US FALL 2010

ARSENAL PULP PRESS

Fall 2010

Distributed by consortium

Arsenal Pulp Press’s top-10 essential stock list: How It All Vegan!, page 17, isbn 978- 1-55152-253-1 American Hunks, page 21, isbn 978-1-55152-256-2 Ripe from around Here, page 18, isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, page 19, isbn 978-1-55152-224-1 The Bearded Gentleman, page 33, isbn 978-1-55152-343-9 Yarn Bombing, page 30, isbn 978-1-55152-255-5 The Nearest Exit, page 23, isbn 978-1-55152-264-7 Macho Sluts, page 26, isbn 978-1-55152-260-9 La Dolce Vegan!, page 17, isbn 978-1-55152-187-9 Go Vegan! 2011 Wall Calendar, page 17, isbn 978-1-55152-342-2

A collection of Mediterranean-inspired recipes for delicious, heart-healthy meals that feature olive oil.

From the Olive Grove NEW RELEASE

Mediterranean Cooking with Olive Oil

The healthful virtues of olive oil, a key component of the Mediterranean diet, have become well-known in recent years; its monounsaturated fats and antioxidants are beneficial in preventing heart disease by controlling LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels while simultaneously raising HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels.

Helen Koutalianos has preached the gospel of olive oil and its benefits for years; at the same time, consumers across North America have become more sophisticated and appreciative of flavorful, boutique olive oils that are not mass produced. In this charming, intimate cookbook, Helen and her daughter Anastasia have collected 150 delectable, Mediterraneaninspired recipes (Greek and beyond), many of which have been passed along from Helen’s mother and grandmother, in which olive oil is a central ingredient; these include Olive Oil Poached Lamb, Quail with Olives, Turkish Kebab with Garlic, Shrimp and Feta Casserole, Octopus in Wine Sauce, Seared Scallop and Prawn Gazpacho, Artichokes with Lemon, and Kolikethakia Yemista (Stuffed Zucchinis with Lemon Egg Sauce).

The book also takes readers through the artisan olive oil-making process, from cultivating and processing the fruit to the production of the oil itself. Complemented with full-color photographs of recipes as well as photos of the olive farm in Greece, From the Olive Grove will seduce and inspire readers to create their own delicious, heart-healthy meals at home.

Helen & Anastasia Koutalianos Helen Koutalianos was a food columnist and Greek cooking instructor who now runs Basil Olive Oil Products (basiloliveoil.com) with her husband Basil; the company imports extra virgin olive oil from a grove in Greece that Basil’s family has owned for four generations. Anastasia is Helen Koutalianos’ daughter; she has worked in editing, book and magazine publishing, and historical research.

A lifelong foodie who was taught everything she knows about cooking from her mother, she is also a promotions and event planner.

isbn 978-1-55152-367-5

cooking

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A collection of traditional recipes that provide a fascinating glimpse into Native culture and customs.

A Feast for all Seasons Traditional Native Peoples’ Cuisine NEW RELEASE

Traditional North American Native peoples’ cuisine has existed for millenia, but its central tenets of respecting nature and its bounty have never been as timely as they are now. Andrew George Jr., of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Canada, is a well-respected aboriginal chef and instructor who has spent the last twenty-five years promoting the traditions of First Nations food. In A Feast for All Seasons, written with Robert Gairns, he has compiled Aboriginal recipes that feature ingredients from the land, sea, and sky, elements of an enduring cuisine that illustrate respect for the environment and its creatures, and acknowledgment of the spiritual power that food can have in our lives.

Andrew George Jr. with Robert Gairns Andrew George Jr. was most recently head chef at the Four Host First Nations pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics (the first games in which Indigenous peoples were recognized as official host partners by the IOC). He also participated at the World Culinary Olympics as part of the first all-Native team in the competition’s history.

The 120 recipes include delectable, make-athome dishes such as Salmon and Fiddlehead Stirfry, Stuffed Wild Duck, Barbecued Oysters, Pan-fried Rabbit with Wild Cranberry Glaze, Clam Fritters, and Wild Blueberry Cookies. The book also features recipes with exotic ingredients that provide a fascinating glimpse into the history of Native cuisine: Moose Chili, Boiled Porcupine, Smoked Beaver Meat, and Braised Bear.

This unique cookbook pays homage to an enduring food culture—grounded in tradition and the power of nature—that transcends the test of time.

isbn 978-1-55152-368-2 8 x 9 | 176 pp $21.95 paper b&w & color photos

cooking (american) ckb058000 pub month: september

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A visual history of female bodybuilders and other muscular women from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries.

Venus with biceps Over the last 100 years, the image of the physically strong, confident, muscular woman has been the object of derision, fascination, and erotic fantasy; she is often portrayed, in both photography and illustration, as a sexy dominatrix, sexless mannequin, or sideshow freak.

In this fascinating collection of rare archival images from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, authors David L. Chapman and Patricia Vertinsky trace the peculiar yet fascinating history of muscular women in popular culture.

One of the battlefields in this cultural conflict appeared in popular imagery: posters, advertisements, comic books, magazine illustrations, and (most particularly) photography all offered outlets of expression for many muscular women.

Until quite recently, however, such females were packaged for the general public as physical monstrosities, lesbian man-haters, kinky sex objects, or beautiful living statues. At the same time, many women, including those in the emerging female bodybuilder community, have had to fight hard to reclaim the image of female muscularity as their own.

Featuring some 200 full-color and black and white illustrations, many never before published, Venus with Biceps is a beautiful and historically significant book about gender, image, social expectations, and female power.

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David L. Chapman with Patricia Vertinsky David L. Chapman lives in Seattle and is the author of twelve books on male photography and bodybuilding, including American Hunks (page 21) and Comin’ at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3D Photographs of Denny Denfield (page 22). Patricia Vertinsky is a professor at the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia, specializing in the social and cultural history of the body.

She is the author or editor of four previous books on sports and gender.

isbn 978-1-55152-370-5

women’s studies /

8 x 10 | 256 pp

cultural studies

$27.95 paper

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color & b&w photos

pub month: october

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NEW RELEASE

A Pictorial History of Muscular Women

A critical reading of Jean Genet’s last 18 years, through his politics, writings, and personal experience.

The Last Genet NEW RELEASE

During the last eighteen years of his life (1968–86), Jean Genet was preoccupied with the struggles of the disenfranchised and displaced: among them, the Black Panthers, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Palestinians. Hadrien Laroche’s book is a careful philosophical and historical reading of acts and thoughts of various international political movements in the seventies and the eighties, and of Genet’s experiences and writings. It describes the adventures of a writer engaged with the “real world” as opposed to what he called “the grammatical world.”

Hadrien Laroche translated by David Homel Hadrien Laroche was born in Paris and is the author of three French-language novels. He completed his doctorate under Jacques Derrida, who considered him “one of the most talented and original thinkers of his generation.”

David Homel was born and raised in Chicago. He has been a journalist, editor, literary translator, and teacher, and has won numerous awards for translation, including the Governor General’s Award for Literature, Canada’s highest literary honor.

isbn 978-1-55152-365-1

biography

5.5 x 8.5 | 296 pp

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pub month: september

This translation of Le dernier Genet (Seuil) considers Genet’s insights, failures, and critique of humanism, and examines the way in which his energetic prose forged a new political, aesthetic, and philosophical relation between literature and the world. This is also the first book to address the issues of Genet’s relation to Israel, Jews, and anti-Semitism.

The Last Genet focuses on a critical moment in history, but also on questions of borders, language and identity, offering an alternative to Sartre’s concept of engagement and as such will be critically relevant to readers interested in the questions surrounding ethical and political writing today.

A beautiful book, painting the dark side of Jean Genet: those moments that are the most fascinating about a writer.

—Bernard-Henri Levy, Le Point

2010 is the 100th anniversary of jean genet’s birth

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A new edition of S. Bear Bergman’s first book, on what it means to be butch.

Butch is a noun NEW RELEASE

Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman, won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home. From girls’ clothes to men’s haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living life outside the gender binary.

This new edition includes a new introduction by the author.

Butch is a Noun is a book that a) should be required reading in any gender studies curriculum; b) femmes should read whenever they’re feeling unloved, lonely, or misunderstood; c) butches should read; d) all of the above. The answer, of course, is d. Thank you, dear Bear.

—Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw Bear’s poetry of butchness lets us see into facets of gender that usually aren’t so transparent.

And made me fall in love with butches all over again.

—Carol Queen, author of Real Live Nude Girl

S. Bear Bergman S. Bear Bergman, a frequent university and college lecturer on issues relating to gender and sexuality, is also the author of The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You (page 23).

