Seven Stories Press Fall 2010 Frontlist Catalog

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RECENT AWARDS HONORS and
Once You Go Back Oblomov

by Douglas Martin by Ivan Goncharov
translated by Marian Schwartz
FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, 2010
SLATE BEST BOOKS OF 2008
Racing While Black
by Leonard T. Miller and Andrew Simon The Class (Entre les murs)
by François Bégaudeau
“BOOK TO READ FOR 2010" BY AUTOWEEK MAGAZINE
translated by Linda Asher
10,000 Dresses PRIX FRANCE CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA PRIZE, 2006
by Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray
CANNES PALME D’OR, 2008 (FILM VERSION)
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 2009 RAINBOW LIST
NOMINEE, BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ACADEMY AWARD, 2008
HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT [FILM VERSION]
LITERATURE, 2009
Rogue Economics
Hello, Cruel World by Loretta Napoleoni
by Kate Bornstein
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2008
FINALIST FOR LGBT NONFICTION LAMBDA
STRAIGHT.COM FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008
LITERARY AWARD, 2009
HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT Derrick Jensen
LITERATURE, 2009
ONE OF UTNE READER’S 50 VISIONARIES WHO ARE
CHANGING YOUR WORLD
Live Through This
edited by Sabrina Chapdjiev PRESS ACTION’S DYNAMIC DOZEN, 2008
FINALIST FOR LGBT ANTHOLOGIES LAMBDA ERIC HOFFER AWARD, 2008

LITERARY AWARD, 2009 (for Thought to Exist in the Wild [NoVoice Unheard])
PRESS ACTION PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2006

Peter Phillips
2009 DALLAS SMYTHE AWARD, UNION FOR Voice Over
DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATION by Céline Curiol
translated by Sam Richard
Censored 2009 FINALIST, INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE, 2008
by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
FINALIST, BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2008
PEN/OAKLAND LITERARY CENSORSHIP AWARD, 2008 BY THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE
The Sun Climbs Slow FRENCH VOICES AWARD, 2008

by Erna Paris
Life of Meaning
FINALIST, SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE edited by Bob Abernethy and William Bole
FOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2008
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER, 2008
GLOBE AND MAIL TOP NONFICTION BOOK, 2008
Coco Fusco
The Possession
by Annie Ernaux WHITNEY BIENNIAL ARTIST, 2008
translated by Anna Moschovakis
A Field Guide for Female
MORE MAGAZINE TOP TEN OF 2008 Interrogators
by Coco Fusco
Dreaming Up America
by Russell Banks SHORTLIST, INDEX ON CENSORSHIP
T. R. FYVEL AWARD, 2008
BLOOMSBURY REVIEW EDITORS' FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008
Fall/Winter 2010–11
CONTENTS
“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT AND BETWEEN THE FENCES
LOVE LIKE HATE
INCH OF ME” Before Guantánamo there was the
A Novel
The Letters of Barney Simon to Port Isabel Service Processing
LINH DINH 10
Lionel Abrahams Center
THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO BARNEY SIMON 38 TONY HEFNER 62
TED RALL 12
DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE TALK SOFTLY
THE TORTURER IN THE MIRROR Strategy to Save the Planet A Memoir
RAMSEY CLARK, HAIFA ZANGANA, ARIC McBAY, LIERRE KEITH CYNTHIA O’NEAL 64
and THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER 14 and DERRICK JENSEN 40
THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORY
BODY POLITIC STOLEN IMAGES Conversations with W. G. Sebald
Dispatches from the Women’s Screenplays and Writings edited by LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ 66
Health Revolution RAOUL PECK
translated by CATHERINE TEMERSON 42 SAILOR & LULA
edited by BARBARA SEAMAN
The Complete Novels
with LAURA ELDRIDGE 16
WORLD REPORT 2011 BARRY GIFFORD 68
FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 44
OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS
My Life as a Weatherman
TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’S A Poet Encounters the Horror in
CATHY WILKERSON 18
VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and
CENSORED 2011 THE UNITED STATES AND YOUNG Palestine/Israel
The Top Censored Stories of PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE ALICE WALKER 70
2009–10 UNITED STATES
GAYLE OLSON-RAYMER 46 JESUS OF NAZARETH
MICKEY HUFF, PETER PHILLIPS,
PAUL VERHOEVEN
and PROJECT CENSORED 20
BIRTH MATTERS translated by SUSAN MASSOTTY 72
SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH INA MAY GASKIN 48
OF KINGS
BARRY GIFFORD 22 Recent Releases
ELEGY WRITTEN ON A IN OUR CONTROL About Seven Stories Press 75
CROWDED STREET The Complete Guide to Contracep- About Seven Stories Institute 76
tive Choices for Women Seven Stories Staff 77
A Novel
Contact Information 78
PETER PLATE 24 LAURA ELDRIDGE
foreword by JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER 52
THE SWEETEST THING
Inside the World of Women’s Boxing FIDEL
MISCHA MERZ 26 NÉSTOR KOHAN
with illustrations by NAHUEL SCHERMA
ROSE translated by ELISE BUCHMAN 54
INGA MUSCIO 28
GRAND CENTRAL WINTER
GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN Stories from the Street
KURT VONNEGUT 30 LEE STRINGER
foreword by KURT VONNEGUT 56
LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD
A Conversation about Writing BAD SHOES AND THE WOMEN
KURT VONNEGUT and LEE STRINGER 32 WHO LOVE THEM
LEORA TANENBAUM
THE KILLING GAME
illustrated by VANESSA DAVIS 58
The Writings of an Intrepid
Investigative Reporter TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMY
GARY WEBB How the War on Terror is
edited by ERIC WEBB 34 Bankrupting the World
LORETTA NAPOLEONI 60
MAMA’S BOY
A Novel
RICK DEMARINIS 36
FALL/WINTER
2010–11
LOVE LIKE HATE

