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Arsenal Pulp Press: The Essential Top Ten

page 18, ISBN 978-1-55152-255-5 In its second printing!

page 12, ISBN 978-1-55152-294-4 Now available!

page 21, ISBN 978-1-55152-256-2 As seen on Out.com!

page 8, ISBN 978-1-55152-253-1 Tenth Anniversary Edition!

page 27, ISBN 978-1-55152-226-5 The award-winning novel!

page 22, ISBN 978-1-55152-229-6 The definitive book!

page 30, ISBN 978-155152-247-0 In its second printing!

page 10, ISBN 978-1-55152-250-0 In its second printing!

page 9, ISBN 978-155152-224-1 Featured on Ellen’s website!

page 16, ISBN 978-1-55152-295-1 The first book on Lukacs!

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

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A fresh vegan take on the locavore phenomenon.

RIPE FROM AROUND HERE new release

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

Get It Ripe, jae steele’s 2008 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.

The book includes chapters on the concept of local food and why it’s important; finding a balance between various food issues and personal priorities and values; and the benefits of the local food movement that go beyond reducing the carbon footprint on our plates. It also helps readers become more informed about where their food comes from no matter where they live, whether their source is the farmers’ market or the grocery store down the street.

The 180 recipes, which encourage the use of fresh, organic ingredients wherever possible (as well as potential alternatives depending on where you live), include Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins, Pear Parsnip Soup, Asparagus and Spring Onion Quiche, Mushroom Asparagus Risotto, and Butternut Chipotle Chocolate Cake.

jae steele jae steele is a registered holistic nutritionist and runs the vegan blog “Domestic Affair.” She lives in Toronto, where she sits on the board of directors for her local food co-op, and is studying midwifery. Her first book, Get It Ripe (see page 10), was published in 2008 and is now in its second printing.

Both thought-provoking and delectable, jae’s new cookbook makes any time the “ripe” time to go vegan.

isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 8 x 9 | 256 pp | paper $24.95 canada / $23.95 us

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Sarah Kramer’s latest calendar: an homage to classic album covers.

GO VEGAN! 2011 Wall Calendar new release

With four bestselling cookbooks under her belt, including the recent 10th anniversary edition of her classic How It All Vegan! (co-authored with Tanya Barnard), Sarah Kramer is North America’s vegan sweetheart, appealing to vegans and non-vegans alike with her funky charm and sunny demeanor. Last year, Sarah’s first wall calendar (for 2010) was a big success; in it, she “veganized” iconic images of the past fifty years, from movie posters for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Attack of the 50-Foot Woman to the ubiquitous “Got Milk?” ads.

Sarah Kramer Sarah Kramer was named “The World’s Coolest Vegan” by Herbivore magazine. She is the author of La Dolce Vegan! and Vegan à Go-Go! and co-author of How It All Vegan! and The Garden of Vegan (pages 8–9). In addition to creating her vegan masterpieces and maintaining her popular website GoVegan.net, she also owns/operates Tattoo Zoo with her husband, Gerry, in Victoria, BC.

For 2011, Sarah turns her attention to classic album covers of the past; among those she veganizes are David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass’s Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced, Devo’s Freedom of Choice, The Clash’s London Calling, and even Barbra Streisand’s Yentl soundtrack. Each month features a recipe appropriate for the season or a particular holiday.

Sarah Kramer’s newest Go Vegan! calendar (one of the few, if not only, designed specifically for vegans) will help Sarah’s fans keep track of their days in rock-star style.

What Mick Jagger is to rock ‘n’ roll, Sarah Kramer is to the vegan lifestyle.

—Bust

isbn 978-1-55152-342-2 12 x 12 | wall calendar $14.95 canada / $14.95 us

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A visually stunning journey through 500 years of Aboriginal resistance.

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THE 500 YeArs of resistance comic book

The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book is a powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas, beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land reclamation in Ontario in 2006. Gord Hill spent two years unearthing images and researching historical information to create The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book, which presents the story of Aboriginal resistance in an accessible, far-reaching format.

Other events depicted include the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, Pontiac and the 1763 Rebellion & Royal Proclamation, the Seminole Wars, Crazy Horse and the War on the Plains, the American Indian Movement, the Oka Crisis, the Ts’peten Standoff, and the 1995 Aazhoodena/Stoney Point resistance.

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. It is necessary reading for everyone.

Gord Hill Gord Hill is a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation whose territory is located on northern Vancouver Island and adjacent mainland in the province of “British Columbia, Canada.” He is also descended from Scottish and Tlingit great grandparents. Since 1990, Gord has been involved in the Indigenous people’s movement, including solidarity with the 1990 Oka Crisis, the 1992 500 Years of Resistance campaign, solidarity with the 1994 New Year’s Zapatista Uprising, the 1995 Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash standoffs, the Native Youth Movement (including the 1997–98 occupations of the BC Treaty Commission offices), the 1999 anti-WTO protests, the Cheam fisheries dispute (1999), the 2001 Summit of the Americas riots, the Skwelkwek’welt campaign (Sun Peaks, 2003–06), and most recently the anti-2010 Olympics campaign. He lives in Vancouver.

isbn 978-1-55152-360-6 7 x 10 | 80 pp | paper $12.95 canada / nyp us

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A fun, informative guide to fifty-plus facial hairstyles for men.

THE BEARDED GENTLEMAN The Style Guide to Shaving Face new release

For centuries, men have been growing and styling their facial hair, whether for the sake of vanity, religion, or cultural considerations, but most of us don’t give it a second thought. The Bearded Gentleman is an authoritative yet lighthearted guide that offers skincare and shaving tips, as well as detailed information on some fifty specific facial hair styles: where they come from, how to grow them, and how to maintain them.

Among them are many well-known styles, such as the Handlebar, the Fu Manchu, the Goatee, the Van Dyck, and the more recent Soul Patch. But there are also those that are less familiar, including the Horseshoe, the Lampshade, the Painter’s Brush, the Landing Strip, the French Fork, and El Insecto (a.k.a. The Mighty).