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isbn 978-1-55152-369-9 6 x 9 | 192 pp $18.95 paper

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A visually stunning journey through 500 years of Indigenous peoples’ resistance.

The 500 Years of resistance Comic Book NEW RELEASE

A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous peoples’ 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 a far-reaching format.

Other events depicted include the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Inca insurgency in Peru from the 1500s to the 1780s; Pontiac and the 1763 Rebellion and Royal Proclamation; Geronimo and the 1860s Seminole Wars; Crazy Horse and the 1877 War on the Plains; the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s; 1973’s Wounded Knee; the Mohawk Oka Crisis in Quebec in 1990; and the 1995 Aazhoodena/ Stoney Point resistance.

Gord Hill Gord Hill, a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation in British Columbia, has been active in Indigenous resistance, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist movements since 1990.

He is also author of The 500 Years of Resistance, a pamphlet published by PM Press.

isbn 978-1-55152-360-6 7 x 10 | 80 pp $11.95 paper

graphic novel / native

With strong, plain language and evocative illustrations, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book documents the fighting spirit and ongoing resistance of Indigenous peoples through 500 years of genocide, massacres, torture, rape, displacement, and assimilation: a necessary antidote to the conventional history of the Americas.

Includes an introduction by activist Ward Churchill, leader of the American Indian Movement in Colorado, and a prolific writer on Indigenous resistance issues.

american studies cgn007000 pub month: october

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Ivan E. Coyote’s fifth collection of funny, wistful stories on gender and identity.

Missed Her

In her passionate and humorous new collection, Ivan takes readers on an intimate journey, both literal and figurative, through the experiences of her life: from her year spent in eastern Canada, to her return to the west coast, to travels inbetween. Whether discussing the politics of being a butch with a pet lapdog, or befriending an effeminate young man at a gay camp, or revisiting a forty-year-old heartbreak around her grandmother’s kitchen, Ivan traverses love, gender and identity with a wistful, perceptive eye and a warmth that’s as embracing and powerful as Ivan herself.

NEW RELEASE

Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller and performer; her beautiful, funny stories about growing up queer in the Canadian north and living out loud on Canada’s west coast have attracted big audiences whether gay, straight, or otherwise. Missed Her is Ivan’s fifth story collection, following 2008’s Lambda Literary Award-nominated The Slow Fix, 2004’s FerroGrumley Award-nominated Loose End, and 2006’s Bow Grip, her novel that was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association (now in development as a feature film).

Ivan E. Coyote Ivan E. Coyote is the author of four previous story collections and the novel Bow Grip (see pages 38 and 39).

Originally from the Yukon, she now lives in Vancouver.

Ivan E. Coyote, one of Canada’s smartest storytellers, displays her well known fondness for extended “identity” divagations and delightful discourses upon the ways in which her gender confounds those around her.

—The Globe and Mail Coyote applies a cool observer’s eye to both new destinations and the challenges related to her masculine appearance and identity.

—Curve

isbn 978-1-55152-371-2

fiction / lesbian

5.5 x 8.5 | 160 pp

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pub month: october

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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. She is the editor of Fist of the Spider Woman and coeditor of With a Rough Tongue (both page 25). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver.

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Amber Dawn’s Sub Rosa is a masterpiece of imagination. It’s haunting, chilling at points and then just so sweet. Her writing is stealthy and seductive, wise and witty and clever. Lock Mary Gaitskill in a closet with Francesca Lia Block and they might emerge with a map to Sub Rosa: a glorious mystery that creeps you out and then totally enchants. —Michelle Tea, author of Valencia and Rose of No Man’s Land Dare to meet Little, the indescribably innocent, indescribably obscene protagonist of the decade’s most indescribably juicy novel. Part pulp noir, part porn, part metaphysical carnivalof-the-mind, Amber Dawn is to our generation what Lewis Carroll and Philip K. Dick were to theirs. Sub Rosa is a cult classic in the making.

Read this book. —Elizabeth Bachinsky, author of Home of Sudden Service

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A novel about Polish pyromaniacs who fight homophobia, set to the smell of smoke.

Krakow Melt

Radek, a bisexual artist and a practitioner of the extreme urban sport parkour, is convinced that fire is the great stabilizer. While creating miniature replicas of the world’s great infernos—Chicago 1871, San Francisco 1906, London 1666—he meets Dorota, a literature student and budding pyromaniac. Driven by rage, sexual curiosity for one another, and shocking hidden messages they discover in Pink Floyd lyrics, they buck Church, government, and the LGBT community to find sexual freedom, escaping their enemies by scaling the crumbling walls and ideas of the city.

Provocative and unnerving, Krakow Melt is at once a love letter and a fiery call to arms.

Praise for Shuck: Alternately brutal and witty, Shuck is an exhilarating ride in which the protagonist performs a kind of wistful eulogy for the seediness of the pre-Giuliani Manhattan … Shuck is one of those rare books that has both ample brains and raunchy sex appeal.

—Gay and Lesbian Review

NEW RELEASE

This second novel by Lambda Literary Award finalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarno´s´c revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s 2005, and Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union; the country dips into moral crisis as Pope John Paul II (a Pole) approaches death while the country’s soon-to-be president makes homophobic declarations.

Daniel Allen Cox Daniel Allen Cox is the author of Shuck (page 43), shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction and the ReLit Award (Canada) for best novel. He is also a columnist for Capital Xtra! in Ottawa, Canada. He lives in Montreal; his home burned down in 2007.

isbn 978-1-55152-372-9

fiction / gay men’s

5.5 x 8 | 176 pp

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pub month: october

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Michael Turner’s classic novel about a punk rock band, with a new cover.

HARD CORE LOGO NEW RELEASE

Hard Core Logo is an 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 reunited 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.

Michael Turner Michael Turner is also the author of the novels 8 x 10 (Doubleday Canada), The Pornographer’s Poem (Soft Skull Press), and American Whiskey Bar (Arsenal), and the poetry collections Company Town and Kingsway (both Arsenal). He lives in Vancouver.

isbn 978-1-55152-341-5

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Hard Core Logo was made into a feature film by director Bruce McDonald in 1996. It was named the #2 best Canadian film of all time by industry voters in Playback magazine. Production of the film sequel, Hard Core Logo 2, began in February 2010.

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

—Toronto Star

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A Queer Film Classic: the Palme d’Or-winning classic of contemporary Chinese cinema.

farewell my concubine A Queer Film Classic NEW RELEASE

Farewell My Concubine, one of three new QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige’s acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century about two male Peking opera stars and the woman who comes between them, set against the political turmoil of a China in transition. The film’s treatment of gender performance and homosexuality was a first in Chinese cinema, and the subject of much controversy there. The movie, which helped to bring contemporary Chinese films onto the world stage, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (the first Chinese film to do so), and was nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

This book, one of two new QFCs to focus on Asian queer cinema, places the film in its historical and cultural context while drawing on fresh insights from recent works on transgender and queer studies to provide readers with an intimate, provocative, and original look at the film.

The QUEER FILM CLASSICS series, begun in 2009, consists of critical yet populist monographs on classic films of interest to LGBT audiences written by esteemed film scholars and critics. The series is edited by authors Thomas Waugh (Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed) and Matthew Hays (The View from Here).

Helen Hok-Sze Leung Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008).

See page 29 for previous Queer Film Classics.

isbn 978-1-55152-362-0 5 x 7 | 160 pp b&w film stills $14.95 paper

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A Queer Film Classic: the Indian film whose lesbian themes set off a fire of controversy.

fire A Queer Film Classic NEW RELEASE

Fire, one of three new QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian love story by Indian-born director Deepa Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is the story of Radha and Sita, the wives of two brothers, who fall in love with one another.

Crisis overtakes the extended family when a servant discovers the relationship and tells one of the husbands; overcoming both a literal and allegorical “trial by fire,” the two women leave their marriages to make a life together.

Shohini Ghosh Shohini Ghosh is Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in New Delhi. Tales of the Night Fairies, her documentary on the sex workers rights movement, made a strong intervention in debates on sex work. She writes on contemporary media practices and sexuality.

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The film premiered to great acclaim in 1996, and traveled the international circuit before being finally released in India in 1999. The consequences of the film’s Indian premiere were both profound and provocative: outraged by the film’s explicit depiction of a lesbian relationship, protestors went on a rampage, tearing down posters, vandalizing cinemas showing the film, and disrupting screenings in Delhi and Bombay, setting off a maelstrom of public discourse on issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech in India. Director Deepa Mehta and the two leading actresses were targeted for attack and harassment by extremists of the Hindu Right.

