courageously willing in her memoir to depict the least attractive aspects of
anorexia—the intense self-absorption, and troubling mixture of secrecy and attention-seeking . . . a candid, generous and
readable account of a very intractable condition.” —Daily Mail
“A compelling account of anorexia which in deceptively simple style, really gets under the skin of why people starve
themselves. Woolf, the great-niece of Virginia, has already charted her progress in a weekly column for The Times which
received a huge response from fellow sufferers and their loved ones.” —The Bookseller
$16.95
memoir
Territory: NA
MAY
Born and brought up in London, Emma Woolf studied English at Oxford University. She
worked in Psychology publishing for ten years before becoming a freelance journalist and writer,
contributing to The Independent, The Times, The Mail on Sunday, Harper’s Bazaar, Grazia, Red and
Psychologies. Emma’s weekly “An Apple a Day” column in The Times is one of the newspaper’s
most popular features, with thousands of followers online.
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© Thomas Skovsende
39
Rockaway
A lyrical new
novel by the
author of
A Child Out of
Alcatraz
A Novel
Tara Ison
Sarah is in a rut, unable to pull the disparate elements of her life into a
cohesive whole. She is a painter, and caring for her elderly parents who
increasingly need more of her time and energy. Lacking inspiration
in pursuit of her art, she exiles herself to the family home of her best
friend in the eccentric beachside town of Far Rockaway, New York,
hoping against hope for some kind of creative breakthrough.
Under the watchful eyes of the married caretakers, Sarah
explores her new landscape, searching for elements of inspiration.
It is there she meets Marty Zale, an aging musician from a oncepopular rock band whose harmonies still infuse the summertime
music festivals. Marty’s devotion to the tenets of both his music
and his Judaism work a strange effect on Sarah. The evolution of
their awkward and probably doomed relationship leads Sarah to new
experiences during her exile, and to surprising revelations about her
art, her heart, and how far she has drifted from the person she wants
to be.
Rockaway is the startling and engaging new novel from a writer
praised by Carolyn See as “an important new voice in fiction.”
Marketing
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top 10 markets
• Online campaign featuring blogs and
interviews
• Author events in Phoenix, Los Angeles, and
the San Francisco Bay Area
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Of Note
• In another life, Ison cowrote the 1990s cult
classic Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
• Ison has been awarded the Artists
Fellowship in Prose (fiction), from the
National Endowment for the Arts (2008),
the Individual Artist Fellowship, City of Los
Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs,
(2007–2008), the Yaddo Fellowships (2008,
2004, and 2003), and the California Arts
Council Artist’s Fellowship (2002)
Praise for A Child Out of Alcatraz
“A fascinating and wonderfully evocative first novel about life on Alcatraz, seen through the eyes of a little girl growing up
on the Rock in the 1950s. A compelling story, richly evoking a time and place.” —Kirkus
“Ison has a gift . . . the fearsome plight of Olivia, who narrates much of the novel, is never simplified. It’s through her
radiant consciousness that Ison’s novel achieves a natural, basic morality.” —Publishers Weekly
“This is a sad, often beautiful novel . . . Ison renders the slow disintegration of a once-vital woman, and its effect on her
daughter, with perfect heartbreaking despair . . . A provocative story.” —The Boston Book Review
“What makes A Child Out of Alcatraz particularly memorable is its unique venue . . . the author paints a searing portrait of
an American family that might have been typical had fate and history not intervened.” — Glamour
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208 pages
$15.95
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Territory: W
june
Praise for The List
“The List is visceral, honest, and intensely readable.” —Aimee Bender
“The List is both wise and wicked about love.” —Meg Wolitzer
Tara Ison is the author of A Child Out of Alcatraz, a finalist for the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize, and The List. Her short fiction and essays have been on Nerve.com
and in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Publishers Weekly, and numerous anthologies.
She is currently assistant professor of fiction at Arizona State University.
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© Michael Phillips
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Curb Service
Bombshell
A Novel
A Memoir
James reich
SCOT SOTHERN
A thrill-ride—a disenfranchised activist on a road trip
across nuclear America
Explorating the seedy streets of Los Angeles in the
late 1980s
Bombshell is a feminist nuclear thriller set twenty-five years after
the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in which an alienated young Russian
woman born in its shadow undertakes a road trip across the United
States, waging a guerrilla war against the nuclear industry and
leaving in her wake a trail of destruction and assassinations. Obsessed
with would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas, Varyushka Cash
recreates her atomic past through escalating violence and her one
true goal: an assault on the Indian Point nuclear plant on the bank
of the Hudson River. All along she is relentlessly pursued by the
CIA, which is eager to capture Varyushka on charges of domestic
terrorism. The cat-and-mouse chase leads to a final showdown
in a decimated and irradiated New York, there on the cusp of a
frightening new future.
The initial draft of Bombshell was completed five months before
the Fukushima catastrophe, an echo in the present, shadowed by
the real threat present in our unguarded and deteriorating nuclear
facilities. Bombshell is a combustible step forward by one of our most
creative and intellectual writers today.
Cruising nighttime byways for an adrenaline fix, Scot Sothern first
patronized the marketplace of curbside prostitution, surfing the
prurient whims of a young man. He dove to the murky depths of
sexual obsession and resurfaced five years later, shell-shocked and
without excuse. While there, trusty Nikon in hand, Scot, a secondgeneration photographer, made full-frontal X-rated exposures, black
and white, filled with pathos and a brutal realism. Now he is ready to
tell the story behind the photographs, the confessions of a befuddled
baby boomer maintaining a slippery connection to propriety while
side-tripping into noirish infatuations with those low in life.
Curb Service recounts Sothern’s past as a troubled kid in the
1960s who visited two-dollar whorehouses and as an adult in the
1980s was still at it. A photographer who either can’t get a break
or blows it when one comes his way, Scot wants to hold onto jobs,
wives, and relationships; he tries to be a good father to the son he
loves. Yet he continues picking up street prostitutes, photographing
them, having sex with them, living moments of their lives, and
watching them fade away in a culture that deems them criminal and
expendable.
Sothern’s photography was collected in the book Lowlife, to
great critical acclaim. In Curb Service, he finally tells the stories
behind the photographs.
Praise for I, Judas
Marketing
• Promotion at Thrillerfest and Ladyfest
www.jamesreichbooks.com
Of Note
“Reading I, Judas, I found myself often provoked, occasionally disgusted
or even enraged, and always riveted. It’s not often that a book or a writer
not only confounds my expectations, but makes me question a set of
assumptions I didn’t even know I held.” —Julie Powell, author of Julie
and Julia
“Lowlife is a moving and compelling piece of work.” —Henry Rollins
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I, JUDAS
978-1-59376-421-0
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fiction
Territory: NAO
July
James Reich is a writer and cofounder of the post-punk band Venus
Bogardus. He was born in England and relocated to New Mexico in 2009.
He is currently a contributing faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art
and Design. He is the author of I, Judas.
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978-1-59376-520-0
6" × 9"
288 pages
Marketing
• National print campaign targeting
photography outlets
• Radio campaign targeting top 10 markets
Praise for Lowlife
“Lowlife is brutal stuff. It doesn’t get much further down and straight to
the being than this.” —Barry Gifford
• Reich has contributed to The Rumpus,
Bold Type, Headpress, SleepingFish, and
TheEndofBeing.com
$18.95
memoir/cultural
studies
Territory: WE
July
• Online promotion through the author’s
website: www.scotsothern.com
• Events in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Of Note
• Sothern has been actively exhibiting in
galleries across the United States
• Sothern has contributed to a great deal
of photography outlets, from journals to
magazines to websites
Scot Sothern spent forty unsettled years hustling freelance photography.
He worked in department stores, churches, bowling alleys, sports events, and
high school proms. He worked in a cave at a tourist-trap in Missouri, making
and selling photo mementos. Sothern shot models’ portfolios, head-shots, and
nude magazine layouts. Forced into commercial retirement by the crippling byproduct of a motorcycle mishap, Sothern now writes books and has continued
making photographs.
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Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf
A Sex Education Comic Book
Saiya Miller & Liza Bley
A refreshed approach to sex education
As teenagers today navigate increasingly fluid identities and choices,
there is a demand for an accessible, interactive tool to help share
knowledge about sex and sexual health, one that demystifies the
facts and speaks frankly about experiences where lessons often fall
into gray areas.