There’s also practical advice on choosing a facial hair style that’s right for you, as well as insight into how facial hair has figured in the history of masculinity, including its impact on politics, class, and sexuality.

And if you want to shave it all off and start over, you will find out how do to so in luxury!

Allan Peterkin and Nick Burns Allan Peterkin is a psychiatrist and the author of numerous books, including One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair (see page 14). He lives in Toronto.

The Bearded Gentleman is an entertaining, witty, and useful guide to facial hair styles and the men who wear them.

A must for every man with a beard or the man planning to grow one !

—Phil Olsen , Beard Team USA

Nick Burns is one of the leading writers on men’s grooming. As a journalist, he has covered skin care, fashion, and health for leading magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, GQ, Details, Elle Accessories, Out, and Zink, and he pens the popular men’s style blog, HommeGrooming.com. He lives in San Francisco, California.

isbn 978-1-55152-343-9 5.5 x 8 | 160 pp | paper $16.95 canada / $14.95 us b&w illustrations

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A nineteenth-century take on Brokeback Mountain, set in the American Midwest.

MISSOURI new release

Written in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing love story between two men is set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet in England who flees the country for America following an Oscar Wilde-like scandal insinuating sexual impropriety; Joshua Jenkyns is a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six, and who, against the wishes of his father, teaches himself how to read, a skill that then unleashes a world of possibility beyond that which he knows. The two men meet when Joshua robs Douglas’s carriage and takes him hostage; soon, a remarkable secret is revealed, and these two very different men grow closer, even as Douglas’s brother tries to “save” him from his uncivilized surroundings.

Missouri was first published in Germany to wide acclaim. Now available in English for the first time, 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.

That night, Joshua Jenkyns realized that things were getting dangerous. Something had to happen. He pointed the gun at Douglas’ back, let if fall, and aimed again. He did so several times. Eventually he gave up. Joshua would have to speak, but he didn’t know how to. He thought about it, hour after hour.

He couldn’t find a sentence to say to Fortescue, no word, no explanation, nothing whatsoever. In the middle of the night he got up and fetched Colors. It was still his favorite book. He held Colors without opening it; he knew it by heart. He sat with Colors next to the dying embers. He would have liked to shout, but he didn’t want to wake Fortescue. He returned Colors to the other books and continued to chew things over …

When Douglas awoke, he found himself staring into the muzzle of the revolver. Joshua was looking calmly into his face, with his lips relaxed. What beautiful lips he had, if only he didn’t press them together: full, dark, sharply outlined lips. He casually aimed between Douglas’ eyes. “I love you, mister,” said Joshua. This was the sentence he liked best.

Christine Wunnicke translated by David Miller Christine Wunnicke lives in Munich, Germany. She has published four award-winning novels, a biography, translations as well as both documentary and literary radio programmes. Missouri, first published in Germany in 2006, is her first book available in English.

David Miller has translated many books from German to English, including the graphic novel Roy & Al by Ralf König. He lives in Newcastleupon-Tyne, UK.

isbn 978-1-55152-344-6

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5.5 x 8 | 128 pp | paper

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$14.95 canada / $12.95 us

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Welcome to Sub Rosa: not for the faint of heart.

SUB ROSA new release

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. Sub Rosa’s reluctant heroine is known as “Little,” a teenaged runaway unable to remember her real name; in her struggle to get by in the world, she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing girls and would-be johns: a place called Sub Rosa. Not long after she is initiated into this family of magical prostitutes, Little is called upon to lead Sub Rosa through a maze of feral darkness, both real and imagined—a calling burdened with grotesque enemies, strange allies, and memories from a foggy past.

Written with a kind of gasping urgency, Sub Rosa is a beautiful and gutsy allegory of our times, a fairy-tale-like fantasia imbued with a grave, unapologetic realness.

Amber Dawn Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker, and performance artist based in Vancouver. She is the editor of Fist of the Spider Woman (page 23) and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (page 25). Her award-winning, genderfuck docu-porn, Girl on Girl, has been screened in eight countries and added to the gender studies curriculum at Concordia University. She has toured three times with the infamous Sex Workers’ Art Show in the US. She was voted Xtra! West’s Hero of the Year in 2008. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

Currently, she is the director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

isbn 978-1-55152-361-3

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Everything is a place called Sub Rosa: for lack of the perfect word, this place is a street. No other street intersects it. No map will lead you there. No one has directions committed to memory. Sub Rosa is above memory. Or rather, below it. It’s amnesiatic. Visitors aren’t exactly sure how they find their way. They are guided only by the belief that they are entitled to a little fulfillment. They leave knowing only that they are somehow better than when they arrived. Most visitors are men—what we on Sub Rosa call live ones. They drive off in their well-kept cars with glazed grins on their faces. I’m jealous, not of their money to spend, but jealous that for them going home is a simple matter of turning down the correct lane.

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Michael Turner’s classic novel, with a new cover.

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HARD CORE LOGO

Hard Core Logo is Michael Turner’s now classic epistolary novel that portrays a punk rock band reunited for one last shot at glory.

Adapting a scrapbook approach consisting of monologues, conversations, letters, interviews, photographs, and related paraphernalia (including posters, invoices, and contracts), Hard Core Logo tells the story of Joe Dick, an unrepentant, true-blue punk rocker, whose no-holds-barred approach to music was severely undermined by the breakup of his band, Hard Core Logo, done in by changing times and fortunes. However, when he and the band are asked by a longtime fan to reunite for an environmental benefit, his passions are once again stirred, and he convinces his bandmates to turn the one-time reunion into an actual tour.

The book provides a fascinating, warts-and-all glimpse into the life and times of a rock band, and the dichotomy between the grim realities of life on the road, and the rock’n’roll spirit that inspired them in the first place.

Hard Core Logo was made into a feature film by director Bruce McDonald, debuting at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 to rave reviews. Hard Core Logo has also been adapted for radio; a stage version will debut in Vancouver in 2010.