This book examines the controversy that divided a nation, but which ultimately led to counterprotests among the film’s supporters, resulting in its successful and uninterrupted run in Indian theaters. The book also considers Fire’s scathing attack on both heterosexism and Hindu practices in India that oppress and marginalize women, as well as its revolutionary treatment of female characters, whose traditional duties are imbued with an unprecedented sensuality.

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A Queer Film Classic: a 1974 Canadian cult classic about intergenerational love.

montreal Main A Queer Film Classic

The book, a collaboration between Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison, details the nuanced history of this peculiar film, which was released on DVD for the first time in 2009. It also considers the politics and aesthetics of the trope of intergenerational love that director Vitale and collaborators Allan Moyle and Stephen Lack so brazenly probed, in a way that would make the film virtually impossible to produce today.

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Montreal Main, one of three QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal’s bohemian neighborhood “The Main” and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and a great queer film; a fascinating cinema vérité take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s, about a twentysomething photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and his growing obsession with Johnny, the young son of acquaintances, a relationship that is doomed from the start. Disarming in its matter-of-fact treatment of potentially sensational themes, Montreal Main is a quiet yet powerful look at human relations among the post-flower power generation.

Thomas Waugh & Jason Garrison Thomas Waugh teaches film studies at Concordia University, Montreal, where he has also developed curriculam in queer studies and on HIV/AIDS. He is the author of many publications on queer film and media, Canadian film, documentary, and the cinema of India.

Jason Garrison is a Canadian writer.

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The latest 3-Day Novel Contest winner: a deadly battle of wits in the Arctic.

SNOWMEN NEW RELEASE

Charles Perth intends to be the first person to walk alone across the North Pole, bisecting the Arctic Circle between Canada and Russia. He leaves behind the woman he loves—knowing he can never see her again, even if he makes it to the other side. During his journey, Charles is confronted by the extreme climate, dangerous predators, and constant, blinding summer sun of the Arctic, now permanently frozen due to a drastic global climate shift. Charles is also subject to the strategic malevolence of his unstable and resentful brother who, from thousands of kilometers away, has the resources and savvy to make the solo expedition treacherous and even deadly. If Charles is to succeed—and survive—he must overcome exhaustion, starvation, sabotage, and despair, and find in himself the strength and will to beat his brother at his own twisted game.

Mark Sedore Mark Sedore, winner of the 32nd Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest, is a professional writer and graduate student living in Toronto. His previous entries to the 3-Day Novel Contest have won honorable mention and second place.

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This riveting, anxiety-filled read is the latest winner of the annual International 3-Day Novel Contest, a notorious rite of passage for writers that has taken place every Labor Day Weekend since 1977. Hundreds of novelists enter every year, and thousands more wish they had the courage. It has spawned its own genre of risky, cutting-edge fiction, evident in the 27 unique winning novels that have been published since the contest began. The 33rd annual contest will take place this September; for more information contact 3daynovel.com.

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GO VEGAN! 2011 Wall Calendar

HOW IT ALL VEGAN!

Sarah Kramer

10th Anniversary Edition Tanya Barnard & Sarah

spring 2010 release

Kramer The tenth-anniversary edition of the bible for vegan cooks.

Includes new recipes, as well as updates and advice that better reflect the new vegan reality; it also includes a color photo section and a new introduction by co-author Sarah Kramer, who speaks personally and passionately about the impact of veganism on her life over the past decade. over 100,000 sold (original and new editions) cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-253-1 $22.95

CLASSIC EDITION: ISBN 978-1-55152-067-8 wall calendars isbn 978-1-55152-342-2 $14.95

THE GARDEN OF VEGAN

LA DOLCE VEGAN!

How It All Vegan Again!

Sarah Kramer

Vegan Livin’ Made Easy

Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer Tanya and Sarah’s second book picks up where How It All Vegan! ended. These are recipes for a more sophisticated palate that add funky twists to familiar dishes bursting with color and flavor. The Garden of Vegan will lead you into temptation. over 50,000 copies sold seventh printing Teaches the world at least two things: that being a vegan can be loads of fun and that vegan food is to die for.

—vegsource.com

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

Sarah’s 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 can be an adventure in dining, without a lot of investment in time or money. Most of these recipes can be prepared in thirty minutes or less. Includes a fun do-it-yourself section of vegan tips and non-food items. over 60,000 copies sold sixth printing Every self-respecting vegetarian should own at least one book by Sarah Kramer. She’s a venerable vegan kitchen goddess who knows that eating cruelty-free doesn’t mean sacrificing taste. —Memphis Flyer

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

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F OOD & D R I N K

In this followup to her first calendar last year, vegan superstar Sarah Kramer turns her attention to classic album covers of the past; among those she veganizes are David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced?, Madonna’s Like a Virgin, 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 the only, designed specifically for vegans) will help Sarah’s fans keep track of their days in rock-star style.

RIPE FROM AROUND HERE A Vegan Guide to Local & Sustainable Eating (No Matter Where You Live) jae steele

F OOD & D R I N K

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

Ripe from around Here is a lovely book! Gently, lightly, with humor and without being preachy, jae steele offers the reader a guide for nothing less than how to live better and with more joy. From cleaning products to living with houseplants, from canning instructions to recipes, Ripe from around Here is also about self-reliance and independence, something I’m 100% in favor of!

—Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers Markets spring 2010 release cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 $23.95

VEGAN À GO-GO!

GET IT RIPE

A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road

A Fresh Take on Vegan Living jae steele

Sarah Kramer Vegan à Go-Go! represents a change of pace for Sarah: 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 nutricious animal-free meals they enjoy at home. It includes 150 recipes, many of them new, and others that have been adapted from her earlier books. The rest of the book contains information and advice pertinant to vegan travelers. second printing

jae’s first book is a vegan cookbook for the 21st century, with an emphasis on holistic living and whole foods (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. 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

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

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

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Healthful, Healing Recipes for Life Amrita Sondhi This all-vegetarian cookbook based on Ayurvedic traditions features delectable and nutritious recipes that appeal to particular doshas, which are one’s personal constitution based on physical and mental characteristics: air (vata), fire (pitta), and earth (kapha). And while the recipes are authentically Ayurvedic, they feature easy-to-find ingredients and modern-day cooking methods appropriate for busy lifestyles.

Written with both converts and beginners in mind, The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook is a 21st-century approach to an ancient tradition that will restore your health, energy, and sense of well-being. third printing

cooking (healthy) isbn 978-1-55152-204-3 $22.95

THE EVERYDAY VEGAN Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life

EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating Dreena Burton In her third cookbook, Dreena Burton turns her attention to celebratory food—imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals for two to dinner parties to casual potlucks. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and website (everydayvegan. com) and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her family-oriented, nutritious recipes. fourth printing Dreena has the know-how and a knack for whipping up inviting, festive dishes in minutes that anyone can enjoy as healthful weekday fare ... her Gimme Chimis is a mouth-watering creation that features nutritious ingredients in a south-of-the-border-style sauce with a touch of fire. —Vegetarians in Paradise cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-224-1 $24.95

VIVE LE VEGAN! Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family Dreena Burton

Dreena Burton Dreena’s first cookbook demonstrates that anyone can prepare and enjoy an array of delectable vegan dishes without having to compromise one’s health or sense of taste. Includes cooking and shopping tips, ingredient notes, meal plan suggestions, and nutritional analysis. sixth printing This is a book for anyone who loves food and wants to be healthy, with great recipes that are easy and totally tasty. Truly delicious reading. —Ingrid Newkirk, PETA I own many vegan cookbooks and The Everyday Vegan is by far one of the very best. —VegFamily Magazine cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-106-0 $21.95

In her second cookbook, Dreena Burton is here to show you how the decision to “go vegan” doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice nutrition or flavor, and in fact will make you and your family feel healthier and more alive. The recipes in Vive le Vegan! 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. fifth printing Vive le Vegan! gives you everything you need, all in one fun and inviting book.

—Erik Marcus, vegan.com

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

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F OOD & D R I N K

THE MODERN AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK

WHERE PEOPLE FEAST

THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL

An Indigenous People’s Cookbook

Natasha Kyssa

Dolly & Annie Watts

F OOD & D R I N K

The food traditions of North America’s Indigenous peoples are centuries old and they endure to this day. Dolly Watts and her daughter Annie’s Native cuisine is both traditional and modern; Where People Feast, one of very few Indigenous cookbooks available, introduces people to extraordinary foods that are truly North American. Recipes include Smoked Salmon Mousse, Indian Tacos, Venison Meatballs, AlderGrilled Breast of Pheasant, Wild Rice Pancakes, and Wild Blueberry Cobbler. Includes sixteen full-color photos and 150 ­recipes.

