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 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. 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
men’s health (grooming) hea003000 / ref015000 pub month: may
spring 2010
The Bearded Gentleman is an entertaining, witty, and useful guide to facial hair styles and the men who wear them. Allan Peterkin and Nick Burns have come to the rescue of men everywhere! At once funny and incredibly informative, The Bearded Gentleman waxes poetic about facial hair and saves the modern man from overgrown embarrassment. From tips on eyebrows to laser hair removal and the perfect shaving kit, the authors leave no stone unturned. Here is a book that should be issued to every man in America. —Casey Gillespie, Editor in Chief, ZINK Magazine A must for every man with a beard or the man planning to grow one! —Phil Olsen, Beard Team USA
A lavish book on the art of Attila Richard Lukacs.
Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris
A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press, Presentation House Gallery of North Vancouver, and the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, this will be the first book to document the work of this important artist from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-colour Polaroid images (twelve per page) taken by Lukacs over the past twenty years as core referents for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator Michael Morris. Lukacs regularly uses a Polaroid camera as part of his artistic process, using his friends and acquaintances in Berlin, New York, Vancouver, and elsewhere as models; taking advantage of the Polaroid’s unique characteristics, his painterly sensibility is evident in the rich hues and romantic sensuality of these photographs, which are strikingly similar to the paintings that resulted from them. The book will feature essays by award-winning author Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem); Scott Watson, director of the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver, and Vince Aletti, the American curator, critic, and journalist. Stunning and bold, Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris is a remarkable visual and written document on Lukacs, one of Canada’s greatest artists working today, and his unique collaboration with Morris, a hugely important artist in his own right.
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Attila Richard Lukacs is one of Canada’s most talented and controversial contemporary artists. He is bestknown for his epic paintings that depict masculine, homoerotic imagery, featuring figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets. His work has been exhibited at documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Cologne, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, among others; he has also had numerous shows, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris Attila Richard Lukacs was born in Calgary in 1962. A graduate of Vancouver’s Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, he was a member of the renowned “Young Romantics” art group in the 1980s. He spent many years in Berlin and New York before relocating to Vancouver. He is the subject of the 2004 feature documentary film Drawing Out the Demons. Michael Morris was born in 1942 in Saltdean, UK. As an artist with Vincent Trasov, Morris developed Image Bank, which later became known as the Morris/Trasov Archive. His artwork is housed in such institutions as the National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of Modern Art. He splits his time between Vancouver and Victoria.
isbn 978-1-55152-295-1 12.5 x 16.5 | 176 pp | cloth $44.95 canada / nyp us 1,200 colour photos
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visual arts / gay men’s art015040 pub month: april
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
fiction / gay men’s
5.5 x 8 | 128 pp | paper
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$14.95 canada / $12.95 us
pub month: may
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Beautifully written stories of heartache and redemption.
new release
THE ONLY THING I HAVE
A new and daring voice, Rhonda Waterfall writes with clarity about the simple, utter truths in human relationships: the small yet essential things that could change our lives if only we let them. She introduces us to two contrasting worlds, one with the startling realism of everyday life and one where the world has been knocked askew. In the story “When You Are Gone,” a woman runs away from her domestic situation, holed up in a downtown hotel where she imagines a life away from her stagnant marriage. In “Shooting the Driver,” a young boy dreams of sailing to Alaska just before his arrest. There is Palma in “Moths,” who navigates her loneliness by becoming the mother to a swarm of moths. And in “Paul and the Girl,” a man comforts a young woman who is haunted by visions of planes crashing and buildings falling. In Rhonda Waterfall’s unsettling, evocatively written stories, life unfolds in odd, unpredictable ways: a murderous plot revealed through Post-It notes; a film director who will do anything to recapture his lost youth; an elderly woman who finds the love of a child in a marrow squash. Throughout, her characters are noble in the face of heartache, and human amidst the surreal darkness and light. Rhonda Waterfall has a true genius for narrative; her characters are everyday people who seem to lead everyday lives, but the everyday worlds that they inhabit (so like and unlike our own) are “complexified” by the strange turnings and obscure pitfalls of a unique, unrepeatable and remorseless reality. The stories in this book are highly addictive: read one and you have to read another one right away. —Stephen Osborne, Geist magazine
Rhonda Waterfall Rhonda Waterfall was born in 1973 in Ocean Falls, BC. She studied creative writing with the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. Her work has appeared in Geist, Descant, and several other literary journals. The Only Thing I Have is her first book. She currently lives and works in Vancouver.
