Arsenal Pulp Press Canadian Fall 2009

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Arsenal Pulp Press: The Essential Top Ten

page 17, ISBN 978-1-55152-240-1 Sarah’s travel book!

page 37, ISBN 978-1-55152-246-3 Lambda Literary Award finalist!

page 26, ISBN 978-1-55152-241-8 Now available!

page 1, ISBN 978-1-55152-253-1 Tenth Anniversary Edition!

page 35, ISBN 978-1-55152-226-5 The award-winning novel!

page 31, ISBN 978-1-55152-229-6 Now available!

page 38, ISBN 978-155152-247-0 In its second printing!

page 18, ISBN 978-1-55152-250-0 Now available!

page 18, ISBN 978-155152-224-1 Book of the Year Award!

page 19, ISBN 978-1-55152-234-0 In its second printing!

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Arsenal Pulp Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council for its publishing program, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for its publishing activities.

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The tenth-anniversary edition of Tanya and Sarah’s classic first book.

HOW IT ALL VEGAN! Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet new release

Tenth Anniversary Edition!

Since it was first published in 1999, How It All Vegan! has become a bible for vegan cooks, both diehard and newly converted; its basic introduction to the tenets of vegan living and eating, combined with Sarah and Tanya’s winning charm, made it an essential cookbook for anyone considering eschewing animal products from their diet. It won VegNews’ Veggie Award for Best Cookbook twice, has been reprinted fourteen times, and spawned several successful sequels (including The Garden of Vegan, La Dolce Vegan, last year’s Vegan à Go-Go!, and most recently, the Go Vegan! 2010 Wall Calendar).

In the ten years since How It All Vegan! was first published, however, veganism has “come out of the closet,” and is now considered a legitimate diet and lifestyle not only for those wishing to improve their health, but also those who care deeply about the welfare of animals.

This tenth-anniversary edition includes new recipes, as well as updated information that better reflects the new vegan reality; it also includes a color photo section and a new introduction by co-author Sarah Kramer, who speaks personally and passionately about the impact of veganism on her life over the past decade.

With this tenth anniversary edition, Sarah and Tanya’s fans can find out “how it all vegan” all over again!

Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard Sarah Kramer was named “The World’s Coolest Vegan” by Herbivore magazine. In addition to writing cookbooks and maintaining her popular website GoVegan.net, she also owns/operates Tattoo Zoo with her husband in Victoria, BC. Tanya Barnard is the mother of a newborn son and lives in Kelowna, BC. For other titles by Sarah and Tanya, see page 17.

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DIY tricks and tactics for knitters wishing to join the international knit graffiti phenomenon.

YARN BOMBING The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti new release

On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. “Knit graffiti” is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced by crochet and knitting artists of all ages, nationalities, and genders. Its practitioners create stunning works of art out of yarn, then “donate” them to public spaces as part of a covert plan for world yarn domination.

Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain Mandy Moore is the technical editrix of popular online knitting magazine Knitty.com, and of various other knitting and crochet books and publications. She blogs about her life at yarnageddon.com. Leanne Prain co-founded a stich and bitch called Knitting and Beer in order to expand her skills while knitting at the pub. A professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing. She blogs at yarnbombing.com. Mandy and Leanne both live and knit in Vancouver, BC.

Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-colour DIY book features 20 kick-ass patterns that range from hanging shoes and knitted picture frames to balaclavas and gauntlets, teaching readers how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture. Along the way, it provides tips on how to be as stealthy as a ninja, demonstrates how to orchestrate a large-scale textile project, and offers revealing information necessary to design your own yarn graffiti tags. The book also includes interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers, and provides resources to help readers join the movement; it’s also chock full of beautiful photographs and easy stepby-step instructions for knit and crochet installations and garments. join the yarn bombing revolution!

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An inspiring and unforgettable look at the world of knit graffiti and the creative folks behind it, Yarn Bombing deserves a place on any hip crafter’s bookshelf.

—Debbie Stoller, Editor-in-chief of BUST Magazine and author of the Stitch ‘n Bitch books

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Vancouver’s past, present, and future, in words and photographs.

Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighbourhood in Canada; a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat; a savvy urban centre with an inferiority complex. In Vancouver Special, writer and performer Charles Demers examines the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Vancouver, shedding light on the various strategies and influences that have made the city what it is today (as well as what it should be). From a history of anti-Asian racism to a deconstruction of the city’s urban sprawl; from an examination of local food trends to a survey of the city’s politically radical past, Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight.

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The book also includes interviews with many of Vancouver’s unsung heroes, informational sidebars, and stand-up comedy excerpts, as well as numerous contemporary and historical photographs.

Charles Demers Charles Demers was born and raised in Vancouver. He is an activist and comedian, a regular performer on CBC Radio One’s The Debaters, and co-host of Citytv’s comedic panel show The Citynews List in Vancouver.

In 2005, he was the judges’ choice for Vancouver ’s funniest new comic; since then he has been featured on national radio, in print, as well as in festivals and live venues across Canada and the Pacific Northwest and with Paul Bae as the sketch duo “Bucket”—the act Robin Williams called “the future of comedy.” His first novel, The Prescription Errors, will be published in fall 2009 by Insomniac Press.

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The icon of the muscular American male from 1860–1970.

AMERICAN HUNKS The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970 new release

The “American hunk” is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in America but throughout the world.

David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic David L. Chapman has written many books on male photography and bodybuilding, including Comin’ at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield (page 32), co-authored by Thomas Waugh. He lives in Seattle.

American Hunks is a fascinating collection of images (many in full colour) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuilder Charles Atlas, pioneer weightlifter Eugen Sandow, and movie stars like Steve “Hercules” Reeves and Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller, and publications such as the 1920s-era magazine Physical Culture and the 1950s-era comic book Mr Muscles. It also touches on the use of masculine, homoerotic imagery to sell political and military might (including American recruitment posters and Nazi propaganda from the 1936 Olympics), and how companies have used buff, near-naked men to sell products from laundry detergent to sacks of flour since the 1920s. The introduction by Chapman offers insightful information on individual images, while the essay by Grubisic places the work in its proper historical context.

Brett Josef Grubisic is author of the novel The Age of Cities (page 37) and editor of Contra/Diction: New Queer Fiction. He teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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A lavish book on the art of Attila Richard Lukacs.

Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris

A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press, Presentation House Gallery of North Vancouver, and the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, this will be the first book to document the work of this important artist from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-colour Polaroid images (twelve per page) taken by Lukacs over the past twenty years as core referents for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator Michael Morris. Lukacs regularly uses a Polaroid camera as part of his artistic process, using his friends and acquaintances in Berlin, New York, Vancouver, and elsewhere as models; taking advantage of the Polaroid’s unique characteristics, his painterly sensibility is evident in the rich hues and romantic sensuality of these photographs, which are strikingly similar to the paintings that resulted from them.

The book will feature essays by award-winning author Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem); Scott Watson, director of the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver, and Vince Aletti, the American curator, critic, and journalist.

Stunning and bold, Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris is a remarkable visual and written document on Lukacs, one of Canada’s greatest artists working today, and his unique collaboration with Morris, a hugely important artist in his own right.

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Attila Richard Lukacs is one of Canada’s most talented and controversial contemporary artists. He is bestknown for his epic paintings that depict masculine, homoerotic imagery, featuring figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets. His work has been exhibited at documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Cologne, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, among others; he has also had numerous shows, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris Attila Richard Lukacs was born in Calgary in 1962. A graduate of Vancouver’s Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, he was a member of the renowned “Young Romantics” art group in the 1980s. He spent many years in Berlin and New York before relocating to Vancouver. He is the subject of the 2004 feature documentary film Drawing Out the Demons.

Michael Morris was born in 1942 in Saltdean, UK. As an artist with Vincent Trasov, Morris developed Image Bank, which later became known as the Morris/Trasov Archive. His artwork is housed in such institutions as the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of Modern Art. He splits his time between Vancouver and Victoria.

isbn 978-1-55152-295-1 12.5 x 16.5 | 176 pp | cloth $44.95 canada / nyp us 1,200 colour photos

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A brilliant new novel by Sarah Schulman: a satiric vision of New York in the future.

THE MERE FUTURE new release

For a nation which elected Barack Obama as president amid the flames of economic disaster comes the first novel of the New Era: The Mere Future, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman.

In this dystopian vision, New York City has morphed into an idealized version of itself, the result of which the newly elected mayor calls “The Big Change.” Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Our heroine, a lowly copywriter, and her girlfriend Nadine just want to fall in love all over again, but can’t help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable.

Calling on all genres—literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy—Schulman invents a literature that reflects the lives we live right now, while being funny, sexy, and open-hearted.

Sparkling with witty and provocative social commentary, The Mere Future is a startling vision of the world to come that blows literary conventions out of the water.

Sarah Schulman Sarah Schulman is the author of eleven previous novels including Empathy (page 29), Rat Bohemia (page 35), and The Child (page 35). Her nonfiction books include Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years, and the play Carson McCullers.

She is co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, and her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and two American Library Association Book Awards. She is a professor of English at City University of New York (College of Staten Island).

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In this dystopic, hell-ride of a novel, Sarah Schulman, New York’s legendary poet-maudit, is grappling with something that matters. The Mere Future is a rare combination of brains and humour, by turns enlightened and terrifying.

—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Schulman’s calm, measured, voice in The Mere Future is startlingly new—prophetic, wise and true.

—Jaime Manrique, author of Our Lives Are the Rivers

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A moving, funny novel about tradition, destiny, and the complexities of love.

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A LITTLE DISTILLERY IN NOWGONG

This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present day.

The narrative follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and Canada.

The novel begins in 1899 with the birth of a boy named Jamshed to a rural Parsi family in central India. As he comes of age, Jamshed feels he is faced with the choice between spirituality and materiality: he has the opportunity to train to become a Parsi priest, or may follow family connections to a business opportunity as a distillery manager. Jamshed, who will become the family patriarch as a result of his choice, quickly becomes obsessed with the question of free will and he passes on this obsession to his descendants. Jamshed’s preoccupations, however, are complicated by frequent, often disturbing, visitations by his as-yet-unborn grandchildren, who may or may not come into existence based on the choices he makes. After much soul-searching (and fantastical communications), Jamshed decides to take on the management of the distillery where he discovers the almost-magical properties of its main product, a much sought-after rum called Asha. This curious liquor becomes a leit-motif, reappearing in various forms and incarnations throughout the generations of the family, even as they move to other parts of the world, including Atlantic Canada and Toronto.

This beautifully told, engaging novel, by the author of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, humanizes the politics of ethnicity, culture, and colonial rule.

Ashok Mathur Ashok Mathur is the author of two previous novels, both published by Arsenal: Once Upon an Elephant (page 39) and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (page 39). Born in Bhopal, India, he immigrated to Canada with his family in 1962. He has lived and worked in Calgary and Vancouver; currently, he is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC. An art show based on A Little Distillery in Nowgong appeared in Vancouver (Centre A) and Ottawa (City Hall Art Gallery) in 2009.

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A Queer Film Classic: Pedro Almodóvar’s 1987 gay melodrama.

LAW OF DESIRE A Queer Film Classic new release

Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal’s new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain’s most successful contemporary film director.

The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed, obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas). In the twenty-plus years since its first release, Law of Desire has been acknowledged as redefining the way in which cinema can portray the difficult affective relationships between homosexuality, gender, and sex. Taking his cue from the golden age of Latin American, American, and European melodrama, Almodóvar created a sentimental yet hard-edged film that believes in the utopian possibilities for new relationships that redeem people from their despair. Since its release, Almodóvar has become an Oscar-winning filmmaker who regularly delves into issues of sexuality, gender, and identity.

José Quiroga José Quiroga is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta. He has written extensively on Latin American and Latino popular culture, media, literature, and queer studies. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland.

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This book examines the political and social context in which Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.