Since 2008, Miller and Bley have held an open call for young
people to create comics that address a variety of topics involved
with sex education. They have since produced several issues of a
sex-ed comic called Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf. The work is chosen
from a vastly varied group of submissions and attempts to challenge
hetero and gender normative practices in sex education. The comics
address topics like body image, safer sex, consent, and relationships
from positions that have often been left out of sex education.
These graphically illustrated personal narratives address
different themes, such as “Firsts,” “Bodies,” “Health,” “Age,” and
“Endings.” The book brings together the best of the material from
the Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf comics, along with new graphic
stories and writing by the editors, which provides personal and
sociological background.
Marketing
• National print campaign focusing on the top
20 dailies and magazines as well as health
outlets
top 10 markets
• Online print campaign featuring blogs,
podcasts, and interviews
• Academic outreach for course adoptions
• Promotion to sexuality conferences
• Promotion through the authors’ website:
www.sexedcomicproject.blogspot.com
978-1-59376-517-0
6" × 9"
272 pages
$15.95
sexuality/health
Territory: W
august
Saiya Miller graduated from Eugene Lang College, The
New School for Liberal Arts. She has worked as an educator
and activist, teaching art and music, as well as using comics and
zines in workshops for teenagers. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and
Vermont.
Liza Bley studied writing in New York City, where she also
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worked at Make, a craft and sewing school, and contributed
samples to the book Embroider Everything Workshop.
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New Collected Poems
A welcome
publishing event
by a major poet
of our time
Wendell Berry
In New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his
immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book
Review described as “a straightforward search for a life connected to
the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family life” that “affirms a
style that is resonant with the authentic,” and “[returns] American
poetry to a Wordsworthian clarity of purpose.”
In New Collected Poems, Berry reprints the nearly two hundred
pieces in Collected Poems, along with the poems from his most recent
collections—Entries, Given, and Leavings—to create an expanded
collection, showcasing the work of a man heralded by The Baltimore
Sun as “a sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending
from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time.”
Wendell Berry is the author of over fifty works of poetry, fiction,
and nonfiction, and has been awarded numerous literary prizes,
including the T. S. Eliot Award, a National Institute of Arts and
Letters award for writing, the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Jean Stein Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. While
he began publishing work in the 1960s, according to Booklist, “Berry
has become ever more prophetic,” clearly standing up to the test of
time.
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• There are more than 600,000 copies of
Wendell Berry’s titles in print
• President Obama awarded Berry the 2010
National Humanities Medal and honored him
“for his achievements as a poet, novelist,
farmer, and conservationist”
• Berry delivered the 41st Jefferson Lecture in
the Humanities in April 2012
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Praise for New Collected Poems
“A sophisticated, philosophical poet in the line descending from Emerson and Thoreau . . . a major poet of our time.”
—The Baltimore Sun
“So eloquent and substantial are Berry’s fiction and essays that his poetry can seem ancillary. Read in chronology and
near-completely in this volume, however, his verse shines out as the radiant heart of his prophetic art. He has been the
foremost American poet of place, which for him means the Kentucky farming community in which he has lived and worked
as farmer-writer in the tradition of Hesiod and Virgil, demonstrating the propriety and the virtue of living with the land
and its creatures and arguing vehemently and cogently for the integrity of agriculture as the basis of human thriving.
Berry’s poems initially show him discovering his understanding of the world and human livelihood and then how that
understanding works out in the lives of his family and community members; that is, in farming as a calling, a tradition,
and a passion. Yes, nature is often his subject, but death is his most frequent concern, which he probes and ponders until
there is nothing fearsome left in it. As his poetic career progresses, cogitation decreases, storytelling increases, and, most
lately, epigram burgeons with stinging and amusing effectiveness. Moreover, reading his poems is like drinking fresh
springwater.” —Booklist (starred)
Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and
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Louis Bromfield Society Award. For more than forty years he has lived and farmed
with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes
& Ditches
The Poetry of William Carlos
Williams of Rutherford
Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
wendell berry
Henry David Thoreau; Engravings by Abigail Rorer;
Introduction by Bradley P. Dean
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Excerpts from Thoreau’s journal with twenty-eight
relief engravings
A testament of admiration, respect, and gratitude for
one of the most influential poets of all time
Henry David Thoreau has long been revered for his writings and
observations on the natural world. His words evoke his environment
with stunning clarity as well as his own innate sense of wonder. His
journal, from which the text of Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes &
Ditches is drawn, shares these strengths, providing an intimate view
of Thoreau’s day-to-day existence.
The selected excerpts are pulled from the months of March,
April, and May, and all pertain to what are now called vernal
pools—temporary pools of water, free of fish, at their peak in the
spring, and the breeding ground for numerous creatures.
In this volume, Thoreau’s words are accompanied by twentyeight engravings by artist Abigail Rorer. The delicacy and detail of
these engravings make them the perfect companion to Thoreau’s
words, adding another layer of beauty to his observations. Each
engraving is a work of art in and of itself, enriched by the text and
Thoreau’s visionary descriptions. The engravings are based on
the woods and vernal pools explored by Thoreau, lending them
undeniable authenticity.
Thoreau once proclaimed, “I have an appointment with spring.”
Through his words and Rorer’s art, so too does the reader.
Acclaimed essayist and poet Wendell Berry was born and has always
lived in a “provincial” part of the country without an established
literary culture. In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry
County, Kentucky, Berry discovered an enduringly useful example
in the work of William Carlos Williams. In Williams’ commitment
to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey, Berry found an inspiration
that inevitably influenced the direction of his own writing.
Both men would go on to establish themselves as respected
American poets, and here Berry sets forth his understanding of that
evolution for Williams, who in the course of his local membership
and service, became a poet indispensable to us all.
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Abigail Rorer is the founder of The Lone Oak Press, which publishes award-winning fine
press books, broadsides, and ephemera with wood engravings and etchings. The winner of many
awards, including the Outstanding Print from Overseas from the British Society of Wood Engravers,
she lives in Petersham, MA.
Bradley P. Dean
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was the editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin for eleven years. The
recipient of many research fellowships, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, he was honored with the EPA’s Henry David
Thoreau Environmental Education Award in 1993. He died in 2006.
Praise for The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of
Rutherford
“Generously quoting many of Williams’ best lines, tenderly confessing
when he doesn’t understand Williams (e.g., Williams’ elusive variable
foot), and referring to his own life and work to clarify what he thinks
about Williams, Berry produces a work of aesthetics more than
evaluation, of love more than critique.” —Booklist
“Berry’s superb study reminds us that Williams remains our
contemporary not only for the lively cadences and fresh imagery that
animate his poems, but for the ethical imperative of his example: to know
ourselves as creatures of a particular place and, through that grounded
knowledge, to develop the arts that will enable us to live in it over the
long haul.” —The Sewanee Review
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The Awful Grace of God
Sex and Punishment
Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy, and the Unsolved
Murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock
Eric Berkowitz
“A step in the [right] direction of a better
understanding of a national tragedy.” —Booklist
now in paperback
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Of Note
• Wexler’s research was published in Lamar
Waldron’s Legacy of Secrecy
• The authors’ work on the MLK assassination
has been featured in The Boston Globe
• Both coauthors are speaker chairmen and
moderators for the annual November in
Dallas conference
The Awful Grace of God chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin
Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation’s most violent right-wing
extremists. Impeccably researched and thoroughly documented,
this examines figures like Sam Bowers, head of the White Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi, responsible for more than
three hundred separate acts of violence in Mississippi alone; J.B.
Stoner, who ran an organization that the California attorney
general said was “more active and dangerous than any other
ultra-right organization;” and Reverend Wesley Swift, a religious
demagogue who inspired two generations of violent extremists.
United in a holy cause to kill King, this network of racist
militants was the likely culprit behind James Earl Ray and King’s
assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Wexler and Hancock have sifted through thousands of pages of
declassified and never-before-released law enforcement files on the
King murder, conducted dozens of interviews with figures of the
period, and reexamined information from several recent cold case
investigations. Their study reveals a terrorist network never before
described in contemporary history. They have unearthed data that
was unavailable to congressional investigators and used new datamining techniques to extend the investigation begun by the House
Select Committee on Assassinations.
The Awful Grace of God offers the most comprehensive and upto-date study of the King assassination and presents a road map for
future investigation.
Praise for The Awful Grace of God
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Larry Hancock graduated from the University of New Mexico
with a triple major in anthropology, history, and education. He has
worked on a variety of historical research projects, including November
Patriots and Someone Would Have Talked. He lives in Oklahoma.
