ARSENAL PULP PRESS
Fall 2010
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A NOTE FROM ARSENAL PULP PRESS*
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. —Confucius
It’s been said that many things in life—accidents, fortuitous events, even celebrity deaths—happen in threes. Here at Arsenal Pulp Press, three major changes are in the works, effective this summer: as of July 1, Canadian sales representation will be handled by Kate Walker & Co., and Canadian distribution by the University of Toronto Press; and on August 1, Arsenal is bidding a fond farewell to its officemates (including Geist magazine) and moving into its own premises in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown (next door to The Tyee). We are excited about these changes and look forward to working with the good folks at KW & Co. and UTP. At the same time, we wish to thank Carey, Nick, Peter, Craig, and staff at Manda Group, and Connie, Lois, Janet, and staff at Jaguar Book Group, for their hard work and support over the past seven years. New sales, distribution, and office information can be found on the last page of this catalogue; please change your records. In the meantime, we have another fantastic list of new titles, including cookbooks on olive oil and First Nations feasting, the story of the Red Scare in Canada, a pictorial history on muscular women, a translated political biography of Jean Genet, and new books by Ivan E. Coyote, Wayde Compton, Daniel Allen Cox, and others. Join us for a great ride this fall! With best wishes,
Brian Lam Publisher
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Robert Ballantyne Associate Publisher
booksellers association small press of the year finalist ,
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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, and the Government of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit program for its publishing activities.
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A collection of Mediterranean-inspired recipes for delicious, heart-healthy meals that feature olive oil.
FROM THE OLIVE GROVE new release
Mediterrean Cooking with Olive Oil
The healthful virtues of olive oil, a key component of the Mediterranean diet, have become well-known in recent years; its monounsaturated fats and antioxidants are beneficial in preventing heart disease by controlling LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels while simultaneously raising HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. Helen Koutalianos has preached the gospel of olive oil and its benefits for years; at the same time, consumers across North America have become more sophisticated and appreciative of flavourful, boutique olive oils that are not mass produced. In this charming, intimate cookbook, Helen and her daughter Anastasia have collected 150 delectable, Mediterranean-inspired recipes (Greek and beyond), many of which have been passed along from Helen’s mother and grandmother, in which olive oil is a central ingredient; these include Olive Oil Poached Lamb, Quail with Olives, Turkish Kebab with Garlic, Shrimp and Feta Casserole, Octopus in Wine Sauce, Seared Scallop and Prawn Gazpacho, Artichokes with Lemon, and Kolokithakia Yemista (Stuffed Zucchinis with Lemon Egg Sauce). The book also takes readers through the artisan olive oil-making process, from cultivating and processing the fruit to the production of the oil itself. Complemented with full-colour photographs of recipes as well as photos of the olive farm in Greece, From the Olive Grove will seduce and inspire readers to create their own delicious, heart-healthy meals at home.
Helen & Anastasia Koutalianos Helen Koutalianos was a food columnist and Greek cooking instructor who now runs Basil Olive Oil Products (basiloliveoil.com) with her husband Basil; the company imports extra virgin olive oil from a grove in Greece that Basil’s family has owned for four generations. Anastasia is Helen Koutalianos’ daughter; she has worked in editing, book and magazine publishing, and historical research. A lifelong foodie who was taught everything she knows about cooking from her mother, she is also a promotions and event planner.
isbn 978-1-55152-367-5
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8 x 9 | 176 pp | paper
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A collection of traditional recipes that provide a fascinating glimpse into Native culture and customs.
A FEAST FOR ALL SEASONS Traditional Native Peoples’ Cuisine new release
Traditional North American Native peoples’ cuisine has existed for centuries, but its central tenet of respecting nature and its bounty have never been as timely as they are now. Andrew George Jr., of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Canada, is a well-respected aboriginal chef and instructor who has spent the last twenty-five years promoting the traditions of First Nations food. In A Feast for All Seasons, written with Robert Gairns, he has compiled aboriginal recipes that feature ingredients from the land, sea, and sky, elements of an enduring cuisine that illustrate respect for the environment and its creatures, and acknowledgment of the spiritual power that food can have in our lives. The 120 recipes include delectable, make-at-home dishes such as Salmon and Fiddlehead Stirfry, Stuffed Wild Duck, Barbecued Oysters, Pan-fried Rabbit with Wild Cranberry Glaze, Clam Fritters, and Wild Blueberry Cookies. The book also features recipes with exotic ingredients that provide a fascinating glimpse into the history of Native cuisine: Moose Chili, Boiled Porcupine, Smoked Beaver Meat, and Braised Bear. This unique cookbook pays homage to an enduring food culture—grounded in tradition and the power of nature—that transcends the test of time.
Andrew George Jr. with Robert Gairns Andrew George Jr. was most recently head chef at the Four Host First Nations pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics (the first games in which Indigenous peoples were recognized as official host partners by the IOC). He also participated at the World Culinary Olympics as part of the first all-Native team in the competition’s history.
isbn 978-1-55152-368-2 8 x 9 | 176 pp | paper $24.95 / $21.95 us b&w & colour photos
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A turbulent story in Canadian history.
SEEING REDS
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Author Daniel Francis examines Canada’s Red Scare in a global context, including government responses to similar activities in the United States and western Europe, as well as its ramifications for the contemporary war on terror, in which issues of free speech and political dissent are similarly compromised in the name of national security. Based on government documents and first-hand accounts by the participants themselves, Seeing Reds is a gripping account of a little known episode in Canadian history.
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At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, hoped and others dreaded. Seeing Reds tells the story of this turbulent period in Canadian history during the winter of 1918–19, when a fearful government led by Prime Minister Robert Borden tried to suppress radical political activity by branding legitimate labour leaders as “Bolsheviks” and “Reds.” Canada was in the grip of a widespread Red Scare promoted by the government and the media in order to discredit radical ideas and to rally public support behind mainstream political and economic policies. The story builds toward the events of the Winnipeg General Strike in May–June 1919 when the authorities, believing that the expected revolution had begun, sent soldiers into the streets to put down with force a legitimate labour dispute.
DANIEL FRANCIS
Author of The Imaginary Indian and National Dreams
Daniel Francis
Born and raised in Vancouver, Daniel Francis is the author of two dozen books, principally about Canadian history. He was editorial director of the mammoth Encyclopedia of British Columbia (Harbour), hailed on its appearance in 2000 as one of the most important books about the province ever published. His book L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (page 21) won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2004. His other books available from Arsenal are National Dreams (page 21), The Imaginary Indian (page 23), and the anthology Imagining Ourselves.
isbn 978-1-55152-373-6
6 x 9 | 220 pp | cloth $27.95 / nyp us
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pub month: october
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The Red Scare of 1918–1919, Canada’s First War on Terror
A critical reading of Jean Genet’s last 18 years, through his politics, writings, and personal experience.