The Queer Film Classics series, starting this fall, consists of critical yet populist monographs on classic films of interest to LGBT audiences written by esteemed film scholars and critics. The series is edited by Montreal authors Thomas Waugh (Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed) and Matthew Hays (The View from Here).

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A Queer Film Classic: the 1998 film based on the troubled life of director James Whale.

GODS AND MONSTERS new release

A Queer Film Classic

Gods and Monsters, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal’s new film book series Queer Film Classics, deals with the acclaimed 1998 film about openly gay film director James Whale, best known for the Frankenstein films of the 1930s.

Written and directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), Gods and Monsters stars Ian McKellen as Whale in the final days of his life during the 1950s. Moving from the slums of Britain in the early twentieth century to the new era of “talkies” in Hollywood and beyond, Gods and Monsters trains a gay eye on the historical events that helped shape Whale and his films. Focusing on the final days of the director’s life, Gods and Monsters is a meditation on death that is not depressing, due in large part to the humour of Condon’s script and the elegance of McKellen’s performance. The resulting film was widely acclaimed, winning an Oscar for Condon’s screenplay and nominations for both McKellen and co-star Lynn Redgrave.

This book examines Gods and Monsters from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity and significance of its achievements, including its fusion of fantasy and biography. It also delves into a history of gay Hollywood during this era, including both its homophobic surface and its queer underpinnings.

The Queer Film Classics series, starting this fall, consists of critical yet populist monographs on classic films of interest to LGBT audiences written by esteemed film scholars and critics. The series is edited by Montreal authors Thomas Waugh (Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed) and Matthew Hays (The View from Here).

Noah Tsika Noah Tsika is a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and the author of numerous essays on film, television, and new media.

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A Queer Film Classic: director Paul Morrissey’s greatest film for producer Andy Warhol.

TRASH A Queer Film Classic new release

Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal’s new film book series Queer Film Classics, delves into the legendary 1970 film that was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol.

The film Trash is a down-and-out domestic melodrama about a decidedly eccentric couple: Joe, an impotent junkie (played by Warhol film regular Joe Dallesandro), and Holly (played by Warhol trans superstar Holly Woodlawn), Joe’s feisty and sexually frustrated girlfriend. Joe is the hunky yet passive centre around whom proud Holly orbits; while Morrissey intended to show that “there’s no difference between a person using drugs and a piece of refuse,” Woodlawn’s incredible turn reverses his logic: she makes trash as precious as human beings.

The book examines the film in the context of Morrissey and Warhol’s legendary partnership, with a special focus on Woodlawn’s acclaimed performance: a glorious embodiment of “trash” and glamour that was so stunning, director George Cukor led a campaign (albeit unsuccessful) to win her an Oscar nomination.

Jon Davies Jon Davies is a curator and critic based in Toronto. He is the Assistant Curator of Public Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the guest curator of the major touring retrospective “People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell.” His writing has been published in a variety of publications from C Magazine to GLQ, as well as in some anthologies.

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The Queer Film Classics series, starting this fall, consists of critical yet populist monographs on classic films of interest to LGBT audiences written by esteemed film scholars and critics. The series is edited by Montreal authors Thomas Waugh (Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed) and Matthew Hays (The View from Here).

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A Little Sister’s Classic: the groundbreaking collection of S/M leatherdyke fantasy.

MACHO SLUTS new release

A Little Sister’s Classic

When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia’s Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco’s dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of womanto-woman sex (and nobody has ever done it any better).

If any book is responsible for the formation of the modern lesbian leather community, this one is it.

Despite its graceful language, imaginative scenarios, and abundant humour, the lesbian press trashed Macho Sluts, and it became a focal point for the infamous legal battles between Canada Customs and Little Sister’s, the gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver. But readers loved it, and to this day Macho Sluts remains a vital and moving classic that still has the power to educate, radicalize, and expand our notions of the body’s potential to provide us with pleasure, pain, and love.

This new edition, part of Arsenal’s Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting classics of LGBT literature, includes a new afterword by the author, and an introduction by Wendy Chapkis, a Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. There are also essays by Jim Deva, co-owner of Little Sister’s, and Joseph Arvay, chief counsel for the bookstore during its trial against Canada Customs.

Patrick Califia Patrick Califia has written many books about radical sex, queer communities, and the repression of desire. Almost ten years ago, Califia transitioned from female to male; he now lives as a bisexual transman in San Francisco.

For other Little Sister’s Classics, see pages 29 and 30.

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Essays on queer and trans life by the author of Butch is a Noun.

THE NEAREST EXIT MAY BE BEHIND YOU new release

Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humour and grace, these essays deal with issues from women’s spaces to the old boys’ network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one; throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you’re visibly different from those around you—whether it’s being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told.

Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the “official stories” about how gender and sexuality work.

Bear’s poetry of butchness lets us see into facets of gender that usually aren’t so transparent.

—Carol Queen

S. Bear Bergman S. Bear Bergman’s first book was Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts). Ze is an activist, gender-jammer, and author of two books and three awardwinning solo stage shows. Formerly based in New England, Bergman recently relocated to Canada in Burlington, Ontario.

Following Kate Bornstein, Bergman explains how butches live outside of the inane gender binary, and how society responds to gender rebellion.

—Chill Magazine A smart, heart-filled, humourous and touching piece about life as a gender outlaw in today’s world.

—Kate Bornstein

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Beautifully written stories of heartache and redemption.

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THE ONLY THING I HAVE

A new and daring voice, Rhonda Waterfall writes with clarity about the simple, utter truths in human relationships: the small yet essential things that could change our lives if only we let them. She introduces us to two contrasting worlds, one with the startling realism of everyday life and one where the world has been knocked askew. In the story “When You Are Gone,” a woman runs away from her domestic situation, holed up in a downtown hotel where she imagines a life away from her stagnant marriage. In “Shooting the Driver,” a young boy dreams of sailing to Alaska just before his arrest. There is Palma in “Moths,” who navigates her loneliness by becoming the mother to a swarm of moths. And in “Paul and the Girl,” a man comforts a young woman who is haunted by visions of planes crashing and buildings falling.

In Rhonda Waterfall’s unsettling, evocatively written stories, life unfolds in odd, unpredictable ways: a murderous plot revealed through Post-It notes; a film director who will do anything to recapture his lost youth; an elderly woman who finds the love of a child in a marrow squash. Throughout, her characters are noble in the face of heartache, and human amidst the surreal darkness and light.

Rhonda Waterfall has a true genius for narrative; her characters are everyday people who seem to lead everyday lives, but the everyday worlds that they inhabit (so like and unlike our own) are “complexified” by the strange turnings and obscure pitfalls of a unique, unrepeatable and remorseless reality. The stories in this book are highly addictive: read one and you have to read another one right away.

—Stephen Osborne, Geist magazine

Rhonda Waterfall Rhonda Waterfall was born in 1973 in Ocean Falls, BC. She studied creative writing with the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her work has appeared in Geist, Descant, and several other literary journals.

The Only Thing I Have is her first book. She currently lives and works in Vancouver.

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Subversive true-life tales about gay men’s sexual experiences.

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT True Stories of Gay Male Desire new release

From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer: intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men’s desire. The stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors both novice and well-known; subject matter ranges from single, significant encounters to the ephemera of emotional desire that never lead to physical pleasure. Throughout, the book deals with the essential erotics of queer male life, to be used as a launching point for exploring the queer male condition: essays that delve into the diverse manifestations of desire between and among men.

Unlike other books of gay male erotica, I Like It Like That features smart, savvy writing about desire and sex.

Unlike mainstream porn imagery that by default dominates our cultural (and therefore personal) references, contributors reach into the far reaches of memory to tell true tales about personal erotic space.

Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, editors Co-editors Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel have written, edited or co-edited well over 100 books between them, including First Person Queer (page 32), Second Person Queer (page 32), and The Future is Queer (page 33). Labonté has been the editor of the annual Best Gay Erotica series (Cleis) since 1997 and writes the syndicated review column “Book Marks” for Q Syndicate. He lives on Bowen Island, BC. Schimel is the author or editor of PoMosexuals, Two Boys in Love, The Drag Queen of Elfland, and The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica, among many others. He lives in Madrid and New York. gay men’s anthologies / isbn 978-1-55152-259-3

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The first solo poetry collection by novelist Larissa Lai.

new release

AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES

Automaton Biographies is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl). With an ear to the fizz of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, cereal packaging, MuchMusic, Sanrio, critical theory, science fiction, anti-racist organizing, rivers and streams, the Internet, and Hollywood, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. The book consists of four long poems: “Rachel,” a meditation in the voice of the cyborg figure Rachel from Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and its source material, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; “nascent fashion,” which addresses contemporary war and its excesses; “Ham,” which circulates around the chimpanzee named Ham sent up into space as part of the Mercury Redstone missions by NASA in the 1960s and later donated to the Coulston Foundation for biomedical research; and “auto matter,” a kind of unfolding autobiography told in poems.

Ambitious, eloquent, and lushly imbued with life, these poems taken as a whole are a personal and cultural history, a moving testament to being in relation.

Larissa Lai

oh brother artful art thou

searching for the how of our connection

only to understand yourself

shelf shakespeared not stirred

by the alternate whirr

the in of intelligence

the sin in the pardon

my eden unbroken by the word made fodder

for reason’s treason

as pocky’s horror

telltale heart beating in surrogate body

your innocent double

frank-n-furtive

the girl in the picture hearts

Larissa Lai is the author of the novels When Fox is a Thousand (page 35), Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen, 2002), Eggs in the Basement (Nomados, 2009), and co-author (with Rita Wong) of the poetry book sybil unrest (Line Books, 2009). Born in La Jolla, California, Lai grew up in St. John’s, NF, and currently lives in Vancouver, where she is an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at UBC. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK.

a fixture in the self-construction

of man made ham

—from “Ham”

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$19.95 canada / nyp us

pub month: october 2009

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MCPOEMS

100 Cheeseburgers

Billeh Nickerson

An elderly man you recognize as someone who moves slowly and pays for everything with change scrounged from the bottom of his pockets surprises you when he pulls out a wad of bills and orders 100 cheeseburgers. You get him to repeat himself a couple of times, 100 cheeseburgers, 100 cheeseburgers he says, tells you he intends to freeze them, they’ll get him through the winter, no need for pesky walks on cold days, no danger of slipping and breaking a hip. 100 cheeseburgers will keep me going for a little while longer at least, I don’t need much.

Billeh Nickerson’s first poetry book, The Asthmatic Glassblower, was shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle’s Gay Men’s Poetry Award.

The hilarious and illuminating poems in his new collection, McPoems, are based on his years working at a particularly well-known fast-food restaurant; they paint a vivid picture of life behind the counter and will resonate with anyone who has ever held a fast-food job. Hold the pickle!

Hot Apple Pie Burns your tongue so badly you can’t taste anything three days later when you order another.

Billeh Nickerson’s other books are The Asthmatic Glassblower (page 41), the essay collection Let Me Kiss It Better (page 35) and Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets (page 41). He has taught poetry at Kwantlen University College (Vancouver) and Queen’s University (Kingston, ON). After many years on the west coast, Billeh recently relocated to Toronto.

THE VIDEOGRAPHER Jason Rapczynski A New York film school dropout falls into a job setting up spycams, porn shoots, and street fights for a shady underground video producer.

His plans to escape the lowbrow underbelly of the webcast world go awry, however, when a young runaway claiming to be his daughter arrives at his door, triggering a series of events eerily similar to a movie script he wrote years earlier, making him grow suspicious of the girl’s story and doubtful of her agenda. While his life begins to unravel, he furiously seeks the truth about the girl, her missing mother, his increasingly sinister boss, and his own uncertain identity.

poetry bisac poe005000 isbn 978-1-55152-265-4 $15.95 | $13.95 us paper pub month: september

The Videographer is a satirical and fast-moving look at the con-runners, lost souls, web-addled stunt junkies, and open-hearted dreamers of the digital generation.