A Novel
Linh Dinh
auded for his incisive short prose and poetry, Linh Dinh brings
L to his long-awaited first novel, Love Like Hate, an alphabet soup
of characters struggling through the fall of Saigon and all that fol-
lowed. Spiraling around the relationship between café owner Kim Fiction • September 2010
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback
$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-909-5
Lan and South Vietnamese army captain Hoang Long, who marry
A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Dinh describes his mushroom-

ing cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways.
A vivid palette for his idiosyncratic characters and dark, deadpan
Praise for Linh Dinh:
humor, Love Like Hate embraces contradictions with the surreal
“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy,
exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s
Calvino. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.”
—Village Voice
“[Linh Dinh’s Blood and Soap] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, but
uses Borgesian metafiction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity,
confusion, and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen.”
—Matthew Sharpe, Brooklyn Rail
“[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverence

and experimental fun.”
—AsianWeek
A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow-

ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH is the
author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and
Soap, one of the Village Voice’s best books of 2004; and four books
of poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Border-
less Bodies, and Jam Alerts. He is editor of the anthologies Night,
• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia Again and Three Vietnamese Poets. Love Like Hate is his first novel.
© Brian Doan
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THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO

Ted Rall
n arguably his most radical book, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall

I has produced a new manifesto for an America heading toward
economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage
to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent Politics • September 2010
5 x 7 • 160 pages • Trade paperback
10 illustrations
global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of $13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-933-0
people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are
opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radically differ-
ent form of government and economic infrastructure.
Praise for Ted Rall
But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right-
“Rall is known first and foremost for his political cartoons, but, man,
wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a he knows how to tell a story, too.”
collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is —Publishers Weekly
not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not “As tangible and real of a story as was ever put on paper. Raw, honest
and completely visceral, [The Year of Loving Dangerously] is a
in the future, but now.
book for the ages.”
—Comics Waiting Room
“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know is
necessary. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for. Pick this book
up. Read it. And then get ready to fight back.”
—Derrick Jensen A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F.
Kennedy Journalism Award, TED RALL is a syndicated political car-
• Author appearances and book signing at toonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist, and occasional war
Comic-Con
correspondent whose work appears in hundreds of publications,
• Features in Left Turn magazine and
the Village Voice including the NewYork Times, the Washington Post, the VillageVoice, and
the Los Angeles Times.
• Promotion targeting graphic novel and
leftist publications
• Promotion through the author’s Web site:
Courtesy of Ted Rall
www.rall.com

THE TORTURER
IN THE MIRROR
Ramsey Clark, Haifa Zangana,
and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
efore the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw

B the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the
White House with a question: what, according to the Constitution, Current Events / Politics • September 2010
was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that $8.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-919-4
line be moved? The White House lawyers’ answer—in the form of

legal documents later known as the “torture memos”—became the
US’s justification for engaging in torture.
The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tor- “If we hope to revive with any credibility our widely claimed
tures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising commitment to constitutional government, the rule of law, freedom,
and justice, and to provide for the common defense consistent with those
essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US attorney general
claims, the people who led us to torture must be held accountable.”
Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer —Ramsey Clark, former United States attorney general
teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is,

RAMSEY CLARK was the US attorney general during the Johnson administration, and is
how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners, founder of the International Action Center.
and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers account- HAIFA ZANGANA is an Iraqi political commentator and former prisoner of the Ba’ath regime.
She is the author of City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance, pub-
able. lished by Seven Stories Press.
THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER is associate professor of sociology at the University of San Diego,
and an associate fellow of the Transnational Institute.
© Cindy H. Rice © Hela Faik © University of San Diego

BODY POLITIC
Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution
Edited by Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge
ioneering feminist author Barbara Seaman spent the last forty

P years on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Through-
out her career, she was not only a tireless muckraker and book
writer, but also a relentless supporter of other women’s voices. Here Current Events / Health • September 2010
$29.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-844-9
she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and
commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists
on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm,
activism, motherhood and birth control. The more than two hun-
“In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doc-
dred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan tors—calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women’s
Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, liberation began at that moment.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich
Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Ross-
ner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca
Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others. For this volume Seaman
worked together with her friend, former assistant, and last collab-
BARBARA SEAMAN ’s (1935–2008) first book, The Doctors’ Case Against
orator, the young feminist health author Laura Eldridge. the Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings, exposed the biases of
the medical establishment regarding women’s health issues, and
inspired women around the world to take control of their health.
She was also the author of Free and Female (1972), Women and the
Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977), Lovely Me: The Life of Jacqueline
Susann (1987), The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women
(2003), and The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause (2008).
© Joan Roth
LAURA ELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latest
books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, coauthored with
Barbara Seaman, and In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Con-
traceptive Choices for Women.

FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUN

My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Cathy Wilkerson
lying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white, mid-

F dle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the
Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the
1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Vil- Biography & Autobiography • September 2010
6 x 8 1/2 • 432 pages • Trade paperback
$18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-925-5
lage townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy of the
movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have
avoided: the absence of women’s voices then, and in the retelling;
the incompetence and the egos; and the hundreds of bombs deto-
“Unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personal
nated in protest, which caused little loss of life but which were also passions that carried her to the town house [explosion].”
ineffective in fomenting revolution. In searching for new paradigms —The New York Times
for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional “[A] clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account.”
—Los Angeles Times
honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times—
“You’ll want to plunge right into Cathy Wilkerson’s Flying Close to the Sun. If
and somehow finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to
you’re a ’60s survivor (as I am), you’ll know it’s the real thing.”
offer neither. —Carol Brightman, Truthdig
“At times exciting and at other times reflective, Flying Close to the Sun
is always captivating.”
—Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch
CATHY WILKERSON was active in the civil rights movement, SDS, and
the Weather Underground. In 1970, she, along with Kathy Boudin,
after surviving an explosion in the basement of her parents’ town-
house that killed three Weathermen, were forced underground. For
the past twenty years she has worked as an educator.
• Author Events: New York
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CENSORED 2011
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009–10
Edited by Mickey Huff,

Peter Phillips, and Project Censored
Introduction by Kristina Borjesson • Cartoons by Khalil Bendib
E ach year, as it has for the past quarter century, Project Cen-
sored lists the top twenty-five censored stories—the major
new stories that were ignored or under-reported by a mainstream Media Studies/Journalism • October 2010
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 416 pages • Trade paperback
$19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-920-0
press too busy covering the latest junk food news story. Stories are A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
presented in depth, and the original reporters are given the oppor-
tunity to provide updates and comments on how their stories came
about.
“Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge
Additionally, the project commissions articles on the hot-button this collection of suppressed stories allows us.”
—San Diego Review
issues of the year having to do with censorship, alternative media,
“For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtual
international news, and other relevant topics.
road map for the coming year's news schedule.”
—Village Voice
MICKEY HUFF is associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. He is
the associate director of Project Censored, with which he has been involved since 2001. He
blogs at www.mythinfo.blogspot.com and www.dailycensored.com.
PETER PHILLIPS , director of Project Censored, is associate professor of sociology at Sonoma
“Required reading for broadcasters, journalists,
State University. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent
and well-informed citizens.” newspapers nationwide. He is the 2009 recipient of the Dallas Smythe Award, presented by
—Los Angeles Times the Union for Democratic Communication.
PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy
• Events in Northern California and for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United
New York City States. In 2008, Project Censored received the
• National radio and TV interviews PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the
• Excerpts in AlterNet and The Huffington Post publication of Censored 2009. For more information,
visit www.projectcensored.org.
• Promotion through the author's web site: www.pro-
jectcensored.org
© Meg Huff © Steve Keller

SAD STORIES OF THE DEATH

OF KINGS
Barry Gifford
oy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young

R man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Sur-
rounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is
the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence,
poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charla-
tans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls
Fiction • October 2010 Young Adult Fiction • October 2010
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 208 pages • Trade paperback 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Paper over board
with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to B&W illustrations throughout B&W illustrations throughout
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navigate the compromises, disillusionments, and regrets that come A PA P E R B A C K O R I G I N A L
with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and fiction, the forty-
two short stories in Sad Stories of the Death of Kings bring a
Praise for Barry Gifford:
city—and a boy’s growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life.
“A master of the vignette . . . Mr. Gifford also has a fine ear for dia-
logue. . . . [He] gratifyingly kisses the past without entirely telling it.”
—Jonathan Wilson, New York Times Book Review
“Gifford’s great talent captures defining moments with the casual

grace of anecdote. [He] makes the anecdotal monumental.”
—Jonathan Keats, San Francisco Magazine
The author of more than forty published works of fiction, non-

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

ELEGY WRITTEN ON A CROWDED STREET

Peter Plate
young black woman, Mary Anderson, is up on second-degree

A murder charges for killing her boyfriend in self-defense. He was
a police informant in the Fillmore district, the Harlem of the West.
April Jones owns Universal Bail, “Your Freedom Is Our Job.” April Fiction • October 2010
$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-931-6
gets Mary out of jail, and that’s when her troubles with the police
begin. Peter Plate drives a poetic narrative of gentrification, con-
science, good clothes, and bad cops in a world where the only
choice is life over the proximity of death.
“[Plate’s] San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squad
car, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
  lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Soon the

Rest Will Fall, Fogtown, One Foot off the Gutter, Snitch Factory,
Angels of Catastrophe, and Police and Thieves.
• Author Events: San Francisco • Los Angeles •

© Nina Glaser
Portland, OR • Seattle

THE SWEETEST THING

Inside the World of Women’s Boxing
Mischa Merz
ournalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfils a long-held

J ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a
series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinat-
ing journey she meets her idols, including Laila Ali and Lucia Rijker
Sports / Women’s Studies • November 2010
of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary $18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-928-6
characters. Merz discovers the horrors and delights of the world of
women's boxing and gains insights into this eccentric subculture’s
place in American life. She also meets some of the pioneers and
trailblazers of the contemporary rise in women’s boxing, as well as Praise for Mischa Merz’s memoir Bruising:
some of the younger stars now hoping to make it onto the first “Merz makes her own body, discipline, and courage her subjects of experiment
as she explores the terrors and the exhilarations of the female capacity for vio-
women’s boxing team in the 2012 Olympic Games. lence with startling honesty. You can almost smell the sweat.”
Written in a compelling and highly entertaining narrative style, —Inga Clendinnen
Mischa Merz takes us right into the ring and reports, with a rare “The work fits (more) comfortably within the stylish nonfiction popularized
by writers such as Dava Sobel, Helen Garner and Janet Malcolm.”
insider’s view, on a sport that has for centuries defined our ideas
—Mary Rose Liverani, The Australian
about masculinity.
MISCHA MERZ is a journalist and author of fiction and creative non-

fiction. She began training as an amateur boxer in 1995 and is
the 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League women’s welter-
weight champion. Her book Bruising, about her experiences as a
boxer, was published to critical acclaim by Picador Australia in
• National radio and TV
2000 and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. Her journalism
• Author tour to Los Angeles and New York City
has appeared in numerous publications, including The Age, the
• Promotion through the author’s web site: Sunday Age, and the Herald Sun.
© Jess D’cruze
www.mischamerz.com

ROSE
Inga Muscio
ith trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio

W explores the impact of violence, abuse, war, and cultural
trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path
toward healthy and imaginative sex and love. The long-awaited fol- Current Events/Women’s Studies • November 2010
5 3/4 x 7 • 256 pages • Trade paperback
$17.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-926-2
low-up to Cunt, Rose breaks new ground in answering a
fundamental question in feminist and antiracist writing: how do

we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as individu-
als, as families, as communities, and as a country? Muscio's ability
Praise for Cunt:
to address dire topics with vigor and bravery allows her readers to
“Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy.”
confront the true brutality of a violent culture, then to react pow- —San Francisco Chronicle
erfully with righteous rage and hopeful determination. “Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high fiber diets—it reinvents
Chilling, eye-opening, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rose offers a the oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious.”
—Bust
fresh and exhilarating perspective on achieving empowerment and
“Cunt is one of the most dangerous books I ever read, ever.”
self-possession.
—Robin D. G. Kelley
INGA MUSCIO is the author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence

and Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil. She lives in the Pacific
Northwest and lectures widely across the nation. For more infor-
mation, visit www.ingalagringa.com.
• Features in Bitch, Bust, Venus Zine,

and other feminist and queer magazines
• Author Events: Los Angeles • San Francisco • Boston

© Misty Muscio
• New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Seattle

GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN

Kurt Vonnegut
od Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut’s in-

G trepid investigative reporting from the afterlife, from when he
was sent there in 1998 by local NPR affiliate WNYC to interview,
among others, Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, Fiction • November 2010
$11.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-60980-073-4
Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and
Kilgore Trout.
What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes evolved
into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we
“So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever,
live for, and how much it all matters in the end. God forbid, I hope someone will say ‘He’s up in Heaven now.’
From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.”
—from God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
the cover, to the last word of the last entry, God Bless You, Dr.
Kevorkian is a joy forever.
KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of

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

LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD

A Conversation about Writing
Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer

Moderated by Ross Klavan • Foreword by Dan Simon • Photographs by Art Shay
n Like Shaking Hands with God, two distinguished writers—

I separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing
common goals and aspirations—talk about the place where the Literature • November 2010
lives they lead meet the art they practice. That these two writers 4 B&W photos
$11.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-60980-074-1
happened to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer made it a his-

toric celebration.
The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thurs-
KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century Amer-
day, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut ican letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less
and Stinger took up the challenge of writing books that would than it does now. Vonnegut’s other books from Seven Stories Press include God Bless You, Dr.
Kevorkian, and the national hardcover and paperback bestseller, A Man Without a Country.
make a difference and the concomitant challenge of living from day LEE STRINGER is the author of the acclaimed Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street,
to day. As Vonnegut said afterward, “It was a magical evening.” which chronicled his twelve years of homelessness in New York City. A former editor and
columnist of Street News, his is also the author of Sleepaway School: A Memoir. He is at
A book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing work on the forthcoming White People: Stories from the Suburbs.
things down can be more important than the amount of memory DAN SIMON is founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press; coauthor of Run, Run, Run: The
Lives of Abbie Hoffman; translator of Pascal Bonafoux’s Van Gogh: Self Portraits; and coeditor
in our computers. of three volumes on Nelson Algren: Nonconformity; The Man with the Golden Arm, critical edi-
tion; and Entrapment and Other Writings with Brooke Horvath.
ROSS KLAVAN is a writer and performer in New York City. His critically acclaimed original
screenplay Tigerland, based on his novel of the same name, was nominated for the Inde-
pendent Spirit Award.
ART SHAY is the author of Chicago’s Nelson Algren. His pho-
tographs have graced the covers of Life and have been in-
cluded in the museum exhibits around the world.
© Art Shay