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The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has
always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians,
Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not
tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. At any given
point in time, some forms of sex were condoned while others were
punished mercilessly. Jump forward or backward a century or two
(and often far less than that), and the harmless fun of one time period
becomes the gravest crime in another. Sex and Punishment tells the
story of the struggle throughout the millennia to regulate the most
powerful engine of human behavior.
Writer and lawyer Eric Berkowitz uses flesh-and-blood
cases—much flesh and even more blood—to evoke the entire sweep
of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an ancient
Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in
1895 for “gross indecency.” The cast of Sex and Punishment is as
varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay
charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of
all stripes, London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and
each was judged—and justice, as Berkowitz shows, rarely had much
to do with it. With the light touch of a natural storyteller, Berkowitz spins
these tales and more, going behind closed doors to reveal the
essential history of human desire.
“A timely study.” —Kirkus
Stuart Wexler graduated from Tulane University with a degree
in history. He now lives and teaches high school in New Jersey, where
he won the prestigious James Madison Teachers’ Fellowship in 2010.
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“[An] extraordinary book . . . I don’t think I’ve ever
read such an entertaining historical work. It has
the wisdom granted by perspective, without the
condescension of someone who thinks we’re wiser
than our ancestors.” —The Guardian
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Of Note
• This book grew out of an article Berkowitz
wrote for the Los Angeles Times Magazine,
which used intimate stories to illustrate
larger themes of corruption in the California
legal business
• Berkowitz is currently at work on a sequel,
which will cover the mid-nineteenth century
through present-day
Eric Berkowitz is a writer, lawyer, and journalist. He has a degree in
print journalism from University of Southern California and has published
in The Los Angeles Times and Weekly, and for the Associated Press. He was an
editor of the West Coast’s premier daily legal publication, The Los Angeles
Daily Journal. He lives in San Francisco.
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Lonesome Animals
A powerful debut
about the hunt for
a vicious killer in
Washington state
Bruce Holbert
“Holbert has gone all-in: This book is
audacious.” —Kirkus
In Lonesome Animals, Russell Strawl, a tormented former lawman,
is called out of retirement to hunt a serial killer with a sense of the
macabre, who has been leaving elaborately carved bodies of Native
Americans across three counties. As the pursuit ensues, Strawl’s own
dark and violent history weaves itself into the hunt, shedding light on
the remains of his broken family: one wife taken by the river, one by
his own hand; an adopted Native American son who fancies himself
a Catholic prophet; and a daughter, whose temerity and stoicism
contrast against the romantic notions of how the West was won.
In the vein of True Grit and Blood Meridian, Lonesome Animals
is a western novel reinvented, and a detective story catered to the
West. It contemplates the nature of story and heroism in the face
of a collapsing ethos—not only of Native American culture, but
also of the first wave of white men who, through the battle against
the geography and its indigenous people, guaranteed their own
destruction. But it is also about one man’s urgent, elegiac search for
justice amidst the craven acts committed on the edges of civilization.
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Praise for Lonesome Animals
“From the opening sentence of Holbert’s remarkable debut, it is obvious
that we are in the hands of a master storyteller . . . Holbert’s prose is
simultaneously roughly hewn and elegant, and recalls Cormac McCarthy
at his best, as do his insights into the relationship between predator and
prey. Call it literary fiction, classic western realism, or historical noir,
Holbert is a writer of formidable skill and this auspicious debut should
have considerable crossover appeal.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
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“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 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 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
“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
“Holbert has a sweet touch with words and landscape, and there is a wealth of mood and mayhem.” —The Oregonian
“A lyrical, almost poetic novel. Holbert vividly captures the essence of his characters and of the place that spawned them in
Lonesome Animals.” —Mystery Maven blog
“Lonesome Animals . . . breaks the bounds of genre and tosses them out the window . . . Descriptions are poetic, flawlessly
simple, and evocative of a place I’m not even sure exists anymore . . . Holbert has succeeded in his attempt to write a big
novel . . . this is the best book I’ve read this year.” —Tense Moments
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, The West Wind Review, and Cairn. Bruce Holbert grew
up at the foot of the Okanogan Mountains. His great-grandfather was an Indian scout
and among the first settlers of the Grand Coulee.
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A Complicated Marriage
The Capitalism Papers
My Life With Clement Greenberg, A Wife’s Story
Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
Janice Van Horne
JERRY MANDER
A compelling look into Janice Van Horne’s life with
legendary art critic Clement Greenberg
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In 1955, Jenny Van Horne was a twenty-one-year-old, naïve
Bennington College graduate on her own for the first time in New
York City when she met forty-six-year-old Clement Greenberg who,
she is told, is “the most famous, the most important, art critic in the
world” and soon finds herself swept into his world and the heady
company of Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline,
David Smith, and Helen Frankenthaler, among others. Seven
months later, as a new bride, Jenny and Clem spend the summer
in East Hampton near Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and she
feels even more keenly like an interloper in the inner circle of the art
scene. A woman disowned by her anti-Semitic family for marrying
a Jew, she would develop a deep, loving bond with Clem that would
remain strong through years of an open marriage and separate
residences.
Jenny embodies the pivotal changes of each passing decade as
she searches for worlds of her own. She moves from the tradition
of wife and mother to rebellion and experimentation, diving into
psychoanalysis, the theater world of OOB and the Actors’ Studio,
and succeeding in business. Throughout, A Complicated Marriage
is grounded in honesty and the self-deprecating humor, grace, and
appealing voice of its author.
Praise for A Complicated Marriage
• Van Horne was married to Clement
Greenberg for forty years, and has been
the executor of his estate since his death
in 1994
“Janice Van Horne’s new memoir reveals a fresh perspective that sheds
light on the interior life of Clement Greenberg, not only as the esteemed
art critic but as a husband, lover, and off and on companion of nearly 40
years.” —The East Hampton Star
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In recent years, Janice Van Horne edited two books assembled from
Clement Greenberg’s archive at the Getty Research Library: The Harold
Letters and Homemade Esthetics, designated a New York Times Book of the
Year. She lives in New York City, in the same apartment she and Clem
moved into in 1960.
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© Cynthia Hampton
“A cogent rally cry and eloquent assessment of
America’s—and the world’s—current predicament.”
—Publishers Weekly
In the manner of his bestseller Four Arguments for the Elimination of
Television, Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes a series
of momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problems of
capitalism.
Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system:
“What may have worked in 1850 and 1900 is calamitous in 2010.”
Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth,
is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources.
Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource
shortages, is only the start of the crises.
A departure from most previous writings about capitalism,
this book argues that certain problems of the capitalist system are
intrinsic to its structure and cannot be reformed. They have now
reached a point where they threaten the survival of the planet and
all of human society. He makes the case that it’s now time to view
the system as hopelessly obsolete and nonviable for the future.
now in paperback
Praise for The Capitalism Papers
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“This is a bold, much-needed book.” —Adam Hochschild, author of King
Leopold’s Ghost
“Mander has the courage to say that the emperor has no clothes; that the
profit-obsessed economic system we are expected to swear loyalty to has
its best days in its rear-view mirror. The implications are revolutionary.”
—Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy
“Point by point, Mander explains why capitalism can no longer serve
people or the planet. And he leads us to a set of principles on which we
can build a new economy for the 21st century and beyond.”
—Anne Leonard, author of Story of Stuff
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• With over thirty-five years of work in antiglobalization and ecology movements,
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realizing the intrinsic impacts of economic
growth, few are as well qualified as Mander
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During the last three decades, Jerry Mander has been a leading
activist and scholar in the anti-globalization movement, and was founder and
is now Distinguished Fellow of the International Forum on Globalization.
Among his other books are: In the Absence of the Sacred; Case Against the
Global Economy (with Edward Goldsmith); and Paradigm Wars: Indigenous
Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization (with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz). Mander
has degrees in International Economics from the Wharton School of
Business of the University of Pennsylvania, and from Columbia University
Graduate Business School.
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Watergate:
The Hidden History
Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA
Lamar Waldron
While Richard Nixon’s culpability for Watergate has long been
established—most recently by PBS in 2003—what’s truly remarkable
is that after almost forty years, conventional accounts of the scandal
still don’t address Nixon’s motive. Why was President Nixon
willing to risk his reelection with so many repeated burglaries at the
Watergate—and other Washington offices—in just a few weeks?
What motivated Nixon to jeopardize his presidency by ordering the
wide range of criminal operations that resulted in Watergate? What
was Nixon so desperate to get at the Watergate, and how does it
explain the deeper context surrounding his crimes?