Winner of the 31st annual International 3-Day Novel Contest (3daynovel.com), held every Labour Day Weekend on laptops and writing pads all over the world.

Jason Rapczynski is a writer, rare book dealer and one-time radio copywriter living near New Haven, Connecticut. He has an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. This is his first novel.

a 3-day book

fiction bisac fic000000 isbn 978-1-55152-252-4 $14.95 | $14.95 us pub month: september

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GO VEGAN!

VEGAN À GO-GO!

2010 Wall Calendar

A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road

Sarah Kramer

Each month features a recipe appropriate for the season or particular holiday. With Sarah Kramer’s fun and fab Go Vegan! calendar, vegans can stay happy, healthy, and “up to date.”

spring 2009 release

A cookbook and more for vegan travellers, many of whom are daunted by the idea of going on the road and being able to locate and/or prepare the kind of nutritious animal-free meals they enjoy at home.

The Vegan à Go-Go! full-colour book includes 150 recipes, many of them new, and others that have been adapted from her earlier books. All of the recipes are easy to prepare with a minimum of ingredients but guaranteed to deliver energy, nutrition, and great flavour. The rest of the book contains information and advice pertinent to vegan travellers, from how to deconstruct a restaurant menu to what food items are best suited to carry around in your luggage or handbag. There’s even a section on “How to Say ‘I Am Vegan’” in numerous languages.

food & drink

Sarah Kramer Sarah Kramer’s first four cookbooks, including How It All Vegan! and La Dolce Vegan, have sold a combined total of over 200,000 copies. Go Vegan! is Sarah’s first wall calendar, featuring photographs of her in beguiling re-creations of advertisements, movie posters, and other iconic images of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s that have been reworked for modern vegan audiences.

With these dishes, Sarah has managed to make vegan food fun, tasty, and sexy! —Jane Wiedlin, The Go-Go’s

cooking (vegetarian and vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-249-4 $14.95 | $14.95 us

cooking (vegetarian and vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-240-1 $17.95 | $17.95 us

LA DOLCE VEGAN!

THE GARDEN OF VEGAN

Vegan Livin’ Made Easy Sarah Kramer

How It All Vegan Again!

Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer The second book by Tanya and Sarah, vegan chefs extraordinaire: truly delectable, highly original recipes that manage to leave animal products where they belong—with their natural owners. The Garden of Vegan offers recipes for a more sophisticated palate that add funky twists to familiar dishes bursting with colour and flavour.

over 50,000 copies sold | seventh printing Written in the most engaging way, it’s full of recipes that are bound to appeal. —Canadian Living [So] much more than straight recipes; Garden shows veganism as a fun and exciting way of life—complete with witty, often hilarious recipe intros and heartfelt stories… —Monday Magazine [Sarah and Tanya] teach the world at least two things: that being a vegan can be loads of fun and that vegan food is to die for.

—vegsource.com cooking (vegetarian and vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-128-2 $22.95 | $21.95 us

Sarah’s bestselling first solo cookbook, featuring more of the delectable, easy-to-prepare recipes that vegans around the world have come to adore. For Sarah, vegan cooking—which eschews all animal products, including butter, milk, and cheese—can be an adventure in dining, without a lot of investment in time or money. In fact, most of the recipes in La Dolce Vegan! can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. From soups and salads to entrees and desserts, they are sure to inspire both committed and part-time vegans alike.

sixth printing More than any other vegetarian cookbook author, Kramer has charmed the whole of a movement with her accessibility and mystique.

—VegNews This is one of the best vegan cookbooks I’ve seen, and one of the most joyous and spirited.

—vegsource.com

cooking (vegetarian and vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-187-9 $24.95 | $23.95 us

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THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL

EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN

Everyday Recipes Worth Celebrating

Natasha Kyssa

food & drink

The modern world is a toxic place, and we’ve all become less healthy because of it, whether it is from the air that we breathe or the foods that we eat. Natasha Kyssa is a raw foods chef and lifestyle coach, and her company SimplyRaw helps people improve their health and well-being by integrating simple, natural-based guidelines into their current lifestyles. This informative and useful manual outlines Natasha’s ­twenty-eight-day detox program, which includes only raw and “living” foods (i.e., those that have been soaked, sprouted, or fermented). It is a gentle, effective method to cleanse the body of toxins and to provide optimal nourishment for healing. The author believes that we can heal ourselves naturally to mend the damage done to our bodies due to unhealthy environments and improper food choices.

Dreena Burton In Dreena Burton’s first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which are based on her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot. com) and website (everydayvegan.com) and and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her nutritious recipes.

You don’t have to be a vegan to enjoy Dreena Burton’s cookbooks.

This is healthy, nutritious cooking for anyone interested in eating for optimum health. —January Magazine

spring 2009 release

third printing book of the year award

health & fitness / diets / food content guide 978-1-55152-250-0 $19.95 | $18.95 us

cooking (vegetarian & vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-224-1 $25.95 | $24.95 us

VIVE LE VEGAN!

THE EVERYDAY VEGAN

Dreena Burton

Dreena Burton

Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family

Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life

In her second book, Dreena shows that there are simple methods and delectable ingredients you can use that will allow you—whether you’re single or have a family—to become vegan without having to be a rocket scientist. And the recipes in Vive le Vegan! also don’t over-rely on the use of soy, given recent concerns about over-consumption, and many feature whole grains and hemp. They’re also disarmingly easy to prepare.

It’s time to give up your qualms about the vegan lifestyle and celebrate its vivid possibilities. Vive le vegan!

fifth printing favourite vegetarian cookbooks list: homemakers magazine Vive le Vegan! welcomes a new vegan cook with open arms.… This is a book to grow into, and a good companion for years of culinary adventure. Vive le Vive!

—VegNews

Dreena Burton’s first cookbook, where she demonstrates that anyone can prepare and enjoy an array of delectable vegan dishes without having to compromise one’s health or sense of taste. Each recipe contains nutritional analysis, and health-conscious cooks will appreciate that the recipes do not use hydrogenated oils and very little refined flours and sugars.

sixth printing A flavor feast! This is a book for anyone who loves food and wants to be healthy, with great recipes that are easy and totally tasty. The Everyday Vegan is healthy, humane, and 100% picky-eater friendly. Truly delicious reading.

—Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA Burton has designed these recipes for daily use; they’re easy to put together, and there’s enough variety to suit every taste.

—VegNews

cooking (vegetarian and vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-169-5 $23.95 | $22.95 us

cooking (vegetarian and vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-106-0 $24.95 | $21.95 us

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GET IT RIPE

A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking & Living jae steele

THE MODERN AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK Healthful, Healing Recipes for Life

Get It Ripe is a vegan cookbook for the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on holistic living and whole food (i.e. unprocessed and unrefined) ingredients. jae steele is a registered holistic nutritionist; she has also been a professional vegan baker, and worked on organic farms on both the east and west coasts of Canada. Her life experiences, and her love of vegan whole foods, are at the heart of Get It Ripe, which not only features uncomplicated yet delicious animal-free recipes, but advice and information on various aspects of holistic vegan living, including special diets (all recipes are wheat-free), simple steps for cleansing and detoxing, information on ethical consumerism, and the connections among mind, body, and spirit.

second printing jae offers practical advice and truly delicious recipes in her friendly, never-judgmental voice. This book is a breath of fresh, yummy air.

—Jessica Porter, author of The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics

This all-vegetarian cookbook based on Ayurvedic traditions features over 200 delectable and nutritious recipes that appeal to particular doshas, which are one’s personal constitution based on physical and mental characteristics. And while the recipes are authentically Ayurvedic, they feature easy-to-find ingredients and modern-day cooking methods appropriate for busy lifestyles.

third printing shortlisted for a nautilus book award Includes a cornucopia of nourishing recipes that are in tune with nature and one’s body.

—Vancouver Sun

food & drink

Amrita Sondhi

Offers easy, veg-friendly recipes.... Try the Spicy Chickpea Soup with coconut, cilantro and yogurt.

—Curve

A fun guide to preparing tasty, vegan dishes that anyone would enjoy.

—The O’Mama Report (Organic Trade Association) cooking (healthy and vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-204-3 $26.95 | $22.95 us

cooking (vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-234-0 $23.95 | $23.95 us

NEW WORLD PROVENCE

AS FRESH AS IT GETS

Alessandra and Jean-Francis Quaglia

Christian Gaudreault & Star Spilos

Modern French Cooking for Friends and Family

French cuisine is considered among the world’s best, but its traditional ingredients like butter and cream aren’t always appropriate for today’s heart-healthy diets. New World Provence, by the proprietor-chefs of the esteemed restaurants Provence Mediterranean Grill and Provence Marinaside in Vancouver, is a new-style French cookbook designed for contemporary North American audiences, featuring healthy, easy-tofind ingredients prepared using traditional French techniques tweaked with the home cook in mind.

Everyday Recipes from the Tomato Fresh Food Café

Today, increasing emphasis is being placed on the integrity of the way the food we eat is grown. The owners of Vancouver’s Tomato Fresh Food Café share their best-loved and most sought-after recipes; at the heart of the book is their simple philosophy: learn how to let farmers’ fields and local markets determine your menus, and cooking at home can be fun and uncomplicated, as well as healthy. Features 32 full-colour photographs.

second printing bronze winner, independent publisher award shortlisted for a cuisine canada award

second printing The cookbook’s stunning colours and photography merit a place on the coffee table, but the delicious, healthful recipes mean it should stay in the kitchen.

—Hour Magazine

The authors open the door to making food that’s wholesome, simple, and inventive.

—Canadian Living

One of the best cookbooks of the year. I adore this book; there is a bright effortlessness about it.

—Epicurean Classic blog

A charming book of simple dishes, ideal for the summer growing season and for making winter food taste like summer too.

—Montreal Gazette

cooking (french) isbn 978-1-55152-223-4 $31.95 | $29.95 us

cooking isbn 978-1-55152-199-2 $24.95 | $21.95 us

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WHERE PEOPLE FEAST

An Indigenous People’s Cookbook Dolly and Annie Watts

food & drink

Where People Feast, one of the few First Nations cookbooks available, focuses on Canadian west coast Native cuisine, which takes advantage of the area’s abundant seafood, game, fruits, and vegetables—with ingredients both exotic (oolichan, venison, grouse) and common (salmon, crab, berries).

Dolly Watts and her daughter Annie are from the Gitk’san First Nation in British Columbia, and until recently were the proprietors of the Liliget Feast House in Vancouver, the only First Nations fine dining establishment of its kind. For almost two decades, Dolly and (later) Annie have focused on serving Native cuisine that is both traditional and modern; while many recipes are steeped in history, others are contemporary takes that acknowledge other cuisines both near and far. Includes 16 full-colour photographs.

Recipes include Smoked Salmon Mousse, Indian Tacos, Venison Meatballs, Alder-Grilled Breast of Pheasant, Blackberry-Glazed Beets, Wild Rice Pancakes, Seaweed & Salmon Roe Soup, and Wild Blueberry Cobbler.

second printing

A chapter on smoking and preserving offers a closer historical look at indigenous culinary traditions. As one of the few titles on the topic, the Watts’ book is recommended.

—Library Journal Filled with delicious and unusual recipes guaranteed to whet your appetite for outstanding Aboriginal cuisine.... Where People Feast is a must-have for every Canadian kitchen.

—Western Native News A glowing shard of the continent’s aboriginal past can be found in Where People Feast, which not only is that rare bird, a Native Indian cookbook, but also provides considerable guidance on how to deal with such game meats as venison, elk, and buffalo.

—San Francisco Bay Guardian A fascinating culinary history conveyed through a collection of Pacific Northwest indigenous dishes.

—Georgia Straight Through easy-to-follow recipes, the Watts give readers an excuse to raid the market and prepare dishes such as Venison Roast with Juniper Berry Rub, Wild Huckleberry Glazed Duck, and a Pacific Northwest favorite, clam chowder.... In a truly fitting tribute to the restaurant they once owned, the pair has put together an impressive collection of recipes.