THE LAST GENET new release
During the last eighteen years of his life (1968-86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them, the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. Hadrien Laroche’s book is a careful philosophical and historical reading of acts and thoughts of various international political movements in the seventies and the eighties, and of Genet’s experiences and writings. It describes the adventures of a writer engaged with the “real world” as opposed to what he called, “the grammatical world.” This translation of Le dernier Genet (Seuil) considers Genet’s insights, failures, and critique of humanism, and examines the way in which his energetic prose forged a new political, aesthetic, and philosophical relation between literature and the world. This is also the first book to address the issues of Genet’s relation to Israel, Jews, and anti-Semitism. The Last Genet focuses on a critical moment in history, but also on questions of borders, language and identity, offering an alternative to Sartre’s concept of engagement and as such will be critically relevant to readers interested in the questions surrounding ethical and political writing today.
Hadrien Laroche translated by David Homel Hadrien Laroche was born in Paris and is the author of three Frenchlanguage novels and completed his doctorate under Jacques Derrida, who considered him “one of the most talented and original thinkers of his generation.” David Homel has been a journalist, editor, literary translator, and teacher, and has won numerous awards for translation, including the Governor General’s Award for Literature, Canada’s highest literary honour. He lives in Montreal.
isbn 978-1-55152-365-1
biography
5.5 x 8.5 | 296 pp | paper
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A beautiful book, painting the dark side of Jean Genet: those moments that are the most fascinating about a writer. —Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point This is a magnificent book that gives us the metamorphoses of the last Genet, the poet of the jouissance of evil saved from abjection by his sacred relation with the language of the sublime. —Elisabeth Roudinesco
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2010 is the 100th anniversary of jean genet’s birth
The culture of race in the 21st century, according to Wayde Compton.
AFTER CANAAN new release
Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or “Canaan”) encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. “passing”), the subjectivity of black writers in the unblack Pacific northwest, the failure of urban renewal, black and Asian comedy as a counterweight to official multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself. In After Canaan, Compton marks the passing of old modes of antiracism and multiculturalism, and points toward what may or may not be a “post-racial” future, but will without doubt be a brave new world of cultural perception. Written with the same poetic perceptiveness as Canadian cultural theorists Rinaldo Walcott and Dionne Brand, After Canaan is a brilliant and thoughtful consideration of Canadian culture that ought to be required reading for all.
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Wayde Compton Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose previous books are the poetry collections 49th Parallel Psalm and Performance Bond (both page 41) and the anthology Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (page 40). He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called the Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a cofounding member of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver’s original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Wayde Compton teaches English composition and literature at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and Coquitlam College.
isbn 978-1-55152-374-3 5.5 x 8 | 176 pp | paper $19.95 / nyp us
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A visual history of female bodybuilders and other muscular women from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
VENUS WITH BICEPS A Pictorial History of Muscular Women new release
Over the last 100 years, the image of the physically strong, confident, muscular woman has been the object of derision, fascination, and erotic fantasy; she is often portrayed, in both photography and illustration, as a sexy dominatrix, sexless mannequin, or sideshow freak. In this fascinating collection of rare archival images from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, authors David L. Chapman and Patricia Vertinsky trace the peculiar yet fascinating history of muscular women in popular culture. One of the battlefields in this cultural conflict appeared in popular imagery: posters, advertisements, comic books, magazine illustrations, and (most particularly) photography all offered outlets of expression for many muscular women. Until quite recently, however, such females were packaged for the general public as physical monstrosities, lesbian man-haters, kinky sex objects, or beautiful living statues. At the same time, many women, including those in the emerging female bodybuilder community, have had to fight hard to reclaim the image of female muscularity as their own.
David L. Chapman with Patricia Vertinsky David L. Chapman lives in Seattle and is the author of twelve books on male photography and bodybuilding, including American Hunks (page 29) and Comin’ at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3D Photographs of Denny Denfield (page 31). Patricia Vertinsky is a professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia, specializing in the social and cultural history of the body. She is the author or editor of four previous books on sports and gender.
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Featuring some 200 full-colour and black-and-white illustrations, many never before published, Venus with Biceps is a beautiful and historically significant book about gender, image, social expectations, and female power.
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A new edition of S. Bear Bergman’s first book, on what it means to be butch.
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BUTCH IS A NOUN
Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, genderjammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman, won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home. From girls’ clothes to men’s haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living life outside the gender binary. This new edition includes a new introduction by the author. Butch is a Noun is a book that a) should be required reading in any gender studies curriculum; b) femmes should read whenever they’re feeling unloved, lonely, or misunderstood; c) butches should read; d) all of the above. The answer, of course, is d. Thank you, dear Bear. —Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw Bear’s poetry of butchness lets us see into facets of gender that usually aren’t so transparent. And made me fall in love with butches all over again. —Carol Queen, author of Real Live Nude Girl
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S. Bear Bergman S. Bear Bergman, a frequent university and college lecturer on issues relating to gender and sexuality, is also the author of The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (page 31). Ze lives in Burlington, Ontario.
isbn 978-1-55152-369-9 6 x 9 | 192 pp | paper $19.95 / $18.95 us
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gender studies / gay & lesbian soc017000 pub month: september
Ivan E. Coyote’s fifth collection of funny, wistful stories on gender and identity.
MISSED HER new release
Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller and performer; her beautiful, funny stories about growing up queer in the Canadian north and living out loud on Canada’s west coast have attracted big audiences whether gay, straight, or otherwise. Missed Her is Ivan’s fifth story collection, following 2008’s Lambda Literary Awardnominated The Slow Fix, 2004’s Ferro-Grumley Awardnominated Loose End, and 2006’s ReLit award-winning Bow Grip, her novel that was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association (now in development as a feature film). In her passionate and humourous new collection, Ivan takes readers on an intimate journey, both literal and figurative, through the experiences of her life: from her year spent in eastern Canada, to her return to the west coast, to travels in-between. Whether discussing how a butch can own pet lapdog, or befriending an effeminate young man at a gay camp, or revisiting a forty-year-old heartbreak around her grandmother’s kitchen, Ivan traverses love, gender and identity with a wistful, perceptive eye and a warmth that’s as embracing and powerful as Ivan herself.
Ivan E. Coyote Ivan E. Coyote is the author of four previous story collections and the novel Bow Grip (see page 38 for all). Her latest spoken-word/music CD, Only Two Reasons, will be released this fall. Originally from the Yukon, she now lives in Vancouver.
PRAISE FOR IVAN E. COYOTE: Ivan E. Coyote, one of Canada’s smartest storytellers, displays her well known fondness for extended “identity” divagations and delightful discourses upon the ways in which her gender confounds those around her. —The Globe and Mail Coyote applies a cool observer’s eye to both new destinations and the challenges related to her masculine appearance and identity. —Curve
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A novel about Polish pyromaniacs who fight homophobia, set to the smell of smoke.