For the first time, the groundbreaking investigative research
in Watergate: The Hidden History provides documented answers to all
of these questions. It adds crucial missing pieces to the Watergate
story—information that President Nixon wanted, but couldn’t get,
and that wasn’t available to the Senate Watergate Committee or to
Woodward and Bernstein. This new information not only reveals
remarkable insights into Nixon’s motivation for Watergate, but also
answers the two most important remaining questions: What were
the Watergate burglars after? And why was Nixon willing to risk his
presidency to get it?
Watergate: The Hidden History reexamines the historical record,
including new material only available in recent years.
A groundbreaking
investigation that
finally documents
what the Watergate
burglars were really
after—and why
Nixon was willing to
risk his presidency
to get it
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anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Leonard
DiCaprio will star as FBI informant Jack Van
Laningham
• This includes thousands of recently
declassified CIA and FBI files, newly released
Nixon tapes, and exclusive interviews with
those involved in the events surrounding
Watergate—ranging from former Nixon
officials to key aides for John and Robert
Kennedy
• This contains for the first time in any book,
the actual document the Watergate burglars
were after, and the long-secret Senate
Watergate Committee memos showing why
the Mafia was central to the Watergate
scandal
Praise for Watergate: The Hidden
History
“One of the best investigative journalists in
the United States . . . there are incredible
revelations in this book.” —Liz Smith,
Chicago Tribune
“Waldron distills thousands of recently
declassified CIA and FBI records as well
as newly disclosed tapes of Richard Nixon,
and he combines that information with
his encyclopedic knowledge . . . to draw a
new picture of the Watergate plumbers,
their master and their motives.” —Ronald
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Review of Books
“[Using] a surprising amount of new information, most of it from the National Archives, some released as recently as April
2012 . . . Waldron’s book shatters the common myths of Watergate [and he] not only documents what the burglars were
looking for, but actually prints the entire file that the burglars and Nixon wanted so badly. The book also includes the first
Watergate memos to ever officially link the Mafia to Watergate, [showing] how Nixon’s past ties to the Mafia triggered the
Watergate break-ins.” —Thom Hartmann, radio and television host, Huffington Post
Praise for Legacy of Secrecy
“Explosive new material, based mainly on government documents from the National Archives.” —Vanity Fair
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Lamar Waldron’s historical research and nonfiction books have won praise
from Publishers Weekly, Vanity Fair, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and
major publications in Europe. His groundbreaking research has been the subject of
two prime-time specials on the Discovery Channel, produced by NBC News. He
has been featured on CNN, the History Channel, Geraldo Rivera, Fox News, and
television specials in England, Germany, Japan, and Australia. Called “the ultimate
JFK historian” by Variety, Waldron’s previous book is being produced as a major
motion picture for Warner Brothers by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
“Waldron and Hartmann offer convincing evidence . . . A riveting take on the assassination itself and the devastating
results of government secrets, this account proves the continuing relevancy and importance of seeking the truth behind one
of the US’s most personal tragedies.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
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The Mountain and the Fathers
Tracking Bodhidharma
Growing Up in the Big Dry
A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture
Joe Wilkins
now in paperback
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Of Note
• Wilkins was the 2011 Obsidian Prize in
Fiction winner and was a special mention
for the Pushcart Prize as well as a finalist
for the 2010 PEN Center USA and National
Magazine awards
Andy Ferguson
A haunting exploration of male identity and the
American West
A captivating narrative of a journey to understand the
deepest roots of Zen
The Mountain and The Fathers explores the life of boys and men in
the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern
Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that
chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born into this world,
raised by a young mother and elderly grandfather following the
untimely death of his father. That early loss stretches out across the
Big Dry, and Wilkins uses his own story and those of the young
boys and men growing up around him to examine the violence,
confusion, and rural poverty found in this distinctly American
landscape. Ultimately, these lives put forth a new examination of
myth and manhood in the American West and cast a journalistic
eye on how young men seek to transcend their surroundings in the
search for a better life. Rather than dwell on grief or ruin, Wilkins’
memoir posits that it is our stories that sustain us, and The Mountain
and The Fathers, much like the work of Norman Maclean or Jim
Harrison, heralds the arrival of an instant literary classic.
The life of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, has, with
the passing of time, been magnified to the scale of myth, turning
history into the stuff of legend. Known as the First Patriarch,
Bodhidharma brought Zen from South India into China in 500
CE, changing the country forever. In Tracking Bodhidharma, Andy
Ferguson recreates the path of Bodhidharma, traveling through
China to the places where the First Patriarch lived and taught. This
sacred trail takes Ferguson deep into ancient China, and allows
him to explore the origins of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, the cultural
aftermath that Bodhidharma left in his wake, and the stories of a
man who shaped a civilization.
Tracking Bodhidharma offers a previously unheard perspective
on the life of Zen’s most important religious leader, while
simultaneously showing how that history is relevant to the rapidly
developing superpower that is present-day China. By placing Zen
Buddhism within the country’s political landscape, Ferguson
presents the religion as a counterpoint to other Buddhist sects, a
catalyst for some of the most revolutionary moments in China’s
history, and as the ancient spiritual core of a country that is every
day becoming more an emblem of the modern era.
Praise for The Mountain and the Fathers
“Joe Wilkins writes his truths straight from the broken heart of a broken
land. When I read his personal stories, so lyrically and wondrously
imagined, I feel a beautiful and sometimes terrifying emotion rise up
in me—mythic, redemptive, and sustaining. If you want to read what
matters, read this.” —Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness
“Joe Wilkins’ sketches of life in Montana’s Big Dry country are filled with
a potent combination of loving poetry and bitter nostalgia. You can smell
the sage and wild onions and feel how this land apart forms and twists
those who live there, and sometimes kills them. The Big Dry may care
nothing for pilgrims and father seekers, but it marks its own as surely as a
father marks a son.” —John N. Maclean
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Joe Wilkins lives with his wife and two young children on the north
Iowa prairie, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College. His poems,
essays, and stories have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Southern
Review, The Missouri Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review,
Beloit Poetry Journal, The Sun, Orion, and Slate.
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Praise for Tracking Bodhidharma
“Ferguson’s book is as much about loss as it is about discovery.”
—New York Times
“Ferguson writes with a true storyteller’s voice, and as the author of Zen’s
Chinese History and a fluent Chinese speaker, he has the chops to write
about China.” — Original Mind Zen
978-1-61902-159-4
trade paper
6" × 9"
288 pages
now in paperback
Marketing
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Of Note
• This will appeal to readers of Bill Porter’s Zen
Baggage
$17.95
zen/eastern religion
Territory: W
june
Andy Ferguson
is a graduate of the Chinese Language and
Literature program at the University of Oregon. He has lived in Taiwan,
Hong Kong, and Japan, and has traveled extensively in East and Southeast
Asia since 1978. He has organized and led numerous tours to visit Chinese
Zen historical sites. He lives in Petaluma, California.
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On Dupont Circle
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt and the
Progressives Who Shaped Our World
James Srodes
Prize-winning author James Srodes offers a vivid and scintillating
portrait of the twelve young men and women who, on the eve of
World War I, came together in Washington, D.C.’s tony Dupont
Circle neighborhood. They were ambitious for personal and
social advancement, and what bound them together was a sheer
determination to remake America and the rest of the world in their
progressive image. At one residence—known ironically as The House of Truth—
lived Felix Frankfuter, a future Supreme Court justice, and Walter
Lippman, later the most important political writer of the twentieth
century. Another house served as the base for three siblings: John
Foster Dulles, future secretary of state, Allen Dulles, one of the
founders of the CIA, and sister Eleanor Lansing Dulles, one of the
most important economists of the age.
Meanwhile, nearby lived young Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,
who even then were rising political stars, William Bullitt, a charming
and unscrupulous writer and future ambassador, and Herbert Hoover,
already the most famous American in the world. The group mixed cocktails, foreign policy, and bedmates as they
set out to remake the world. For the next twenty years they pursued
increasingly important careers as their private lives became ever more
entangled. By the end of this story, on the eve of World War II, the
group came together again for a second chance at history—this time
the result was the United Nations.