—Northwest Palate

winner, world gourmand award, local cuisine (canada)

cooking (canadian) isbn 978-1-55152-221-0 $24.95 | $21.95 us

THE URBAN PICNIC

THE REAL JERK

John Burns & Elisabeth Caton

New Carribean Cuisine Lili & Ed Pottinger

The Urban Picnic is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike, to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picnickery into their lives.

With an irreverant and highly opinionated history of the picnic, original illustrations, and over 200 recipes, many contributed by renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson and Mark Bittman, it’s an essential how-to picnic. … The Urban Picnic is just the cookbook for the serious picnicker.

It’s just the thing to turn you into a natural, like Burns, for whom “to picnic” is a verb to live by.

—Vancouver Sun

The Jamaican phrase, “Out of many, one people,” is reflected in Caribbean cooking: distinct, bold flavours coming together to create an electric experience. The recipes in The Real Jerk (named for the authors’ popular Toronto restaurant) are new Caribbean cuisine, cooking borne out of tradition, steeped in history, and brought into a new world where styles and tastes fuse to become something entirely different. It includes such favourite recipes as jerk chicken, curry goat, oxtail, shrimp creole, and ackee and codfish (Jamaica’s national dish). Enjoy new Caribbean cuisine: a blend of tastes and cultures unlike any you’ve visited before.

fourth printing Don’t wait for that rare occasion when you might actually plan a picnic to use this generous and approachable cookbook/picnic guide.…

Whatever the provenance of the recipes, they all sound delicious.

—Quill & Quire

Favourite Caribbean recipes from the proprietors of the famed, eponymous Toronto restaurant.

—Canadian Living

There’s a definite Left Coast vibe, with an ode to the Slow Food movement and suggestions for CBC-friendly musical accompaniment.

—Saturday Night

What’s best is the book often suggests which dish works well with others, allowing you to create entire meals—a very smart touch.…

—Toronto Star

cooking (outdoors) isbn 978-1-55152-155-8 $24.95 | $21.95 us

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These are city guides with a twist, full of fun and offbeat factoids, strange-but-true anecdotes, and notorious scandals.

the unknown city

Arsenal has created some of the world’s most readable destination guides with its Unknown City series.… Its real stars are the volumes that dig deeper and more eloquently into the lore and lure of cities than any other guides on the market. —Passport magazine

OTTAWA

The Unknown City rob mclennan isbn 978-1-55152-232-6 $22.95 | $22.95 us

VICTORIA

The Unknown City Ross Crockford isbn 978-1-55152-195-4 $23.95 | $19.95 us

SAN FRANCISCO The Unknown City

Helene Goupil & Josh Krist isbn 978-1-55152-188-6 $22.95 | $17.95 us

NEW YORK

The Unknown City Brad Dunn & Daniel Hood isbn 978-1-55152-161-9 $22.95 | $17.95 us

TORONTO

The Unknown City Howard Akler & Sarah Hood isbn 978-1-55152-146-6 $21.95 | $16.95 us

VANCOUVER

The Unknown City John Mackie & Sarah Reeder isbn 978-1-55152-147-3 $19.95 | $16.95 us

MONTREAL

The Unknown City Kristian Gravenor & John David Gravenor isbn 978-1-55152-119-0 $19.95 | $16.95 us

CALGARY

The Unknown City James Martin isbn 978-1-55152-111-4 $18.95 | $14.95 us

EDMONTON Secrets of the City

Charlene Rooke isbn 978-1-55152-103-9 $18.95 | $14.95 us

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THE GEIST ATLAS OF CANADA

COMFORT FOOD FOR BREAKUPS

Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies

The Memoir of a Hungry Girl Marusya Bociurkiw

Melissa Edwards

nonfiction

This offbeat, erudite collection of full-colour maps, a project of Geist magazine, includes a wide range of clearly Canadian subject matter from all points far and wide. Map subjects include: Apocalypse; Art; Atwood (Margaret); Automotive; Beer; Body Parts; Condiments; Doughnuts; Erotica; Gay and Lesbian; Hockey; International; Kitchen Implements; Literary; Loudmouths; Malls; Menstrual; Pets; Retail; Sartorial; and World’s Largest.

An elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw.

In these intimate vignettes, food— soup, eggs, chocolate truffle cake, perogies—nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past.

Knishes recall a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II; chocolate evokes memories of queer girls and liasons in dim lesbian bars. Thoughtful, moving, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses upon the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for sex, for home.

lambda literary award finalist kobzar literary award finalist

Remarkable.… The Geist Atlas of Canada is filled with astonishingly detailed (and just plain astonishing) maps.

—Brian Bethune, Maclean’s

Bociurkiw writes lovingly and acutely about the countless nuances of food. —Xtra!

Addictive and endlessly fascinating.

—Will Ferguson

Bociurkiw’s words simmer attentive and passionate, beckoning readers to relish and enjoy. —Globe and Mail

canadiana / humour isbn 978-1-55152-216-6 $24.95 | $21.95 us

food literature / biography / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-219-7 $19.95 | $16.95 us

ANARCHY AND ART

ONLY A BEGINNING

From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

An Anarchist Anthology Allan Antliff

Allan Antliff The first comprehensive overview of anarchist theory and practice in Canada, documenting over a quarter-century of activism, edited by the author of Anarchy and Art (opposite). This book casts light on the rich, diverse, and progressive history of these movements, placing them in the context of the era in which they appeared and demonstrating their relevance to contemporary action. Original artwork and photographs.

In numerous essays, Allan Antliff interrogates moments of engagement when anarchist artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have confronted pivotal events over the past 135 years.

A thoughtful discussion of art’s potential as a conduit for revolution and meaningful social change.

—Midwest Book Review [The book] reminds us of the potent status once accorded to art in the West, the fact that dissident artists could be--and often were--bankrupted, exiled, or even executed for disturbing the peace.... Anarchy and Art is an excellent guide to the rebel yells of the past.

—Quill & Quire Antliff’s research has yielded a new theoretical insight into a genre not often considered.

—Bookforum An accessible, well-researched history. —Canadian Art

Without a documentary history of anarchist organizations, theoretical developments, and activism we cannot build an effective movement.

Only a Beginning saves us from this fate.

—Ann Hansen, Direct Action I find Allan Antliff’s anthology comprehensive and satisfying. Only A Beginning will surely increase in importance as newly emerging resistant communities broaden our Anarchist lifeway. ­—Pacific Rim Review of Books

politics / history / visual art isbn 978-155152-218-0 $26.95 | $23.95 us

politics / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-167-1 $29.95 | $24.95 us

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THE GREENPEACE TO AMCHITKA

ICE AND FIRE

Dispatches From the New World Stephen Osborne

An Environmental Odyssey

A collection of nonfiction narratives from award-winning writer Stephen Osborne, the editor-in-chief of Geist magazine and winner of a lifetime achievement prize from the National Magazine Awards. Smart, funny, moving, and full of wonder and surprise, the dispatches in Ice and Fire illuminate a very old world striving to make itself new.

The story of Greenpeace’s beginnings: in this visceral memoir, Hunter vividly depicts the peculiar odyssey that led to the formation of the most powerful environmental organization in the world.

winner, george ryga award for social awareness roderick haig-brown book prize finalist Hunter’s Homeric ode to confused and argumentative hippies on the high seas makes fresh and crazy reading. His style is positively feverish. —Globe and Mail environment / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-178-7 $24.95 | $19.95 us

Beautiful and sincere.

—Georgia Straight

essays / literary travel isbn 978-1-55152-061-2 $17.95 | $14.95 us

CARRY TIGER TO MOUNTAIN

THE COMPANY OF OTHERS

Stephen Legault

Sandra Shields & David Campion, with a foreword by John Ralston Saul

The Tao of Activism and Leadership

A modern-day interpretation of Lao Tzu’s Tao te Ching for those concerned with social issues and activist movements in Western civil society.

Stephen Legault’s Carry Tiger to Mountain reminds us that social activism and personal awareness need each other to be complete, that undisciplined activism and passive spirituality both lead nowhere. This is an important book for anyone who dreams of a better world.

—Rex Weyler, author of Greenpeace: The Inside Story philosophy / political science isbn 978-1-55152-200-5 $24.95 | $21.95 us

NATIONAL DREAMS

Myth, Memory, & Canadian History Daniel Francis

nonfiction

Robert Hunter

Stories of Belonging

An extraordinary book about the transforming power of family and community on “vulnerable” individuals—the mentally challenged, the mentally ill, the elderly—and how these efforts enrich us as a society. Accompanied by beautiful photographs on each two-page spread, the stories told here are profoundly inspiring, giving hope to anyone who, because of disability, has been excluded from having a full and meaningful life. Co-published with the PLAN Institute.

honourable mention, alcuin society design award sociology / health / photography isbn 978-1-55152-186-2 $24.95 | $19.95 us

LD

Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver Daniel Francis

An incisive and widely acclaimed study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity, a fascinating document that allows us to see the past in a shocking new light. Includes 35 black-andwhite images.

fourth printing over 8,000 sold A brilliant examination of our national myths.

—Toronto Star canadian history isbn 978-1-55152-043-8 $22.95 | $19.95 us

The colourful biography of Louis D. Taylor, the longest-serving mayor in Vancouver’s history, and the story of Vancouver in the early decades of the 20th century.

city of vancouver book award winner roderick haig-brown book prize finalist One of the most significant Vancouver books of the last several years.… It’s a wonderfully Vancouver yarn. —Vancouver Sun canadian history / biography isbn 978-1-55152-156-5 $21.95 | $17.95 us

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ONE THOUSAND BEARDS

SPREE

Allan Peterkin

Pamela Klaffke

As recently seen in Time, Esquire, and the New York Times: a witty, comprehensive history of facial hair. With style recipes, information on care and upkeep, and numerous depictions of various beards and moustaches, One Thousand Beards provides an insightful, light-hearted, and well-groomed look at facial hair.

The history of shopping, unveiled in an informative and readable fashion. Includes more than 100 photos.

A Cultural History of Facial Hair

A Cultural History of Shopping

over 5,000 copies sold

nonfiction

… combines a whimsical history of milestones in shopping … with a witty and insightful look at its place in modern life. —Maclean’s

second printing An entertaining and informative combination of a history, a documentary, an appreciation and a catalog. —Publishers Weekly

Does for shopping what Margaret Visser did for table salt. Replete with esoteric facts, shopping marginalia and popular culture, it runs the gamut. —Fashion Magazine

cultural studies / popular culture isbn 978-1-55152-107-7 $21.95 | $19.95 us

cultural studies/popular culture isbn 978-1-55152-143-5 $22.95 | $17.95 us

DREAMING IN THE RAIN

THE BALD-HEADED HERMIT AND THE ARTICHOKE

How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest David Spaner

An Erotic Thesaurus

The story of West Coast Canada’s emergence as a movie capital. Insightful interviews and thoughtful analysis show how filmmaking in Vancouver has become a microcosm of the global film world. Includes numerous black and white, behind-thescenes photographs of directors and actors.

Spaner writes about the rise of the city as one of the major centers of film production not only in North America but in the world.

—Hollywood Reporter

A.D. Peterkin A unique, tongue-in-cheek guide to the lingo of sex. Exotic words and phrases in the English language number in the thousands and this collection includes terms that vary from the poetic and the medical to the macho, derogatory, and obscene. Also includes numerous naughty vintage photographs.

second printing A progressive thesaurus that demystifies the language of sex.

—Quill & Quire

film studies isbn 978-1-55152-129-9 $21.95 | $17.95 us

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HOW IT ALL BEGAN

I, SHITHEAD

The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla

A Life in Punk Joey Keithley

Bommi Baumann How It All Began is the personal testimony of Michael “Bommi” Baumann, a man who, in the late 1960s and early 70s, was a member of the June 2nd Movement, one of the most spectacular urban guerrilla organizations in West Berlin.