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KRAKOW MELT
This second novel by Lambda Literary Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarno´s´c revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s 2005, and Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union; the country dips into moral crisis as Pope John Paul II (a Pole) approaches death while the country’s soon-to-be president makes homophobic declarations. Radek, a bisexual artist and a practitioner of the extreme urban sport parkour, is convinced that fire is the great stabilizer. While creating miniature replicas of the world’s great infernos—Chicago 1871, San Francisco 1906, London 1666—he meets Dorota, a literature student and budding pyromaniac. Driven by rage, sexual curiosity for one another, and shocking hidden messages they discover in Pink Floyd lyrics, they buck Church, government, and the LGBT community to find sexual freedom, escaping their enemies by scaling the crumbling walls and ideas of the city. Provocative and unnerving, Krakow Melt is at once a love letter and a fiery call to arms. Praise for Shuck: Alternately brutal and witty, Shuck is an exhilarating ride in which the protagonist performs a kind of wistful eulogy for the seediness of the pre-Giuliani Manhattan…. Shuck is one of those rare books that has both ample brains and raunchy sex appeal. —Gay and Lesbian Review
Daniel Allen Cox Daniel Allen Cox is the author of Shuck (page 37), shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction and the ReLit Award (Canada) for best novel. He is also a columnist for Capital Xtra! in Ottawa, Canada. He lives in Montreal; his home burned down in 2007.
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A remarkable coming-of-age novel about the imperfections of history, both political and personal.
GIRL UNWRAPPED new release
A powerful tale of the burdens and blessings of history, the divided self, and the quest to be whole, Girl Unwrapped is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal. Toni Goldblatt’s awakening to forbidden desire conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaustscarred parents and with the conservative mores of her times. Yearning to re-invent herself, she flees to Israel in the wake of the 1967 war, but the Zionist dream doesn’t save her; instead, she finds the realities of life in the Middle East more complex than she imagined, and that her quest for normalcy has been thwarted. Only on her return to Montreal, when she discovers kindred spirits in the underground lesbian bar scene, does Toni begin to accept herself and experience a sense of true community.
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Achingly honest, Gabriella Goliger’s Girl Unwrapped is a novel about forbidden love, isolation, and the search for personal truth despite the stranglehold of family history.
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Gabriella Goliger Gabriella Goliger’s first book, Song of Ascent, won the 2001 Upper Canada Writer’s Craft Award. She was co-winner of the 1997 Journey Prize for short fiction, a finalist for this prize in 1995, and won the Prism international Award in 1993. Her work has been published in a number of journals and anthologies including Best New American Voices 2000 and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada. Goliger has been involved in the Canadian Jewish peace movement for 25 years and is currently co-chair of the Ottawa chapter of Canadian Friends of Peace Now.
isbn 978-1-55152-375-0 5.5 x 8 | 304 pp | paper $22.95 / nyp us
The chatter in Loulou’s is both in English and French. She sees a great variety of girls and women ... Some faces are plain, some attractive, and a few are heart-stoppingly beautiful. Toni finds herself seeking out those special faces. Their loveliness strikes her as especially poignant here in this warm, smoky room, sealed off from the outside world. Her senses keenly alive, she thinks she might be turning into the kind of animal Maggie alluded to, but she has no regrets. And this transformation has happened almost instantly, as if the air at Loulou’s were a secret, powerful potion that made you anew.
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A Queer Film Classic: the Palme d’Or-winning classic of contemporary Chinese cinema.
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE new release
A Queer Film Classic
Farewell My Concubine, one of three new QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige’s acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century, about two male Peking opera stars and the woman who comes between them, set against the political turmoil of a China in transition. The film’s treatment of gender performance and homosexuality was a first in Chinese cinema, and the subject of much controversy there. The movie, which helped to bring contemporary Chinese films onto the world stage, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (the first Chinese film to do so), and was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. This book, one of two new QFCs to focus on Asian queer cinema, places the film in its historical and cultural context while drawing on fresh insights from recent works on transgender and queer studies to provide readers with an intimate, provocative, and original look at the film. The QUEER FILM CLASSICS series, begun in 2009, 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 authors Thomas Waugh (Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed, page 30) and Matthew Hays (The View from Here page 30). See page 34 for previous QUEER FILM CLASSICS.
Helen Hok-Sze Leung Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008).
isbn 978-1-55152-362-0 5 x 7 | 160 pp | paper b&w film stills $14.95 canada & us
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performing arts / film per004030 pub month: november
A Queer Film Classic: the Indian film whose lesbian themes set off a fire of controversy.
FIRE A Queer Film Classic new release
Fire, one of three new QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian love story by Indian-born director Deepa Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is the story of Radha and Sita, the wives of two brothers, who fall in love with one another. Crisis overtakes the extended family when a servant discovers the relationship and tells one of the husbands; overcoming both a literal and allegorical “trial by fire,” the two women leave their marriages to make a life together. The film premiered to great acclaim in 1996, and traveled the international circuit before being finally released in India in 1999. The consequences of the film’s Indian premiere were both profound and provocative: outraged by the film’s explicit depiction of a lesbian relationship, protestors went on a rampage, tearing down posters, vandalizing cinemas showing the film, and disrupting screenings in Delhi and Bombay, setting off a maelstrom of public discourse on issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech in India. Director Deepa Mehta and the two leading actresses, Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, were targeted for attack and harassment by extremists of the Hindu Right.
Shohini Ghosh Shohini Ghosh is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in New Delhi. Tales of the Night Fairies, her documentary on the sex workers rights movement, made a strong intervention in debates on sex work. She writes on contemporary media practices and sexuality.
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This book examines the controversy that divided a nation, but which ultimately led to counter-protests among the film’s supporters, resulting in its successful and uninterrupted run in Indian theatres. The book also considers Fire’s scathing attack on both heterosexism and Hindu practices in India that oppress and marginalize women, as well as its revolutionary treatment of female characters, whose traditional duties are imbued with an unprecedented sensuality.
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A Queer Film Classic: a 1974 Canadian cult classic about intergenerational love.
MONTREAL MAIN new release
A Queer Film Classic
Montreal Main, one of three QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film, set in Montreal’s bohemian neighborhood “The Main” and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and a great queer film; a fascinating cinema vérité take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s, about a twentysomething photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and his growing obsession with Johnny, the young son of acquaintances, a relationship that is doomed from the start. Disarming in its matter-of-fact treatment of potentially sensational themes, Montreal Main is a quiet yet powerful look at human relations among the post-flower power generation. The book, a collaboration between Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison, details the nuanced history of this peculiar film, which was released on DVD for the first time in 2009. It also considers the politics and aesthetics of the trope of intergenerational love that director Vitale and collaborators Allan Moyle and Stephen Lack so brazenly probed, in a way that would make the film virtually impossible to produce in present day.
Thomas Waugh & Jason Garrison Thomas Waugh teaches film studies at Concordia University, Montreal, where he has also developed curriculam in queer studies and on HIV/ AIDS. He is the author of the books Lust Unearthed, Out/Lines (page 30), as well as others on queer film and media, Canadian film, documentary, and the cinema of India. Jason Garrison is a Canadian writer.
isbn 978-1-55152-364-4 5 x 7 | 160 pp | paper b&w film stills $14.95 canada & us
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performing arts / film per004030 pub month: november
The latest 3-Day Novel Contest winner: a deadly battle of wits in the Arctic.