978-1-61902-165-5
trade paper
6" × 9"
288 pages
An inside and
sometimes
scandalous portrait
of the twelve young
men and women
who made up the
famous Dupont
Circle Set
Marketing
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Of Note
• Srodes is currently a regular commentator
on financial news for the BBC Radio World
Service, which is carried by many NPR
stations around the country
• Srodes has been on the Washington staffs of
United Press International, Business Week,
Forbes, and Financial World magazines, and
has contributed to Newsweek, Institutional
Investor, The London Sunday and Daily
Telegraphs, and been featured on Larry King,
Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, “Talk
of the Nation,” and The Dianne Rheme Show
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Territory: WE
July
Praise for On Dupont Circle
“A remarkable story . . . especially as told by Mr. Srodes, and written in a strong, clear prose, informed by a sense of
history, a deep understanding of American politics, and a tolerance for human idiosyncracies.”
—John R. Coyne, The Washington Times
“One of the most fascinating tales I’ve read this year.” —Lewellyn King, host of the PBS show White House Chronicle
Praise for Franklin: The Essential Founding Father
“Srodes is a journalist who has previously written a prize-winning biography of Allen Dulles, and his gift to the familiar
Franklin is an accessible style that will see readers to the last page. He is also well-read in English history, able to provide
vivid anecdotes of Franklin’s life abroad. For those who last encountered Franklin in the eighth grade, one could do
worse than to begin with Srodes’s book before returning to the autobiography, Franklin’s own account of the pluck and
luck by which he and America came of age.” —Harper’s
James Srodes is
the author of Dream Maker: The Rise and Fall of John Z.
DeLorean, Allen Dulles: Master of Spies, and Franklin: The Essential Founding Father.
He lives in Washington, D.C.
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A Door in the Ocean
The End of the Straight
and Narrow
A Memoir
Stories
David McGlynn
David McGlynn
“A rich, challenging, accomplished book.”
—Ron Carlson
The stories in The End of the Straight and Narrow take on the inner
lives of the zealous, their passions and desires, and the ways religious
faith is both the compass for navigating daily life and the force that
makes ordinary life impossible.
Ranging from the coastal highways of Southern California, to
the mountains above Salt Lake City, to the swampy bayous and pine
forests surrounding Houston, Texas, the stories often take place
against the backdrop of disaster—a landslide, a fire, a drowning, a
hurricane—as the characters question whether faith illuminates the
world or leaves them isolated within it.
Praise for David McGlynn
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• National print campaign
• Author will be attending the AWP
Of Note
• This was the recipient of the 2008 Utah
Book Award, was named an oustanding
achievement by the Wisconsin Librarians’
Association 2008, and was a Finalist for
the Independent Publisher Book Award for
Literary Fiction in 2009
• McGlynn has contributed to a vast array of
literary journals
“When a young writer proves in a first collection that he is the real thing,
when the stories are as riveting and haunting as David McGlynn’s are,
the temptation is to ask how it is possible. McGlynn writes both elegantly
and deeply about the trick of salvation and the strange consolation of
suffering itself, about the sorrows of the faithful and the faith that’s
required of the nonbeliever.” —Jane Hamilton
“McGlynn’s superlatively crafted, deeply sympathetic debut story
collection traces the spiritual agonies of Christians trying to make sense
of their faith within the vicissitudes of human nature.”
“An exceptionally haunting collection. There is agony in these stories, and
there is forgiveness and redemption. Here are everyday characters coping
with what life has handed them. McGlynn is an author to watch; this is a
collection to savor.” —ForeWord Reviews
978-1-61902-150-1
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224 pages
$14.95
short stories
Territory: USC
July
“A stunningly heartfelt journey of one young man
coming to terms with family and faith through loss,
tragedy, and hardship.” —James Brown, author of
The Los Angeles Diaries
On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood north
of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn’s closest friend and teammate
on the high school swimming team is found murdered on his living
room floor. As the crime goes unsolved and his friends turn to drugs
and violence, McGlynn is vulnerable, searching for answers. He
is drawn into the eccentric and often radical world of evangelical
Christianity—a journey that leads him to a proselytizing campus
fellowship, on a mission to Australia, and to Salt Lake City, where
a second swimming–related tragedy leaves him doubting the
authenticity of his beliefs. In his post–evangelical life, he finds
himself exiled from his parents, plunged into financial chaos, and
caught off–guard by the prospect of fatherhood. A new job offers
hope for a new beginning, until the possibility of losing his newborn
son forces him to confront the nature of everything he believes.
A Door in the Ocean celebrates the author’s love for swimming,
the enduring metaphor for his faith and the setting for many of his
life’s momentous occasions, while it charts the violent origins of one
young man’s faith and the struggle to find meaning in the midst of
life’s painful uncertainties.
Praise for A Door in the Ocean
“Many of the key scenes in McGlynn’s striking new memoir take place at the
beach or in swimming pools . . . Ocean swimming, in particular, transports
McGlynn to another realm, and he does a terrific job of dramatizing the
allure of solitary swims in open water . . . McGlynn’s writing is alive with
an insider’s knowledge of the power and comforts—and, yes, sometimes
delusions—offered by collective radical belief. In a larger sense, this is a
compelling coming-of-age story, one marked by random tragedy and biblical
tracts, bad church coffee, and chlorine.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR
978-1-61902-163-1
trade paper
6" × 9"
288 pages
now in paperback
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Of Note
• The book’s final chapter was selected for The
Best American Sports Writing 2009 and was
nominated for a Pushcart Prize
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Territory: USC
july
The End of the Straight and Narrow won the 2008 Utah Book Award and was
named an outstanding achievement by the Wisconsin Library Association.
David McGlynn teaches at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, where
he lives with his wife and sons. He is also the author of a memoir, A Door in
the Ocean, which NPR called “a compelling coming of age story.”
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© Stacy Young
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What It Means to Be Human
Mother & Child
Historical Reflections from 1791 to the Present
A Novel
Joanna Bourke
Carole Maso
“This plotless but not directionless novel beautifully
contemplates the treachery of the world that
motherhood exposes, and the child’s ignorance of it.”
now in paperback
Marketing
www.carolemaso.com
Of Note
• Maso has won an NEA fellowship, a Lannan
Literary Award, and the Rose Prize, among
others
ALSO AVAILABLE
THE Room Lit by Roses
Trade Paper · $14.95
978-1-58243-212-0
A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the
intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso’s new novel
follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and
increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain A great wind
comes, an ancient tree splits in half, and a bat, or is it an angel,
enters the house where the mother and child sleep, and in an
instant a world of relentless change, of spectacular consequences, of
submerged memory and uncanny intimations is set into motion.
It is as if a veil has lifted, and what was once hidden is now
in plain sight in all its splendor and terror as the mother and child
are asked to bear enormous transformations and a terrible wisdom
almost impossible to fathom. As the outside can no longer be
separated from the inside, nor dream from reality, the mother and
child continue, encountering along the way all kinds of characters
and creatures as they move through a surreal world of grace and
dread to the end.
The bond between mother and child is untouchable, unrealizable until it is lost, and this meditation pushes the envelope, inching
ever closer to touching it, to realizing it.
Praise for The Art Lover
“The tough-mindedness, originality and wit of her perceptions are
intoxicating.” —Publishers Weekly
“By giving the conflicts in her life a fictional context, she tries to bring
order and beauty—and some degree of understanding—to chaos.”
—Library Journal
978-1-61902-164-8
trade paper
6" × 9"
320 pages
$16.95
fiction
Territory: USCO
july
Carole Maso is the author of seven award-winning books including
The Art Lover, Ghost Dance, and Break Every Rule. She is a professor of
English at Brown University.
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© Helen Lang
A provocative exploration of the blurred line between
humans and animals
In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound
question of what it means to be “human” rather than “animal.”
How are people excluded from political personhood? How does
one become entitled to rights? The distinction between the two
concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. If the
Earnest Englishwoman had been capable of looking one hundred
years into the future, she might have wondered about the human
status of chimeras, or the ethics of stem cell research. Political
disclosures and scientific advances have been relocating the humananimal border at an alarming speed. In this meticulously researched,
illuminating book, Bourke explores the legacy of more than two
centuries, and looks forward into what the future might hold for
humans, women, and animals.