Of this book, Baumann said: “Others should understand why people take the road of armed struggle, how they come to it, how the seeds are planted, and what the emotions behind it are, what kind of considerations and psychic preconditions are needed to overcome the fear involved.”

Joey Shithead founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978. I, Shithead is Joey’s personal, no-bullshit recollections of a life in punk, starting with the burgeoning punk movement, and traversing a generation disillusioned with the status quo who believed they could change the world, conquering all manner of obstacles through sheer determination. Includes more than 200 photos, posters, and lyrics.

best books of the year list: amazon.ca second printing

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THE IMAGINARY INDIAN

The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

STONEY CREEK WOMAN 10th Anniversary Edition Bridget Moran

Daniel Francis The captivating story of the late Mary John, a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central British Columbia is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman’s perspective.

seventh printing over 15,000 copies sold Francis has done an amazing job of tracing down through Canadian history the perceptions … that the dominant culture had and has of this country’s Aboriginal people.

—Books in Canada aboriginal studies isbn 978-0-88978-251-8 $21.95 | $15.95 us

fourteenth printing over 40,000 copies sold A valuable and moving biography.

—Books in Canada aboriginal studies isbn 978-1-55152-047-6 $17.95 | $14.95 us

VICTIMS OF BENEVOLENCE The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School Elizabeth Furniss

JUDGEMENT AT STONEY CREEK New Edition

aboriginal studies

A fascinating, revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.

Bridget Moran

An unsettling and moving study of two tragic events at an Indian residential school in British Columbia which serve as a microcosm of the profound impact the residential school system had on Aboriginal communities in Canada throughout this century.

Bridget Moran’s followup to Stoney Creek Woman (above): an aboriginal studies classic, hailed for its moving and deeply personal depiction of how the justice system has failed Canada’s aboriginal people.

third printing

second printing

A well-crafted book that sensitively captures the many conflicting sentiments brought out by the inquiry.

—Books In Canada

A solid addition to the historical record.

—BCLA Reporter

aboriginal studies isbn 978-1-55152-015-5 $15.95 | $12.95 us

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RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL

A LITTLE REBELLION

Surviving the Indian Residential School

Bridget Moran

Celia Haig-Brown One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, this is an insightful collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the BC interior, based on interviews with former residents of the school.

This moving autobiography of the late Bridget Moran, author of Stoney Creek Woman and Judgement at Stoney Creek (both above), and her astonishing life as a social worker in British Columbia unafraid to take on the powers that be.

fourth printing

roderick haig-brown prize winner eighth printing Demonstrates that the experiences of the past, however painful, are valuable for future generations. —Northeast Indian Quarterly aboriginal studies isbn 978-0-88978-189-4 $16.95 | $13.95 us

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TO THE DOGS Peter Culley

arts, graphics & culture

No animal has a closer and more complicated relationship with humans than the dog.

From the beginning of human civilization dogs have formed an intimate part of our domestic space and working world. From Sparta to Stalingrad, from the laps of Popes to the purses of Paris, the dogs of war, guard duty, and companionship have been forever at our side, loyal, adoring, seemingly endless in their reserves of courage and character. But at a time when what it means to be human seems less defined than ever, we have begun to draw on those reserves as never before. And if for many the categories of “pet” and “owner” have become the figment of an unenlightened past, the re-emergence of blood sports reminds us just how “red in tooth and claw” we still can be. The historical and contemporary photographers of To the Dogs observe the human-canine connection in ways alternately surprising, endearing, disturbing, and beautiful. In the accompanying essay, poet Peter Culley explores how our most loyal companions can tell us more about ourselves than we might care to admit.

To the Dogs is published in hardcover and features 150 full-page photographs, including fifty in colour. Co-published by Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver.

Photo opposite, above: © Alec Soth, courtesy Gagosian Gallery, New York Photo opposite, below: © Amy Stein, courtesy the artist

pets / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-241-8 $32.95 | $32.95 us

VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES Melanie O’Brian (editor) An ambitious cross-disciplinary study of art and artists in Vancouver, Vancouver Art & Economies situates the city at the centre of one of the world’s most intriguing visual arts scenes, and the political, geographic, institutional, and cultural influences which shape it.

In its essays by various writers, artists, critics, and curators, the book provides a forum for critical dialogue on Vancouver’s contemporary art practices in the face of its remarkable recent history. In the last two decades, the city’s international reputation as a centre for art can be linked to the rise of the Vancouver School of Photoconceptualism, whose practitioners include Roy Arden, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace. Thanks to these and other artists, Vancouver art can be understood as distinct and definable.

But at the same time, the economies necessary to support it remain

fragile, and questions about representation and identity—“Whose art is it, anyway?”—are constant reminders of the vagaries of art’s integral “value.”

The book features essays by Clint Burnham, Randy Lee Cutler, Tim Lee, Sadira Rodrigues, Marina Roy, Sharla Sava, Reid Shier, Shepherd Steiner, and Michael Turner, with colour and black-and-white images throughout.

This anthology explores the development of contemporary art in Vancouver, covering its roots in the landscape tradition and the rise of the Vancouver School as well as the impact of cinematic and post-medium practices.... A key discussion is found in Sharla Sava’s essay, which explores the problematics of the term “photoconceptualism.”

—Canadian Art

visual arts / british columbia isbn 978-1-55152-214-2 $27.95 | $24.95 us

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STAN DOUGLAS

OTHER CONUNDRUMS

Reid Shier (ed)

Monika Kin Gangon

The 100 block of Vancouver’s West Hastings Street is the gateway to one of the most contested inner-city neighbourhoods in North America. Essays use Douglas’s monumental-sized photograph of the strip as a template for assessing the state of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Includes a full-colour poster.

city of vancouver book award cowinner second printing

Race, Culture, and Canadian Art

Other Conundrums, co-published with Vancouver’s Artspeak Gallery and the Kamloops Art Gallery, is an extraordinary collection of essays on Canadian artists of colour by Monika Kin Gagnon, one of Canada’s most respected art writers and curators. The essays explore the history of cultural production in this country with an emphasis on race, cultural difference, and cultural hybridity. Colour and black-and-white images.

A scathing, learned must-read. —Canadian Art visual art / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-135-0 $25.95 | $25.95 us

THE UNCANNY

Experiments in Cyborg Culture Bruce Grenville (ed)

visual arts / essays isbn 978-1-55152-092-6 $21.95 | $18.95 us

A MODERN LIFE

Art and Design in British Columbia 1945–1960 Ian Thom & Alan Elder (eds)

A dazzling and provocative examination of the cyborg—the concept of man-as-machine—in popular culture. A co-publication with the Vancouver Art Gallery. Includes 32 full-colour photographs and numerous black-and-white images.

award for outstanding publication, canadian museums association

A celebration of the cooperative spirit among “architects, artists, and designers,” and “potters, weavers, and gardeners” is central to this book, which examines the coming together of various artistic disciplines in post-WWII British Columbia. Includes 160 illustrations, including 60 in full-colour. A co-publication with the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Brilliant … in its ability to match gripping popular culture with first-rate intellectual enquiry.

—Vancouver Sun

award winner, international gallery of superb printing

visual art / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-116-9 $34.95 | $27.95 us

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FACING HISTORY

Portraits From Vancouver

arts, graphics & culture

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

THE YELLOW PEAR Gu Xiong

Karen Love (ed) Featuring a wide range of material, from historical images to documentary depictions to contemporary visual artists’ work, the book provides an intimate glimpse into Vancouver’s sense of itself. The photographs attempt to define the “face” of Vancouver in its various guises. Many images are paired with a narrative inspired by the artwork, written by some of Canada’s leading writers, artists, and thinkers. A rich living document of Vancouver’s inner life. Featuring 48 pages in full-colour, and more than 120 images in total. A co-publication with Presentation House Gallery.

visual art / bc studies isbn 978-1-55152-127-5 $29.95 | $24.95 us

Co-published with the Burnaby Art Gallery, this is a collection of deeply moving narratives (in both English and Mandarin) and illustrations about the artist’s transition to a new life in a new land; his life in Canada resonates with the memories of his past in China, which he fled following the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. The book elicits the pangs of cultural estrangement, the pain of what was left behind, and the simple joys of new faces and surroundings.

essays / memoir isbn 978-1-55152-046-9 $12.95 | $12.95 us

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FAME US

HOPE IN SHADOWS

Brian Howell

Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome

Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame

arts, graphics & culture

In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell (author of One Ring Circus, below) takes us into the world of celebrity impersonators—the faux famous people who make a living at pretending to be someone else. Taken at various impersonator conventions and stage shows throughout North America, the photographs are both startling and poignant—for all of the frivolity and double takes, there is also a sense of the real person beneath the makeup and the artifice.

One of the eeriest photography books of 2007.

—New York Times

Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

In moving photographs and first-person essays, Hope in Shadows offers an intimate and honest look at what it really means to live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. Photographs in the book, inspired by a highly successful calendar of the same name, are all taken by residents themselves, and will change the way you think about impoverished communities. Co-published by Pivot Legal Society.

city of vancouver book award winner

photography / entertainment isbn 978-1-55152-228-9 $21.95 | $18.95 us

social issues / photography isbn 978-155152-238-8 $19.95 | $19.95 us

ONE RING CIRCUS

WHERE FIRE SPEAKS

Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues

A Visit With the Himba

David Campion (photos) & Sandra Shields (text)

Brian Howell Disco Fury. Wrathchild. Bam-Bam Bambi.

Gorgeous Michelle Starr. Welcome to the world of minor-league professional wrestling. Howell’s book of images and narratives perfectly captures the visceral energy of a remarkable, near-clandestine community whose artful and out-there theatrics is nothing short of inspirational.

Includes more than 100 black-and-white photographs. By the author of Fame Us (above).

Howell brilliantly captures the essence of wrestling.

—Maclean’s

A provocative melding of images and narrative, telling of the profound changes in the lives of the Himba tribe in Africa—both gradual and immediate—which echo those effecting indigenous people around the world. Includes more than 100 photographs.

By the authors of The Company of Others.

hubert evans non-fiction prize winner Handsomely produced and thought-provoking.

—Publishers Weekly

photography / sports isbn 978-1-55152-132-9 $19.95 | $16.95 us

photography / literary travel isbn 978-1-55152-131-2 $19.95 | $16.95 us

WHAT RIGHT?

WHAT’S WRONG?

Robin Fisher (ed)

Robin Fisher (ed)

What Right? collects graphic art depicting what it means to live in a society where we presumably enjoy the right to free speech, and what happens when, as often happens, that right is challenged. For a general audience.

What’s Wrong? collects explicit comic art depicting what it means to live in a society where we presumably enjoy the right to free speech, and what happens when, as often happens, that right is challenged. For an adult audience.

Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship

Explicit Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship

a fundraiser for little sister’s defense fund

a fundraiser for little sister’s defense fund

A crazy quilt of sexy, kinky, skilled graphic art. —Xtra! graphic literature/comics isbn 978-1-55152-137-4 $21.95 | $16.95 us

graphic literature/comics isbn 978-1-55152-136-7 $21.95 | $16.95 us

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WHISPER THEIR LOVE

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, introduction by Sharon G. Feldman

Valerie Taylor, introduction by Barbara Grier

A viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man coming of age in a troubled family: with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him.

winner of the prix hermes in france Haunting … unusual…. Eerie yet amusing.… Gómez-Arcos neatly satirizes Franco’s Spain and the Roman Catholic Church and gets in a few pokes at America as well … refreshingly distinctive and engaging.

—New York Times Book Review fiction / gay isbn 978-1-55152-230-2 $19.95 | $16.95 us

Joyce is eighteen, a freshman at a fashionable school for girls; suddenly all that matters to her is a woman twice her age. This beautifully written pulp novel was published as a mass market paperback in 1957 and is widely considered a historic milestone for its openly lesbian, feminist content, which shocked many readers at the time. It has been described as an “antiromance novel” for its grounding in the reality of lesbian experience.