THE KILLING GAME

The Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter
Gary Webb
Edited by Eric Webb • Afterword by Bob Parry
ary Webb was best known for his three-part series, “Dark
G Alliance,” that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in August
1996. In it, Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Journalism • December 2010
Los Angeles during the Iran-Contra scandal. By October of that year $16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-932-3
Webb was reeling from a concerted government-sponsored smear

campaign that led to front-page vilification in the New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. However Webb’s findings
Praise for Dark Alliance:
were later confirmed, and Webb himself vindicated two years later
“Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about the
by the investigation of the CIA’s inspector general and the US Senate.
CIA and drug traffickers. The CIA denied the charges, and every major
His only published book, Dark Alliance, is still a classic of con- newspaper in the country took the agency’s word for it. Gary Webb was
ruined. Which is a shame, because he was right.”
temporary journalism. But Webb’s journalistic career consisted of
—Charles Bowden, Esquire
much more than this one story. The Killing Game collects the best of
“Gary Webb wrote the truth. . . . [Dark Alliance] brings to light one
his investigative stories from his beginnings at the Kentucky Post to of the worst official abuses of our nation’s history.”
—US Congresswoman Maxine Waters
his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb’s series
at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the
GARY WEBB (1955–2004) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist best known
Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and for Dark Alliance.
on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games. ERIC WEBBis Gary Webb’s youngest son. Surrounded by journalism all his life, he is now a
journalism student in Southern California.
The Killing Game, by illuminating Webb’s work outside of Dark
Alliance, is a testament to investigative journalism at its best.
• National radio and TV interviews with Eric Webb
© Ian Webb © Esquire

MAMA’S BOY
A Novel
Rick DeMarinis
us Reppo’s parents have everything figured out for their son,

G right down to the county where they hope he’ll practice den-
tistry. And when his parents follow him to the air force where he
enlists—who else will make sure he is served adequate meals?—he Fiction • December 2010
$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-911-8
realizes it’s not going to be easy shaking off his kin, or their Man-
tovani obsession. After his mother introduces the possibility that

his parents are not who they seem, Gus’s life takes a turn for the
weird. But steadied by Rick DeMarinis’s hilarious prose and guid-
Praise for Rick DeMarinis:
ing hand, Gus’s world, though left a little wearier, is finally given
“However similar the existential suffering of his characters,
room to journey. DeMarinis expertly probes the contours of their condition. You
simply can’t move your eyes from the page.”
—Mark Smirnoff, New York Times Book Review
“DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition in “Rick DeMarinis has long been one of my favorite writers;
American short story writing that, by way of Hawthorne, wherever he has cast his gaze, he has taught me something new
Melville, Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and Cheever, is essen- about the way to see things.”
tially religious and, because rooted in everyday, comic. . . . —Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain
His art, then, is comedy of a very high order.”
—Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review
RICK DEMARINIS is the author of eight novels, including The Year of

the Zinc Penny, a New York Times Notable Book, and six short
story collections, including Apocalypse Then and Borrowed Hearts.
In 1990, he received an Academy Award for Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year, Cutthroat: A
Journal of the Arts awards a short story prize in his name.
• Author events in Missoula, MT and Olympia, WA

© Cynthia Farah

“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT AND

INCH OF ME”
The Letters of Barney Simon to Lionel Abrahams
Barney Simon
et in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and

S told in the letters home of a young theater director to a friend
who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South Biography & Autobiography • January 2011
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 176 pages • Cloth
$22.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-936-1
Africa’s national treasures, co-founder of the Market Theatre, direc-
tor of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and
mentor to a generation of South African actors, as he begins his
artistic journey wrestling with the angels.
“No one knows how many men and women who have become mak-
ers of a unique black theatre and a unique non-racial theatre in South
Africa known all over the world come from [Barney Simon’s] vision
and patient energy as director/writer.”
—Nadine Gordimer
BARNEY SIMON (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director,

writer, and co-creator of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.
The Market Theatre challenged the apartheid regime, armed with
little more than the conviction that culture can change society,
and became recognized as one of the most influential and distin-
guished theaters in South Africa and the world.
Courtesy of The Market Theatre

DEEP GREEN RESISTANCE

Strategy to Save the Planet
Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen
or years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think
F this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane
and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes. Ecology / Current Affairs • February 2011
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement $22.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-929-3
leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technol-

ogy can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it.
To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can
bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates
strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla war-
fare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful.
It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruit- ARIC MCBAY is a writer, activist, and small-scale organic farmer living in Ontario, Canada.
His first book was Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash. His most recent
ment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and book is What We Leave Behind, co-written with Derrick Jensen.
underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture LIERRE KEITH is a writer, small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author
of two novels, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She’s been
of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play. arrested six times. She lives in Humboldt County, California.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, DERRICK JENSEN is author
of fifteen books, including Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, What We Leave Behind, and A Lan-
to fight for this planet—and win. guage Older Than Words.
• Promotions tied to Earth Day in April

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

STOLEN IMAGES
Screenplays and Writings
Raoul Peck
Translated by Catherine Temerson
mong today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen

A such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to
Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Film / Social Science • February 2011
8 x 8 • 320 pages • 100 b&w plates
Trade Paperback
Raoul Peck, whose documentary Lumumba took the world by $28.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-935-4
storm when it appeared in 1992.
Collected here for the first time are Peck’s screenplays and pierc-
ing images from nine major features and documentary films,
including Lumumba, the award-winning feature about Republic of
Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, and The Man by the “A filmmaker with a fine eye for people and landscapes.”
—New York Times
Shore, the first Haitian film ever to be screened in theaters in the
United States and the first Caribbean film ever entered into com-
petition at the Cannes Film Festival. With over one hundred
production stills, storyboards, and poster art.
RAOUL PECK ’s feature films and documentaries explore interna-

tionalist themes of inequality and offer compelling depictions of
Haiti under political duress. In addition to filmmaking, Peck has
served as Haiti’s minister of culture. In 2001 he received the
Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. His most
recent film is Moloch Tropical.
CATHERINE TEMERSON ’s most recent translations include Amin
© Philippe Mazzoni
Maalouf ’s Origins, Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance, Florence
Noiville’s Isaac B. Singer: A Life, and Hiner Saleem’s My Father’s
Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan.
• Author book and film events in New York City