isbn 978-1-55152-293-7
fiction / short stories
5.5 x 8 | 164 pp | paper
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$19.95 canada / nyp us
pub month: april
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Vancouver’s past, present, and future, in words and photographs.
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VANCOUVER SPECIAL
Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighbourhood in Canada; a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat; a savvy urban centre with an inferiority complex. In Vancouver Special, writer and performer Charles Demers examines the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Vancouver, shedding light on the various strategies and influences that have made the city what it is today (as well as what it should be). From a history of anti-Asian racism to a deconstruction of the city’s urban sprawl; from an examination of local food trends to a survey of the city’s politically radical past, Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight. The book also includes interviews with many of Vancouver’s unsung heroes, informational sidebars, and stand-up comedy excerpts, as well as numerous contemporary and historical photographs.
Charles Demers Charles Demers was born and raised in Vancouver. He is an activist and comedian, a regular performer on CBC Radio One’s The Debaters, and co-host of Citytv’s comedic panel show The Citynews List in Vancouver. In 2005, he was the judges’ choice for Vancouver ’s funniest new comic; since then he has been featured on national radio, in print, as well as in festivals and live venues across Canada and the Pacific Northwest and with Paul Bae as the sketch duo “Bucket”—the act Robin Williams called “the future of comedy.” His first novel, The Prescription Errors, will be published in fall 2009 by Insomniac Press.
isbn 978-1-55152-294-4
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5.5 x 8 | 224 pp | paper
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$22.95 canada / nyp us
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pub month: april
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The first solo poetry collection by novelist Larissa Lai.
new release
AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES
Automaton Biographies is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl). With an ear to the fizz of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, cereal packaging, MuchMusic, Sanrio, critical theory, science fiction, anti-racist organizing, rivers and streams, the Internet, and Hollywood, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. The book consists of four long poems: “Rachel,” a meditation in the voice of the cyborg figure Rachel from Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and its source material, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; “nascent fashion,” which addresses contemporary war and its excesses; “Ham,” which circulates around the chimpanzee named Ham sent up into space as part of the Mercury Redstone missions by NASA in the 1960s and later donated to the Coulston Foundation for biomedical research; and “auto matter,” a kind of unfolding autobiography told in poems. Ambitious, eloquent, and lushly imbued with life, these poems taken as a whole are a personal and cultural history, a moving testament to being in relation.
Larissa Lai
oh brother artful art thou searching for the how of our connection only to understand yourself
shelf shakespeared not stirred
by the alternate whirr
the in of intelligence
the sin in the pardon
my eden unbroken by the word made fodder
for reason’s treason
telltale heart beating in surrogate body
your innocent double as pocky’s horror
frank-n-furtive
the girl in the picture hearts
Larissa Lai is the author of the novels When Fox is a Thousand (page 35), Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen, 2002), Eggs in the Basement (Nomados, 2009), and co-author (with Rita Wong) of the poetry book sybil unrest (Line Books, 2009). Born in La Jolla, California, Lai grew up in St. John’s, NF, and currently lives in Vancouver, where she is an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at UBC. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, UK.
a fixture in the self-construction
of man made ham
—from “Ham”
isbn 978-1-55152-292-0
poetry
5.5 x 8 | 144 pp | paper
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$19.95 canada / nyp us
pub month: april
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