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Arsenal Pulp Press: The Essential Top Ten

page 7, ISBN 978-1-55152-224-1 Dreena Burton’s bestselling book.

page 5, ISBN 978-1-55152-253-1 Sarah and Tanya’s vegan bible.

page 15, ISBN 978-1-55152-295-1 Stunning art by Lukacs and Morris.

page 15, ISBN 978-1-55152-360-6 An acclaimed graphic novel.

page 20, ISBN 978-1-55152-370-5 Muscular women, in full colour.

page 17, ISBN 978-1-55152-255-5 International knit and crochet graffiti.

page 5, ISBN 978-155152-187-9 Sarah Kramer’s first solo cookbook.

page 6, ISBN 978-1-55152-254-8 Vegan jae steele goes local.

page 27, ISBN 978-155152-226-5 An award-winning debut novel.

page 11, ISBN 978-1-55152-294-4 Charles Demers’ insightful essays on Lotusland.

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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 Canada Book Fund for its publishing activities.

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The history of punk band D.O.A. through vintage photographs, posters, and various ephemera over the past thirty years.

TALK - ACTION = ZERO new release

An Illustrated History of D.O.A.

The punk band D.O.A., established in 1978, is considered one of the founders of hardcore punk, along with such other seminal groups as Black Flag and Minor Threat. Their raw, melodic sound, which drew comparisons to the Clash and the Ramones, has always been matched by the band’s acute political sensibility; known for its uncompromising and outspoken anarchist viewpoints, D.O.A. has been active on behalf of many issues, including anti-racism, anti-globalization, freedom of speech, women’s rights, and the environment.

Its slogan, “Talk - Action = Zero,” refers to the importance of artists and others who need to “walk the walk” when it comes to their politics.

After more than thirty years, D.O.A. remains as active as ever, touring internationally (including a trip to China, the first punk band to do so) and recording regularly (its thirteenth studio album was released in 2010); its fan base now spans three generations. This large-format book is a sprawling visual history of the group by lead singer/guitarist Keithley—made up of vintage photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, and other various ephemera—that offers a visceral glimpse into the hardcore life of one of the hardest-working punk bands in the business.

Joe Keithley

Full-colour throughout, the book also includes an introduction by Keithley and a foreword by Greg Hetson of the Circle Jerks.

Joe Keithley, Canada’s godfather of punk, has long been an activist, including as a candidate for the Green Party, and is the founder of Sudden Death Records. He lives in Burnaby, BC, with his wife and their three children.

Joe Keithley is the founder of D.O.A. His autobiography, I, Shithead: A Life in Punk (page 13), was published by Arsenal in 2003; now in its third printing, it has been translated into French, German, and Italian.

isbn 978-1-55152-396-5 8 x 10 | 224 pp | paper $24.95 / $24.95 us b&w & colour images

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A powerful and moving anthology of writing on butch and femme identities.

PERSISTENCE All Ways Butch and Femme new release

In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors. They wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words butch or femme.

Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Thea Hillman (Intersex), S. Bear Bergman (Butch Is a Noun), Chandra Mayor (All the Pretty Girls), Amber Dawn (Sub Rosa), Anna Camilleri (Brazen Femme), Debra Anderson (Code White), Anne Fleming (Anomaly), Michael V. Smith (Cumberland), and Zoe Whittall (Bottle Rocket Hearts) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It’s a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what femme and butch can mean in today’s ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come.

Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman, eds.

Ivan E. Coyote is the author of seven books, including the award-winning novel Bow Grip, the Lambda Award-nominated The Slow Fix, and most recently 2010’s Missed Her (see page 30 for all); Ivan has also released three albums and four short films. A renowned storyteller, Ivan frequently performs for live audiences internationally. Zena Sharman has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies and works in gender and health research and education. Zena is active in femme community building and mentorship, leading workshops, hosting social events, and organizing fundraisers. Both live in Vancouver.

isbn 978-1-55152-397-2 6 x 9 | 256 pp | paper $21.95 / $19.95 us

Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire: A FemmeButch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992.