WORLD REPORT 2011

Human Rights Watch
uman Rights Watch, under director Kenneth Roth, leads the

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

rights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curb
human rights abuses in over seventy countries. For more infor-
mation, visit www.hrw.org.
• Author event in New York City

• National drive-time radio tour
KENNETH ROTH
© Human Rights Watch

TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’S

VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY
OF THE UNITED STATES AND A
YOUNG PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES
Gayle Olson-Raymer
Education • February 2010

oward Zinn’s influential books have inspired students and
H
$21.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-897-5
activists of all ages, affirming the power of the people to influ- A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
ence the course of events. From the classic A People’s History of the
United States, to the primary sources in Voices of a People’s History of
the United States, to the stories of young leaders in A Young People’s
History of the United States, arises a symphony of our nation’s origi-
nal voices, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and
dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.
In this teaching guide, history professor Gayle Olson-Raymer pro-
vides insight into how to apply Voices of a People’s History of the United
States and A Young People’s History of the United States in the classroom.
It includes questions for discussions, exams, and essays; creative ideas
for in-class activities and group projects; and suggestions for teaching
Voices alongside Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. GAYLE OLSON - RAYMER is professor of history and education at
Humboldt State University and a participating professor in the
In conjunction with the newly launched Zinn Education Proj-
Teaching American History program in two California elemen-
ect—a collaboration between Teaching for Change and Rethinking tary and high school districts. She is the author of Terrorism: A
Historical and Contemporary Perspective and Instructor’s Manual
Schools—Olson-Raymer’s teaching guide will bring the writings of for Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey.
Howard Zinn to the most critical population: our youth.

Courtesy of Gayle Olson-Raymer

BIRTH MATTERS
Ina May Gaskin
enowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low inter-

R vention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international no-
toriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader
of a movement that seeks to stop the hypermedicalization of Women’s Studies / Health & Fitness • March 2011
$12.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-927-9
birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in Amer-
ica to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's

natural ability to birth.
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which
Praise for Ina May Gaskin:
women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is the act
“Simply put, midwife Ina May Gaskin is the most important person
that perhaps most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctu- in maternity care in North America, bar none.”
ally human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how —Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s and
Children’s Health, World Health Organization
to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a
“There is no better guide to have at your side than the legendary Ina May!”
process as old as our species. —Harvey Karp, MD, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block
“Ina May Gaskin is an American treasure.”

—Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth and Misconceptions
Called “the midwife of modern midwifery” by Salon, INA MAY

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

RECENT
RELEASES
IN OUR CONTROL
The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women
Laura Eldridge
Foreword by Jennifer Baumgardner
ombining meticulous research and an understanding of the

C real-life issues that influence birth control choices, Laura
Eldridge has crafted an accessible guide to contraception for men Health & Fitness / Women’s Studies • July 2010
$21.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-907-1
and women of all ages. She not only urges her readers to consider
the pros and cons of each method, she provides them with the
information and perspective they need to take part in a productive
dialogue on reproductive health.
“A wonderfully engaging and accessible book that will help women to
Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method or navigate today’s contraceptive maze.”
—Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicine
want to know more about your current contraceptive choices, In at McGill University, author of Devices and Desires
Our Control will empower you to make critical decisions about your “Real choice requires information. . . . In Our Control is a handbook for
sexual health. revolution from the inside out.”
—Holly Grigg-Spall, Bitch blog
“Wow! I couldn’t put [In Our Control] down. Reading Laura Eldridge’s
history about contraception blew my mind. We cannot allow pharmaceutical
companies to endanger women lives! This book is about to regalvanize
“Laura Eldridge carries the torch for women’s health advocacy with the women’s health revolution!”
this important new book.” —Betty Dodson, author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving
—Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report

LAURA ELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latest
books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic:
Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution, both authored
with women’s health pioneer Barbara Seaman. In Our Control is
her first book as a solo author.
• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia •
Providence, RI • Boston • Bridgeport, CT
• College tour in September 2010
© Jeremy Weinberg

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

conceiving any idea that is not colossal.”
—Gabriel García Márquez, from “The Fidel I Think I Know”
Courtesy of Néstor Kohan © Elena Kohary

GRAND CENTRAL WINTER

Stories from the Street
Expanded 2nd Edition
Lee Stringer
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut
ith humane wisdom and biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles

W the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence running a
graphic design company and his odyssey of survival on the streets of Memoir • May 2010
New York City. Whether he is writing about taking shelter under- $14.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-918-7
neath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day, whether

saving a stranger from a pair of robbers or stealing from a friend,
Stringer powerfully conveys the paradoxes and emotional com-
A New York Times Notable Book
plexity of “normal” life on the street. Gestures of human kindness,
A USA Today Top Ten Pick
even heroism, stand alongside acts of wanton violence and desper-
As seen in People and USA Today and featured on
ation, creating in the end one of the most remarkable urban CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR
memoirs of our time.
“Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born of
This revised paperback edition features four never-before- pain but delivered with style and heart.”
published chapters, and a startling new ending. —John Jiler, New York Times Book Review
“Stringer’s crisp detail, straight no-chaser wit, and uncompromising

frankness are as bracing as his subject is significant.”
—Booklist
LEE STRINGER lived on the streets from the early eighties until the
midnineties. A former editor and columnist of Street News, his
other books include Sleepaway School: A Memoir and, with Kurt
Vonnegut, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About
Writing. He is at work on the forthcoming White People: Stories
from the Suburbs. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.
© Cheung Ching-Ming

BAD SHOES & THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEM

Leora Tanenbaum
Illustrated by Vanessa Davis
ad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted but highly
B informed wake-up call to women to make smart decisions when
buying and wearing fashionable shoes. It explores the significance of
shoes, the psychology behind the foot fetish, the history of foot bind- Self-Help / Women’s Studies • May 2010
$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-904-0
ing, the feminist critique (or celebration) of high heels, and the history
of how they came to be.