SNOWMEN new release
Charles Perth intends to be the first person to walk alone across the North Pole, bisecting the Arctic Circle between Canada and Russia. He leaves behind the woman he loves—knowing he can never see her again, even if he makes it to the other side. During his journey, Charles is confronted by the extreme climate, dangerous predators and constant, blinding summer sun of the Arctic, now permanently frozen due to a drastic global climate shift. Charles is also subject to the strategic malevolence of his unstable and resentful brother who, from thousands of kilometres away, has the resources and savvy to make the solo expedition treacherous, and even deadly. If Charles is to succeed— and survive—he must overcome exhaustion, starvation, sabotage, and despair, and find in himself the strength and will to beat his brother at his own twisted game. This riveting, anxiety-filled read is the latest winner of the annual International 3-Day Novel Contest, a notorious rite of passage for writers that has taken place every Labour Day Weekend since 1977. Hundreds of novelists enter every year, and thousands more wish they had the courage. It has spawned its own genre of risky, cutting-edge fiction, evident in the twenty-seven unique winning novels that have been published since the contest began. The 33rd annual contest will take place this September; for more information contact 3daynovel.com.
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GO VEGAN!
2011 Wall Calendar Sarah Kramer
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With four bestselling cookbooks under her belt, including the recent 10th anniversary edition of her classic How It All Vegan! (co-authored with Tanya Barnard), Sarah Kramer is North America’s vegan sweetheart, appealing to vegans and non-vegans alike with her funky charm and sunny demeanor. Last year, Sarah’s first wall calendar (for 2010) was a big success; in it, she “veganized” iconic images of the past fifty years, from movie posters for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Attack of the 50-Foot Woman to the ubiquitous “Got Milk?” ads. For 2011, Sarah turns her attention to classic album covers of the past; among those she veganizes are David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass’s Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Madonna’s Like a Virgin, The Smiths’ Meat is Murder, Devo’s Freedom of Choice, The Clash’s London Calling, and even Barbra Streisand’s Yentl soundtrack. Each month features a recipe appropriate for the season or a particular holiday. Sarah Kramer’s newest Go Vegan! calendar (one of the few, if not only, designed specifically for vegans) will help Sarah’s fans keep track of their days in rock-star style. What Mick Jagger is to rock ‘n’ roll, Sarah Kramer is to the vegan lifestyle. —Bust
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Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet
Sarah Kramer & Tanya Barnard 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, and Vegan à Go-Go!). 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. The tenth-anniversary edition includes new recipes, as well as updates and advice that better reflect the new vegan reality; it also includes a colour 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.
over 100,000 copies sold multiple veggie award winner: best cookbook Their tattoos, their fashion sense, stolen from grandma’s vintage trunk, and their irreverence, say it’s not important to be earnest vegans; their recipes have an I-hate-to-cook-but-love-to-eat attitude. —Vancouver Sun
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LA DOLCE VEGAN!
THE GARDEN OF VEGAN
Vegan Livin’ Made Easy Sarah Kramer
How It All Vegan Again!
Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer
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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
Sarah’s third cookbook (and first solo) features 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
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VEGAN À GO-GO!
THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL
A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road
Natasha Kyssa
Sarah Kramer Sarah’s fourth book is 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. This 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.
second printing With these dishes, Sarah has managed to make vegan food fun, tasty, and sexy! —Jane Wiedlin, The Go-Go’s
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; this informative and useful manual outlines her 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.
second printing Compact and comprehensive.... Kyssa covers much ground via a gradual approach that commences with a vegan, 80-percent-raw diet and progesses toward completely live foods. —VegNews
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RIPE FROM AROUND HERE
A Vegan Guide to Local & Sustainable Eating No Matter Where You Live jae steele
The book includes chapters on the concept of local food and why it’s important; finding a balance between various food issues and personal priorities and values; and the benefits of the local food movement that go beyond reducing the carbon footprint on our plates. It also helps readers become more informed about where their food comes from no matter where they live, whether their source is the farmers’ market or the grocery store down the street. The 180 recipes, which encourage the use of fresh, organic ingredients wherever possible (as well as potential alternatives depending on where you live), include Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins, Pear Parsnip Soup, Asparagus and Spring Onion Quiche, Mushroom Asparagus Risotto, and Butternut Chipotle Chocolate Cake. Both thought-provoking and delectable, jae’s new cookbook makes any time the “ripe” time to go vegan.
spring 2010 release Ripe from around Here is a lovely book! Gently, lightly, with humour and without being preachy, jae steele offers the reader a guide for nothing less than how to live better and with more joy. From cleaning products to living with houseplants, from canning instructions to recipes, Ripe from around Here is also about self-reliance and independence, something I’m 100% in favour of! —Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers Markets cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 $24.95 | $23.95 us
GET IT RIPE
EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN
A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking & Living
Everyday Recipes Worth Celebrating
jae steele 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. By the author of Ripe From Around Here (see above).
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
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Dreena Burton In Dreena Burton’s first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan! (both page 18) 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
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Get It Ripe (see below), jae steele’s first cookbook, established her as a credible and charismatic authority on veganism; her holistic nutritionist background and sassy cowpunk sensibility encouraged countless others to “get it ripe.” Her new cookbook underscores the importance of local, sustainable eating and living by helping readers deepen their understanding of organic and local foods, and their positive impact on our health and our planet.
VIVE LE VEGAN!
THE EVERYDAY VEGAN
Dreena Burton
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Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family
Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life
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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. See also Eat, Drink & Be Vegan (page 17).
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.
fifth printing favourite vegetarian cookbooks list: homemakers magazine
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
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
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Burton has designed these recipes for daily use; they’re easy to put together, and there’s enough variety to suit every taste. —VegNews
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THE MODERN AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK
NEW WORLD PROVENCE
Amrita Sondhi
Alessandra & Jean-Francis Quaglia
Modern French Cooking for Friends and Family
Healthful, Healing Recipes for Life
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 amrita sondhi is host of “the ayurvedic way” on one: the body, mind & spirit channel Includes a cornucopia of nourishing recipes that are in tune with nature and one’s body. —Vancouver Sun Offers easy, veg-friendly recipes.... Try the Spicy Chickpea Soup with coconut, cilantro and yogurt. —Curve
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.
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 One of the best cookbooks of the year. I adore this book; there is a bright effortlessness about it. —Epicurean Classic blog
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AS FRESH AS IT GETS
Everyday Recipes from the Tomato Fresh Food Café
WHERE PEOPLE FEAST
An Indigenous People’s Cookbook Dolly & Annie Watts
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 The authors open the door to making food that’s wholesome, simple, and inventive. —Canadian Living A charming book of simple dishes, ideal for the summer growing season and for making winter food taste like summer too. —Montreal Gazette
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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). 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 winner, world gourmand award, local cuisine (canada) 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
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THE URBAN PICNIC John Burns & Elisabeth Caton
THE REAL JERK
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.