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Beguiling stories about the lost souls of the Boomer Generation.

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ANTICIPATED RESULTS

Anticipated Results, veteran fiction writer Dennis E. Bolen’s first book with Arsenal Pulp Press, is a staggering short-story collection whose recurring characters are lost members of the Boomer Generation—chronic underachievers at work and love whose malaise is tempered by booze and cars. They seek solace in each other’s company via weekend trips and wine-fuelled dinner parties when not conducting interventions, fixing their cars, or looking for lost kittens; through moments of seeming indifference, humour, and false bravado, their demeanours mask a disquieting rage at how they’ve lost their way and a burning, shattering desire to try to find it again.

Written with unnerving eloquence evocative of Raymond Carver, Anticipated Results could be about any of us—wracked with self-doubt and anguish over what has come before, yet still clinging with vigor to the idea of what may yet come to be.

Dennis E. Bolen Dennis E. Bolen is a novelist, editor, teacher, and journalist, first published in 1975 (Canadian Fiction Magazine). He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria (1977) and an MFA (Writing) from the University of British Columbia (1989), and taught introductory Creative Writing at UBC from 1995 to 1997. He is author of six books of fiction, the most recent of which is the novel Kaspoit! (Anvil Press). He lives in Vancouver.

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A debut collection on the junctions between migration, race, the body, and desire.

LANGUAGE IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT BREAKS new release

In this extraordinary debut poetry collection, Proma Tagore’s language is not the only thing that breaks explores the junctions between migration, race, the body, and desire. The poems in this book offer spaces to reflect on a variety of interlinking issues: the routes and brutal legacies of European colonization and imperialism; the interrelations between different experiences of migration or displacement and attendant geographies of water, land, place, or home; the politics of globalization, capitalism, settlement, and war; the real and symbolic maps of our many dislocations and journeys and, consequently, our multiply layered memories, dreams, and desires. Amidst the ongoing everyday realities of racism and war that have resulted from long-standing histories of colonization, language is not the only thing that breaks offers small, delicate moments of being—a personal and moving response to a world where many people experience profound levels of dehumanization. · between tongues

Proma Tagore Proma Tagore was born in Kolkata, India, and immigrated to Canada at the age of four. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories, and is active in anti-racist, feminist, queer, and migrant justice organizing. She is the author of The Shapes of Silence: Writing by Women of Colour and the Politics of Testimony and the editor of In Our Own Voices: Learning and Teaching Toward Decolonisation. This is her first book of poetry.

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lal mati poka pakhi akash khola alo bhora rail-garir awaj phaguner naram hawa pathar madhe katha gach theke gach galpa kalpanar daka chotobalar gantha ghumer bhasha phire asha

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red earth insects birds open skies the weight of light the echoes of trains soft spring winds the speaking of leaves the story of trees through a calling of dreams childhood weaves in the language of sleep and returns

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

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-plus 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

cooking (vegan) 10th anniversary edition isbn 978-1-55152-253-1 $24.95 | $22.95 us original edition isbn 978-1-55152-067-4 $22.95 | $20.95 us

THE GARDEN OF VEGAN

LA DOLCE VEGAN! Vegan Livin’ Made Easy Sarah Kramer

How It All Vegan Again!

Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer 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 entrées and desserts, they are sure to inspire both committed and part-time vegans alike.

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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

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

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

—vegsource.com

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

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.

[So] much more than straight recipes; Garden shows veganism as a fun and exciting way of life—complete with witty, often hilarious recipe intros and heartfelt stories. —Monday Magazine [Sarah and Tanya] teach the world at least two things: that being a vegan can be loads of fun and that vegan food is to die for.

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

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RIPE FROM AROUND HERE

A Vegan Guide to Local & Sustainable Eating No Matter Where You Live jae steele 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.

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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.