Raw diets have become all the rage lately, but Natasha believes that proper digestion, essential for one’s health and vitality, can be greatly improved by a living foods diet. This manual, which includes 135 recipes as well as plenty of guidelines and background information, follows a proven approach to better health, natural weight loss, increased vitality, and healthy lifestyle changes. second printing Compact and comprehensive.

—VegNews

featured on npr second printing

health / fitness (diets) isbn 978-1-55152-250-0 $18.95

cooking (american) isbn 978-1-55152-221-0 $21.95

NEW WORLD PROVENCE

THE REAL JERK

Modern French Cooking for Friends and Family

Lily & Ed Pottinger

Alessandra & Jean-Francis Quaglia 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 chef-proprietors of Vancouver’s Provence restaurants, is designed with contemporary North American audiences in mind, featuring healthy, easy-to-find ingredients prepared using traditional French techniques tweaked for the home cook. The book includes beautiful yet simple recipes that take advantage of meats, seafood, and vegetables abundant in North American markets. second printing

New Caribbean Cuisine

There’s a Jamaican phrase, “Out of many, one people,” that is reflected in the style of cooking from the Caribbean: distinct, bold flavors coming together to create an electric experience. Such is the case with The Real Jerk. This is new Caribbean cuisine, cooking born out of tradition, steeped in history, and brought into a new world where styles and tastes fuse to become something entirely different. Let The Real Jerk transport you to new Caribbean cuisine: a blend of tastes and cultures unlike any you’ve visited before. fourth printing Favourite Caribbean recipes from the proprietors of the famed, eponymous Toronto restaurant.

—Canadian Living

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

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AMERICAN HUNKS

GAY ART

The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970

A Historic Collection

David L. Chapman with Brett

Waugh

Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas

A fascinating collection of images (many in full color) depicting the muscular American male as documented in popular culture from 1860 to 1970. The book, divided into historic eras, includes such personalities as Charles Atlas, pioneer weightlifter Eugen Sandow, and movie stars such as Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller.

Pictures of legendary physiques from original superstar hunk Eugen Sandow to Charles Atlas to Arnold Schwarzenegger appear, well produced and annotated ... What might have been a wink-wink, nudge-nudge volume is instead vital Americana.

—Booklist

gay studies / popular culture isbn 978-1-55152-256-2 $29.95

When originally published by Greenleaf Editions in 1972, A Historic Collection of Gay Art was the first book of its kind to document expressions of gay male sexuality as depicted in visual art. This updated edition features erotic line drawings and other artwork from ancient Greece to 1970s America, by artists both anonymous and infamous (including Tom of Finland, Graewolf, Blade, and Aubrey Beardsley), as well as an insightful narrative that provides a fascinating historical context. foreword book of the year finalist A treasure trove of early gay pornography.

—Chicago Free Press

gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-205-0 $24.95

LUST UNEARTHED

OUT/LINES

Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection

Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall

Thomas Waugh

Thomas Waugh

Gay porn for the thinking man: these 200-plus drawings are from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek, a film and television designer from the 1940s to the 1980s; the images are remarkably frank, explicit, sometimes funny, sometimes outrageous depictions of men, created by artists both famous and unknown, and produced during a time when even drawings of nude men were illegal, and thus rare. Waugh’s narrative is a remarkable history lesson that illuminates a once-furtive underground culture. lambda literary award finalist second printing [Waugh’s] brilliant text … justifies, honors and illuminates these precious artifacts of our history.

—Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation gay studies / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-165-7 $26.95

A resurrection of erotic gay images that circulated in clandestine communities whose sexualized visibility was a potentially devastating risk—a wealth of approximately 200 previously unpublished “obscene” images from the queer pre-Stonewall underground. Historically rigorous and aesthetically explicit, Out/Lines is sure to shock and astonish. Waugh is also the author of Gay Art. lambda literary award finalist second printing Lovingly and entertainingly gathered together … the pictures are by turns funny, hot, strikingly composed, and historically fascinating.

—Frontiers

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

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G AY & L E S BI A N

Josef Grubisic

queersexlife

COMIN’ AT YA!

Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity

The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield

Terry Goldie

David L. Chapman &

G AY & L E S BI A N

Evocative of writers Patrick Califia and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories of queer sexuality and identity as viewed through the author’s own experiences. By turns insightful and elegant, Terry Goldie delves into contemporary subject matter both fraught and explicit, revealing subtle, fluid truths about human sexuality and desire: drag queens, feminism, cross-cultural sex, bisexuality, gay youth, and the concept of being “out,” among others. By the author of In a Queer Country (page 30).

An important contribution to queer theory.

—Feminist Review

Thomas Waugh An amazing collection of full-color, sexually explicit 3-d photographs of men taken in the early 1950s by Denny Denfield, an amateur physique photographer. His photographs, never distributed publicly given their illegality at the time, display a skill, wit, and daring rarely seen, and with their rich Kodachrome colors and mid-century decors, can now be appreciated for their rogueish, almost naïve charm. The 3-d photographs are composed of dual images which “come alive” when viewed through the 3-d glasses, supplied with the book.

This book is remarkable … attesting to the universality of male beauty and desire over time and place.

—Gay & Lesbian Review

gay & lesbian studies / essays isbn 978-1-55152-236-4 $19.95

gay studies / erotica / photography isbn 978-1-55152-225-8 $27.95 / 3-d glasses included

PETER FLINSCH

ROY & AL

The Body in Question

Ralf König

Ross Higgins Peter Flinsch, who passed away in 2010, is one of the art world’s unsung heroes; for the past sixty years, he 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-color edition that celebrates his life and art.

Roy & Al is the first Englishlanguage book by Europe’s most popular gay cartoonist, Germany’s Ralf König, whose collections have sold over one million copies and been translated into six other languages.

Roy & Al is a hilarious, erotically charged series of gay comics starring two dogs whose owners are dating; an uproarious vision of contemporary gay life through the eyes of man’s best friend. lambda literary award finalist

Lavishly illustrated … by having it on our coffee tables we can prove … that gay art is more than Tom of Finland and Tom Bianchi. —EDGE

It pushes boundaries, demanding an appreciation of gay life in all its outrageousness.

—Edge

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

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HOT & BOTHERED 4 Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

THE NEAREST EXIT MAY BE BEHIND YOU S. Bear Bergman

The fourth installment of the bestselling international lesbian erotica series, consisting of stories of 1,000 words or less that articulate desire between women. Previous books in the series have made bestseller lists, and Hot & Bothered 3 was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in 2001.

Hot & Bothered 4 includes new stories by many awardwinning writers. lambda literary award finalist lesbian anthology / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-145-9 $15.95

HOT & BOTHERED

A collection of essays on gender and identity that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women’s spaces to the old boys’ network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. lambda literary award finalist Bergman’s gift of storytelling illuminates the evolving nuances of queer and trans life.

—Feminist Review

HOT & BOTHERED 3

isbn 978-1-55152-051-3 $16.95

isbn 978-1-55152-102-2 $15.95

gender studies / gay & lesbian studies isbn 978-1-55152-264-7 $18.95

HOT & BOTHERED 2 isbn 978-1-55152-068-1 $15.95

I AM A RED DRESS

BRAZEN FEMME

Incantations on a Grandmother, a Mother, and a Daughter

Queering Femininity edited by Chloë Brushwood Rose & Anna Camilleri

Anna Camilleri Acclaimed writer and performer Anna Camilleri confronts the ghosts of her past as she seeks to find her rightful place in the world. These eloquent stories and narratives speak to the heart of three generations of women—Anna, her mother, and her grandmother—as they dealt with a cycle of family abuse; in them, the red dress appears as a symbol of defiance and empowerment. Throughout the book, Anna unravels memory that is inextricably tied to culture, class, and tradition, in a strong and beautiful voice that bravely asserts its right to be heard.

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

biography / gender studies isbn 978-1-55152-163-3 $16.95

A manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharpedged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated femme experience emerging in performance, betrayal, violence, humor, and survival. Featuring critically acclaimed writers including Michelle Tea, Camilla Gibb, Sky Gilbert, Amber Hollibaugh, and Anurima Banerji. lambda literary award finalist second printing A bold, groundbreaking collection.