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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
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VANCOUVER SPECIAL
THE GEIST ATLAS OF CANADA
Charlie Demers
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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, Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight. Includes stunning photography by Emmanuel Buenviaje.
Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies Melissa Edwards This offbeat, erudite collection of fullcolour 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; Kitchen Implements; Literary; Loudmouths; Malls; Menstrual; Pets; Retail; Sartorial; and World’s Largest.
hubert evans nonfiction book prize finalist An erudite and intelligent collection of essays. —Globe and Mail
Remarkable.… The Geist Atlas of Canada is filled with astonishingly detailed (and just plain astonishing) maps. —Brian Bethune, Maclean’s
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OUT OF THE DARKNESS
FACE IN THE MIRROR
Marion Crook
Marion Crook
Teenagers and Adoption
Teens Talk About Suicide
Based on interviews with teen suicide survivors, parents, and professionals, a sensitive exploration of teen suicide, in particular the reasons why certain young people are driven to it. The book also examines the history of teen suicide in Western and other cultures, as well as what roles parents and schools can play in suicide prevention. For both teens and adults, Out of the Darkness breaks the silence, offering hope for those who think there is none.
Being a teenager in today’s complex world is a difficult enough task, but adopted teens have a unique struggle: to discover their identity and a sense of belonging and place in the world, which often means coming to terms with their past. The Face in the Mirror, based on numerous interviews with adopted teens, adoptive parents, and birth parents, brings attention to the growing and often controversial phenomenon of teenagers wanting to know where they came from.
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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).
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 Antliff’s research has yielded a new theoretical insight into a genre not often considered. —Bookforum
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
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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
DREAMING IN THE RAIN
How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest David Spaner
Beautiful and sincere. —Georgia Straight
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COMFORT FOOD FOR BREAKUPS The Memoir of a Hungry Girl Marusya Bociurkiw
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
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An elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw.
lambda literary award finalist kobzar literary award finalist Bociurkiw’s words simmer attentive and passionate, beckoning readers to relish and enjoy. —Globe and Mail
food literature / biography / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-219-7 $19.95 | $16.95 us
NATIONAL DREAMS
Myth, Memory, and Canadian History Daniel Francis
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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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Robert Hunter
THE BEARDED GENTLEMAN
ONE THOUSAND BEARDS A Cultural History of Facial Hair Allan Peterkin
The Style Guide to Shaving Face Allan Peterkin & Nick Burns
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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. By the co-author of The Bearded Gentleman (opposite).
An entertaining, witty, and useful guide to facial hair styles and the men who wear them. There’s also advice on shaving, and insight into how facial hair has figured in the history of masculinity.
spring 2010 release Facial hair is totally BACK! But anyone attempting to navigate this treacherous and codified world without consulting Nick Burns and Allan Peterkin is destined for gruesome public humiliation. —Simon Doonan, author of Eccentric Glamour
second printing An entertaining and informative combination of a history, a documentary, an appreciation and a catalog. —Publishers Weekly
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SPREE
THE BALD-HEADED HERMIT AND THE ARTICHOKE
A Cultural History of Shopping Pamela Klaffke The history of shopping, unveiled in an informative and readable fashion. Includes more than 100 photos. … combines a whimsical history of milestones in shopping … with a witty and insightful look at its place in modern life. —Maclean’s 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
An Erotic Thesaurus A.D. Peterkin
A unique, tongue-in-cheek guide to the lingo of sex. Erotic 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
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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.
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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
fifteenth printing over 40,000 copies sold A valuable and moving biography. —Books in Canada aboriginal studies isbn 978-1-55152-047-6 $19.95 | $18.95 us
VICTIMS OF BENEVOLENCE The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School Elizabeth Furniss
JUDGEMENT AT STONEY CREEK New Edition
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.
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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
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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.
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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
biography / aboriginal studies isbn 978-0-88978-252-5 $14.95 | $12.95 us
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aboriginal studies
A fascinating, revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to this day.
THE 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK Gord Hill, with an introduction by Ward Churchill
arts, graphics & culture
A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas, beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land reclamation in Ontario in 2006. Gord Hill spent two years unearthing images and researching historical information to create The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, which presents the story of Aboriginal resistance in an accessible, far-reaching format. With strong, plain language and evocative illustrations, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book documents the fighting spirit and ongoing resistance of Indigenous peoples through 500 years of genocide, massacres, torture, rape, displacement, and assimilation: a necessary antidote to the conventional history of the Americas
spring 2010 release
POLAROIDS
Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press, Presentation House Gallery of North Vancouver, the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, and the Illington Kerr Gallery in Calgary, this large-format (13 x 16.5) book is the first 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 references for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator Michael Morris. Features essays by Michael Turner, Scott Watson, Vince Aletti, and Stan Persky. 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. Stunning and bold, Polaroids is a remarkable visual and written document on Lukacs, one of Canada’s greatest painters working today, and his unique collaboration with Morris, a hugely important artist in his own right.
postponed from fall 2009 available summer 2010 comics & graphic novels / aboriginal studies isbn 978-1-55152-360-6 $12.95 | $11.95 us
visual arts / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-295-1 $60.00 | $55.00 us
TO THE DOGS
VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES
Peter Culley
The historical and contemporary photographers of To the Dogs observe the humancanine 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, published in hardcover, features 150 full-page photographs, including fifty in colour. Co-published by Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver. A beautifully written meditation on dogs and humans and their interconnectedness through the ages. —The Globe and Mail A lyrical exploration of the complex relationship between man and dog. —Montreal Gazette
Melanie O’Brian (ed) 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. Colour and black-and-white images throughout. 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. 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.” —Canadian Art
pets / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-241-8 $32.95 | $32.95 us
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 / social issues / british columbia isbn 978-1-55152-135-0 $25.95 | $25.95 us
THE UNCANNY
Experiments in Cyborg Culture Bruce Grenville (ed)
visual art / art criticism 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
visual art / design / british columbia isbn 978-1-55152-171-8 $32.95 | $26.95 us
FACING HISTORY
Portraits From Vancouver
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 /photography / british columbia 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.
visual art isbn 978-1-55152-046-9 $12.95 | $12.95 us
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arts, graphics & culture
Every Building on 100 West Hastings
YARN BOMBING
HOPE IN SHADOWS
The Art of Crochect and Knit Graffiti
Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Mandy Moore & Leanne Prain
Brad Cran & Gillian Jerome Yarn Bombing is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-colour DIY book features twenty patterns, tips on how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture under cover of darkness, and interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers.
arts, graphics & culture
second printing excerpted in the national post and the new yorker Yarn Bombing deserves a place on any hip crafter’s bookshelf. —Debbie Stoller, author of Stitch ‘n Bitch
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 haig-brown regional prize finalist
crafts & hobbies / knitting isbn 978-1-55152-255-5 $21.95 | $19.95 us
social issues / photography / british columbia isbn 978-155152-238-8 $19.95 | $19.95 us
FAME US
ONE RING CIRCUS
Brian Howell
Brian Howell
Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues
Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame
In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell (author of One Ring Circus, opposite) 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
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 (opposite). Howell brilliantly captures the essence of wrestling. —Maclean’s photography / sports isbn 978-1-55152-132-9 $19.95 | $16.95 us
photography / performing arts isbn 978-1-55152-228-9 $21.95 | $18.95 us
WHAT’S WRONG?