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 Readers attuned to the local food movement will appreciate steele’s approach; her book can also be enjoyed as a straightforward vegan cookbook.

—Library Journal (starred review) The most important vegan cookbook of 2010 … It takes a soft, animal-rights approach, like her last cookbook, but the work that jae has put in to try and merge these important streams back together, veganism and locavorism, puts this well beyond mere cookbook status.

—Veganpolice.com Local food doesn’t translate to limited flavor, and steele’s recipe box overflows with tasty ideas … In addition to the edibles, readers will find a host of housecare tips, including DIY cleaners and an in-depth introduction to composting. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and beyond, Ripe from Around Here makes going local an easy affair. —VegNews cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 $24.95 | $23.95 us

VEGAN À GO-GO!

GET IT RIPE

Sarah Kramer

jae steele

A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road 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.

A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking & Living

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 between mind, body, and spirit. By the author of Ripe From Around Here (see above).

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

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

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

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

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EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN

THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL

Everyday Recipes Worth Celebrating

Natasha Kyssa

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

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

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

fourth printing featured on ellen’s website 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

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

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

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 its 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 (above).

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

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

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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

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

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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.

FROM THE OLIVE GROVE

AS FRESH AS IT GETS

Everyday Recipes from the Tomato Fresh Food Café

Mediterranean Cooking with Olive Oil

Christian Gaudreault & Star Spilos

Helen & Anastasia Koutalianos

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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, many of which have been passed along from Helen’s mother and grandmother, in which olive oil is a central ingredient.

fall 2010 release This useful, straightforward, and informative cookbook is a valuable addition, especially considering the popularity of and emphasis on healthy cooking. It will appeal to seasoned cooks as well as novices.

—Library Journal

Today, increasing emphasis is being placed on the integrity of the the food we eat.

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. 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

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

cooking (mediterranean) isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 $24.95 | $21.95 us

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.

fourth 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

cooking (healthy and vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-204-3 $26.95 | $22.95 us

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A FEAST FOR ALL SEASONS

WHERE PEOPLE FEAST

Traditional Native Peoples’ Cuisine

Dolly & Annie Watts

Andrew George Jr. with Robert Gairns

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).

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.

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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

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

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

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

cooking (caribbean) isbn 978-1-55152-115-2 $24.95 | $23.95 us

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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, 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.

An Indigenous People’s Cookbook

THE LAST GENET

AFTER CANAAN

Hadrien Laroche, translated by David Homel

Wayde Compton

A Writer in Revolt

Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

The Last Genet is a careful philosophical and historical reading of the last eighteen years in the life of Jean Genet, during which time he became intimately involved with the plight of the oppressed (the Black Panthers, the Palestinians, the Baader Meinhof).

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fall 2010 release The key to understanding Genet, writes the author, is through language, which underlies identity, homeland and “the heart of the writer.” Genet’s discoveries and conclusions were consistently insightful and provocative, though not always desirable, moral or ethical. His last journey, as revealed by Laroche, is imbued with beauty, metamorphosis and emancipation on one hand, and monstrosity, nihilism and hopelessness on the other. An indispensible study for readers interested in Genet, the Black Panthers, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict or, more generally, the philosophy of humanism.

—Kirkus Reviews

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 20th 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”), and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself. Compton marks the passing of old modes of anti-racism 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.

fall 2010 release After Canaan offers an alternative epistemology for thinking about race in Canada ... [It] engages critically and materially with race in a way that hasn’t been done before, courageously critiquing Canada’s refusal to account for or legitimize the experience of racial ambiguity.

—Quill & Quire (starred review)

biography isbn 978-1-55152-365-1 $24.95 | $22.95 us

black studies / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-374-3 $19.95 | $18.95 us

SEEING REDS

The Red Scare of 1918–1919, Canada’s First War on Terror Daniel Francis 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 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.