Illustrated throughout by artist Vanessa Davis, Bad Shoes also
includes hilarious anecdotes from women who love shoes. And in case
“Being dressed to kill shouldn’t mean killing your feet! It’s time to liberate
you’re wondering: yes, it is possible to make good footwear decisions ourselves from the tyranny of shoes that hobble our mobility and disfigure
without sacrificing style! Tanenbaum shows you how. our bodies in the name of sexiness. With this book, Leora Tanenbaum
shows us how to take the first step.”
—Audrey D. Brashich, author of All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing
Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty
“A witty, insightful, highly readable, and frankly shocking “Someone finally gets it! . . . Please, this is necessary reading for any
exploration of high heels that is a must-read.” person who wishes to remain safe, comfortable, and ambulatory in
—Liz Funk, author of Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret their life. Please read this book—it can save your wheels.”
Crisis of Overachieving Girls —Dr. Johanna S. Youner, DPM, FACFAS
“In Leora Tanenbaum’s Bad Shoes, the woman who exposed slut-
bashing, cat-fighting, and God-reclaiming takes on women’s
masochistic relationship with their feet. Run (while you still can) to LEORA TANENBAUM is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a
your nearest bookstore and save your sole.” Bad Reputation; Catfight: Rivalries Among Women; and Taking
—Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways, Manifesta, and Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. She
lives in New York City.
Abortion & Life
VANESSA DAVIS is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Her first
book, Spaniel Rage, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005,
and her second is due out from Drawn & Quarterly in 2010.
© Abigail Pope

TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMY

How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World
Loretta Napoleoni
hile we feared that al-Qaeda might destroy our world, Wall

W Street ripped it apart.
Economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link
between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic cri- Current Events • May 2010
5 1/4 x 8 • 192 pages • Trade paperback
$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-895-1
sis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that
politicians and the media have ignored. In launching military and

propaganda wars in the Middle East, America overlooked the war of
economic independence waged by al-Qaeda. The Patriot Act boosted
Praise for Rogue Economics:
the black market economy, and the war on terror prompted a rise in
“Timely and fascinating, Napoleoni’s top-notch reporting, in which
oil prices that led to food riots and distracted governments from the her attention turns from Viagra to blood diamonds to the banana
trillion-dollar machinations of Wall Street. Consumers and taxpayers, price wars in a few pages, works in the vein of Freakonomics and Eric
Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, but much grimmer.”
spurred by propaganda, accepted crushing global debt.
—Publishers Weekly
Napoleoni shows that if we do not face up to the many serious
Praise for Terror, Incorporated:
connections between our response to 9/11 and the financial crisis,
“A masterpiece . . . This book should be required reading for every-
we will never work our way out of the global recession that now
one in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon.”
threatens our way of life. —Greg Palast
LORETTA NAPOLEONI is the author of the bestselling book Rogue Eco-

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

BETWEEN THE FENCES

Before Guantánamo, there was the Port Isabel
Service Processing Center
Tony Hefner
n the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas

I in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the Port Isabel
Service Processing Center—one of the largest immigration deten-
tion centers in America—pays the best wages for a hundred miles. Politics • May 2010
$19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-912-5
The guards follow orders and keep quiet.
For five years, Tony Hefner served as a security guard at the

detention facility and witnessed alarming corruption and constant
violations of basic human rights. Between the Fences is the shocking
“Tony Hefner’s descriptions of human rights abuses at the Port Isabel
story of the systematic sexual, physical, financial, and drug-related Center mirror the complaints that continue to emerge from the
abuses by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers, facility—including reports from over one hundred detainees who
went on a hunger strike there in 2009.”
and the incredible courage of the author, several fellow guards, and —Catherine Tactaquin, executive director of the National Network for
Immigrant and Refugee Rights
many brave detainees who stood up against it. With 400,000 immi-
“People who care about social justice and America’s image in the
grant detainees in US custody annually, Between the Fences is a call
world should read former prison guard Tony Hefner’s disturbing
to action demanding that we look inside the detention centers on account of sexual and physical abuse at Port Isabel.”
—Carol M. Swain, editor of Debating Immigration
our own soil and consider how they are run.
TONY HEFNER created the Bearing Precious Seed Ranch ministry in

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

TALK SOFTLY
A Memoir
Cynthia O’Neal
ynthia O’Neal was living “the good life”—married to the

C famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of
two young sons, resident of The Dakota downstairs from John
Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and friend Biography & Autobiography • May 2010
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Cloth
17 b&w photographs
to many brilliant musicians and performers. When the AIDS epi- $22.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-906-4
demic hit the arts community hard, her life changed course
suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. With the support of long-
time friend Mike Nichols, she founded Friends In Deed and soon
found herself spending her days in hospitals, cramped rooms, and “This utterly winning book seems to sweep up the most devastating years of
dirty apartments: anywhere a patient needed a hug, a hand held, or the AIDS epidemic and simply hold them, as if Cynthia O’Neal’s embrace is so
capacious that she can somehow contain the suffering of every man and
confidence boosted. And when Patrick became ill and passed away woman during those murderous times. . . . Nothing has escaped her gaze, and
in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead of nothing seems outside her enormous, indelible compassion.”
—Mark Doty, author of the National Book Award–winning
someone else’s, and she found her life transformed again. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
An extraordinary testament to what we can achieve when people “One cannot read this book without wanting, in the most gentle way,
to do better, live better, and be better. Her story has stayed very much
come together with a shared purpose, Talk Softly is both one
with me, a fine spirit to have around.”
woman’s story and a universal tale. —Susan Minot, author of Rapture
“[A] beautifully written memoir of a ‘noisy life,’ intricately

structured, heartbreaking as well as joyous, and tense as a
CYNTHIA O ’ NEAL is the founder and president of Friends In Deed,
thriller. With its wide cast of characters . . . it is a deeply a New York City crisis center that provides emotional and spiri-
moving portrait of our time. I keep thinking that this is tual support for anyone diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and
what civilization means.” other life-threatening illnesses. This is her first book.
—Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient
© Danielle Weil
THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORY

Conversations with W. G. Sebald
Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
hen German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the

W age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a
writer whose oeuvre we were just beginning to appreciate. Through
published interviews with and essays on Sebald, American novelist Biography & Autobiography • April 2010
$15.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-915-6
and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of
the late author, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinch-
ing explorations of modern history, dislocation, and the role of
memory. Includes essays from Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin,
Michael Silverblatt, and others. “Schwartz does a fine job of evoking this elusive author.”
—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
“If this interesting book of criticism and interviews introduces

you to Sebald or encourages you to return to him, it will have
served a noble purpose.”
“The great achievement of [Sebald’s] work is that he makes —Jerusalem Post
it audible to his readers while still honoring the silence.”
—Evelyn Toynton, Harper’s Magazine
W . G . SEBALDwas born in Germany in 1944. His novels—The

Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won
a number of international awards, including the National Book
Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the
Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He is also
the author of three books of poems and a book-length essay. He
died in December 2001.
© Chris Buckapher
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ has authored fourteen works of fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir
Ruined by Reading. She won the PEN Renato Pogglioli Award for
her translation from Italian of Liana Millu’s Smoke Over Birkenau.

SAILOR & LULA

The Complete Novels
Barry Gifford
Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa,

Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man,
and The Imagination of the Heart
n the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gif-

O
Fiction • April 2010
$19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-910-1
ford’s searing contemporary classic Wild at Heart, and of David A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Lynch’s Palme d’Or–winning film, Sailor & Lula: The Complete

Novels presents all seven of the books that comprise the saga of
Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, “the Romeo and Juliet of the
“I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wild
South” (Booklist). world, and I wanted to go on that trip with them. . . . It’s like looking
into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.”
—David Lynch
“Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular— “[Sailor and Lula’s] talk comes from the hot dark of the innards,
William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn reminding us that the world is ‘wild at heart’ and that we
paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly—to forge the fear and love it that way.”
stealth-epic of Sailor & Lula. His accomplishment looks —Washington Post Book World
more and more like one of the permanent glories of recent
storytelling, a set of crude masterpieces like Philip
Guston’s late paintings. The compression and verve on view
on every page of this compendium is as irresistible and
dizzying as a dish of brandy-filled chocolates forged in
The author of more than forty published works of fiction, non-
shapes of pistols, hangmen’s ropes, convertible
fiction, and poetry that have been translated into twenty-eight
automobiles, and unclad, steamy bodies, daring you languages, BARRY GIFFORD is one of the few contemporary Amer-
to keep gobbling them up.” ican writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the
—Jonathan Lethem world. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
See page 22 for Sad Stories of the Death of Kings.

© Matt Dillon

OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS
A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel
Alice Walker
I n 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women Inter-

national, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the af-
termath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by the antiwar group
CODEPINK, Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to History / Social Science • April 2010
5 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade Paperback
$9.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-917-0
view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony. A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Bearing witness to depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories

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

JESUS OF NAZARETH
Paul Verhoeven
Translated by Susan Massotty
uilding on the work of the great biblical scholars of the twen-

B tieth century, filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical
Jesus to reveal a man who is, after all, startlingly familiar to us. Gone
is the Jesus of the miracles, gone the son of God, gone the weaver Biography & Autobiography / Religion • April 2010
6 x 9 • 304 pages • Cloth
$23.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-905-7
of arcane parables whose meanings are obscure. In their place Ver-
hoeven gives us his vision of Jesus as a complete man, a man who
has much in common with other great political leaders throughout
history, human beings who believed that change was coming in
their lifetimes. Steeped in biblical scholarship but free of the insti- “[Verhoeven] reflect(s) an astonishing familiarity with the trends of scholarship
tutional biases that so often dictate the terms of discussion of the during the last 150 years . . . I recommend it with the utmost enthusiasm.”
—Dr. Gerd Lüdemann, University of Göttingen, Germany
historical Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth builds a bridge reaching back to
“This is no zombie Jesus . . . but a human being who breathes our air, risks,
Jesus’ lifetime, and forward to the present, and from biblical schol- dreams, imagines, and makes mistakes.”
ars to lay readers whose interest might be personal or political. —Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University and fellow of the Jesus Seminar
“With . . . a filmmaker’s eye for detail, and a healthy

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

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