Theirs was the kind of love they dared not show the world.

—from the original book jacket

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-210-4 $19.95 | $15.95 us

FINISTÈRE

EMPATHY

Fritz Peters, introduction by Michael Bronski

Sarah Schulman, introduction by Kevin Killian

A lyrical gay coming-of-age story first published in 1951 and acclaimed by many, including Gore Vidal and The New York Times, about Matthew, a young American who moves to France with his mother. His growing sense of self and his sexuality forces him to confront Finistère­­—land’s end—where the brutal truths of the world can be found.

The best novel this reviewer has ever read on the theme of homosexuality.

—New York Times (1951)

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-211-1 $22.95 | $17.95 us

Anna O. is a loner in New York, an office temp obsessed with a mysterious woman in white leather; Doc is a post-Freudian psychiatrist who hands out business cards to likely neurotics on street corners, and is looking for his own personal fulfillment. This beautifully written novel is about the fluidity of desire, and how those of us damaged by love can still be transformed by it. By the author of The Child (page 35) and Rat Bohemia (page 35).

With Empathy, the lesbian novel comes of age.

—Fay Weldon fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-201-2 $19.95 | $15.95 us

BLACKBIRD

PATIENCE & SARAH

Larry Duplechan, introduction by Michael Nava

Isabel Miller, introduction by Emma Donoghue

A funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. By the author of the recent Got ’til it’s Gone (page 37).

Blackbird wasn’t just the first black gay coming out tale; it was—and still is—one of the quirkiest and funniest novels I’ve ever read. While the worlds they exist in and world views they possess are very different, Johnnie Ray Rousseau helped pave the literary road that my own fictional creations have traveled.

—James Earl Hardy

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-202-9 $19.95 | $15.95 us

gay & lesbian (little sister’s classics)

THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller’s classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White and Sarah Dowling, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Winner of the American Library Association’s first Gay Book Award.

second printing The writing has the directness and whimsicality of primitive paintings—it is like spiked gingerbread or surprising samplers.

—Village Voice fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-191-6 $21.95 | $17.95 us

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FRANNY, THE QUEEN OF PROVINCETOWN

THE YOUNG IN ONE ANOTHER’S ARMS

John Preston, introduction by Michael Lowenthal

Jane Rule, introduction by Katherine V. Forrest

First published to wide acclaim in 1983, Franny was a book of gay heroism and camaraderie in the shadow of the burgeoning aids crisis about a proud, protective drag queen who helps her friends battle self-hatred and ostracism.

gay & lesbian

For every gay man or woman out there … this is one of the most vital and important works in gay literary history and I implore everyone … to read it.

—Xtra! West

First published in 1977, The Young in One Another’s Arms is about the building of female communities in mid-1970s Vancouver. The novel won the Canadian Authors Association’s Best Novel Award in 1978. In 2007, Jane Rule was awarded the Order of Canada; she passed away in 2008.

Jane Rule’s The Young in One Another’s Arms is a mature and satisfying work that definitely stands the test of time.

—Bay Area Reporter

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-190-9 $17.95 | $13.95 us

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SONG OF THE LOON

GAY ART

Richard Amory, introduction by Michael Bronski

Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas Waugh

First published in 1966, Song of the Loon is a lusty gay frontier romance that tells the story of a nineteenth-century outdoorsman’s travels through the American wilderness, where he meets a number of characters who share with him stories, wisdom, and homosexual encounters. The most popular erotic gay book of the 1960s.

A Historic Collection

In 1972, A Historic Collection of Gay Art was the first book to document explicit expressions of gay male sexuality as depicted in the graphic arts, from antiquity to pop culture. This new edition has been updated by the original author and Thomas Waugh.

silver winner, foreword book of the year award bronze winner, independent publisher award

second printing Arsenal Pulp and Little Sister’s should be praised for bringing back Song of the Loon … it belongs in every gay man’s library. —TWN

Essential reading for anyone interested in gay graphics, gay history, in the cultural history of the 1960s and 70s.

—Inches Magazine

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-180-0 $21.95 | $19.95 us

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LUST UNEARTHED

OUT / LINES

Thomas Waugh, with Willie Walker

Thomas Waugh

Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection

Lust Unearthed presents over 200, never-beforepublished explicit gay male images from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, from a period when such material was rare and indeed illegal. Gay porn for the thinking man, Lust Unearthed will beguile and arouse.

Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall

A wealth of previously unpublished “obscene” images from the queer pre-Stonewall underground that broadens and tantalizes the view of queer culture. Waugh’s narrative explores cultural and erotic dynamics and the social context in which such images were created.

lambda literary award finalist over 7,000 copies sold second printing

lambda literary award finalist over 8,000 copies sold second printing

Historically significant. —Out A great book. —Lambda Book Report gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-165-7 $29.95 | $26.95 us

gay studies/visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-123-7 $28.95 | $22.95 us

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the DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA

THE VIEW FROM HERE Conversations with Gay & Lesbian Filmmakers

A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

Matthew Hays Queer directors and screenwriters— some mainstream, others who work defiantly from the margins—speak passionately about the filmmaking process, offering fascinating anecdotes and opinions about cinema. Includes Pedro Almodóvar, Bill Condon, John Greyson, Bruce LaBruce, Robert Lepage, John Cameron Mitchell, Patricia Rozema, Gus Van

Based on the work of over seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various cultural responses to it, in all regions of the world: a masterful, engaged, and wholly relevant study that traces the political and social emancipation of a culture.

Sant, and John Waters.

A rich, rewarding, enlightening, and often entertaining read that belongs on the bookshelf of every sentient, self-respecting queer....

The Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination.

—Gay City News The Dictionary of Homophobia is the best book on gay history ever written… Knowledge is power. And in a world where homosexuality is all too often a crime, this book is the weapon we need.

—InsightOut Book Club gay & lesbian studies / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-229-6 $44.95 | $44.95 us

lambda literary award winner A superb collection of interviews … valuable and witty.

—Quill & Quire

gay & lesbian

Louis-Georges Tin (ed)

Attractive and well-researched, this is a worthy reference book for queer cinefiles.

—NOW

film & tv / gay and lesbian studies isbn 978-1-55152-220-3 $26.95 | $22.95 us

queersexlife

PETER FLINSCH

Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity

The Body in Question Ross Higgins

Terry Goldie Peter Flinsch is one of the art world’s unsung heroes; for the past sixty years, he has produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures which depict the eroticized male body. In 2006, he won the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York, and now, for the first time, his work has been collected in a beautiful, full-colour edition that celebrates his life and art.

Lavishly illustrated … by having it on our coffee tables, we can prove to everyone who comes into our home that gay art is more than just Tom of Finland and Tom Bianchi.

—EDGE The bio of Peter Flinsch reads like an epic novel, but its final chapter lies within a proud canon of artistic creation.

—Outlooks

gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-237-1 $27.95 | $27.95 us

Evocative of writers Patrick CalifiaRice and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories of queer sexuality and identity as viewed through the author’s own experiences. By turns insightful and elegant, Terry Goldie delves into contemporary subject matter both fraught and explicit, revealing subtle, fluid truths about human sexuality and desire: drag queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex, bisexuality, gay youth, and the concept of being “out,” among others. By the editor of In a Queer Country (page 33).

An important contribution to queer theory.

—Feminist News

gay studies / essays isbn 978-1-55152-236-4 $19.95 | $19.95 us

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second PERSON QUEER

FIRST PERSON QUEER Who we are (so far)

Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (eds)

Who you are (so far)

Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (eds.)

gay & lesbian

Second Person Queer is an anthology of essays on LGBT life written in the second-person. They take the form of letters to family and friends, missives to homophobes, confessions to lovers, and words of advice for the next generation.

They deal with subjects as large and looming as violence, coming out, gay marriage, and AIDS to those as intimate and engaging as How to Be a Visible Femme, How to Survive Gay Celebrity, and How to Not Be Offended By Everything: A Guide for Asian Men. Contributors include S. Bear Bergman, Daniel Allen Cox, Sky Glbert, Terry Goldie, Achy Obejas, Andy Quan, RM Vaughan, and Michael Rowe.

spring 2009 release

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of nonfiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans) experience: from coming out to “passing” as straight, to growing old to living proud. First Person Queer depicts the diversity, the complexity, and the excitement of contemporary LGBTQ life. Contributors include Kate Bornstein, Ivan E. Coyote, Katherine V. Forrest, Daniel Gawthrop, Sky Gilbert, Nalo Hopkinson, George K. Ilsley, Tim Miller, Stan Persky, and Andy Quan.

lambda literary award winner independent publisher award winner The collection winningly celebrates differences rooted in a variety of ways to the mutable boundaries of sexuality and gender.... Whether read in a couple of sittings or savored essay by essay, this is an eyeopening vista on diversity. —Kirkus Review

gay & lesbian nonfiction / anthologies isbn 978-155152-227-2 $21.95 | $17.95 us

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FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

COMIN’ AT YA!

The Homoerotic 3-d Photographs of Denny Denfield

Tales of Fear and Queer Desire

David L. Chaptman and Thomas Waugh An amazing collection of fullcolour, sexually explicit 3-D photographs of men taken in the early 1950s by Denny Denfield, an amateur physique photographer in California who worked as an accountant for the US Army. Denfield’s photographs, never distributed publicly given their illegality at the time, display a skill, wit, and daring rarely seen, and with their rich Kodachrome colours and mid-century decors, can now be appreciated for their rogish, almost naïve charm. Includes essays by Chapman and Waugh.

This new book of photographs is remarkable in a number of ways....

That fifty years later, the subjects still have the powers to get the hormones flowing attests, perhaps, to the universality of male beauty and desire over time and place. But they also reveal a world so different from our own in style: that paradoxically straightlaced but voluptuous world of America in the 50s. —Gay & Lesbian Review What’s really fun and fascinating are the vintage pictures from the ‘50s

by Denfield of men in swim trunks large enough to be diapers, or posing on craggy rocks in the nude.... The perfect coffee table book. .

—HX Magazine (New York)

Amber Dawn (editor) Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even vampy, powerful female villains, such as the classic noir “spider women,” use their sexual prowess to seduce and overwhelm married men. Fist of the Spider Woman is a revelatory anthology of horror stories by queer and transgressive women and others that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning traditional horror iconography on its head.

spring 2009 release Fist of the Spider Woman is a brave, bold, eye-opening book. By turns chilling and erotic, the stories in Fist are unforgettable, and will speak to women who are strong enough to own up to their fears and traverse to the other side of them.

—Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor, Best Sex Writing 2009

photography / gay studies isbn 978-1-55152-225-8 $31.95 | $27.95 us

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ROY & AL

THE FUTURE IS QUEER A Science Fiction Anthology

Ralf König

Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)

lambda literary award finalist For sweet-tempered satire, don’t miss Roy & Al … stingingly funny commentary about the hedonistic ways of urban gay men.

—Xtra! West comics & graphic novels / gay humour isbn 978-1-55152-206-7 $14.95 | $11.95 us

OUTBURSTS!

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus A.D. Peterkin

What does the future hold for gays, lesbians, and transgenders? In this anthology, provocative stories and comics posit a queer future of limitless possibilities. Labonté and Schimel also edited First Person Queer (page 32).

foreword book of the year award silver winner, independent publisher award The editors have done a wonderful job. The futuristic genre is perfect for giving us perspective on the present world… —Publishers Weekly fiction (gay & lesbian) / science fiction / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-209-8 $22.95 | $17.95 us

gay & lesbian

The first English-language book by Germany’s Ralf König, Europe’s most popular gay cartoonist, whose collections have sold over 1 million copies and have been translated into six other languages. Roy & Al is the hilarious, erotically charged depiction of contemporary gay life as seen through the eyes of man’s best friend.