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. 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. Daniel is also author of National Dreams, LD (both page 12), and The Imaginary Indian (page 14).

fall 2010 release Seeing Reds is an entertaining, thoughtful, and disturbing book. Well-researched and written with style, it will inform and alarm readers. Daniel Francis brings together the skills of the historian with those of the storyteller to deliver a cautionary tale that is as much about the present as the past.

—Mark Leier, director of Centre for Labour Studies, Simon Fraser University and author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion

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Charles Demers

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.

THE GEIST ATLAS OF CANADA

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 literary travel / british columbia isbn 978-1-55152-294-4 $24.95 | $21.95 us

Remarkable … The Geist Atlas of Canada is filled with astonishingly detailed (and just plain astonishing) maps. —Brian Bethune, Maclean’s canadiana / humour isbn 978-1-55152-216-6 $24.95 | $21.95 us

OUT OF THE DARKNESS

THE FACE IN THE MIRROR

Marion Crook

Marion Crook

Teens Talk About Suicide

Teenagers and Adoption

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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sociology / parenting (teens) isbn 978-1-55152-141-1 $21.95 | $18.95 us

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ANARCHY AND ART

From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

ONLY A BEGINNING An Anarchist Anthology Allan Antliff

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

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).

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

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

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VANCOUVER SPECIAL

THE GREENPEACE TO AMCHITKA

ICE AND FIRE

Dispatches From the New World Stephen Osborne

An Environmental Odyssey Robert Hunter

nonfiction

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

Beautiful and sincere.

—Georgia Straight

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

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DREAMING IN THE RAIN

COMFORT FOOD FOR BREAKUPS

How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest

The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

David Spaner

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

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

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

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

NATIONAL DREAMS

LD

Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver

Daniel Francis

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

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 isbn 978-1-55152-043-8 $22.95 | $19.95 us

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THE BEARDED GENTLEMAN

The Style Guide to Shaving Face

ONE THOUSAND BEARDS A Cultural History of Facial Hair Allan Peterkin

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.

featured in the new york times, nylon, out 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 men’s health (grooming) isbn 978-1-55152-343-9 $16.95 | $14.95 us

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).

second printing An entertaining and informative combination of a history, a documentary, an appreciation and a catalog. —Publishers Weekly men’s health (grooming) isbn 978-1-55152-107-7 $21.95 | $19.95 us

SPREE

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

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

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla

THE BALD-HEADED HERMIT AND THE ARTICHOKE 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 sexuality/humour isbn 978-1-55152-063-6 $18.95 | $14.95 us

I, SHITHEAD A Life in Punk Joe 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.”

political science isbn 978-0-88978-045-3 $19.95 | $18.95 us

Joe Shithead founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978. I. Shithead is Joe’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. (See page 1 for Joe’s new book, Talk - Action = Zero.)

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Allan Peterkin & Nick Burns

THE IMAGINARY INDIAN

STONEY CREEK WOMAN

The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

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.

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

aboriginal studies

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

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

—Books in Canada

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VICTIMS OF BENEVOLENCE

JUDGEMENT AT STONEY CREEK

The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School

New Edition

Elizabeth Furniss

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

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Gord Hill, with an introduction by Ward Churchill

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, farreaching 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.

Gord Hill blends his visual and literary talents to tell the story of aboriginal life since the arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere in 1492 … 500 Years of Resistance succeeds as a bold primer on colonialism and its haunting legacy today.

—This Magazine Hill's raw images convey the events depicted effectively.

—Publishers Weekly comics & graphic novels / aboriginal studies isbn 978-1-55152-360-6 $12.95 | $11.95 us

TO THE DOGS 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 50 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 pets / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-241-8 $32.95 | $32.95 us

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-in) 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.

now available visual arts / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-295-1 $60.00 | $55.00 us

VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES 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. Co-published by Artspeak.

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

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arts, graphics & culture

THE 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK

STAN DOUGLAS

OTHER CONUNDRUMS

Reid Shier (ed)

Monika Kin Gagnon

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

arts, graphics & culture

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.