—Lambda Book Report

nonfiction (anthologies) / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-126-8 $19.95

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G AY & L E S BI A N

edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT

FIRST PERSON QUEER

True Stories of Gay Male Desire

Who we are (so far)

edited by Richard Labonté &

edited by Richard Labonté &

Lawrence Schimel

Lawrence Schimel

G AY & L E S BI A N

These smart, savvy stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors both well-known and novice. Subject matter ranges from single, significant encounters to the ephemera of emotional desires that never lead to physical pleasure.

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest first-person accounts of queer (gay/lesbian/ bisexual/trans) experience: from coming out to “passing” as straight, to the devastation of meth addiction, to growing old to living proud.

lambda literary award finalist lambda literary award winner [I Like It Like That] a reminder that virtual sex is best when it comes with a storyteller’s skills, triggering your own memories of lust and love … There’s dizzying variety in these 34 entries.

—Xtra!

nonfiction (anthologies) / gay & lesbian / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-259-3 $16.95

The collection winningly celebrates differences rooted in a variety of ways to the mutable boundaries of sexuality and gender … Whether read in a couple of sittings or savored essay by essay, this is an eye-opening vista on diversity. —Kirkus Reviews

nonfiction (anthologies) / gay & lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-227-2 $17.95

SECOND PERSON QUEER

THE FUTURE IS QUEER

Who you are (so far)

edited by Richard Labonté &

edited by Richard Labonté &

Lawrence Schimel

Lawrence Schimel This followup to the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer is an anthology of essays on LGBT life written in the second person: letters to family and friends, missives to homophobes, confessions to lovers, tributes to notables of the past such as Jean Genet and David Wojnarowicz, and words of advice for the next generation. Powerful, funny, poignant: these are the stories of who you are as a LGBT person, or the person you would most like to be. Includes work by S. Bear Bergman, Achy Obejas, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

In a world increasingly complicated by questionable technologies and factional politics, what does the future hold for gays, lesbians, and transgenders?

In this anthology, the first of its kind in over ten years, provocative stories and comics posit a queer future of limitless possibilities, covering issues like cloning, gene manipulation, and gender assignment. Contributors include Neil Gaiman (author of Coraline, now a motion picture), Rachel Pollack, and Bryan Talbot. foreword book of the year award winner independent publisher award winner

spring 2009 release

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FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

WITH A ROUGH TONGUE

Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

Femmes Write Porn

edited by Amber Dawn

& Trish Kelly

This anthology of horror stories, with literary styles that span gothic, speculative and noir, expresses the fantasies of queer women and provides strong characters in place of the genre’s stereotypically scantily dressed victims.

—Ms. Magazine

fiction (anthologies) lesbian / horror isbn 978-1-55152-251-7 $17.95

RED LIGHT Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts edited by Anna Camilleri

A rebellious anthology of stor­ ies about sex and the modern femme: no-holds barred, queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in ways that are transgressive and empowering. independent publisher award finalist [The editors] dismantle every expectation of lesbian erotica in this collection.

—Bust Well-written, empowering, and challenging.

—Books to Watch Out For

fiction (anthologies) / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-193-0 $16.95

COMFORT FOOD FOR BREAKUPS The Memoir of a Hungry Girl Marusya Bociurkiw

The female as represented in western popular culture has been a timeless yet culturally unstable image, construed and contested by men and women alike. Red Light is an anthology of essays, stories, and visual materials that identifies and deconstructs female icons, past and present, and re-imagines them for the 21st century. lambda literary award finalist Brave and bold and in your face, a brazen mix of passionate intelligence and striking sexuality.

—Herizons

An elegiac memoir about food, family, and the thorns of personal history written by a Ukrainian Canadian lesbian, whose family recipes connect intimate vignettes in which food nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past, including those of a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II. The author, both at home and in her travels through North America and Europe, also reconciles her family life with her queer identity; food becomes her salvation and a way to engage with the world. lambda literary award finalist kobzar literary award finalist

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G AY & L E S BI A N

In this collection, horror (including gothic, noir, and speculative writing) is defined as that which both titillates and terrorizes, forcing readers to confront who they are. Subversive, witty, sexy—and scary—Fist of the Spider Woman poses two questions: “What do queer women fear the most?” and “What do queer women desire the most?”

edited by Amber Dawn

THE RICE QUEEN DIARIES

LET ME KISS IT BETTER

A Memoir

Elixirs For the Not So Straight and Narrow

Daniel Gawthrop

Billeh Nickerson

G AY & L E S BI A N

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. He explores the multicultural minefields of sexuality and culture as he articulates the manners and contradictions of his desires. finalist, foreword magazine book of the year

Billeh Nickerson tells it like it is: a wry and at times outrageous chronicler of contemporary gay life, written for those who can take it like a man, or at least read about it without squirming. More naked than David Sedaris, more fraudulent than David Rakoff, Nickerson’s invigorating tonics are just what the doctor ordered. Nickerson is also author of McPoems (page 41), The Asthmatic Glassblower and editor of Seminal (page 41).

Gawthrop, like Yukio Mishima, is adept at invoking virile beauty.

—Gay & Lesbian Review

Forty-eight sprightly, occasionally pensive pieces on his career as a card-carrying homo-sapiens.

—Xtra!

An intriguing variation on the classic coming out narrative.

—Bay Area Reporter

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

—Chicago Free Press gay studies / humor isbn 978-1-55152-125-1 $13.95

gay studies / biography / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-189-3 $16.95

Patrick Califia, introduction by

THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB

Wendy Chapkis

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, introduc-

MACHO SLUTS

tion by Sharon Feldman A vital and moving collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco’s dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars.

Includes a new afterword by the author and an introduction by Wendy Chapkis, a Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine a little sister’s classic Reading it again, I was reminded of how 20 years ago, the book was more than porn—it radicalized and appropriated pleasure and became a canon in the lesbian sex wars … Dorothy Allison called Califia’s work “lucid, intelligent, brave, and true.” A more accurate assessment is hard to find.

—Curve

This brilliant novel is set in the 1950s, narrated by a thirteenyear-old who describes himself as a “carnivorous lamb”; an innocent who in truth is anything but. He rebels against those who wish to contain him, and his turbulent rites of passage are veiled responses to a hateful mother, an indifferent father, and the authority of church and state. Winner of France’s Prix Hermès. a little sister’s classic Triumphant … provocative and carnal … An astute examination of a repressive political and religious environment’s impact on moral judgment and behavior.

—Gay & Lesbian Review

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PATIENCE & SARAH Isabel Miller, introduction by

FRANNY, THE QUEEN OF PROVINCETOWN

Emma Donoghue

John Preston, introduction by

First published to wide acclaim in 1983, Franny was a book of gay heroism and camaraderie in the shadow of the burgeoning aids crisis. Today, one can read Franny with a sense of nostalgia and with the knowledge that Franny’s dreams of a society that accepts gays and lesbians without question is closer to fruition, but far from complete. a little sister’s classic

a little sister’s classic second printing The writing has the directness and whimsicality of primitive paintings—it is like spiked gingerbread or surprising samplers. The tone is sweetly bold. And the tale evokes many kinds of frontier at once. —Village Voice fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-191-6 $17.95

Franny says “… there should be noise when someone dies. Loud noise!” John’s voice continues to resonate.

And we are all the more fortunate for still being able to hear it. —Nisa Donnelly

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

THE YOUNG IN ONE ANOTHER’S ARMS

Song of the Loon

Jane Rule, introduction by

Michael Bronski

Richard Amory, introduction by

Katherine V. Forrest First published in 1977, The Young in One Another’s Arms is about the building of female communities.

Combining issues of race, gender, sexuality, and politics, this warm, sophisticated novel celebrates the camaraderie and strength of women. The novel won the Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award in 1978. In 2007, Jane Rule won the Alice B. Medal for her lifetime’s work.

First published in 1966, Song of the Loon is a lusty gay frontier romance that tells the story of Ephraim MacIver, a 19th-century outdoorsman, and his travels through the American wilderness, where he meets a number of characters who share with him stories, wisdom, and sexual encounters. The most popular erotic gay book of the 1960s, Song of the Loon was the inspiration for two sequels, a 1970 film of the same name, at least one porn movie, and a parody novel.

a little sister’s classic Lesbian identity itself is not so much subsumed into the community as kept whole within it … not singled out as an angle of vision any more or less valid than others.

—Feminist Studies

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

a little sister’s classic second printing A charming, delightfully queer pastoral.

—Gay & Lesbian Review

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

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G AY & L E S BI A N

Michael Lowenthal Set in the 19th century, this classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. First published in 1969, Patience & Sarah won the American Library Association’s first Gay Book Award.