Praise for What It Means to Be Human
“Avoiding the impenetrable prose often found in academic books, this
deeply scholarly work is lively and challenging in equal measure, and
rewarding throughout.” —The Boston Globe
Praise for Rape: Sex, Violence, History
now in paperback
Marketing
“[A] provocative, well-argued exploration.” —Publishers Weekly
“Thought-provoking at every turn.” —The Independent (London)
www.bbk.ac.uk/history/jb
Praise for Fear: A Cultural History
“Imaginative social, psychological and cultural history . . . Bourke performs
sterling service, painstakingly picking over usually bypassed sources and
materials for hidden clues as to what scares us.” —Publishers Weekly
978-1-61902-167-9
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448 pages
$22.95
history
Territory: USCO
AUGUST
• Outreach to universities for course adoption
• Outreach to history and feminist bookclubs
Of Note
• Bourke is an active contributor to radio,
journalism, and television, and has won
numerous awards for her audio productions
and writing
• Bourke’s previous books, Rape and Fear,
were both published by Counterpoint
• Includes black-and-white illustrations
Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of
London and an active contributor to radio, journalism, and television. She
is the author of several books, including Rape: Sex, Violence, History and
Fear: A Cultural History, which was shortlisted for Mind Book of the Year
in 2006. She lives in London.
© Mark Mitchell/NZ Herald
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Featured Agricultural Titles from Counterpoint
No Footprints
A Darcy Lott Mystery
Empires of Food
Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
EVAN D.G. FRASER AND ANDREW RIMAS
Susan Dunlap
Darcy Lott returns in the fifth installment of this
beloved mystery series.
now in paperback
Marketing
What is death? Darcy Lott asks her Zen teacher, Garson-roshi.
While scouting a location site on the Golden Gate Bridge, stunt
double Darcy Lott sees a woman about to jump. The woman fights,
but Darcy manages to pull her back. Before disappearing, the
woman tells Darcy that by Thanksgiving she’ll be dead. Darcy has
four days to find her and keep her from killing herself, but she has
no idea who she is.
Darcy tracks her to a dodgy San Francisco neighborhood,
where she uncovers more perplexing facts. The woman ran a copy
shop operating as a front for “the cockroach,” the shady police boss
of the neighborhood, lived in a cheap apartment above a bagpipe
player, and spent very little money except on an expensive racing
bike the week before. Meanwhile, there are problems with the
movie production. One of the producers, Macomber Dale, gets
their permit revoked, causing them to redo an entire set-up, and
then drives the stunt car off the Berkeley pier.
The search leads Darcy to the last place a woman would ever bike
to: the Top of the Mark on Nob Hill, to a swank charity reception at
City Hall and finally to a place more terrifying than the cold Pacific.
Praise for No Footprints
Of Note
“White-knuckle plot and bare-knuckled action scenes.” —The New York
Times Book Review
• Dunlap has won Anthony and Macavity
mystery awards and was president of Sisters
in Crime, a worldwide organization for women
writing mysteries
• The Darcy Lott series has sold more than
12,000 copies to date
“As long as writers like Dunlap continue to play with the form, genre fans
need not lament the mystery’s demise.” —The San Francisco Chronicle
“Dunlap knows the West Coast, knows how to create memorable
characters, knows how to build suspense, and her technical expertise is
extraordinary.” — Chicago Tribune
“Susan Dunlap is one of the best!” —The San Diego Union Tribune
978-1-61902-166-2
trade paper
6" × 9"
272 pages
$14.95
mystery
Territory: W
augustw
Susan Dunlap is the author of a collection of short stories and
twenty-three novels, including the other Darcy Lott mysteries, Civil
Twilight, Hungry Ghosts, A Single Eye and Power Slide. She has won Anthony
and Macavity awards and has been president of Sisters in Crime. She and
her husband live near San Francisco.
Using the colorful diaries of a sixteenth-century merchant as a narrative guide,
Empires of Food vividly chronicles the fate of people and societies for the past 12,000
years through the foods they grew, hunted, traded, and ate—and offers fascinating,
and devastating, insights into what to expect in years to come. In energetic prose,
agricultural expert Evan D.G. Fraser and journalist Andrew Rimas capture the
flavor of places as disparate as ancient Mesopotamia and imperial Britain, taking
us from the first city in the once-thriving Fertile Crescent to today’s overworked
breadbaskets and rice bowls in the United States and China.
978-1-58243-793-4 | TRADE PAPER | $16.95
Nature as Measure
The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson
WES JACKSON, INTRODUCTION BY WENDELL BERRY
A collection of Jackson’s essays from Altars of Unhewn Stone and Becoming Native
to This Place, these ideas of land conservation and education are written from the
point of view of a man who has practiced what he’s preached and proven that it
is possible to partially restore much of the land that we’ve ravaged. Wes Jackson
lays the foundation for a new farming economy, grounded in nature’s principles
and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of
industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a
way that sustains both.
978-1-58243-700-2 | TRADE PAPER | $16.95
Consulting the Genius of the Place
An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture
WES JACKSON
Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all
speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of
this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for
the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual
revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, if one prefers, nature
in general—as the measure against which we judge all of our agricultural practices.
978-1-58243-780-4 | TRADE PAPER | $16.95
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience
Essays from a Farmer Philosopher
FREDERICK KIRSCHENMANN, EDITED BY CONSTANCE L. FALK
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience follows Kirschenmann’s personal and
professional evolution as a lifelong proponent of new agrarianism. Together with
agricultural economist Constance L. Falk, Kirschenmann has compiled a collection
of his essential writings on farming, philosophy, and sustainability. In this
fascinating blend of personal history, philosophical discourse, spiritual ruminations,
and practical advice, Kirschenmann shares candid, valuable insights about the
agricultural challenges facing the modern world and the necessity of achieving
ecologically sound and responsible stewardship of the land.
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Winter 2013 Highlights
A Town of Empty Rooms
A Novel
KAREN E. BENDER
The long awaited, much anticipated new novel by the author of Like Normal People
January | 978-1-61902-069-6 | CLOTH | $25.00
Winter 2013 Highlights
The Grammarian
A Novel
ANNAPURNA POTLURI
A sweeping tale of unrequited love set against the historical and political Indian
landscape
February | 978-1-61902-102-0 | CLOTH | $24.00
A Secret History of Torture
IAN COBAIN
A searing look into the secret world of torture
January | 978-1-61902-109-9 | CLOTH | $26.00
Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs
JAY FARRAR
A revered musician reveals his musical and personal heritage in this impressionistic
memoir
March | 978-1-59376-512-5 | TRADE PAPER | $18.95
An Intimate Life
Sex, Love, and My Journey as a Surrogate Partner
CHERYL T. COHEN GREENE with LORNA GARANO
“Cheryl Cohen Greene’s book allows us to share in her beautiful work. We read about
sexual healing and we are healed ourselves. Give yourself the gift of reading this
book and getting a glimpse of what is possible.” —Helen Hunt
The Forest House
A Year’s Journey into the Landscape of Love, Loss, and Starting Over
JOELLE FRASER
Fraser uses her gifts to explore the landscapes—both internal and external—of her
post-marriage, single mother life
january | 978-1-59376-506-4 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
The Esperanza Fire
Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57
JOHN N. MACLEAN
“It was a cauldron of fire. There was a solid churning, as though someone had laid
down a flamethrower in the canyon.”
February | 978-1-61902-071-9 | CLOTH | $26.00
Fight Song
A Novel
JOSHUA MOHR
The brilliant and satirical new novel by the author of the critically acclaimed
Damascus
February | 978-1-59376-508-8 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
STEPHEN REBELLO
Tying in with a major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame
Helen Mirren, a tell-all documenting the making of Psycho, the forerunner of all
psychothrillers
JANUARY | 978-1-59376-511-8 | $16.95
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks
Professionals & Their Clients Writing About Each Other
EDITED BY DAVID HENRY STERRY & RICHARD MARTIN JR.
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, this
sheds light on the world of sex work
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Current & Selling
Salt to Summit
A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney
DANIEL ARNOLD
“Arnold’s whimsy and determination turn the journey into part meditation, part
history lesson, all told in evocative language.” —Publishers Weekly
Current & Selling
At Dawn
JOBIE HUGHES
“Hughes combines coming-of-age tale, portrait of the artist as a young man, and
father-son saga in a well-crafted novel.” —Publishers Weekly
978-1-59376-449-4 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
978-1-58243-750-7 | TRADE PAPER | $17.95
Cataract
Some Notes After Having a Cataract Removed
JOHN BERGER WITH DRAWINGS BY SELCUK DEMIREL
Notes and reflections by one of our great soothsayers on the minor miracle of cataract
surgery
978-1-61902-063-4 | CLOTH | $22.00
White Fever
A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
JACEK HUGO-BADER
A lone journey by jeep (and occasionally kayak) across one of the world’s most
inhospitable and surreal landscapes, White Fever is an unparalled insight into
Siberian life
978-1-61902-011-5 | TRADE PAPER | $16.95
It All Turns on Affection
The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY
“Imagination enables sympathy, sympathy enables affection. And in affection we find
the possibility of neighborly, kind, conserving economy.” —Wendell Berry
978-1-61902-114-3 | TRADE PAPER | $14.95
Elsewhere, California
A Novel
DANA JOHNSON
“In this debut novel, Johnson brilliantly knits the dual narratives together, maintaining
a dynamic balance between nimble language and rowdy, vulnerable characters. The real
achievement is the honest, compassionate, and unflinching willingness to honor teenage
struggles for identity, confidence, and love while listening to Led Zeppelin and rooting
for the Dodgers.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
978-1-58243-784-2 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
A Place in Time
Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
WENDELL BERRY
“Wendell Berry has constructed an almost perfect fiction, a sublime meditation on
how irrevocable loss is redeemed through a renewed sense of kinship with the land
and the past.” —The Washington Post
Theft
A Novel
BK LOREN
“Loren’s careful, direct prose reflects the still gaze of the martial arts expert.”