LET ME KISS IT BETTER

Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow Billeh Nickerson

A.D. Peterkin, author of One Thousand Beards and The Bald-Headed Hermit & The Artichoke (both page 24), shows how euphemism, camp humour, rhyme, acronym, foreign language, mythology, metaphor, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transfolk to name what was thought to be unnamable. … a perversely potent queer erotic thesaurus. This is a fun book, but it can also be seen as a historical document. This is the evidence of queer sexual history. —Trade: Queer Things gay & lesbian/sexuality isbn 978-1-55152-151-0 $19.95 | $16.95 us

In these charming and very funny essays, Billeh (author of McPoems, page 16) writes with disarming sweetness about love, sex, relationships, and subjects that might even make the women of Sex in the City blanch with embarrassment. Billeh Nickerson’s invigorating tonics are just what the doctor ordered.

With the precision humor of a stand-up comedian, Nickerson riffs on the minutiae of gay life.

—Chicago Free Press

gay/humour isbn 978-1-55152-125-1 $16.95 | $13.95 us

THE RICE QUEEN DIARIES A Memoir

Daniel Gawthrop

IN A QUEER COUNTRY Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context Terry Goldie (ed)

In this moving autobiography, Daniel Gawthrop writes about the politics and pleasures of being a self-identified “rice queen”: a gay man who is attracted to Asians.

Navigating through the urban jungles of Western cities like Vancouver, as well as the humid streets of Bangkok and Saigon, Daniel explores the multicultural minefields of sexuality and culture as he articulates the manners and contradictions of his desires.

foreword magazine book of the year award finalist

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured. In a Queer Country, edited by the author of queersexlife (page 31), is a formative collection of fourteen essays from established and emerging writers on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada.

lambda literary award finalist

A graceful narrative. —Vancouver Sun gay studies / biography / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-189-3 $22.95 | $16.95 us

gay & lesbian studies isbn 978-1-55152-105-3 $23.95 | $19.95 us

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WITH A ROUGH TONGUE

I AM A RED DRESS

Femmes Write Porn

Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

Amber Dawn & Trish Kelly (eds)

Anna Camilleri A rebellious anthology of stories about sex and the modern femme: no-holds barred, queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in ways that are transgressive and em­ powering.

gay & lesbian

independent publisher award finalist, best erotica [The editors] dismantle every expectation of erotica in this collection.

—Bust

Acclaimed writer and performer Anna Camilleri confronts the ghosts of her past as she seeks to find her rightful place in the world.

Part memoir, part storytelling, the narratives speak to the heart of three generations of women as they deal with the cycle of abuse; in them, the red dress appears as a symbol of defiance and empowerment, and Anna unravels memory in a voice that is both strong and beautiful.

Well-written, empowering, and challenging. —Books to Watch Out For

Pointed and powerful.… Camilleri’s a terrific writer, in control of some emotionally charged prose. —NOW

lesbian fiction / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-193-0 $21.95 | $16.95 us

lesbian / women’s studies / biography isbn 978-1-55152-163-3 $19.95 | $16.95 us

QUEER FEAR II

BRAZEN FEMME

Michael Rowe (ed)

Brushwood Rose & Camilleri (eds)

Spine-tingling gay horror fiction, covering a wide range of creatures of the night and all manner of urban terrors, with sexuality a point of reference for the “horror” of otherness that defines and, at times, divides us.

An anthology that is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. This sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the unhyphenated femme experience in performance, betrayal, violence, humour, and survival.

Gay Horror Fiction

Queering Femininity

Finally, horror without limits! The Queer Fear books are a revelation! —Clive Barker

lambda literary award finalist

lambda literary award winner

Within these angry, defiant, brave pieces lie some essential truths about gender, about being both queer and feminine.

—Herizons

gay fiction / horror isbn 978-1-55152-122-0 $23.95 | $17.95 us

lesbian / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-126-8 $21.95 | $19.95 us

Also available: Queer Fear; isbn 978-1-55152-084-1; $23.95 Cdn / $22.95 US.

HOT & BOTHERED

QUICKIES

Karen X. Tulchinsky (ed)

James C. Johnstone (ed)

These are international collections of short short fiction on lesbian desire which have gone through numerous printings and appeared on many gay/lesbian bestseller lists, including the Lambda Book Report. Imaginative and uninhibited, these sensuous tales of lesbian seduction and fantasy will delight, arouse, and inspire.

The international collections of short short fiction on gay male desire which are in second printings and appeared on numerous gay/lesbian bestseller lists, including The Advocate. From first kisses to last calls, these short shorts deliver some of the hottest stories yet on sex and desire between men.

Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

lesbian fiction / erotica gay fiction / erotica volume 1: $17.95 | $16.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-051-3

volume 3: $18.95 | $15.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-102-2

volume 2: $18.95 | $15.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-068-1

volume 4: $19.95 | $15.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-145-9

volume 1: $16.95 | $14.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-052-0

volume 2: $17.95 | $14.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-069-8 volume 3: $19.95 | $15.95 us isbn 978-1-55152-144-2

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David N. Odhiambo

Jonah Ayot is a graduate student from a fictional central African nation, studying in a fictional American city some time after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Dissonant, frantic, and full of the white noise of a culture at war with itself, Odhiambo’s novel is both disturbing and breathtaking.

The Reverend’s Apprentice is that recognizable sort of hybird-genre novel, its technical sophistication within the lingeage of David Foster Wallace, Laurence Sterne, and the Bible..... Here is an authentic and powerful writer channeling the anxieties, disjunctions, arrogances, and strivings of our time. —Rain Taxi fiction isbn 978-1-55152-242-5 $17.95 | $17.95 us

SOUCOUYANT David Chariandy

A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This extraordinary first novel focuses on a man who reconnects with his Caribbeanborn mother suffering from dementia.

finalist, governor general’s literary award finalist, ethel wilson fiction prize longlisted, scotiabank giller prize longlisted, impac dublin literary award A haunting coming-of-age story. —Publishers Weekly fiction isbn 978-1-55152-226-5 $19.95 | $18.95 us

RAT BOHEMIA

THE CHILD

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman

The Child explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia. Stew is a fifteenyear-old boy who goes online looking for an older man to have sex with. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his life is exposed to his family and town.

Schulman is also the author of The Mere Future (page 6).

Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desires, mores, and the law. —Publishers Weekly

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians who bond with one another in the wake of loss.

Navigating the currents of the city is Rita Mae, a rat exterminator who holds the optimism of all true bohemians— those who stand outside of the prevailing social apparatus.

My surrender to Rat Bohemia is a testimonial to its gimlet-eyed accuracy, its zero-degree honesty…. [It blows] the traditional novel off its hinges. —Edmund White, New York Times Book Review

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-243-2 $17.95 | $17.95 us

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-235-7 $17.95 | $17.95 us

WHEN FOX IS A THOUSAND

VENOUS HUM

Larissa Lai

A fox spirit comes to haunt a young woman living in Vancouver, bringing the history of another haunting, that of the T’ang Dynasty poet Yu Hsuan-Chi. One part history, one part fairytale, one part urban discontent, this delightful novel cracks open all preconceptions of Asian women, gender, sexuality, family, faith, and the flow of time. Smart, funny, and fully-imagined, it is beautiful, enchanting, and composed with a sure narrative hand. By the author of Automaton Biographies (page 15).

A particularly acute pleasure.

—The Advocate fiction isbn 978-1-55152-168-8 $21.95 | $16.95 us

fiction

THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE

Suzette Mayr

A monstrously funny novel, Venous Hum charts the lives of Lai Fun Kugelheim and Stefanja Dumanowski, best friends who, upon hearing the news of an old high school acquaintance’s death, are gripped by an insatiable nostalgia and organize a twentyyear reunion. A satire on race, gender, sexual preference, and vegetarianism, this novel will throw your assumptions of the world and the people who inhabit it out the window.

Never fails to impress. Brash, macabre and irreverent.…

—Vancouver Sun fiction isbn 978-1-55152-170-1 $21.95 | $16.95 us

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ZED

SMOKE SHOW

A vivid, claustrophobic novel about madness, survival, and crumbling institutions: Moby Dick set in the urban squalor of an inner city.

A raw, candid, and amorphous novel told through jargon and petty dialogue commonly heard in the street or on public transit. Clint Burnham evokes William Gaddis, David Foster Wallace, and Irvine Welsh in this novel, a confounding period piece that takes no prisoners.

Elizabeth McClung

Clint Burnham

foreword magazine award winner, best science fiction

fiction

A masterfully written first novel.... Zed, both the book and protagonist, is truly original. —NOW Magazine A tale to be pondered by all those who wield power over the vulnerable. —Globe and Mail (From Best Books of the Year list)

ethel wilson fiction prize finalist Burnham writes with an impressive confidence, delivering dialogue that rings so true one can imagine him with a tape recorder, prowling food courts and house parties for material.

—Globe and Mail

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-197-8 $22.95 | $17.95 us

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-196-1 $18.95 | $14.95 us

SKIDS

STORIES TO HIDE FROM YOUR MOTHER

Cathleen With

Tess Fragoulis The stories told in Skids are elegiac confessions of lost youth: young kids living on their own, many of them runaways or addicts, eking out an existence in the brutal environs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Often harrowing yet beautifully told, these are the tales of the disenfranchised: teens and young adults holed up in detox clinics or recovery houses, their secrets laid bare.

The modern tales in Stories to Hide From Your Mother provide directions for conduct in a difficult world, filled with hysterical wedding parties, abusive lovers, and judgmental mothers.

Tess Fragoulis’ voice is strong, sexy and very, very sure of itself. Her mind is full of shadows and her eye sharp and cynical. Her imagery alone is worth the price of the book. —Ms. Magazine

The author’s voice is original, fresh, and authentic. With inhabits her characters from the inside out, and presents them to us with a clear, unblinking gaze. These stories feel lived rather than imagined.

—Quill & Quire

second printing

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-215-9 $19.95 | $15.95 us

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-045-2 $18.95 | $18.95 us

AMERICAN WHISKEY BAR

HARD CORE LOGO

Michael Turner

The imagined story of the making of the film of the same name, and includes the entire original screenplay. The book is an attempt to set the record straight—a story of sex, violence, lies, ambition, power, paradox, dreams, and regret. Consider yourself warned. When first published in 1997, American Whiskey Bar elicited rave reviews for its anti-aesthetic, postmodern ideas of what constitutes a novel. This later edition features a foreword by William Gibson.

Michael Turner

Michael Turner’s classic novel-in-verse about the legendary punk band Hard Core Logo’s reunion tour across Western Canada transforms the rock ’n’ roll road experience into a tale of broken dreams and shattered friendships. Bruce McDonald’s film version of Hard Core Logo won the City TV Award in 1996.

So authentic that it practically gives off feedback.

—NOW

A dazzling, dizzying, multilayered blend of fact and fiction.

—Globe and Mail fiction isbn 978-1-55152-159-6 $19.95 | $16.95 us

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SHUCK

GOT ’TIL IT’S GONE

Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler who seeks his fame and fortune in New York, where he tries to manage his reputation as the city’s porn star du jour when he’s not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published.

As funny, warm, and sexy as its protagonist, Got ‘til it’s Gone is the first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alter-ego Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock, now facing a midlife crisis.

Got ‘til it’s Gone is a queer romantic comedy for the twenty-first century.

Larry Duplechan

lambda literary award finalist Shuck is fantastic fun to read. Assured and accomplished, Shuck is also chock-full of anarchic delights: loopy lists, acerbic asides, bursts of poetic description. And sex! It’s so exciting to come across such a sensational book. —Derek McCormack fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-246-3 $16.95 | $14.95 us

second printing lambda literary award finalist Larry Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure.