FINISTÈRE

WHISPER THEIR LOVE

Fritz Peters, introduction by

Valerie Taylor, introduction by

Michael Bronski

Barbara Grier

G AY & L E S BI A N

A lyrical gay coming-of-age story first published in 1951, acclaimed by many including Gore Vidal and The New York Times, about Matthew, a young American who moves to France with his mother following his parents’ divorce. In boarding school and on trips with his mother into the countryside, Matthew navigates his budding sexuality and complicated new relationships with trepidation and hardship until he is forced to confront finistère—land’s end—where the brutal truths of the world can be found. a little sister’s classic

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

The best novel this reviewer has ever read on the theme of homosexuality. —New York Times (1951)

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-155152-210-4 $15.95

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

BLACKBIRD

EMPATHY

Larry Duplechan, introduction by

Sarah Schulman, introduction by

Michael Nava

Kevin Killian

Blackbird is a funny, moving coming-of age novel about growing up black and gay in southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high school student upset at losing the lead role in the school staging of Romeo and Juliet. All the while, he’s intrigued

by Marshall MacNeill, who is surely the sexiest man to walk God’s green earth. This novel of adolescent awakening is as fresh and heartfelt as it was when first published. Duplechan is also author of Got ’til it’s Gone (page 37).

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. They befriend each other in the netherworld of the Lower East Side, two unlikely people drawn together by their confusion about and empathy for the world around them and each other. Schulman is also author of The Mere Future, Rat Bohemia, and The Child (all on page 35).

a little sister’s classic

a little sister’s classic

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. —James Earl Hardy

With Empathy, the lesbian novel comes of age.

—Fay Weldon

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

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GODS & MONSTERS

A Queer Film Classic

A Queer Film Classic

Jon Davies

Noah Tsika

The film Trash is a down-and-out domestic melodrama about a decidedly eccentric couple: Joe, an impotent junkie (played by Warhol film regular Joe Dallesandro), and Holly (played by trans Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn), Joe’s feisty and sexually frustrated girlfriend. Author Jon Davies argues that Trash, so comical yet so heartrending, is an allegory for the experiences of Dallesandro, Woodlawn, their co-stars, and countless other human “leftovers,” whose self-fashioning for Warhol and Morrissey’s gaze transformed them—if only fleetingly—from nobodies into somebodies.

[Davies] delves into the title theme on material and personal levels, considering their symbolic interplay. He also offers observations on the film’s motif of redemption as seen through the lens of complex relationships.

—Library Journal performing arts (film) isbn 978-1-55152-261-6 $14.95

LAW OF DESIRE A Queer Film Classic José Quiroga Law of Desire has been acknowledged as redefining the way in which cinema can portray the difficult affective relationships between homosexuality, gender, and sex. This book examines the political and social context in which Almodóvar created Law of Desire, as well as its impact on LGBT cinema both in Europe and around the world.

[Quiroga] views the narrative within larger social, sexual, and cultural contexts, and his supporting analyses of specific scenes, cinematic elements, and dialog reflect his extensive research, as do his references to other works by director Pedro Almodovar.

—Library Journal

Moving from the slums of Britain in the early 20th century to the new era of “talkies” in Hollywood and beyond, Gods and Monsters looks at the historical events that helped shape director James Whale (played by Ian McKellen) and his films. In 1957, long after his career had peaked, he recounts his experiences to his young, straight gardener (played by Brendan Fraser), with whom he forms an uncommon bond. Noah Tsika’s book examines Gods and Monsters from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity and significance of its achievements, including its fusion of fantasy and biography.

A blend of fascinating personal tidbits and keenly defined insights, Tsika gives the book a feel of authenticity that goes beyond intellectual honesty and reaches emotional genuineness. —EDGE performing arts (film) isbn 978-1-55152-263-0 $14.95

THE VIEW FROM HERE Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers Matthew Hays In The View from Here, queer directors and screenwriters speak passionately about the medium, in particular about their personal experiences navigating the often cynical and cruel film industry. All of them offer fascinating anecdotes and ideas about cinema, and speak candidly about their attempts to combat studio apathy and demands of “the market” to create films that are entertaining, engaging, and truthful. Filmmakers profiled include John Waters, Gus Van Sant, Pedro Almodóvar, Bill Condon, Don Roos, Randal Kleiser, Don Mancini, Gregg Araki, Lea Pool, Monika Treut, Rosa von Praunheim, and many more. lambda literary award winner

performing arts (film) isbn 978-1-55152-262-3 $14.95

performing arts (film) isbn 978-1-55152-220-3 $22.95

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G AY & L E S BI A N

TRASH

THE DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA

IN A QUEER COUNTRY Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context

edited by Louis-Georges Tin

edited by Terry Goldie

A R T S , P O L ITI C S , & C U LT U R E

Based on the work of 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.

The Dictionary of Homophobia is a both a revealing and necessary history lesson for us all.

At once exhilarating, daunting, and endlessly fascinating.

—Lambda Book Report The best book on gay history ever written.

—InsightOut Book Club

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 is a groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays from established and emerging writers on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Edited by the author of queersexlife (page 22). lambda literary award finalist A unique, state-of-the-art collection. —rabble.ca

gay & lesbian studies / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-105-3 $19.95

gay & lesbian studies isbn 978-1-55152-229-6 $44.95

OUTBURSTS!

YARN BOMBING

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus

The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti

compiled by A.D. Peterkin

Mandy Moore & Leanne Prain The history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men and lesbians who sought to come up with a new terminology for the pleasures of their secret lives; and the other, those who found gay sexuality repellent, and created phrases that denigrated and insulted its proponents. The result? A coded language, for better or worse, that celebrates sexuality in all its queerness.

By the author of One Thousand Beards (page 33).

Remember being excited as a child each time a new sexrelated word entered into your vocabulary? Relive that titilating experience while at the same time broadening your sexual knowledge by reading this book. —The Link gay studies / humor isbn 978-1-55152-151-0 $16.95

The definitive guidebook to textile street art, Yarn Bombing is a full-color DIY book featuring 20 kick-ass patterns that range from hanging shoes and knitted picture frames to balaclavas and gauntlets, teaching readers how to create fuzzy adornments for lonely street furniture. Join the yarn bombing revolution! second printing featured in the new yorker An inspiring and unforgettable look at the world of knit graffiti and the creative folks behind it, Yarn Bombing deserves a place on any hip crafter’s bookshelf.

—Debbie Stoller, author of the Stitch ‘n Bitch books Great photos, stories, and instructions —Utne Reader

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POLAROIDS Attila Richard Lukacs is one of Canada’s most talented and controversial contemporary artists. He is best known 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 was also the subject of the documentary film Drawing Out the Demons.

This is the first book to document the work of this important artist, from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-color 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 large-format (13 x 16.5") book features essays by award-winning author Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem); writer Stan Persky; Scott Watson, director of the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver; and Vince Aletti, the American curator, critic, and journalist. spring 2010 release visual arts / gay men’s isbn 978-155152-295-1 $55.00

VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES edited by Melanie O’Brian

STAN DOUGLAS: EVERY BUILDING ON 100 WEST HASTINGS edited by Reid Shier

Vancouver Art & Economies situates Vancouver at the center of one of the world’s most intriguing visual arts scenes, and the political, geographic, institutional, and cultural influences which shape it. In its essays by various writers, artists, critics, and curators, the book, co-published

by Artspeak, provides a forum for critical dialogue on Vancouver’s contemporary art practices in the face of its remarkable recent history. Artists covered include Roy Arden, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace. Includes color and black-andwhite images throughout.

One of the reasons Vancouver is so prominent is because of books like Vancouver Art & Economies.

—Vancouver Sun

visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-214-2 $24.95

Using the work of one of the art world’s most celebrated visual artists—Stan Douglas—this book unravels the dynamics of history and sociology, combined with photography and art, to create a compelling and visually arresting document that informs our understanding of what makes a neighborhood. The book is based on a monumental-sized print of 100 West Hastings by Douglas, which is reproduced in the book as a removable full-color poster. city of vancouver book award winner second printing [A] scathing, learned must-read. —Canadian Art

visual arts (photography) isbn 978-1-55152-135-0 $25.95

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A R T S , P O L ITI C S , & C U LT U R E

Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris

TO THE DOGS

VANCOUVER SPECIAL

Peter Culley

Charles Demers

A R T S , P O L ITI C S , & C U LT U R E

The history of the relationship between canines and humans is more complex than one would think. From Sparta to Stalingrad, the dogs of war, cleanup, guard duty, and companionship have been at our side; their loyalty knows no bounds, whether they are beloved pets or guardians of riot police or unsavory fight fans. From companion to full-fledged member of the tribe, the dog has irrevocably moved into our homes, hearts and minds to such an extent that the boundaries between “owner” and “pet” have dissolved.