978-1-58243-819-1 | TRADE PAPER | $16.00
978-1-61902-049-8 | CLOTH | $26.00
Art of the Dead
EDITED BY PHILip CUSHWAY
A celebration of the artists and art of the American Rock Poster Movement through
the Grateful Dead’s rich graphic legacy
978-1-59376-502-6 | CLOTH | $45.00
From the Forest
A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales
SARA MAITLAND
“In this lovely, inventive book, Maitland (A Book of Silence) pursues the psychic
juncture between forests and fairy tales. This may sound maudlin or overly
fanciful, but the author’s research is diligent, her analytical skills sharp, and her
prose lean and compelling.” —Publishers Weekly
978-1-61902-014-6 | CLOTH | $28.00
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Current & Selling
The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage
The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY WALTER MURCH
From the Academy Award-winning film editor, a gorgeous translation of Curzio
Malaparte’s remarkable works
978-1-61902-061-0 | CLOTH | $25.00
Accabadora
A Novel
MICHELA MURGIA, TRANSLATED BY SILVESTER MAZZARELLA
“Set in 1950s Sardinia, Murgia’s lovely English-language debut . . . [is] a touching
meditation on life and death and the power of love to bind, transcend, and let go.”
Current & Selling
Looking for Transwonderland
Travels in Nigeria
NOO SARO-WIWA
“The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful
travel journal, lending it irony, wit, and frankness.” —Kirkus
978-1-61902-007-8 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
Jesus Land
A Memoir
JULIA SCHEERES
“A page turner . . . heart-stopping and enraging . . . focused, justified, and without
a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy.” —The New York Times Book Review
978-1-61902-065-8 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
978-1-61902-050-4 | TRADE PAPER | $15.95
The Constant Heart
CRAIG NOVA
“An evocative family yarn . . . Nova has again produced expertly drawn characters
and carefully measured, suspenseful prose with some surprises, all with undertones
orbiting around Einstein’s cosmological constant theory of relativity.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
Two-Part Inventions
A Novel
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ
A brilliant and compelling novel about what happens when the life you created was
built on deception, loosely based on a true story
978-1-61902-015-3 | CLOTH | $25.00
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The Salt God’s Daughter
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Index
1616, 75
1912, 73
Absorbing Errand, An, 73
Accabadora, 72
Adamson, Isaac, 74
Adjustment, The, 21
Age of Persuasion, The, 80
Aitken, Robert, 74
All About Lulu, 76
All the Dead Yale Men, 16–17
All the Men Are Sleeping, 13
An Apple a Day, 38–39
Anarchy!, 77
Andes, 78
Appetites, 78
Approaching the Future, 35
Apricot Jam and Other Stories, 82
Architecture of the Novel, 5
Are We There Yet?, 79
Arnold, Daniel, 70
Art of the Commonplace, The, 49
Art of the Dead, 70
At Dawn, 71
Awful Grace of God, The, 50
Bader, Jacek Hugo, 71
Ball, Gordon, 74
Ballard, J. G., 74
Barbee, Jennifer, 75
Barcella, Laura, 74
Barsamian, David, 75
Barth, John, 74
Bender, Karen E., 68
Berger, John, 70
Berkowitz, Eric, 51
Berriault, Gina, 74
Berry, Wendell, 46–47, 49, 67, 70, 74
Between My Father and the King, 14
Bhattacharya, Sanjiv, 34
Bird That Swallowed Its Cage, The, 72
Black Cool, 83
Black Flies, 75
Bley, Liza, 44
Blount, Roy Jr., 74
Bollen, Christopher, 74
Bombshell, 42
Bone Rattler, 29
Book of Books, The, 75
Book of Silence, A, 79
Bottoms, Greg, 6
Bourke, Joanna, 65
Bragg, Melvyn, 75
Break of Noon, The, 78
Breaking Point, The, 78
Bring the Noise, 81
Bringing It to the Table, 49
Broch, Hermann, 75
Brody, Leslie, 75
Brown, James, 75
Bullen, Daniel, 75
Burke, Shannon, 75
Calderon, Graciela, 81
Caldwell, Gail, 78
84
Index
Capitalism Papers, The, 55
Carrier, Scott, 7
Cascadia’s Fault, 82
Cassada, 81
Castaways of the Image Planet, 22
Cataract, 70
Challenger, Melanie, 75
Chomsky, Noam, 75
Christiensen, Thomas, 75
Cobain, Ian, 68
Cocaine Nights, 74
Cohen Greene, Cheryl T., 68
Cohen, Alex, 75
Cohen, Nancy L., 75
Cold Earth, 15
Cold Front, 76
Cold Mountain Poems, 8
Colegate, Isabel, 75
Complicated Kindness, A, 82
Complicated Marriage, A, 54
Complication, 74
Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut, 78
Connell, Evan S., 76
Constant Heart, The, 17, 72
Consulting the Genius of the Place, 67, 78
Country of Marriage, The, 47
Coyote, Peter, 76
Crises of Capitalism, The, 81
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience, 67
Cunningham, Peter, 79
Curb Service, 43
Cushway, Philip, 70
Daly, Linda, 10–11
Davenport, Guy, 18
Dean, Bradley P., 48
Deeply Rooted, 77
Delirium, 75
Demirel, Selcuk, 70
Devall, Bill, 76
Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!, 76
Ditenhafer, Bill, 78
Dogen, Eihei, 76
Dogen’s Genjo Koan, 76
Door in the Ocean, A, 63
Doughty, Mike, 76
Dovlatov, Sergei, 76
Down Among Dead Men, 83
Down and Derby, 75
Drengson, Alan, 76
Dunlap, Susan, 66
East Hill Farm, 74
Ebenkamp, Paul, 82, 83
Ecology of Wisdom, The, 76
Eden Hunter, The, 77
Edison, Mike, 76
Egerton, Owen, 31
Elsewhere, California, 71
Empires of Food, 67, 76
End of the Straight and Narrow, The, 62
Esperanza Fire, The, 68
Ethical Butcher, The, 32
Etiquette of Freedom, The, 82
Every Night’s a Saturday Night, 78
Every Third Thought, 74
Everyone Says That at the End of the World, 32–33
Evison, Jonathan, 76
Exile Nation, 81
Extravagant Hunger, An, 83
Eye of the Raven, 29
Fairhall, David, 76
Falk, Constance L., 67
Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs, 69
Farming, 47
Farrar, Jay, 69
Ferguson, Andy, 59
Fight Song, 68
Flynn, Laura M., 76
Forest House, The, 69
Frame, Janet, 14
Fraser, Evan D. G., 67, 76
Fraser, Joelle, 69
From the Forest, 71
Garano, Lorna, 68
Gardner, Leonard, 74
Gary Snyder Reader, The, 82
Ghosts of Afghanistan, 82
Gillespie, William, 76
Ginsberg, Allen, 79
Giono, Jean, 77
Glassgold, Peter, 77
Gold Diggers, 77
Goldberg, Burton, 83
Good Fairies of New York, The, 79
Grammarian, The, 69
Gray, Charlotte, 77
Guy Davenport Reader, The, 18
Haenel, Yannick, 77
Half In Love, 81
Hamilton, Lisa M., 77
Hammersley, Ben, 35
Hancock, Larry, 50
Handmaking America, 78
Hannah Coulter, 74
Hargraves, John, 75
Harrison, Jim, 82
Hass, Robert, 83
Heart Sutra, The, 80