This latest printing features a brand-new cover.

A bitterly enjoyable and humorously hard-edged insider’s look into the music industry—a rollicking glimpse between the liner notes.

—Toronto Star So authentic that it practically gives off feedback.

—NOW

Michael Turner Michael Turner’s first book, Company Town, was nominated for the 1992 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His second book, the novel Hard Core Logo, was made into an acclaimed feature film, for which Turner received a Genie Award for his contribution to the movie’s soundtrack.

His screenplay-cum-novel, American Whiskey Bar, was produced as a live television special on CityTV in 1998. In 2000 he received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for The Pornographer’s Poem. His latest work of fiction, 8x10, was published in the fall of 2009 by Doubleday Canada. Turner lives in Vancouver.

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

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

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In the ten years since How It All Vegan! was first published, however, veganism has “come out of the closet,” and is now considered a legitimate diet and lifestyle not only for those wishing to improve their health, but also those who care deeply about the welfare of animals. The tenth-anniversary edition includes new recipes, as well as updates and advice that better reflect the new vegan reality; it also includes a colour photo section and a new introduction by co-author Sarah Kramer, who speaks personally and passionately about the impact of veganism on her life over the past decade.

over 100,000 copies sold 2003 and 2004 veggie award: 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 isbn 978-1-55152-253-1 $24.95 | $22.95 us original edition isbn 978-1-55152-067-4 $22.95 | $20.95

LA DOLCE VEGAN!

THE GARDEN OF VEGAN

Vegan Livin’ Made Easy Sarah Kramer

How It All Vegan Again!

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

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

—vegsource.com

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

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

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

—vegsource.com

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

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

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EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN

VEGAN À GO-GO!

A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road

Everyday Recipes Worth Celebrating

Sarah Kramer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VIVE LE VEGAN!

THE EVERYDAY VEGAN

Dreena Burton

Dreena Burton

Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family

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

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

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

—VegNews

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

Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life

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

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

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

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

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

THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL

GET IT RIPE

A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking & Living jae steele

Natasha Kyssa

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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.

Get It Ripe is a vegan cookbook for the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on holistic living and whole food (i.e. unprocessed and unrefined) ingredients. jae steele is a registered holistic nutritionist; she has also been a professional vegan baker, and worked on organic farms on both the east and west coasts of Canada. Her life experiences, and her love of vegan whole foods, are at the heart of Get It Ripe, which not only features uncomplicated yet delicious animal-free recipes, but advice and information on various aspects of holistic vegan living, including special diets (all recipes are wheat-free), simple steps for cleansing and detoxing, information on ethical consumerism, and the connections among mind, body, and spirit. By the author of Ripe From Around Here (page 1).

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

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

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

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

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

THE MODERN AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK

NEW WORLD PROVENCE

Amrita Sondhi

Alessandra and Jean-Francis Quaglia

Modern French Cooking for Friends and Family

Healthful, Healing Recipes for Life

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

third printing shortlisted for a nautilus book award amrita sondhi is host of “the ayurvedic way” on one: the body, mind & spirit channel Includes a cornucopia of nourishing recipes that are in tune with nature and one’s body.

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

—Curve

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

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

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

—Epicurean Classic blog

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

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

AS FRESH AS IT GETS

Everyday Recipes from the Tomato Fresh Food Café

WHERE PEOPLE FEAST

An Indigenous People’s Cookbook Dolly and Annie Watts

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

second printing bronze winner, independent publisher award shortlisted for a cuisine canada award The authors open the door to making food that’s wholesome, simple, and inventive.

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

—Montreal Gazette

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

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

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

second printing winner, world gourmand award, local cuisine (canada) A chapter on smoking and preserving offers a closer historical look at indigenous culinary traditions. As one of the few titles on the topic, the Watts’ book is recommended.

—Library Journal

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.

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

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

—Quill & Quire

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

—Canadian Living

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

—Saturday Night

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

—Toronto Star

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

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

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cooking

Christian Gaudreault & Star Spilos

Vancouver special

OUT OF THE DARKNESS Teens Talk About Suicide

Charlie Demers

Marion Crook

nonfiction

In Vancouver Special, 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.

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, and an examination of the history of teen suicide in Western and other cultures, as well as what roles parents and schools can play in suicide prevention. A book for both teens and adults that breaks the silence surrounding teen suicide, offering hope for those who think there is none.

fall 2009 release

second printing

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

sociology / parenting (teens) isbn 978-1-55152-141-5 $21.95 | us$18.95

THE GEIST ATLAS OF CANADA

COMFORT FOOD FOR BREAKUPS

Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies

The Memoir of a Hungry Girl Marusya Bociurkiw

Melissa Edwards 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.

Remarkable.… The Geist Atlas of Canada is filled with astonishingly detailed (and just plain astonishing) maps. —Brian Bethune, Maclean’s

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

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

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

ANARCHY AND ART

ONLY A BEGINNING

From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

An Anarchist Anthology Allan Antliff

Allan Antliff The first comprehensive overview of anarchist theory and practice in Canada, documenting over a quarter-century of activism, edited by the author of Anarchy and Art (opposite).

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

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

—Midwest Book Review Antliff’s research has yielded a new theoretical insight into a genre not often considered. —Bookforum

Without a documentary history of anarchist organizations, theoretical developments, and activism we cannot build an effective movement. Only a Beginning saves us from this fate.

—Ann Hansen, Direct Action

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

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

THE GREENPEACE TO AMCHITKA

ICE AND FIRE

Dispatches From the New World Stephen Osborne

An Environmental Odyssey

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

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

winner, george ryga award for social awareness roderick haig-brown book prize finalist Hunter’s Homeric ode to confused and argumentative hippies on the high seas makes fresh and crazy reading. His style is positively feverish.

—Globe and Mail environment / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-178-7 $24.95 | $19.95 us

Beautiful and sincere.