Writer and performer Charles Demers examines the who, what, where, when, why, and how of Vancouver (host of the 2010 Winter Olympics), shedding light on the various strategies and influences that have made the city what it is today. Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight. spring 2010 release hubert evans nonfiction book prize finalist

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

An entertaining and intelligent collection of essays.

Demers writes with impressive erudition and wit about everything from the distinctive and graceless Vancouver residential design that gives the book its title to the city’s approaches to racism, pot, anarchism, rich people and the homeless. —Globe & Mail

pets / visual arts (photography) isbn 978-155152-241-8 $32.95

literary travel isbn 978-1-55152-294-4 $21.95

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A MODERN LIFE

THE UNCANNY

Art and Design in British Columbia, 1945-1960

Experiments in Cyborg Culture

edited by Ian Thom &

edited by Bruce Grenville

Alan Elder The celebration of the cooperative spirit between “architects, artists, and designers,” between “potters, weavers, and gardeners” is central to A Modern Life, which examines the coming together of what were often very separate disciplines in post-World War II British Columbia, as well as the trend-setting design and use of new building materials, and the impact these had on the more traditional art community.

A dazzling and provocative examination of the cyborg—the concept of man-as-machine—in popular culture. Includes thirtytwo full-color photographs and more than sixty black and white images. award for outstanding achievement, canadian museums association

award winner, international gallery of superb printing

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

—Vancouver Sun

visual arts (design) isbn 978-1-55152-171-8 $26.95

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THE BEARDED GENTLEMAN The Style Guide to Shaving Face

An authoritative yet lighthearted guide that offers detailed information on shaving and 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 figured in the history of masculinity, including its impact on politics, class, and sexuality.

The Bearded Gentleman is an entertaining, witty, and useful guide to facial hair styles and the men who wear them. spring 2010 release Facial hair is totally BACK! But anyone attempting to navigate this treacherous and codified world without consulting Nick Burns and Allan Peterkin is destined for gruesome public humiliation.

—Simon Doonan, author of Eccentric Glamour Equal parts humorous and informative, The Bearded Gentleman is a must-read for guys who have or are considering facial hair. —Brian Boye, Fashion & Grooming Director, Men’s Health men’s health (grooming) isbn 978-1-55152-343-9 $14.95

ONE THOUSAND BEARDS A Cultural History of Facial Hair

SPREE A Cultural History of Shopping Pamela Klaffke

Allan Peterkin One Thousand Beards explores the historical meaning of beards, mustaches, sideburns, and other forms of facial hair, from Freud’s psychoanalytic interpretation, to a wild trip through history and a rogue’s gallery of famous bearded or mustached men. Includes numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. second printing featured in time magazine, esquire, the new yorker An entertaining and informative combination of a history, a documentary, an appreciation and a catalogue.

—Publishers Weekly

men’s health (grooming) / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-107-7 $19.95

Shopping is much more than the simple purchase of goods.

In Spree, Pamela Klaffke reveals the ritual that is now daily routine. Her book is an entertaining and provocative study of shopping’s rich and enduring history, from Parisian arcades to American shopping malls, from the inventions of cash registers and shopping carts to the varied shopping customs around the world, from game shows to Internet shopping and eBay. Full of informative sidebars and fascinating photographs, Spree documents how shopping has evolved from a need, to a want, to a sport.

Klaffke’s book is as free of spin as Lucky magazine, and just as entertaining.

—New York Times

cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-143-5 $17.95

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A R T S , P O L ITI C S , & C U LT U R E

Allan Peterkin & Nick Burns

I, SHITHEAD

ANARCHY AND ART

A Life in Punk

From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Joey Keithley

A R T S , P O L ITI C S , & C U LT U R E

Joey Keithley, a.k.a. Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978—punk kings who spread counterculture around the world. They’ve been cited as influences by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, and The Offspring and have toured with the likes of The Clash, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and Nirvana. This is Joey’s personal, no-bullshit recollection 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. top 25 nonfiction book: amazon.ca third printing

Allan Antliff In numerous essays, Allan Antliff interrogates moments of engagement when anarchist artists, poets, philo­sophers, and critics have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. Rights sold in Germany and Brazil.

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

—Bookforum An accessible, well-researched history.

—Canadian Art

An autobiography that’s every bit as gnarly and entertaining as the punk rock music Keithley is famous for.

—Vancouver Sun music/biography isbn 978-1-55152-148-0 $17.95

politics / history / visual arts isbn 978-1-55152-218-0 $23.95

ONLY A BEGINNING

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

An Anarchist Anthology

The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla

edited by Allan Antliff Drawing on a wide-range of anarchist publications, Only a Beginning is the first comprehensive overview of anarchist theory and practice in North America from 1976 to the present, documenting over a quartercentury of grassroots activism, including protests and gatherings, art exhibitions, street theater, Internet sites, and squats, as well as specific movements such as environmentalism, anti-globalization, feminism, queer rights, Indigenous struggles, prisoners’ rights, and terrorism.

Lavishly illustrated with original artwork and photographs. By the author of Anarchy and Art (above).

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 isbn 978-1-55152-167-1 $24.95

Bommi Baumann 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.”

In an age of public protests—against corporate greed, against free trade agreements, and for social justice— How It All Began provides a fascinating glimpse into the thinking behind urban struggle, and the consequences of action. second printing politics / current affairs isbn 978-0-88978-045-3 $18.95

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THE MERE FUTURE From the nation that elected Barack Obama in the flames of economic disaster comes the first novel of the New Era, The Mere Future, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman. In this dystopian vision, New York City has morphed into an idealized version of itself, the result of what the newly elected mayor calls The Big Change.

Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Our heroine, a lowly copywriter, and her girlfriend Nadine just want to fall in love all over again, but can’t help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable.

Clever word craft, poetic political satire and biting humor on every page.

—Publishers Weekly Sarah Schulman is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated American novelists alive today … The Mere Future tops my holiday wish list. It’s described as the first “post-Obama” novel, set in a supposedly utopian New York City.

But utopias are in the eye of the beholder, and a dystopia lurks beneath the surface. Schulman’s fearless and literate style can be counted on to make this the sort of novel that is reread many times.

—Sacramento News and Reviews Schulman injects wry political commentary and sly cultural satire into a dynamic, unconventional novel, infusing it with a futuristic gaze both sardonic and sage. —Richard Labonté, Book Marks fiction isbn 978-1-55152-257-9 $22.95

spring 2010 release

THE CHILD

RAT BOHEMIA

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman

The Child is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia. lambda literary award and ferro-grumley award finalist

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicenter 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. By the author of The Mere Future, The Child, and Empathy (page 28). ferro-grumley award winner

Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desire, mores, and the law.

—Publishers Weekly

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-243-2 $17.95

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

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F I C TIO N

Sarah Schulman

A LITTLE DISTILLERY IN NOWGONG

THE SHORT, HAPPY LIFE OF HARRY KUMAR

Ashok Mathur

Ashok Mathur

F I C TIO N

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

One of the finest novels of the year. A Little Distillery in Nowgong is a welter of contradictions: It is at once a sweeping historical epic, spanning 100 years and three continents, and an intimate, character-based story. It is gritty and realistic while embracing a graceful magic; it is emotionally resonant and very often hilarious ... A Little Distillery is note-perfect, a compulsively readable work that unfolds naturally but surprises at every turn. I’m so glad I didn’t miss it, and you shouldn’t, either.

—Vancouver Sun

The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar blends the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, with the geography of Canada and Australia.

Harry Kumar is an unlikely hero who finds himself vaulted into a globetrotting quest to rescue his closest friend and confidant who’s been kidnapped by a mysterious villain. Mathur is also author of A Little Distillery in Nowgong and Once Upon an Elephant. commonwealth writers prize finalist A rich and multilayered story. —Georgia Straight

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SO LONG BEEN DREAMING Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan An anthology of original stor­ ies by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color, depicting imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the “third world.” Here are stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centered in the worlds of the “developing” nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into.

The editors have collected an excellent group of stories that often show finesse in approaching difficult subjects regardless of genre. —Pop Matters

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 Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. finalist, governor general’s literary award finalist, ethel wilson fiction prize longlisted, scotiabank giller prize third printing longlisted, impac dublin literary award A haunting coming-of-age story. —Publishers Weekly

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THE ONLY THING I HAVE

SKIDS Cathleen With

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.