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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

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THE UNCANNY

A MODERN LIFE

Experiments in Cyborg Culture

Art and Design in British Columbia 1945–1960

Bruce Grenville (ed)

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

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FACING HISTORY

THE YELLOW PEAR

Portraits From Vancouver

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.

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.

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YARN BOMBING

The Art of Crochect and Knit Graffiti Mandy Moore & Leanne Prain

HOPE IN SHADOWS

Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

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

crafts & hobbies / knitting isbn 978-1-55152-255-5 $21.95 | $19.95 us

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

FAME US

ONE RING CIRCUS

Brian Howell

Brian Howell

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

Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues

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 / performing arts isbn 978-1-55152-228-9 $21.95 | $18.95 us

WHERE FIRE SPEAKS A Visit With the Himba

David Campion (photos) & Sandra Shields (text)

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

WHAT’S WRONG?

Explicit Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship 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.

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

—Publishers Weekly

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 A crazy quilt of sexy, kinky, skilled graphic art. —Xtra!

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arts, graphics & culture

Brad Cran & Gillian Jerome Yarn Bombing is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-colour DIY book features 20 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.

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

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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)

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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 26 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 29).

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

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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

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

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Set in the 19th 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.

VENUS WITH BICEPS

A Pictorial History of Muscular Women David L. Chapman & Patricia Vertinsky 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.

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One of the battlefields in this cultural conflict appeared in popular imagery: posters, advertisements, comic books, magazine illustrations, and (most particularly) photography 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.

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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AMERICAN HUNKS

The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970 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 (above) and co-author of Comin’ At Ya! (below).

What might have been a nudge-nudge, wink-wink volume is instead vital Americana.

—Booklist

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GAY ART

COMIN’ AT YA!

A Historic Collection

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 (above).

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)

Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas Waugh 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

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LUST UNEARTHED

OUT / LINES

Thomas Waugh, with Willie Walker

Thomas Waugh

Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall

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

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THE DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA

A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

THE VIEW FROM HERE

Conversations with Gay & Lesbian Filmmakers Matthew Hays

Louis-Georges Tin (ed) Based on the work of over 70 researchers in 15 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

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PETER FLINSCH The Body in Question Ross Higgins

QUEERSEXLIFE

Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity Terry Goldie

Peter Flinsch, who passed away in 2010, was one of the art world’s unsung heroes; for the past 60 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 gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-237-1 $27.95 | $27.95 us

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 23).

An important contribution to queer theory.

—Feminist News

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Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection

BUTCH IS A NOUN

THE NEAREST EXIT MAY BE BEHIND YOU

S. Bear Bergman

S. Bear Bergman

A funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (or not), first released by Suspect Thoughts in 2006. Includes a new introduction by the author.

S. Bear Bergman’s second book 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.

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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

lambda literary award finalist Bergman’s gift of storytelling illuminates the evolving nuances of queer and trans life. —Feminist Review

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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 978-155152-227-2 $21.95 | $17.95 us

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FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT

True Stories of Gay Male Desire Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)

Tales of Fear and Queer Desire Amber Dawn (ed)

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.

Fist of the Spider Woman is a revelatory anthology of horror stories that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning traditional horror iconography on its head. Amber Dawn is the author of Sub Rosa (page 26).

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.

—Xtra!

lambda literary award finalist A brave, bold, eye-opening book.

—Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor, Best Sex Writing 2009

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ROY & AL

THE FUTURE IS QUEER A Science Fiction Anthology

Ralf König

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

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

OUTBURSTS!

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus A.D. Peterkin

What does the future hold for gays, lesbians, and transgenders? In this anthology, provocative stories and comics posit a queer future of limitless possibilities. Labonté and Schimel also edited First Person Queer, Second Person Queer, and I Like It Like That (all page 22).