—Georgia Straight

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

CARRY TIGER TO MOUNTAIN

THE COMPANY OF OTHERS

Stephen Legault

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

The Tao of Activism and Leadership

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

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

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

NATIONAL DREAMS

Myth, Memory, & Canadian History Daniel Francis

Stories of Belonging

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

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

LD

Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver Daniel Francis

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

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

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

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

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

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nonfiction

Robert Hunter

ONE THOUSAND BEARDS

SPREE

Allan Peterkin

Pamela Klaffke

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 (page 4).

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

A Cultural History of Facial Hair

A Cultural History of Shopping

nonfiction

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

—Maclean’s

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

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

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

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

DREAMING IN THE RAIN

THE BALD-HEADED HERMIT AND THE ARTICHOKE

How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest David Spaner

An Erotic Thesaurus

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

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

—Hollywood Reporter

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

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

—Quill & Quire

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

sexuality/humour isbn 978-1-55152-063-6 $18.95 | $14.95 us

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

I, SHITHEAD

The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla

A Life in Punk Joey Keithley

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

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

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

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

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

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biography / music isbn 978-1-55152-148-0 $21.95 | $17.95 us

THE IMAGINARY INDIAN

The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

STONEY CREEK WOMAN 10th Anniversary Edition Bridget Moran

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUDGEMENT AT STONEY CREEK New Edition

Bridget Moran

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

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

third printing

second printing

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

—Books In Canada

A solid addition to the historical record.

—BCLA Reporter

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

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RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL

A LITTLE REBELLION

Surviving the Indian Residential School

Bridget Moran

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

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

fourth printing

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

biography / aboriginal studies isbn 978-0-88978-252-5 $14.95 | $12.95 us

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aboriginal studies

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

POLAROIDS

Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris

arts, graphics & culture

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 is the first book to document the work of this important artist from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-colour Polaroid images (twelve per page) taken by Lukacs over the past twenty years as core 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: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris is a remarkable visual and written document on Lukacs, one of Canada’s greatest painters working today, and his unique collaboration with Morris, a hugely important artist in his own right.

postponed from fall 2009 available february 2010 visual arts / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-295-1 $49.95 | $44.95 us

TO THE DOGS

VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES

Peter Culley

The historical and contemporary photographers of To the Dogs observe the humancanine connection in ways alternately surprising, endearing, disturbing, and beautiful. In the accompanying essay, poet Peter Culley explores how our most loyal companions can tell us more about ourselves than we might care to admit. To the Dogs, published in hardcover, features 150 full-page photographs, including fifty in colour. Co-published by Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver.

A beautifully written meditation on dogs and humans and their interconnectedness through the ages.

—The Globe and Mail A lyrical exploration of the complex relationship between man and dog. —Montreal Gazette

Melanie O’Brian (editor) An ambitious cross-disciplinary study of art and artists in Vancouver, Vancouver Art & Economies situates the city at the centre of one of the world’s most intriguing visual arts scenes, and the political, geographic, institutional, and cultural influences which shape it. Colour and black-and-white images throughout. The book features essays by Clint Burnham, Randy Lee Cutler, Tim Lee, Sadira Rodrigues, Marina Roy, Sharla Sava, Reid Shier, Shepherd Steiner, and Michael Turner.

This anthology explores the development of contemporary art in Vancouver, covering its roots in the landscape tradition and the rise of the Vancouver School as well as the impact of cinematic and post-medium practices.”

—Canadian Art

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

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

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STAN DOUGLAS

OTHER CONUNDRUMS

Reid Shier (ed)

Monika Kin Gangon

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

city of vancouver book award cowinner second printing

Race, Culture, and Canadian Art

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

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

THE UNCANNY

Experiments in Cyborg Culture Bruce Grenville (ed)

visual art / art criticism isbn 978-1-55152-092-6 $21.95 | $18.95 us

A MODERN LIFE

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

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

award for outstanding publication, canadian museums association

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

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

—Vancouver Sun

award winner, international gallery of superb printing

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

visual art / design isbn 978-1-55152-171-8 $32.95 | $26.95 us

FACING HISTORY

Portraits From Vancouver

THE YELLOW PEAR Gu Xiong

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

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

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

visual art isbn 978-1-55152-046-9 $12.95 | $12.95 us

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arts, graphics & culture

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

YARN BOMBING

HOPE IN SHADOWS

The Art of Crochect and Knit Graffiti

Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain

Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome Yarn Bombing is the definitive guidebook to covert textile street art. This full-colour DIY book features twenty patterns, tips on how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture under cover of darkness, and interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers.

arts, graphics & culture

second printing fall 2009 release excerpted in the national post Yarn Bombing deserves a place on any hip crafter’s bookshelf.

—Debbie Stoller, author of Stitch ‘n Bitch

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

city of vancouver book award winner haig-brown regional prize finalist

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

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

FAME US

ONE RING CIRCUS

Brian Howell

Brian Howell

Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues

Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame

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

One of the eeriest photography books of 2007.

—New York Times

Disco Fury. Wrathchild. Bam-Bam Bambi.

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

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

Howell brilliantly captures the essence of wrestling.

—Maclean’s photography / sports isbn 978-1-55152-132-9 $19.95 | $16.95 us

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

WHERE FIRE SPEAKS

WHAT’S WRONG?

A Visit With the Himba

Explicit Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship

David Campion (photos) & Sandra Shields (text)

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

By the authors of The Company of Others.

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

a fundraiser for little sister’s defense fund

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

—Publishers Weekly

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

A crazy quilt of sexy, kinky, skilled graphic art. —Xtra! graphic literature/comics isbn 978-1-55152-136-7 $21.95 | $16.95 us

also available: What Right? 978-1-55152-137-4 l $21.95 / $16.95 us

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

the unknown city

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

OTTAWA

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

VICTORIA

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

SAN FRANCISCO The Unknown City

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

NEW YORK

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

TORONTO

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

VANCOUVER

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

MONTREAL

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

CALGARY

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

EDMONTON Secrets of the City

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

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MACHO SLUTS

THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB

Patrick Califia, introduction by Wendy Chapkis

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, introduction by Sharon G. Feldman

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.