WHERE FIRE SPEAKS
Explicit Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship
A Visit With the Himba
David Campion (photos) & Sandra Shields (text)
Robin Fisher (ed) 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.
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.
a fundraiser for little sister’s defense fund
hubert evans non-fiction prize winner Handsomely produced and thought-provoking. —Publishers Weekly
A crazy quilt of sexy, kinky, skilled graphic art. —Xtra!
photography / literary travel isbn 978-1-55152-131-2 $19.95 | $16.95 us
graphic literature/comics isbn 978-1-55152-136-7 $21.95 | $16.95 us
also available: What Right? 978-1-55152-137-4 l $21.95 / $16.95 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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MACHO SLUTS
THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB
Patrick Califia, introduction by Wendy Chapkis
Agustín Gómez-Arcos, introduction by Sharon G. Feldman
A Little Sister’s Classic
gay & lesbian (little sister’s classics)
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. This new edition includes an afterword by the author and supplemental material. Califia’s stories are intriguing, erotic, exhilarating, and unnerving. The sheer power of Macho Sluts is undeniable. —Bay Area Reporter
A Little Sister’s Classic
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 / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-260-9 $19.95 | $17.95 us
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-230-2 $19.95 | $16.95 us
WHISPER THEIR LOVE
FINISTÈRE
Valerie Taylor, introduction by Barbara Grier
Fritz Peters, introduction by Michael Bronski
A Little Sister’s Classic
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
A Little Sister’s Classic
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 / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-210-4 $19.95 | $15.95 us
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-211-1 $22.95 | $17.95 us
EMPATHY
BLACKBIRD
Sarah Schulman, introduction by Kevin Killian
Larry Duplechan, introduction by Michael Nava
A Little Sister’s Classic
A Little Sister’s Classic
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 Mere Future, The Child, and Rat Bohemia (page 34 for all). With Empathy, the lesbian novel comes of age. —Fay Weldon
A funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. By the author of the Lambda Awardwinning 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
fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-201-2 $19.95 | $15.95 us
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PATIENCE & SARAH A Little Sister’s Classic
Isabel Miller, introduction by Emma Donoghue
FRANNY, THE QUEEN OF PROVINCETOWN A Little Sister’s Classic
John Preston, introduction by Michael Lowenthal
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
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. 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
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-190-9 $17.95 | $13.95 us
THE YOUNG IN ONE ANOTHER’S ARMS A Little Sister’s Classic
SONG OF THE LOON A Little Sister’s Classic
Richard Amory, introduction by Michael Bronski
Jane Rule, introduction by Katherine V. Forrest 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 / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-181-7 $21.95 | $16.95 us
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.
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
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-180-0 $21.95 | $19.95 us
AMERICAN HUNKS
The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970
GAY ART
A Historic Collection Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas Waugh
David L. Chapman & Brett Josef Grubisic A fascinating collection of images (many in full colour) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture. Chapman is also author of Venus with Biceps (page 6) and Comin’ At Ya! (page 31). What might have been a nudge-nudge, wink-wink volume is instead vital Americana. —Booklist
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 Essential reading for anyone interested in gay graphics, gay history, in the cultural history of the 1960s and 70s. —Inches Magazine
gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-256-2 $32.95 | $29.95 us
gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-205-0 $29.95 | $24.95 us
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gay & lesbian
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.
LUST UNEARTHED
OUT / LINES
Thomas Waugh, with Willie Walker
Thomas Waugh
Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection
Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall
gay & lesbian
Lust Unearthed presents over 200, neverbefore-published 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.
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 A great book. —Lambda Book Report
Historically significant. —Out 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
THE DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA
THE VIEW FROM HERE
Conversations with Gay & Lesbian Filmmakers
A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience
Matthew Hays
Louis-Georges Tin (ed) 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.
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 Sant, and John Waters.
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
lambda literary award winner
gay & lesbian studies / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-229-6 $44.95 | $44.95 us
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, who passed away in 2010, was 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. This beautiful, full-colour edition celebrates both his life and art. The bio of Peter Flinsch reads like an epic novel, but its final chapter lies within a proud canon of artistic creation. —Outlooks
Evocative of writers Patrick Califia 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 the editor of In a Queer Country (page 32). An important contribution to queer theory. —Feminist News
gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-237-1 $27.95 | $27.95 us
gay studies / essays isbn 978-1-55152-236-4 $19.95 | $19.95 us
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THE NEAREST EXIT MAY BE BEHIND YOU
I LIKE IT LIKE THAT
S. Bear Bergman
Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)
S. Bear Bergman’s second book (see Butch is a Noun, page 7) is an honest and illuminating collection of essays on gender and identity. As a transmasculine person, Bergman offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the “official stories” about how gender and sexuality work.
Intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men’s desire: these stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life. Contributors include Daniel Allen Cox, Larry Duplechan, Sky Gilbert, Tim Miller, and Andy Quan.
Bergman’s gift of storytelling illuminates the evolving nuances of queer and trans life. —Feminist Review gender studies / lesbian nonfiction isbn 978-1-55152-264-7 $19.95 | $18.95 us
lambda literary award finalist A reminder that virtual sex is best when it comes with a storyteller’s skills, triggering your own memories of lust and love.... There’s dizzying variety in these 34 entries. —Jim Bartley, Xtra!
gay nonfiction / erotica / anthologies isbn 978-155152-259-3 $18.95 | $16.95 us
SECOND PERSON QUEER
FIRST PERSON QUEER
Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)
Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)
Second Person Queer is an anthology of essays on LGBT life written in the secondperson, taking the form of letters to family and friends, missives to homophobes, confessions to lovers, and words of advice for the next generation.
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.
Who you are (so far)
These diverse essays are shocking and hilarious, and always relevant. —Fugues
Who we are (so far)
lambda award winner independent publisher award winner Whether read in a couple of sittings or savored essay by essay, this is an eye-opening vista on diversity. —Kirkus Review
gay & lesbian nonfiction / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-245-6 $19.95 | $18.95 us
COMIN’ AT YA!