—EDGE

fiction

Daniel Allen Cox

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-244-9 $17.95 | $17.95 us

MANBUG

RANDOM ACTS OF HATRED

George K. Ilsley

George K. Ilsley Told in dreamlike fragments, ManBug unfolds as a love story between Sebastian, an entomologist with Asperger’s Syndrome, and Tom, a spiritual bisexual who may or may not be recruiting Sebastian for a cult.

foreword magazine book of the year award finalist A love story that yields an unexpected universality. —Out A work of sophisticated intelligence, grappling with the world’s big, refactory mysteries. —Globe and Mail

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-203-6 $19.95 | $15.95 us

These raw, uncompromising stories explore the thin line between love and hate, and the outer parameters of desire that can both heal and destroy. Evocative of Dennis Cooper and David Wojnarowicz, Random Acts of Hatred collects the fragments of a disintegrated generation, numbed yet empowered by their varied, inexplicable desires.

An unvarnished vision of developing gay identities warped by ignorance and abuse. —Globe and Mail fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-152-7 $19.95 | $16.95 us

FLAT

THE AGE OF CITIES

When a dead man is discovered in his apartment a distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess and has his own world turned upside down. Elegantly written and full of sharp bursts of wit, Flat explores how we relate—and don’t—to one another, amid an unforgiving concrete landscape that holds more secrets than it can bear.

A manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out textbook from the 1950s: the story of a male librarian from small town BC who comes to the big city in 1954. The Age of Cities is a novel-within-a-novel that traces the geneology of lost innocence.

Mark Macdonald

Brett Josef Grubisic

city of vancouver book award finalist

second printing An unapologetic work of art. —Lambda Book Review Uncanny … with a deadpan worthy of Kafka, and the eye of a satellite camera.… —Lambda Book Report

A beautifully realized story. —Gay & Lesbian Review

Also available: Home, 978-1-55152-110-7; $15.95, $12.95 us fiction isbn 978-1-55152-090-2 $14.95 | $11.95 us

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-212-8 $19.95 | $14.95 us

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SCRAPBOOK OF MY YEARS AS A ZEALOT

THE SLOW FIX Ivan E. Coyote

Nicole Markotic´

fiction

In boomtown Western Canada, an ardent young woman grows up amid a family dynamic that leaves her feeling misunderstood and left out.

In order to forge a “new normal,” she earnestly tries to fit in with her best friend Vera and family, and subsequently—crazily—an even more rigid life of Mormonism.

Markotic´ has created a fascinating romp through multiculturalism, and she writes both comically and tenderly about family and the way families communicate (or not). ­—The Globe and Mail

Ivan’s fourth story collection is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our preconceived notions of gender roles. In “By Any Other Name,” Ivan gets into some serious male bonding with her Uncle Rob; in “The Curse?” a cousin’s stepdaughter helps her to overcome her lifelong dread of buying tampons; and in the title story, she does her best to fix what’s wrong in the world by telling the homophobe in the barber’s seat next to hers to shut up.

second printing lambda literary award finalist

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-248-7 $19.95 | $18.95 us

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BOW GRIP

LOOSE END

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan’s first novel is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness, and the long road one must travel between them. Joey is a goodhearted, fortysomething mechanic from small-town Alberta whose wife has recently left him for another woman; his life changes when he agrees to exchange a beat-up Volvo for a beautiful handcrafted cello.

third printing winner, relit award, best novel finalist, ferro-grumley award for lgbt fiction ala stonewall honor book

In her third story collection, Ivan focuses her attention on urban life—old, young, gay, straight, white, black, Asian—communing at local coffee bars over hot rods, the art of skinny-dipping, and changes in the weather. With the calm, observant eye of a master storyteller, Ivan E. Coyote shows us how to break free of the rigors of authority and be true to ourselves, warts and all.

second printing finalist, ferro-grumley award for lgbt fiction Coyote is to CanLit what kd lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture. —Ottawa XPress

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-213-5 $19.95 | $17.95 us

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-192-3 $17.95 | $16.95 us

ONE MAN’S TRASH

CLOSE TO SPIDER MAN

Ivan Coyote’s crystalline storytelling voice resonates in her second collection of stories about being queer and searching out new frontiers on the road and on the homefront.

Coyote paints beautiful, wry, and honest portraits of life, the road, and the spirits within.

Ivan’s first collection: connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. Startling in their intimacy, these tales make up a moving scrapbook of what it’s like to be a young queer woman in the North, journeys imbued with the colours of a prescient sexuality and an honest heart.

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

[Ivan] proves to be a natural-born storyteller.

—Globe and Mail What makes Coyote’s stories special—her humour, her humanity, her talent for sketching the bizarre in the everyday—soars beyond cliche.

—Toronto Star

second printing danuta gleed literary award runner-up Blissfully rich … [a] thoroughly entertaining … surefooted, humorous take on misfit love and familial solidarity. —Publishers Weekly

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-120-6 $16.95 | $13.95 us

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-086-5 $14.95 | $11.95 us

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THE SHORT, HAPPY LIFE OF HARRY KUMAR

ONCE UPON AN ELEPHANT Ashok Mathur

Ashok Mathur’s second novel: Harry Kumar is an unlikely hero who finds himself vaulted into a globe-trotting, island-hopping quest to rescue his closest friend and confidant who has been kidnapped by a mysterious villain. Harry’s twisting trail takes him around the world and to places beyond in a fantastic tale of fate and the fluid movement of time.

commonwealth writers prize finalist The narrative has an exuberance and breadth … Mathur possesses a comic touch that is deft, light, and dry. —Quill & Quire

Ashok Mathur’s first novel: a hilarious retelling of the creation story of Ganesh, the ­elephant-headed Hindu deity. Ganesh is known as the lord of obstacles, and Once Upon an Elephant is strewn with them, twisting, turning, and thwarting expectations about race, class, and sexuality, all within an engaging and pageturning murder mystery. By the author of A Little Distillery in Nowgong (page 7).

second printing Mathur’s novel is as funny as it is smart … the tone is wry, sly and perfectly suited. —Toronto Star

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-113-8 $19.95 | $15.95 us

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-058-2 $19.95 | $18.95 us

KUROSHIO: THE BLOOD OF FOXES

HOPEFUL MONSTERS

fiction

Ashok Mathur

Hiromi Goto

Terry Watada

A remarkable novel that explores the dark reaches of Issei, or Japanese immigrant, life in Canada prior to World War II. Murder, sexual intrigue, and broken dreams combine to create an intense depiction of Vancouver’s Second World War-era JapaneseCanadian community. —Quill & Quire The novel at its best recalls the works of Dashiell Hammett or James M. Cain.

—Publishers Weekly

The first-ever collection of Hiromi Goto’s short fiction; imbued with the light of myth and magic-realism, Goto makes the familiar seem strange and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd, the sublime, even the horrific.

These are stories that, without resorting to too much supernatural trickery, truly deliver both a disturbing frisson and a psychological punch.

—Quill & Quire

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-233-3 $21.95 | $18.95 us

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-157-2 $19.95 | $15.95 us

RED LIGHT

SO LONG BEEN DREAMING

Anna Camilleri (ed)

Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan (eds)

Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts

An anthology of essays and stories that deconstructs female icons, past and present, and r­eimagines them for the twenty-first century. Camilleri is the author of I am a Red Dress, and co-editor of Brazen Femme (both page 34).

lambda literary award finalist … Stunning visual volume.… Doesn’t feel like your average feminist collection but more like being in a room full of vibrant souls.

—Vancouver Review

women’s / lesbian / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-184-8 $22.95 | $18.95 us

Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy

An anthology of original new stories of science fiction and the fantastic by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour. With writing by Opal Palmer Adisa, Celu Amberstone, Wayde Compton, Andrea Hairston, Maya Khankhoje, Tamai Kobayashi, Larissa Lai, Karin Lowachee, devorah major, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Eden Robinson, and others. … The editors have collected an excellent group of stories that often show finesse in approaching difficult subjects regardless of genre.

—Pop Matters science fiction / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-158-9 $24.95 | $19.95 us

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IN THE GARDEN OF MEN

THE CONVICTIONS OF LEONARD MCKINLEY

John Kupferschmidt

Brendan McLeod

fiction

In 1968, an inconsequential civil servant finds himself swept into the mechanism of state oppression when the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. As his humanity succumbs to the requirements of state doctrine, a series of chance encounters leads him to realize that in the world of men, there are no saints, no ideologies, no proclamations for a perfect salvation, only the choice to act or not.

A raucous coming-of-age novel about a teenager whose faith in the world is being sorely tested. Leonard McKinley’s failure to follow his own moral compass has caused his father’s heart attack and triggered an epilectic fit in his dog. How can he learn to suppress his dark, subversive tendencies and balance virtue with fitting in?

3-day novel contest winner The contest has created its own genre concerned with the creation of novella-length works of great originality. —subTerrain

3-day novel contest winner This 3-Day winner is an emotionally powerful book and an intense read. —NOW fiction isbn 1-55152-222-5 isbn 978-1-55152-222-7 $14.95 | $14.95 us

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-239-5 $14.95 | $14.95 us

DAY SHIFT WEREWOLF

BLUESPRINT

Black British Columbian Literature and Orature

Jan Underwood

Wayde Compton (ed)

In this satire on the monotonous working lives of monsters, Warren is an unproductive, noncareerist werewolf who has been demoted to a highly undesirable work schedule: the day shift.

Is it the end of his career, or a chance to scare up a new identity? This funny novel is about the ragtag underdogs of horror: a claustrophobic mummy, a distractable zombie, and other incompetent monsters who find new truths to life on the dark side.

3-day novel contest winner

A groundbreaking collection of stories, essays, and poems, both historical and contemporary, which document the black experience in British Columbia. Edited by the author of Performance Bond and 49th Parallel Psalm (both page 41).

A treasure-trove … a valuable historical reference work that attempts to trace a cultural lineage for a population that has always been in flux.

—Globe and Mail

A thorough delight that will make you laugh out loud.

—Bay Area Reporter fiction isbn 978-1-55152-208-1 $14.95 | $11.95 us

black studies / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-118-3 $24.95 | $19.95 us

DESILICIOUS

THE EMBROIDERED COUCH

Sexy. Subversive. South Asian.

Masala Trois Collective (eds)

An Erotic Novel From China Lu Tiancheng, Lenny Hu (trans)

“Desi” is a Hindi term referring to “of one’s own people.” Desilicious is a wide-ranging compilation of erotic literature by writers of South Asian descent—a medley of arousing and thematically innovative fiction, poetry, and essays, spiced for mature appetites only, that explores the relationship between sensuality and culture, and challenges colonial stereotypes of South Asian sexuality. Seductive and alluring, Desilicious will take you on a carnal journey of limitless possibilities.

The first English translation of an erotic novel published in China in the seventeenth century, regarded as a notorious classic in Chinese literature, long banned in China.

Shockingly explicit, it’s a story of betrayal, lust, revenge, and intrigue.

Full of the kind of courtly exoticism you might expect from so long ago … a lot racier than anything you find in Shakespeare, who was writing at the same time. —Globe and Mail Also available: In the Inner Quarters, 978-1-55152-134-3, $20.95, $16.95 US

fiction / erotica / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-154-1 $21.95 | $16.95 us

erotica isbn 978-1-55152-101-5 $16.95 | $12.95 us

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PERFORMANCE BOND

SEMINAL

In his second poetry book, Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture. This book includes a cd recording of Compton’s musical performance of one of the book’s sections.

John Barton and Billeh Nickerson (eds)

second printing There is a hip hop flavour and cadence to these pieces, to be sure, but it’s hip hop written by a bloody genius, or at least someone with a dizzying command of the language.… —Vancouver Sun

poetry / music isbn 978-1-55152-164-0 $22.95 | $17.95 us

The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets A groundbreaking, comprehensive anthology, the first of its kind, that reveals a national queer poetic that is equal parts eloquent and subversive. The material, from the 1890s to present-day, includes work by fifty-seven poets from every region of the country.

poetry

Wayde Compton

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publishing triangle’s gay men’s poetry prize finalist Nickerson looks up at his community from the gutter, not down from the condo loft—and therefore, as Wilde taught us, he can also see the stars. —R.M. Vaughan poetry / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-088-9 $14.95 | $11.95 us

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