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

fall 2009 release Califia’s stories are intriguing, erotic, exhilarating, and unnerving. The sheer power of Macho Sluts is undeniable.

—Bay Area Reporter

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

—New York Times Book Review

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-260-9 $19.95 | $17.95 us

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WHISPER THEIR LOVE

FINISTÈRE

Valerie Taylor, introduction by Barbara Grier

Fritz Peters, introduction by Michael Bronski

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

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

—New York Times (1951)

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

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

EMPATHY

BLACKBIRD

Sarah Schulman, introduction by Kevin Killian

Larry Duplechan, introduction by Michael Nava

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 (page 26), The Child (page 27) and Rat Bohemia (page 27).

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 recent 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

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

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PATIENCE & SARAH Isabel Miller, introduction by Emma Donoghue

FRANNY, THE QUEEN OF PROVINCETOWN 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

SONG OF THE LOON Richard Amory, introduction by Michael Bronski

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

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

—Bay Area Reporter

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-181-7 $21.95 | $16.95 us

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

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

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

AMERICAN HUNKS

The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970

GAY ART

A Historic Collection Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas Waugh

David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic A fascinating collection of images (many in full colour) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture.

fall 2009 release excerpted on out.com Starting with the post-Civil War health craze that made names like Graham (of the cracker), Post and Kellogg (they, of cereal) household names, just the first few daguerrotypes of muscle men is worth the price of this book alone.

—EDGE Publications (Boston, Chicago, etc.) gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-256-2 $32.95 | $29.95 us

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

silver winner, foreword book of the year award bronze winner, independent publisher award Essential reading for anyone interested in gay graphics, gay history, in the cultural history of the 1960s and 70s.

—Inches Magazine gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-205-0 $29.95 | $24.95 us

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gay & lesbian

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

LUST UNEARTHED

OUT / LINES

Thomas Waugh, with Willie Walker

Thomas Waugh

Vintage Gay Graphics From the DuBek Collection

Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall

gay & lesbian

Lust Unearthed presents over 200, neverbefore-published explicit gay male images from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, from a period when such material was rare and indeed illegal. Gay porn for the thinking man, Lust Unearthed will beguile and arouse.

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

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

lambda literary award finalist over 8,000 copies sold second printing A great book. —Lambda Book Report

Historically significant. —Out gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-165-7 $29.95 | $26.95 us

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

the DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA

THE VIEW FROM HERE

Conversations with Gay & Lesbian Filmmakers

A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

Matthew Hays

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

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

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

lambda literary award winner

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

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

queersexlife

PETER FLINSCH

Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity

The Body in Question Ross Higgins

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

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

—Outlooks

Evocative of writers Patrick Califia-Rice 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 24).

An important contribution to queer theory.

—Feminist News

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

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The nearest exit may be behind you

i like it like that

S. Bear Bergman

Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (eds)

An irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating collection of essays on gender and identity. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt while offering unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the “official stories” about how gender and sexuality work.

Intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men’s desire: these stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life. Contributors include Daniel Allen Cox, Larry Duplechan, Sky Gilbert, Tim Miller, and Andy Quan.

fall 2009 release Hot but smart, passionate yet reflective.

—Xtra!

A book that will be cherished by generations of queer youth and adults alike. —Kate Bornstein lesbian nonfiction / essays isbn 978-1-55152-264-7 $19.95 | $18.95 us

second PERSON QUEER Who you are (so far)

gay nonfiction / erotica / anthologies isbn 978-155152-259-3 $18.95 | $16.95 us

FIRST PERSON QUEER Who we are (so far)

Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (eds) Richard Labonté and 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.

These diverse essays are shocking and hilarious, and always relevant.

—Fugues

gay & lesbian nonfiction / anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-245-6 $19.95 | $18.95 us

COMIN’ AT YA!

The Homoerotic 3-d Photographs of Denny Denfield David L. Chapman and Thomas Waugh An amazing collection of fullcolour, sexually explicit 3-D photographs of men taken in the early 1950s by Denny Denfield, an amateur physique photographer in California. By the co-author of American Hunks (page 21).

What’s really fun and fascinating are the vintage pictures from the ‘50s

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

—HX Magazine (New York)

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

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.

lambda award winner independent publisher award winner

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

FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

Tales of Fear and Queer Desire Amber Dawn (editor) Fist of the Spider Woman is a revelatory anthology of horror stories by queer and transgressive women and others that disrupts reality as queer women know it, instilling both fear and arousal while turning traditional horror iconography on its head.

Dawn is the author of Sub Rosa (page 6).

Fist of the Spider Woman is a brave, bold, eye-opening book.

—Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor, Best Sex Writing 2009

lesbian fiction / horror anthologies isbn 978-1-55152-251-7 $18.95 | $17.95 us

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fall 2009 release

True Stories of Gay Male Desire

ROY & AL

THE FUTURE IS QUEER A Science Fiction Anthology

Ralf König

Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel (eds)

gay & lesbian

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

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

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

What does the future hold for gays, lesbians, and transgenders? In this anthology, provocative stories and comics posit a queer future of limitless possibilities. Labonté and Schimel also edited First Person Queer and Second Person Queer (page 23).

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

OUTBURSTS!