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

LET ME KISS IT BETTER

Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow Billeh Nickerson

A.D. Peterkin (The Bearded Gentleman, One Thousand Beards and The Bald-Headed Hermit & The Artichoke) (all page 13), shows how euphemism, camp humour, rhyme, acronym, foreign language, mythology, metaphor, and secret code have all been recruited imaginatively by gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transfolk to name what was thought to be unnamable. … a perversely potent queer erotic thesaurus. This is a fun book, but it can also be seen as a historical document. This is the evidence of queer sexual history. —Trade: Queer Things gay & lesbian nonfiction isbn 978-1-55152-151-0 $19.95 | $16.95 us

In these charming and very funny essays, Billeh (author of McPoems, page 33) 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

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THE RICE QUEEN DIARIES A Memoir

Daniel Gawthrop

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

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

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

foreword magazine book of the year award finalist

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured. In a Queer Country, edited by the author of queersexlife (page 21), 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.

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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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Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds) The first English-language book by Germany’s Ralf König, Europe’s most popular gay cartoonist, whose collections have sold over one 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.

WITH A ROUGH TONGUE

I AM A RED DRESS

Femmes Write Porn

Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

Amber Dawn & Trish Kelly (eds)

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

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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

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QUEER FEAR II

BRAZEN FEMME

Michael Rowe (ed)

Chlöe Brushwood Rose & Anna Camilleri (eds)

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

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

Gay Horror Fiction

Queering Femininity

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

second printing lambda literary award finalist

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

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

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MONTREAL MAIN

FIRE

Thomas Waugh & Jason Garrison

Shohini Ghosh

Montreal Main considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal’s bohemian neighbourhood “The Main.” The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is a fascinating cinema vérité take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s.

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A Queer Film Classic Set in a contemporary middle-class Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, CanadianIndian director Deepa Mehta’s film Fire is the story of Radha and Sita, the wives of two brothers, who fall in love with one another. The film generated wide controversy in India, where protestors disrupted screenings and vandalized theatres. Ghosh’s book is a thoughtful consideration of the film and its consequences.

A passionate hybrid of theory, film criticism and social history, engaging the cutting edge of contemporary sexual politics.

—John Greyson, filmmaker

fall 2010 release

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FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

TRASH

Helen Hok-Sze Leung

Jon Davies

A Queer Film Classic

Farewell My Concubine 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.

A Queer Film Classic 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

fall 2010 release

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LAW OF DESIRE

GODS AND MONSTERS

José Quiroga

Noah Tsika

A Queer Film Classic

A Queer Film Classic

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.

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.)

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.

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.

—Library Journal gay & lesbian / film isbn 978-1-55152-262-3 $15.95 | $14.95 us

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A Queer Film Classic

GIRL UNWRAPPED

SUB ROSA

Girl Unwrapped is a coming-of-age story set in 1960s Montreal. Toni Goldblatt’s awakening to taboo desire conflicts with the expectations of her Holocaust-scarred parents and with the conservative mores of her times.

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.

Gabriella Goliger

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fall 2010 release Goliger’s precise writing shows the hallmarks of a seasoned professional who knows exactly how to engage her reader: thoughtful prose, vibrant imagery, and compelling characters. Girl Unwrapped is a universally approachable story of self-discovery, told by a skillful and poised writer.

—Quill & Quire

Amber Dawn

A uniquely rewarding read … Amber Dawn keeps the proceedings at a darkly whimsical remove from the real hurts of the world. She knows we know that pain is real, that women are made chattels, that masters are cruel. She’s after a larger vision that raises questions about the entire emotionally fraught edifice of our received beliefs about sex, men and women, roles and rights and abuses.

—Globe and Mail

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SCRAPBOOK OF MY YEARS AS A ZEALOT Nicole Markotic´

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

THE MERE FUTURE Sarah Schulman

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 18), The Child (below), and Rat Bohemia (below).