The Homoerotic 3-d Photographs of Denny Denfield David L. Chapman & 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. By the co-author of American Hunks (page 29). 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)
photography / gay studies isbn 978-1-55152-225-8 $31.95 | $27.95 us
gay & lesbian nonfiction / anthologies isbn 978-155152-227-2 $21.95 | $17.95 us
FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Tales of Fear and Queer Desire Amber Dawn (ed) 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. Dawn is the author of Sub Rosa (page 35).
lambda literary award finalist Fist of the Spider Woman is a brave, bold, eye-opening book. —Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor, Best Sex Writing 2009 lesbian fiction / horror / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-251-7 $18.95 | $17.95 us
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gay & lesbian
lambda literary award finalist
True Stories of Gay Male Desire
ROY & AL
THE FUTURE IS QUEER A Science Fiction Anthology
Ralf König
Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)
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.
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
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 and Second Person Queer (both page 31).
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 gay & lesbian fiction / science fiction / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-209-8 $22.95 | $17.95 us
OUTBURSTS!
LET ME KISS IT BETTER
A Queer Erotic Thesaurus
Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow
A.D. Peterkin
Billeh Nickerson A.D. Peterkin (The Bearded Gentleman, One Thousand Beards and The Bald-Headed Hermit & The Artichoke) (all page 22), 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
In these charming and very funny essays, Billeh (author of McPoems, page 41) 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 & lesbian nonfiction isbn 978-1-55152-151-0 $19.95 | $16.95 us
gay nonfiction / humour isbn 978-1-55152-125-1 $16.95 | $13.95 us
THE RICE QUEEN DIARIES
IN A QUEER COUNTRY
A Memoir
Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context
Daniel Gawthrop
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 30), 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 nonfiction / biography / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-189-3 $22.95 | $16.95 us
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gay & lesbian nonfiction / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-105-3 $23.95 | $19.95 us
WITH A ROUGH TONGUE Femmes Write Porn
Amber Dawn & Trish Kelly (eds)
I AM A RED DRESS
Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter
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 / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-193-0 $21.95 | $16.95 us
lesbian nonfiction / 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
Finally, horror without limits! The Queer Fear books are a revelation! —Clive Barker
lambda literary award winner gay fiction / horror / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-122-0 $23.95 | $17.95 us
Also available: Queer Fear; isbn 978-1-55152-084-1; $23.95 Cdn / $22.95 US.
Queering Femininity
second printing lambda literary award finalist Within these angry, defiant, brave pieces lie some essential truths about gender, about being both queer and feminine. —Herizons lesbian nonfiction / gender studies / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-126-8 $21.95 | $19.95 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
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gay & lesbian
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 empowering.
GODS AND MONSTERS
LAW OF DESIRE
Noah Tsika
José Quiroga
Gods and Monsters deals with the acclaimed 1998 film about openly gay film director James Whale, best known for the Frankenstein films of the 1930s. This book examines the film from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity and significance of its achievements, including its fusion of fantasy and biography.
The Spanish film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director; his sister, an actress who was once his brother; and a repressed, obssesive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas). This book examines the political and social context in which director Pedro Almodóvar created Law of Desire.
A Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic
queer film classics / fiction
In addition to his analysis of the film’s story and treatment, Tsika draws on other films and literature, as well as on the history of early Hollywood with regard to gay themes, in order to provide a full cultural context.
The film’s twists and turns, the director’s bold color scheme, and the layers of meaning to be found in the film are meticulously detailed. —EDGE Publications (Boston, Chicago, etc.)
—Library Journal gay & lesbian / film isbn 978-1-55152-263-0 $15.95 | $14.95 us
gay & lesbian / film isbn 978-1-55152-262-3 $15.95 | $14.95 us
TRASH
THE MERE FUTURE
A Queer Film Classic
Sarah Schulman
Jon Davies The film Trash is a down-and-out domestic melodrama about a decidedly eccentric couple: Joe, an impotent junkie, and Holly, Joe’s feisty and sexually frustrated girlfriend. This book examines the film in the context of director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol’s legendary partnership. With crisp and expressive prose, he reflects upon the offbeat film and the times and culture that inspired it. In this book, he makes the same argument that he asserts is the film’s premise: that the people and things society deems worthless often dazzle with unexpected beauty. —Quill and Quire
In this dystopian vision, New York City has morphed into an idealized version of itself, the result of what the newly elected mayor calls “The Big Change.” Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Calling on all genres, Schulman invents a literature that reflects the lives we live right now, while being funny, sexy, and open-hearted. Schulman is also the author of Empathy (page 28), The Child (below), and Rat Bohemia (below).
2009 kessler award winner Shockingly of the moment. —Lambda Book Report
gay & lesbian / film isbn 978-1-55152-261-6 $15.95 | $14.95 us
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-257-9 $24.95 | $22.95 us
THE CHILD
RAT BOHEMIA
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 (above).
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.
lambda literary award finalist Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desires, mores, and the law. —Publishers Weekly
One of the top 100 gay & lesbian novels of all time. —Publishing Triangle 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
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SUB ROSA
ZED
Amber Dawn
Elizabeth McClung
spring 2010 release
A vivid, claustrophobic novel about madness, survival, and crumbling institutions: Moby Dick set in the urban squalor of an inner city.
foreword magazine award winner, best science fiction
Dare to meet Little, the indescribably innocent, indescribably obscene protagonist of the decade’s most indescribably juicy novel. Part pulp noir, part porn, part metaphysical carnival-of-the-mind, Amber Dawn is to our generation what Lewis Carroll and Philip K. Dick were to theirs. Sub Rosa is a cult classic in the making. Read this book. —Elizabeth Bachinsky, Governor General’s Award Nominee for Home of Sudden Service (2006)
A masterfully written first novel.... Zed, both the book and protagonist, is truly original. —NOW Magazine
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THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE 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
A tale to be pondered by all those who wield power over the vulnerable. —Globe and Mail (From Best Books of the Year list)
SOUCOUYANT David Chariandy
A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore. This extraordinary first novel focuses on a man who reconnects with his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia.
film option sold third printing finalist, governor general’s literary award longlisted, scotiabank giller prize longlisted, impac dublin literary award A haunting coming-of-age story. —Publishers Weekly
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-242-5 $17.95 | $17.95 us
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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. By the author of Automaton Biographies (page 41).
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.
second printing A particularly acute pleasure. —The Advocate fiction isbn 978-1-55152-168-8 $21.95 | $17.95 us
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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fiction
In this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero’s quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart.
THE ONLY THING I HAVE
SMOKE SHOW
Unsettling, evocatively-written stories about life unfolding in unpredictable ways. Waterfall’s characters are noble in the face of heartache, and human amidst the surreal darkness and light.
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.