LET ME KISS IT BETTER

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus

Elixirs for the Not So Straight and Narrow

A.D. Peterkin

Billeh Nickerson A.D. Peterkin, author of One Thousand Beards and The Bald-Headed Hermit & The Artichoke (both page 14), 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. By the co-author of The Bearded Gentleman. … a perversely potent queer erotic thesaurus. This is a fun book, but it can also be seen as a historical document. This is the evidence of queer sexual history. —Trade: Queer Things

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

gay & lesbian nonfiction isbn 978-1-55152-151-0 $19.95 | $16.95 us

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

THE RICE QUEEN DIARIES

IN A QUEER COUNTRY

A Memoir

Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context

Daniel Gawthrop

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

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

foreword magazine book of the year award finalist

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured. In a Queer Country, edited by the author of queersexlife (page 22), is a formative collection of fourteen essays from established and emerging writers on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada.

lambda literary award finalist

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

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

WITH A ROUGH TONGUE Femmes Write Porn

Amber Dawn & Trish Kelly (eds)

I AM A RED DRESS

Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

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

—Bust

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

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

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

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

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

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

QUEER FEAR II

BRAZEN FEMME

Michael Rowe (ed)

Brushwood Rose & Camilleri (eds)

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

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

Gay Horror Fiction

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

lambda literary award winner

Queering Femininity

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

—Herizons

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

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

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

HOT & BOTHERED

QUICKIES

Karen X. Tulchinsky (ed)

James C. Johnstone (ed)

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

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

Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

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

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

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

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

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

LAW OF DESIRE

Arsenal Pulp Press is pleased to announce the launch of Queer Film Classics, an ambitious new film book series that launched in the fall of 2009 and unspool at the rate of three books per year until 2015. The series will cover twentyone of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people, made in eight different countries between 1950 and 2005. More than twenty-one leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics are already writing their books.

José Quiroga

queer film classics / fiction

The 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 Pedro Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.

The series is edited by two of Canada’s leading queer film critics, Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, both Arsenal Pulp authors and affiliated with Concordia University in Montreal.

“We’re elated with the amazing quality of the contributors and the fascinating variety of the films which will be part of the series,” Hays says. “I know this will make a terrific contribution not only to the burgeoning field of queer film studies but also to moving images culture as a whole.”

fall 2009 release

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

GODS AND MONSTERS

TRASH

Noah Tsika

Jon Davies

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.

It also delves into a history of gay Hollywood during this era, including both its homophobic surface and its queer underpinnings.

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 a special focus on Holly Woodlawn’s acclaimed performance: a glorious embodiment of “trash” and glamour that was so stunning, George Cukor led an ultimately unsuccesful campaign to win her an Oscar nomination.

fall 2009 release

fall 2009 release

gay & lesbian / film isbn 978-1-55152-263-0 $15.95 | $14.95 us

gay & lesbian / film isbn 978-1-55152-261-6 $15.95 | $14.95 us

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—literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy—Schulman invents a literature that reflects the lives we live right now, while being funny, sexy, and open-hearted. Schulman is also the author of Empathy (page 20), The Child (page 27), and Rat Bohemia (page 27).

fall 2009 release 2009 kessler award winner fiction isbn 978-1-55152-257-9 $24.95 | $22.95 us

In this dystopic, hell-ride of a novel, Sarah Schulman, New York’s legendary poet-maudit, is grappling with something that matters.

The Mere Future is a rare combination of brains and humour, by turns enlightened and terrifying.

—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City In the latter part of the 20th century, Sarah Schulman was the American novelist who wrote scorching dispatches from the front about the AIDS epidemic. A formidable Swiftian, she continues to lampoon the absurdity of our mores and the world we live in. But Schulman’s calm, measured voice in The Mere Future is startlingly new—prophetic, wise and true.

—Jaime Manrique, author of Our Lives Are the Rivers Clever word craft, poetic political satire and biting humor on every page.

—Publishers Weekly

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THE CHILD

RAT BOHEMIA

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

Schulman is also the author of The Mere Future (page 26).

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

One of the top 100 gay & lesbian novels of all time. —Publishing Triangle My surrender to Rat Bohemia is a testimonial to its gimlet-eyed accuracy, its zero-degree honesty…. [It blows] the traditional novel off its hinges. —Edmund White, New York Times Book Review

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

THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE David N. Odhiambo

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

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

SOUCOUYANT David Chariandy

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

finalist, governor general’s literary award third printing longlisted, scotiabank giller prize longlisted, impac dublin literary award A haunting coming-of-age story. —Publishers Weekly

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-242-5 $17.95 | $17.95 us

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WHEN FOX IS A THOUSAND

VENOUS HUM

Larissa Lai

A fox spirit comes to haunt a young woman living in Vancouver, bringing the history of another haunting, that of the T’ang Dynasty poet Yu Hsuan-Chi. One part history, one part fairytale, one part urban discontent, this delightful novel cracks open all preconceptions of Asian women, gender, sexuality, family, faith, and the flow of time. Smart, funny, and fully-imagined, it is beautiful, enchanting, and composed with a sure narrative hand. By the author of Automaton Biographies (page 33).

A particularly acute pleasure.

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

Suzette Mayr

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

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

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

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Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman

the only thing I have

SMOKE SHOW

Unsettling, evocatively-written stories about life unfolding in unpredictable ways.

Waterfall’s characters are noble in the face of heartache, and human amidst the surreal darkness and light.

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

Rhonda Waterfall

Clint Burnham

fiction

fall 2009 release 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

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

—Globe and Mail

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-293-7 $19.95 | $17.95 us

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SKIDS

ZED

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

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

Cathleen With

Elizabeth McClung

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

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

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

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AMERICAN WHISKEY BAR

STORIES TO HIDE FROM YOUR MOTHER

Michael Turner

Tess Fragoulis 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 (page 7).

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

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

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

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

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second printing

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

SHUCK

GOT ’TIL IT’S GONE

Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler trying to manage his reputation as the city’s porn star du jour when he’s not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published.

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.