2009 kessler award winner Shockingly of the moment. —Lambda Book Report fiction isbn 978-1-55152-257-9 $24.95 | $22.95 us

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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

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David N. Odhiambo

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

The Reverend’s Apprentice is that recognizable sort of hybird-genre novel, its technical sophistication within the lineage 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

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

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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 33).

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 Never fails to impress. Brash, macabre and irreverent.

—Vancouver Sun

A particularly acute pleasure.

—The Advocate fiction isbn 978-1-55152-168-8 $21.95 | $17.95 us

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ZED

THE ONLY THING I HAVE

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

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.

Elizabeth McClung

Rhonda Waterfall

foreword magazine award winner, best science fiction film option sold A masterfully written first novel … Zed, both the book and protagonist, is truly original. —NOW Magazine A tale to be pondered by all those who wield power over the vulnerable. —Globe and Mail (From Best Books of the Year list)

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

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

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THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE

SKIDS

SMOKE SHOW

The stories told in Skids are elegiac confessions of lost youth: young kids living on their own, eking out an existence in the brutal environs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

By the author of the BC Book Prize-winning novel Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison.

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.

Cathleen With

Clint Burnham

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ethel wilson fiction prize finalist 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

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.

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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).

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; a sequel has completed production.

Hard Core Logo Live, a stage adaptation, recently debuted in Edmonton and Vancouver.

third edition

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

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MANBUG

STORIES TO HIDE FROM YOUR MOTHER

George K. Ilsley

Tess Fragoulis

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.

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.

foreword magazine book of the year award finalist

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

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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

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KRAKOW MELT

SHUCK

Daniel Allen Cox’s second novel is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. By the author of Shuck (opposite).

Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox’s first novel, 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 (opposite).

fall 2010 release Cox’s splintered narrative, polished to an incisive gloss, bristles with both mischief and menace, and any of its short, titled chapters could stand alone. References to Pink Floyd, Polish pope John Paul II, and an unquenchable anger course from the first page to the last—a pointillistic poisoned pill. —Publishers Weekly fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-372-9 $17.95 | $15.95 us

Daniel Allen Cox

second printing lambda literary award finalist An invigorating first novel … Cox’s New York City has an off-hand, vibrant authenticity. It glitters and fumes. —Globe and Mail

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MISSOURI

GOT ’TIL IT’S GONE

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.

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 18).

Christine Wunnicke

Larry Duplechan

Missouri blends Americans and Englishmen, guns and poetry, cowboys and aristocrats, creating a compelling work that’s both entertaining and thought-provoking. —Gay & Lesbian Review

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

—EDGE

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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

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Daniel Allen Cox

MISSED HER

THE SLOW FIX

The fifth and most recent collection of passionate and humourous short stories from Ivan E. Coyote.

Ivan’s fourth story collection is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our preconceived notions of gender roles. See opposite and below for her previous books.

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

fall 2010 release

fiction

These vignettes read as though they’ve been freshly torn from a wanderer’s notebook, where they were immediately jotted down so as not to lose the vibrancy of the experience. The result is refreshing and tearfully real—Coyote has a gift for blending the tragic and comic in a way that renders a reader gobsmacked … The writing in Missed Her is direct yet lyrical, poetic yet unadorned, reaching simultaneously for the heart and the gut with brevity and power. —Quill & Quire (starred review)

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

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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 option sold

Coyote is to CanLit what kd lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture. —Ottawa XPress

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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

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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 the 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

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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.

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

—Quill & Quire

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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 openhearted 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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SNOWMEN

BLUESPRINT

Black British Columbian Literature and Orature

Mark Sedore

Charles Perth intends to be the first person to walk alone across the North Pole, bisecting the Arctic Circle between Canada and Russia.

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.

3-day novel contest winner fall 2010 release

Wayde Compton (ed) 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 After Canaan (page 10), Performance Bond and 49th Parallel Psalm (both page 33).

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

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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.

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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

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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 27).

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 23) 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 32) and author of After Canaan (page 10) 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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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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