Herself When She’s Missing, 81
Hicks, Bill, 77
Hicks, Sander, 77
Hjortsberg, William, 77
Hobhouse, Henry, 77
Holbert, Bruce, 52–53
Hole in the Ground Owned By a Liar, A, 80
Holman, J. Martin, 78
Hooper, Meredith, 77
Horack, Skip, 77
How the World Works, 75
Howe, Sean, 79
Hughes, Jobie, 71
Hunt, Terry, 77
Hunters, The, 81
I Just Hitched In from the Coast, 79
I Told You So, 9
I, Judas, 42
I’m in the Band, 83
Ice Bridge, The, 12–13
Imagination in Place, 74
Inconvenient People, 19
Intimate Life, An, 68
Iris Has Free Time, 36–37
Irrepressible, 75
Ison, Tara, 40–41
It All Turns on Affection, 70
Ivey, Bill, 78
Jackson, Wes, 67, 78
Jacobs, Michael, 78
Jarrettsville, 80
Jayber Crow, 74
Jesus Land, 73
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 78
Joe Jones, 78
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks, 69
Johnson, Dana, 71
Jordan, Neil, 78
Joy of Man’s Desiring, 77
Jubilee Hitchhiker, 77
Kawabata, Yasunari, 78
Keyhole Factory, 76
Keys, Bobby, 78
Kirschenmann, Frederick, 67
Kissed By a Fox, 82
Knapp, Caroline, 78
Koch, Stephen, 78
Kore, 82
Krassner, Paul, 78
LaBute, Neil, 78
Lament for the Makers, 79
Lamott, Anne, 78
Lankavatara Sutra, The, 80
Lantz, Kenneth, 82
Last Novel, The, 79
Last Pilgrimage, The, 10–11
Leavings, 47
Legacy of Secrecy, 57
Lethem, Jonathan, 79
Lightning People, 74
Lipo, Carl, 77
Literary Bible, A, 81
Little Russian, The, 81
Lonesome Animals, 52–53
Long Tome Leaving, 74
Longest Winter, The, 77
Looking for Transwonderland, 73
Loren, BK, 71
Lost Son, 75
Lourie, Bruce, 82
Love All the People, 77
Love Lives of the Artist, The, 75
Love, InshAllah, 79
Lovesong for India, A, 78
Mabanckou, Alain, 79
MacDonald, D. R., 12–13
MacGuire, Judy, 79
Maclean, John N., 68
Madonna and Me, 74
Maitland, Sara, 71, 79
Malaparte, Curzio, 72
Mander, Jerry, 55
Maran, Meredith, 79
Markson, David, 79
Marry or Burn, 27
Martin, Richard Jr., 69
Maso, Carole, 64
Matthiessen, Peter Muryo, 79
Mattu, Ayesha, 79
Maznavi, Nura, 79
Mazzarella, Sylvester, 72
McClanahan, Ed, 79
McGlynn, David, 62–63
Memoirs of A Porcupine, 79
Memories from Cherry Harvest, 83
Merwin, W. S., 79
Messenger, The, 77
Millar, Martin, 79
Miller, Saiya, 44
Miniatures of a Zen Master, 74
Mistaken, 78
Mohr, Joshua, 68
Moore, Michael, 82
Morgan, Bill, 79, 80
Moss, Sarah, 15
Mother & Child, 64
Mountain and the Fathers, The, 58
Mrs. Bridge, 76
Murch, Walter, 72
Murgia, Michela, 72
Naess, Arne, 76
Naiman, Arthur, 75
Nameless Dame, 81
Names for the Sea, 15
Nature as Measure, 67
New Collected Poems, 46–47
Nixon, Cornelia, 80
No Footprints, 66
Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf, 44
Nova, Craig, 16–17, 72
O’Brien, Geoffrey, 22–23
O’Reilly, Terry, 80
Oakes, Kaya, 80
Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes & Ditches, 48
Official Book of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Lists, The, 79
Old Capital, The, 78
On Dupont Circle, 60–61
On Extinction, 75
One D.O.A., One On the Way, 81
Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, 69
Original Death, 28–29
Orkney, 2–3
Other Shoe, The, 80
Pancake, Ann, 80
Patterson, Victoria, 80
Pattison, Eliot, 28–29
Pavelich, Matt, 80
People’s Advocate, The, 24–25
Phillips, Scott, 20–21
Pine, Red, 80
Pitt, Leonard, 80
Place in Time, A, 70
Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century,
A, 5
Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford,
The, 49
Porter, Bill. See Pine, Red
Potluri, Annapurna, 69
Powell, David, 6
Practice of the Wild, The, 82
Prisoner of Zion, 7
Prizes, 14
Program or Be Programmed, 81
Pure Cure, The, 83
Pyne, Daniel, 80
Radical Reinvention, 80
Rake, 20–21
Reece, Erik, 18
Reed, Berlin, 32–33
Reich, James, 42
Reich, Tova, 69
Reynolds, Simon, 81
Richards, Keith, 78
Rimas, Andrew, 67, 76
Road to Heaven, 80
Robison, Mary, 81
Rockaway, 40–41
Room Lit by Roses, The, 64
Rorer, Abigail, 48
Rosenberg, David, 81
Rosenblum, Sarah Terez, 81
Ruby, Ilie, 72
Rushkoff, Douglas, 81
Sackville, Amy, 2–3
Saknussemm, Kris, 72
Salt God’s Daughter, The, 72
Salt to Summit, 70
Salter, James, 81
Sarkar, Saral, 81
Saro-Wiwa, Noo, 73
Scheeres, Julia, 73
Schneider, Bart, 81
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon, 73
Sea Monkeys, 72
Search Party, 26–27
Secret History of Torture, A, 68
Secrets and Wives, 34
Seeds of Change, 77
Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary
Snyder, The, 79
Sex and Punishment, 51
Sex, Death & Oysters, 83
Sexton, Linda Gray, 81
Shaw, Charles, 81
Sheehan, Daniel, 24–25
Sherman, Susan, 81
Shooting Party, The, 75
Silver Lotus, The, 82
Slanky: Poems and Songs, 76
Sleeping Where I Fall, 76
Slingshot to the Juggernaut, 77
Slow Death By Rubber Duck, 82
Smith, Janna Malamud, 73
85
Index
Smith, Rick, 82
Smyles, Iris, 36–37
Snyder, Gary, 8, 79, 82
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 82
Solzhenitsyn, Stephan, 82
Song of Myself and Other Poems by Walt
Whitman, 83
Sothern, Scott, 43
Speaking Treason Fluently, 83
Spiritual American Trash, 6
Srodes, James, 60–61
Statues That Walked, The, 77
Steele, Jonathan, 82
Steinbeck, Thomas, 82
Sterry, David Henry, 69
Still Point, The, 3
Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows, 23
Stolen Pleasures, 74
Strange as This Weather Has Been, 80
Stuckey, Priscilla, 82
Suitcase, The, 76
Swallow the Ocean, 76
Szczeklik, Andrzei, 82
Tennant, Mike, 80
Theft, 71
86
Notes
Theory of Small Earthquakes, A, 79
They Live, 79
This River, 75
Thompson, Jerry, 82
Thoreau, Henry David, 48
Toews, Miriam, 82
Tomorrow, Tom, 82
Too Much Crazy, 82
Towards Another Summer, 14
Town of Empty Rooms, A, 68
Tracking Bodhidharma, 59
Trueblood, Valerie, 26–27
Turney, Chris, 73
Two-Part Inventions, 73
Typewriter is Holy, The, 80
Ultimate Sacrifice, 57
Uncanny Valley, 83
Uncrowned King, The, 83
Vacant Paradise, This, 80
Valenti, Jessica, 74
Van Horne, Janice, 54
Vandenburgh, Jane, 4–5
Vidal, Gore, 9
Wachspress, Amy, 83
Waldron, Lamar, 56–57
Walker, Rebecca, 83
Walks Through Lost Paris, 80
Walsh, Robb, 83
Watergate: The Hidden History, 56–57
Weschler, Lawrence, 83
Wexler, Stuart, 50
What It Means to Be Human, 65
White Fever, 71
White Like Me, 83
Whitman, Walt, 83
Whyte, Kenneth, 83
Wiener, Jon, 9
Wilkins, Joe, 58
Williams, Michelle, 83
Williams, William Carlos, 49
Wise, Sarah, 19
Wise, Tim, 83
Woolf, Emma, 38–39
Wrong Dog Dream, The, 4–5
Wynters, Sharyn, 83
Yseult, Sean, 83
Zimmerman, Anne, 83
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