The stories told in Skids are elegiac confessions of the street: young kids living on their own, many of them runaways or addicts, eking out an existence in the brutal environs of a big city. Told in the vernacular of the street, these stories reverberate with a sense of urgency and desperation.

An impressive debut collection. ­—Globe and Mail

spring 2010 release What ties these stories together is how easily, and with what expertise, the characters deceive themselves, a trait that is coupled with their refusal to change their own lives.... At their best, these stories are engaging and surprising.

—Quill & Quire fiction isbn 978-1-55152-293-7 $17.95

THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE

The author’s voice is original, fresh, and authentic …

These stories feel lived rather than imagined.

—Quill & Quire

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-215-9 $15.95

GOT ’TIL IT’S GONE Larry Duplechan

David N. Odhiambo The Reverend’s Apprentice, the third novel by David N. Odhiambo, is a powerful, tragicomic novel about power, culture, and identity politics in contemporary America, as seen through the eyes of an African student. 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; the novel mirrors Jonah’s own struggle as a newcomer to American life, trying to organize his perceptions around an identity that is global rather than parochial.

Here is an authentic and powerful writer channeling the anxieties, disjunctions, arrogances, and strivings of our times. —Rain Taxi

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

The first novel by Larry Duplechan in fifteen years, and the fourth to feature his alterego Johnnie Ray Rousseau, a gay black man of Louisiana Creole stock. When we first met Johnnie Ray in the 1986 novel Blackbird (page 28)—the first gay black comingout novel ever published—he was a gay teenager in love with the star of a high school play; now he’s forty-eight, still handsome and gym-built but admittedly vain and looking down the short road to fifty with some chagrin. second printing With his gift of language and eye for detail, Duplechan has the makings to be a major literary figure.

—EDGE

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F I C TIO N

Rhonda Waterfall

MISSOURI Christine Wunnicke

F I C TIO N

Written in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing love story between two men is set in the 19th-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. spring 2010 release

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-344-6 $12.95

THE VIDEOGRAPHER

THE SLOW FIX

Jason Rapczynski

Ivan E. Coyote

A New York film school dropout falls into a job setting up spycams, porn shoots, and street fights for a shady underground video producer. His plans to escape the low-brow underbelly of the webcast world go awry, however, when a young runaway claiming to be his daughter arrives at his door, triggering a series of events eerily similar to a movie script he wrote years earlier, making him grow suspicious of the girl’s story and doubtful of her agenda. While his life begins to unravel, he furiously seeks the truth about the girl, her missing mother, his increasingly sinister boss, and his own uncertain identity.

2009 3-day novel contest winner

In her fourth story collection, Ivan is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our pre-conceived notions of gender roles.

lambda literary award finalist second printing These stories are elegant and homespun, light and piercing, straightforward with a twist. Ivan Coyote unsettles and reassures with a single, skilled stroke.

—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic As a frequent traveler, often living in remote areas as a writer-in-residence, Coyote applies a cool observer’s eye to both new destinations and the challenges related to her masculine appearance and identity. —Curve fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-247-0 $16.95

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LOOSE END

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

The long-awaited first novel by acclaimed storyteller Ivan E. Coyote is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness, and the long road one must travel between them. Joey is a goodhearted, small-town mechanic whose wife has recently left him for another woman; his life changes when he agrees to exchange a beat-up Volvo for a beautiful, hand-crafted cello.

In her third story collection, Ivan focuses her attention on the city: specifically a diverse neighborhood of all types—communing at local coffee bars over hot rods, the art of skinny-dipping, and changes in the weather. With the observant eye of a master storyteller, she shows us how to break free of the rigors of authority and be true to ourselves.

ferro-grumley award finalist ala stonewall honor book third printing

ferro-grumley award finalist second printing

In this story of an everyman rediscovering that life is special, Coyote is telling all our stories … Keep your eyes on this writer. —Booklist (starred review)

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-213-5 $17.95

ONE MAN’S TRASH Ivan E. Coyote

[A] talent for telling multi-layered stories in unaffected prose. —Girlfriends Ivan’s genius is in the composition of the story.

—gendercrash.com

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CLOSE TO SPIDER MAN Ivan E. Coyote

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.

What makes Coyote’s stories special—her humour, her humanity, her talent for sketching the bizarre in the everyday—soars beyond cliche. —Toronto Star A collection that I will treasure for a long time to come.

—Lambda Book Report

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

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 colors of a ­prescient sexuality and an honest heart. danuta gleed award runner-up second printing Blissfully rich … [a] thoroughly entertaining … surefooted, humorous take on misfit love and familial solidarity.

—Publishers Weekly

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

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F I C TIO N

BOW GRIP

MANBUG

SHUCK

George K. Ilsley

Daniel Allen Cox

F I C TIO N

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. They explore the world through their relationship, seeking meaning and value in themselves through the other.

Shuck, by the author of Krakow Melt (page 11), is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasi-homeless hustler who seeks his fame and fortune in New York, where he tries to manage his reputation as the city’s porn star du jour when he’s not dumpster diving, tweaking, or trying to get published.

foreword book of the year award finalist

lambda literary award and relit award finalist second printing

Ilsley’s larky and radiant story provides more than the anatomy of a disorder… [It’s a] love story that yields an unexpected universality. —Out Wry and often funny. —ALA GLBT newsletter

An invigorating first novel … Cox’s New York City has an off-hand, vibrant authenticity. It glitters and fumes.

—Globe and Mail

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Random Acts of Hatred 978-1-55152-152-7

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WHEN FOX IS A THOUSAND

ZED Elizabeth McClung

Larissa Lai Zed is a vivid, claustrophobic, at times nightmarish novel about madness, survival, and crumbling institutions; it is Moby Dick set in the squalor of an inner city, where rules are abandoned, and it’s every man (and young girl) for him or herself. In the spirit of J.G. Ballard’s High Rise or Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory, Zed depicts a frenzied underworld; it is a novel of verve and feverish, expansive imagination.

With beautiful and enchanting prose, and a sure narrative hand, Larissa Lai combines Chinese mythology, the sexual politics of medieval China, and modern-day Vancouver to masterfully revise the myth of the Fox (a figure who can inhabit women’s bodies in order to cause mischief). Her potent imagination and considerable verbal skill result in a tale that continues to haunt long after the story is told.

This new edition features an afterword by the author.

foreword magazine book of the year, science fiction A hellishly engaging novel. —Rain Taxi Shocking and complete with alarming psychological insights, Zed is like nothing you’ve read before.

—Pages Magazine

second printing A sure-footed writer and teller of tales, Lai takes the reader on a magnificent journey through layers of time, myth, and imagery. —Susan Crean A particularly acute pleasure. —The Advocate

fiction / science fiction isbn 978-1-55152-197-8 $17.95

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AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES

McPOEMS Billeh Nickerson

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 40).

The hilarious and illuminating poems in McPoems are based on Billeh Nickerson’s years working at a particularly wellknown 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! Billeh is also the author of Let Me Kiss It Better (page 26) and The Asthmatic Glassblower.

dorothy livesay poetry prize finalist Poetry like this is just what we need for the invasion; writing that honors the debris of the imagination while it sustains the space labs of attention.

—Fred Wah

Incisive and very funny … [These poems] are the field notes of an average teenage employee, hastily scribbled on napkins during a coffee break so the ridiculousness of it all won’t be forgotten … The end result feels suitably authentic and lived-in.

—See Magazine

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SEMINAL The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets

PERFORMANCE BOND Wayde Compton

edited by John Barton & Billeh Nickerson A groundbreaking, comprehensive anthology of Canadian gay male poetry, the first of its kind, that reveals a national queer poetics, both dandyesque and eloquent. The material ranges from the 1890s to the present day and includes poets from every region of the country, including Quebec, translated into English for the first time. For many, the queer experience is central to their aesthetic, offering works of startling beauty and originality that go beyond borders. Contributors include bill bissett, Robin Blaser, Clint Burnham, John Glassco, Douglas LePan, Stan Persky, Andy Quan, Bill Richardson, George Stanley, and R.M. Vaughan.

poetry (anthologies) / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-217-3 $21.95

Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture. The book includes a cd of Compton performing a section from the book accompanied with musical beats, breaks, and samples. second printing There is a hip hop flavour and cadence to these pieces, to be sure, but it’s hip hop written by a bloody genius, or at least someone with a dizzying command of the language. —Vancouver Sun

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