Larry Duplechan

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

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

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

MANBUG

RANDOM ACTS OF HATRED

George K. Ilsley

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

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

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

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

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

FLAT

THE AGE OF CITIES

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

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

Mark Macdonald

Brett Josef Grubisic

city of vancouver book award finalist

second printing An unapologetic work of art. —Lambda Book Review Uncanny … with a deadpan worthy of Kafka, and the eye of a satellite camera.… —Lambda Book Report fiction isbn 978-1-55152-090-2 $14.95 | $11.95 us Also available: Home, 978-1-55152-110-7; $15.95, $12.95 us

A beautifully realized story. —Gay & Lesbian Review

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

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Daniel Allen Cox

SCRAPBOOK OF MY YEARS AS A ZEALOT

THE SLOW FIX Ivan E. Coyote

Nicole Markotic´

fiction

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

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

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

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

second printing lambda literary award finalist

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

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BOW GRIP

LOOSE END

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

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

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

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

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

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

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ONE MAN’S TRASH

CLOSE TO SPIDER MAN

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

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

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

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

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

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

—Toronto Star

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

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

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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 late 1800s to present day.

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

fall 2009 release A heady blend of subtle, tricksterish wit and trenchant social commentary.

—Nalo Hopkinson, author of The Salt Roads

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 978-1-55152-258-6 $27.95 | $24.95 us

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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.

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

—Quill & Quire fiction isbn 978-1-55152-157-2 $19.95 | $15.95 us

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

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

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Ashok Mathur

The Videographer

IN THE GARDEN OF MEN

A New York film school dropout falls into a job setting up spycams, porn shoots, and street fights for a shady underground video producer. The Videographer is a satirical and fast-moving look at the con-runners, lost souls, web-addled stunt junkies, and open hearted dreamers of the digital generation.

3-day novel contest winner

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.

fall 2009 release

3-day novel contest winner

Jason Rapczynski

John Kupferschmidt

fiction

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

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

THE CONVICTIONS OF LEONARD MCKINLEY

BLUESPRINT

Black British Columbian Literature and Orature

Brendan McLeod

Wayde Compton (ed)

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

3-day novel contest winner

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

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

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

DESILICIOUS

THE EMBROIDERED COUCH

Sexy. Subversive. South Asian.

Masala Trois Collective (eds)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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McPoems

AUtomaton biographies

Billeh Nickerson

fall 2009 release Incisive and very funny … [These poems] are the field notes of an average teenage employee, hastily scribbled on napkins during a coffee break so the ridiculousness of it all won’t be forgotten … The end result feels suitably authentic and lived-in. —See Magazine poetry isbn 978-1-55152-265-4 $15.95 | $13.95 us

With an ear to the fizz of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and cereal packaging, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. By the author of When Fox is a Thousand (page 27).

fall 2009 release 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 and 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, Let Me Kiss It Better (page 24) and co-editor of Seminal.

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

poetry / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-088-9 $14.95 | $11.95 us

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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 Performance Bond (above).

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

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

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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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978-1-55152-072-8

16.95

Queer View Mirror

19.95

Turner

978-1-55152-159-6

19.95

Johnstone & Tulchinsky (eds)

978-1-55152-026-1

American Whiskey Bar (p.28) and a body to remember ...

Rodríguez

978-1-55152-044-5

15.95

Queer View Mirror 2

Johnstone & Tulchinsky (eds)

978-1-55152-039-1

19.95

Blackbird (p.20)

Duplechan

978-1-55152-202-9

19.95

Quickies (p.25)

Johnstone (ed)

978-1-55152-052-0

16.95

Bloodknots

Brodoff

978-1-55152-182-4

21.95

Quickies 2 (p.25)

Johnstone (ed)

978-1-55152-069-8

17.95

Bluesprint (p.32)

Compton (ed)

978-1-55152-118-3

24.95

Quickies 3 (p.25)

Johnstone (ed)

978-1-55152-144-2

19.95

Bow Grip (p.30)

Coyote

978-1-55152-213-5

19.95

Quixotic Erotic

Kobayashi

978-1-55152-139-8

19.95

Carnal Nation

Brooks & Grubisic (eds)

978-1-55152-083-4

21.95

Random Acts of Hatred (p.29)

Ilsley

978-1-55152-152-7

19.95

Carnivorous Lamb, The (p.20)

Gómez-Arcos

978-1-55152-230-2

Rat Bohemia (p.27)

Schulman

978-1-55152-235-7

17.95

Child, The (p.27)

Schulman

978-1-55152-243-2

17.95

Red Light

Camilleri (ed)

978-1-55152-184-8

22.95

Close to Spider Man (p.30)

Coyote

978-1-55152-086-5

14.95

Reverend’s Apprentice, (p.27)

Odhiambo

978-1-55152-242-5

17.95

Contra/Diction

Grubisic (ed)

978-1-55152-056-8

18.95

Roy & Al (p.24)

König

978-1-55152-206-7

14.95

Convictions of Leonard ... (p.32)

McLeod

978-1-55152-222-7

14.95

Scrapbook of My Years … (p.30)

Markotic´

978-1-55152-248-7

19.95

Crimeways

McBride & Licht (eds)

978-1-55152-173-2

17.95

Shades

Walmsley

978-0-88978-254-9

13.95

Day Shift Werewolf

Underwood

978-1-55152-208-1

14.95

Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, The (p.31)

Mathur

978-1-55152-113-8

19.95

Death Writes

Quaife

978-1-55152-038-4

11.95

Shuck (p.29)

Cox

978-1-55152-246-3

16.95

Desilicious (p.32)

Masala Trois Collective

978-1-55152-154-1

21.95

Silence Descends

Case

978-1-55152-041-4

11.95

Dog Years

Denisoff

978-0-88978-234-1

11.95

Skids (p.28)

With

978-1-55152-215-9

19.95

Embroidered Couch (p.32)

Tianchen, Hu (trans)

978-1-55152-101-5

16.95

Slow Fix, The (p.30)

Coyote

978-1-55152-247-0

18.95

Empathy (p.20)

Schulman

978-1-55152-201-2

19.95

Smoke Show (p.28)

Burnham

978-1-55152-196-1

18.95

Everything But the Truth

McPherson

978-1-55152-035-3

14.95

So Long Been Dreaming (p.31)

978-1-55152-158-9

24.95

Finistère (p.20)

Peters

978-1-55152-211-1

22.95

Hopkinson & Mehan (eds)

Fist of the Spider Woman (p.23)

Dawn (ed.)