Rhonda Waterfall
Clint Burnham
fiction
These stories are short, sharp, and fiercely smart. It’s impossible not to be affected by the sly strangeness of this excellent debut. —Annabel Lyon, author of The Golden Mean Waterfall delivers the Freudian psyche, a mind divided against itself … It makes for a disastrously good read. —Charlotte Gill, Globe and Mail
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 978-1-55152-293-7 $19.95 | $17.95 us
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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 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
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.
second printing 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
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-215-9 $19.95 | $15.95 us
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AMERICAN WHISKEY BAR
HARD CORE LOGO
Michael Turner
Michael Turner
The imagined story of the making of the film of the same name, and includes the entire original screenplay—a story of sex, violence, lies, ambition, power, paradox, dreams, and regret. 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. Turner is also the author of Hard Core Logo (opposite). A dazzling, dizzying, multilayered blend of fact and fiction. —Globe and Mail
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; the sequel is now in production.
third edition (spring 2010) So authentic that it practically gives off feedback. —NOW
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-159-6 $19.95 | $16.95 us
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SHUCK
MISSOURI
Daniel Allen Cox Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler trying to manage his reputation as the city’s porn star du jour when he’s not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published. By the author of Krakow Melt (page 9)
second printing lambda literary award finalist
A vivid and utterly transfixing love story between two men set in the nineteenthcentury American Midwest. Missouri is destined to become a gay men’s camp classic for its earnest, romantic reinterpretation of a time and place in American history traditionally closed off to gay readers.
spring 2010 release
An invigorating first novel … Cox’s New York City has an off-hand, vibrant authenticity. It glitters and fumes. —Globe and Mail
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-246-3 $16.95 | $14.95 us
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-344-6 $14.95 | $12.95 us
MANBUG
GOT ’TIL IT’S GONE
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.
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. A queer romantic comedy for the twenty-first century. See also Blackbird (page 28)
George K. Ilsley
Larry Duplechan
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 Also available: Random Acts of Hatred, 978-1-55152-152-7; $19.95, $16.95 US
second printing lambda literary award winner Larry Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure. —EDGE fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-244-9 $17.95 | $17.95 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 fiction isbn 978-1-55152-090-2 $14.95 | $11.95 us Also available: Home, 978-1-55152-110-7; $15.95, $12.95 us
A beautifully realized story. —Gay & Lesbian Review
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-212-8 $19.95 | $14.95 us
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Christine Wunnicke
SCRAPBOOK OF MY YEARS AS A ZEALOT
THE SLOW FIX Ivan E. Coyote
Nicole Markotic´
Ivan’s fourth story collection is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our preconceived notions of gender roles. See below for her previous books and page 8 for Missed Her.
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). —Globe and Mail
second printing lambda literary award finalist Ivan E. Coyote, one of the country’s smartest storytellers, displays her well-known fondness for delightful discourses on the ways in which her gender confounds those around her. —Globe and Mail
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.
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
third printing winner, relit award, best novel finalist, ferro-grumley award for lgbt fiction ala stonewall honor book film rights sold
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
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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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A LITTLE DISTILLERY IN NOWGONG
THE SHORT, HAPPY LIFE OF HARRY KUMAR
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.
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.
One of the finest novels of the year. A Little Distillery in Nowgong is a welter of contradictions: It is at once a sweeping historical epic, spanning 100 years and three continents, and an intimate, character-based story. It is gritty and realistic while embracing a graceful magic; it is emotionally resonant and very often hilarious. —Vancouver Sun fiction isbn 978-1-55152-258-6 $27.95 | $24.95 us
Ashok Mathur
commonwealth writers prize finalist The narrative has an exuberance and breadth … Mathur possesses a comic touch that is deft, light, and dry. —Quill & Quire fiction isbn 978-1-55152-113-8 $19.95 | $15.95 us
ONCE UPON AN ELEPHANT Ashok Mathur
KUROSHIO: THE BLOOD OF FOXES Terry Watada
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.
second printing Mathur’s novel is as funny as it is smart … the tone is wry, sly and perfectly suited. —Toronto Star
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
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-058-2 $19.95 | $18.95 us
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HOPEFUL MONSTERS
SO LONG BEEN DREAMING
Hiromi Goto
Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan (eds)
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 978-1-55152-157-2 $19.95 | $15.95 us
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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Ashok Mathur
THE VIDEOGRAPHER
IN THE GARDEN OF MEN
A New York film school dropout falls into a job setting up spycams, porn shoots, and street fights for a shady underground video producer. 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.
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.
Jason Rapczynski
John Kupferschmidt
fiction
3-day novel contest winner
3-day novel contest winner The contest has created its own genre concerned with the creation of novella-length works of great originality. —subTerrain fiction isbn 978-1-55152-252-4 $14.95 | $14.95 us
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THE CONVICTIONS OF LEONARD MCKINLEY
BLUESPRINT
Black British Columbian Literature and Orature
Brendan McLeod
Wayde Compton (ed)
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
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
This 3-Day winner is an emotionally powerful book and an intense read. —NOW fiction isbn 978-1-55152-222-7 $14.95 | $14.95 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.
fiction / erotica / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-154-1 $21.95 | $16.95 us
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 erotica isbn 978-1-55152-101-5 $16.95 | $12.95 us Also available: In the Inner Quarters, 978-1-55152-134-3, $20.95, $16.95 US
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MCPOEMS
AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES
Billeh Nickerson
Incisive and very funny … [These poems] are the field notes of an average teenage employee, hastily scribbled on napkins during a coffee break so the ridiculousness of it all won’t be forgotten … The end result feels suitably authentic and lived-in. —See Magazine
poetry isbn 978-1-55152-265-4 $15.95 | $13.95 us
With an ear to the fizz of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and cereal packaging, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. By the author of When Fox is a Thousand (page 35).
dorothy livesay poetry prize finalist Poetry like this is just what we need for the invasion; writing that honours the debris of the imagination while it sustains the space labs of attention. —Fred Wah poetry isbn 978-1-55152-292-0 $19.95 | $17.95 us
THE ASTHMATIC GLASSBLOWER
SEMINAL
Billeh Nickerson
John Barton & Billeh Nickerson (eds)
Nickerson is a witty, urbane chronicler of life through lavender-coloured glasses. His poems, full of astonishing pleasures, speak to the wonders of the world. By the author of McPoems (above), Let Me Kiss It Better (page 32) and co-editor of Seminal (opposite).
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.
and other poems
The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets
publishing triangle’s gay men’s poetry prize finalist
[The editors] deserve accolades for fathering this historic, vital, and truly seminal feat. —Halifax Chronicle Herald
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
I wish this collection had been around when I was a teenager. It derserves a place in every high school library. —Toronto Star
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PERFORMANCE BOND Wayde Compton
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.
second printing
49TH PARALLEL PSALM Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton’s first book is a poetry collection that documents both the migration of blacks to Canada in the 1800s, and the lives of contemporary young blacks as expressed in the blend of music and poetry and heard in the clubs of today. 49th Parallel Psalm jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon. Compton is also the editor of Bluesprint (page 40) and author of After Canaan (page 5) and Performance Bond (opposite).
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
second printing dorothy livesay poetry prize finalist
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poetry isbn 978-1-55152-065-0 $18.95 | $15.95 us
arsenal pulp press page 41
poetry
Larissa Lai The hilarious and illuminating poems in McPoems are based on Billeh Nickerson’s 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!
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