978-1-55152-251-7

18.95

Song of the Loon (p.21)

Amory

978-1-55152-180-0

21.95

Flat (p.29)

Macdonald

978-1-55152-090-2

14.95

Soucouyant (p.27)

Chariandy

978-1-55152-226-5

19.95

Flesh Wounds & Purple Flowers

Ibañez-Carrasco

978-1-55152-098-8

17.95

Stories to Hide (p.28)

Fragoulis

978-1-55152-045-2

18.95

Franny, the Queen … (p.21)

Preston

978-1-55152-190-9

17.95

Sub Rosa

Dawn

978-1-55152-361-3

22.95

Future is Queer, The (p.24)

Labonté & Schimel

978-1-55152-209-8

22.95

Time of the Kingfishers

Watmough

978-1-55152-008-7

14.95

Futureways

McBride & Rubsamen (eds)

978-1-55152-172-5

17.95

Universal Recipients

Bath

978-1-55152-142-8

19.95

Venous Hum (p.27)

Mayr

978-1-55152-170-1

21.95

Ghost of Understanding, The

Smith

978-1-55152-050-6

14.95

The Videographer (p,32)

Rapczynski

978-1-55152-252-4

14.95

Got ’til it’s Gone

Duplechan

978-1-55152-244-9

17.95

Watermelon Row

Holmes

978-1-55152-080-3

19.95

Grey

MacDonald

978-1-55152-109-1

18.95

When Fox is a Thousand (p.27)

Lai

978-1-55152-168-8

21.95

Hard Core Logo (p.7)

Turner

978-1-55152-341-5

17.95

When X Equals Marylou

Dobozy

978-1-55152-133-6

19.95

Heartways

McBride & Cosgrove (eds)

978-1-55152-160-2

17.95

Whisper Their Love (p.20)

Taylor

978-1-55152-210-4

19.95

Home

Macdonald

978-1-55152-110-7

15.95

With a Rough Tongue (p.25)

Dawn & Kelly

978-1-55152-193-0

21.95

Hopeful Monsters (p.31)

Goto

978-1-55152-157-2

19.95

Young in One Another’s Arms, The (p.21)

Rule

978-1-55152-181-7

21.95

Hot & Bothered (p.25)

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-051-3

17.95

Zed (p.28)

McClung

978-1-55152-197-8

22.95

Hot & Bothered 2 (p.25)

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-068-1

18.95

Hot & Bothered 3 (p.25)

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-102-2

18.95

Poetry

Hot & Bothered 4 (p.25)

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-145-9

19.95

49th Parallel Psalm (p.33)

Compton

978-1-55152-065-0

18.95

Hunting with Diana

Watmough

978-1-55152-032-2

16.95

Archive For Our Times

Livesay

978-1-55152-059-9

19.95

In the Garden of Men (p.32)

Kupferschmidt

978-1-55152-239-5

14.95

Argento Series

Killian

978-1-928650-10-2

15.95

In the Inner Quarters

Menchu Ling, Hu

978-1-55152-134-3

20.95

Asthmatic Glassblower (p.33)

Nickerson

978-1-55152-088-9

14.95

Jane

MacDonald

978-1-55152-064-3

15.95

Automaton Biographies (p.33)

Lai

978-1-55152-292-0

19.95

Kid Stuff

Walmsley

978-1-55152-153-4

24.95

Between Lovers

Wilson

978-1-55152-124-4

15.95

Kuroshio (p.31)

Watada

978-1-55152-233-3

21.95

Company Town

Turner

978-0-88978-235-8

10.95

Last Pentacle of the Sun, The

Anderson & Savory (eds)

978-1-55152-162-6

19.95

Girl’s Guide to Giving Head

Wilson

978-1-55152-031-5

14.95

Little Distillery in Nowgong, The (p.31)

Mathur

978-1-55152-258-6

27.95

Hammer & Tongs

Cran (ed)

978-1-894442-00-8

14.95

Hundred Block Rock

Osborn

978-1-55152-074-2

14.95

Loose End (p.30)

Coyote

978-1-55152-192-3

17.95

Kingsway

Turner

978-1-55152-028-5

10.95

Love Block

Austin & Mullally

978-1-55152-194-7

14.95

McPoems (p.33)

Nickerson

978-1-55152-265-4

15.95

Macho Sluts (p.20)

Califia

978-1-55152-260-9

19.95

Ogress Oblige

Lusk

978-1-928650-11-9

14.95

ManBug (p.29)

Ilsley

978-1-55152-203-6

19.95

Performance Bond (p.33)

Compton

978-1-55152-164-0

22.95

Mere Future, The (p.26)

Schulman

978-1-55152-257-9

24.95

Pulse

Pal

978-1-55152-130-5

15.95

Missouri (p.5)

Wunnicke

978-1-55152

Ragas From the Periphery

Dulai

978-1-55152-021-6

12.95

Myways

McBride & Gray (eds)

978-1-55152-198-5

17.95

Seminal (p.33)

Barton & Nickerson (eds)

978-1-55152-217-3

24.95

Once Upon an Elephant (p.31)

Mathur

978-1-55152-058-2

19.95

Somewhere Running

Stephens

978-1-55152-089-6

13.95

One Man’s Trash (p.30)

Coyote

978-1-55152-120-6

16.95

Swallowing Clouds

Quan & Wong-Chu (eds)

978-1-55152-073-5

21.95

Only Thing I Have, The (p.28)

Waterfall

978-1-55152-293-7

19.95

Sweet Taste of Lightning, The

Wilson

978-1-55152-060-5

12.95

Patience & Sarah (p.21)

Miller

978-1-55152-191-6

21.95

Tender Agencies

Denisoff

978-1-55152-012-4

12.95

Queer Fear

Rowe (ed)

978-1-55152-084-1

23.95

Why I Sing the Blues

Zwicky & Cran (eds)

978-1-894442-01-5

19.95

19.95

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Queer Fear II (p.25)

Age of Cities, The (p.29)

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