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Arsenal Pulp Press’s top-10 essential stock list: How it All Vegan!, page 1, isbn 978- 1-55152-253-1 Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, page 17, isbn 978-1-55152-224-1 Lust Unearthed, page 20, isbn 978-1-55152-165-7 Dictionary of Homophobia, page 19, isbn 978-1-55152-229-6 Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook, page 16, isbn 978-1-55152-204-3 Get it Ripe, page 16, isbn 978-1-55152-234-0 Got ’til it’s Gone, page 33, isbn 978-1-55152-244-9 Vegan à Go-Go!, page 15, isbn 978-1-55152-240-1 The Slow Fix, page 36, isbn 978-1-55152-247-0 The SimplyRaw Living Foods Detox Manual, page 18, isbn 978-1-55152-250-0

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The tenth-anniversary edition of Tanya and Sarah’s classic first book.

How It All Vegan!

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Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet Tenth Anniversary Edition!

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

In the ten years since How It All Vegan! was first published, however, veganism has “come out of the closet,” and is now considered a legitimate diet and lifestyle not only for those wishing to improve their health, but also those who care deeply about the welfare of animals. This tenthanniversary edition 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.

Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard Sarah Kramer was named “The World’s Coolest Vegan”

by Herbivore magazine, and voted “Favorite cookbook author” by VegNews in 2005. In addition to creating her vegan masterpieces and maintaining her popular website GoVegan.net, she also owns/operates Tattoo Zoo with her husband in Victoria, BC, Canada. Tanya Barnard is the mother of a newborn son and lives in BC, Canada. For more titles by Sarah and Tanya, see pages 15 and 16.

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DIY tricks and tactics for knitters wishing to join the international knit graffiti phenomenon.

Yarn Bombing The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti NEW RELEASE

On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. “Knit graffiti” is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced by crochet and knitting artists of all ages, nationalities, and genders. Its ­practitioners create stunning works of art out of yarn, then “donate” them to public spaces as part of a covert plan for world yarn domination.

Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain Mandy Moore is the technical editrix of popular online knitting magazine Knitty.com, and of various other knitting and crochet books and publications. She blogs about her life at yarnageddon.com. Leanne Prain co-founded a stitch and bitch called Knitting and Beer in order to expand her skills while knitting at the pub. A professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing. Mandy and Leanne both live and knit in Vancouver, BC.

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Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti is the definitive guidebook to textile street art. This full-color DIY book features 20 kickass 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. Along the way, it provides tips on how to be as stealthy as a ninja, demonstrates how to orchestrate a large-scale textile project, and offers revealing information necessary to design your own yarn graffiti tags. The book also includes interviews with members of the international community of textile artists and yarn bombers, and provides resources to help readers join the movement; it’s also chock full of beautiful photographs and easy step-by-step instructions for knit and crochet installations and garments. Join the yarn bombing revolution!

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, Editor-in-chief of BUST Magazine and author of the Stitch ‘n Bitch books

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The icon of the muscular American male from 1860 to 1970.

American Hunks The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970

American Hunks is 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 specific historic eras, includes such personalities as bodybuilder Charles Atlas, pioneer weightlifter Eugen Sandow, and movie stars such as Steve “Hercules” Reeves and Johnny “Tarzan” Weismuller, and publications such as the 1920s-era magazine Physical Culture and the 1950s-era comic book Mr. Muscles. It also touches on the use of masculine, homoerotic imagery to sell political and military might (including American recruitment posters and Nazi propaganda from the 1936 Olympics), and how companies have used buff, near-naked men to sell products from laundry detergent to sacks of flour since the 1920s. The introduction

by Chapman offers insightful information on individual images, while the essay by Grubisic places the work in its proper historical context.

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The “American hunk” is a cultural icon: the image of the chiseled, well-built male body has been promoted and exploited for commercial use for over 125 years, whether in movies, magazines, advertisements, or on consumer products, not only in America but throughout the world.

David L. Chapman with Brett Josef Grubisic David L. Chapman has written many books on male photography and bodybuilding, including Comin’ at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield (page 20), co-authored by Thomas Waugh. He lives in Seattle.

Brett Josef Grubisic is author of the novel The Age of Cities (page 38) and editor of Contra/Diction: New Queer Fiction (page 27). He teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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A brilliant new novel by Sarah Schulman: a satiric vision of New York in the future.

The Mere Future NEW RELEASE

For a nation that elected Barack Obama amid 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.

Calling on all genres—literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy— Schulman invents a literature that reflects the lives we live right now, while being funny, sexy, and open-hearted.

Sarah Schulman Sarah Schulman is the author of eleven previous novels including Empathy (page 25), Rat Bohemia (page 32), and The Child (page 32). Her nonfiction books include Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS and the Marketing of Gay America and My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years, and the play Carson McCullers. She is co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project, and her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and two American Library Association Book Awards. She is a professor of English at City University of New York (College of Staten Island).

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Sparkling with witty and provocative social commentary, The Mere Future is a startlingly sharpeyed prophecy of the world to come that blows literary conventions out of the water.

In this dystopic, hell-ride of a novel, Sarah Schulman, New York’s legendary poet-maudit, is grappling with something that matters. The Mere Future is a rare combination of brains and humor, by turns enlightened and terrifying.

—Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

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A Queer Film Classic: Pedro Almodóvar’s 1987 gay melodrama.

Law of Desire A Queer Film Classic

The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed, obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas).

In the twenty-plus years since its first release, Law of Desire has been acknowledged as redefining the way in which cinema can portray the difficult affective relationships between homosexuality, gender, and sex. Taking his cue from the golden age of Latin American, American, and European melodrama, Almodóvar created a sentimental yet hard-edged film that believes in the utopian possibilities for new relationships that redeem people from their despair. Since its release, Almodóvar has become an Oscar-winning filmmaker who regularly delves into issues of sexuality, gender, and identity.

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.

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Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal’s new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic ­melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain’s most successful contemporary film director.

José Quiroga José Quiroga is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta.

The Queer Film Classics series, starting this fall, 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).

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A Queer Film Classic: the 1998 film based on the troubled life of director James Whale.

Gods and Monsters A Queer Film Classic NEW RELEASE

Gods and Monsters, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal’s new film book series Queer Film Classics, deals with the acclaimed 1998 film about openly gay film director James Whale, best known for the Frankenstein films of the 1930s.

Written and directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), Gods and Monsters stars Ian McKellen as Whale in the final days of his life during the 1950s. Moving from the slums of Britain in the early twentieth century to the new era of “talkies” in Hollywood and beyond, Gods and Monsters trains a gay eye on the historical events that helped shape Whale and his films.

Focusing on the final days of the director’s life, Gods and Monsters is a meditation on death that is not depressing, due in large part to the humor of Condon’s script and the elegance of McKellen’s performance. The resulting film was widely acclaimed, winning an Oscar for Condon’s screenplay and nominations for both McKellen and co-star Lynn Redgrave.

Noah Tsika Noah Tsika is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and the author of numerous essays on film, television, and new media.

The Queer Film Classics series, starting this fall, 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).

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This 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.

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

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A Queer Film Classic: director Paul Morrissey’s greatest film for producer Andy Warhol.

Trash A Queer Film Classic NEW RELEASE

Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal’s new film book series Queer Film Classics, delves into the legendary 1970 film that was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol.

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 superstar Holly Woodlawn), Joe’s feisty and sexually frustrated girlfriend. Joe is the hunky yet passive center around whom proud Holly orbits; while Morrissey intended to show that “there’s no difference between a person using drugs and a piece of refuse,” Woodlawn’s incredible turn reverses his logic: she makes trash as precious as human beings.

The book examines the film in the context of Morrissey and Warhol’s legendary partnership, with a special focus on Woodlawn’s acclaimed performance: a glorious embodiment of “trash” and glamour that was so stunning, director George Cukor led an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to win her an Oscar nomination.

Jon Davies Jon Davies is a curator and critic based in Toronto. He is the Assistant Curator of Public Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.

The Queer Film Classics series, starting this fall, 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).

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A Little Sister’s Classic: the groundbreaking collection of S/M leatherdyke fantasy.

Macho Sluts A Little Sister’s Classic NEW RELEASE

When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia’s Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco’s dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishing. Nobody had ever written so frankly about the kinky potential of woman-to-woman sex (and nobody has ever done it any better).

If any book is responsible for the formation of the modern lesbian leather community, this one is it.

Despite its graceful language, imaginative scenarios, and abundant humor, the lesbian press trashed Macho Sluts, and it became a focal point for the infamous legal battles between Canada Customs and Little Sister’s, the gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver. But readers loved it, and to this day Macho Sluts remains a vital and moving classic that still has the power to educate, radicalize, and expand our notions of the body’s potential to provide us with pleasure, pain, and love.

Patrick Califia Patrick Califia has written many books about radical sex, queer communities, and the repression of desire. Almost ten years ago, Califia transitioned from female to male; he now lives as a bisexual transman in San Francisco.

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This new edition, part of Arsenal’s Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting classics of LGBT literature, 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 in Portland.

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Essays on queer and trans life by the author of Butch is a Noun.

The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You NEW RELEASE

Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman 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; throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you’re visibly different from those around you—whether it’s being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the “official stories” about how gender and sexuality work.

Bear’s poetry of butchness lets us see into facets of gender that usually aren’t so transparent.

—Carol Queen Following Kate Bornstein, Bergman explains how butches live outside of the inane gender binary, and how society responds to gender rebellion.

—Chill Magazine A smart, heart-filled, humorous and touching piece about life as a gender outlaw in today’s world.

—Kate Bornstein

S. Bear Bergman S. Bear Bergman’s first book was Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts). Ze is an activist, gender-jammer, and author of two books and three award-winning solo stage shows. Bergman recently relocated to Burlington, Ontario from New England.

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Subversive true-life tales about gay men’s sexual experiences.

I Like It Like That True Stories of Gay Male Desire NEW RELEASE

From the editors of the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer: intelligent, sexy, true-life tales of gay men’s desire. The stories push at the parameters of queer erotic life, featuring contributors both novice and well-known; subject matter ranges from single, significant encounters to the ephemera of emotional desires that never lead to physical pleasure. Throughout, the book deals with the essential erotics of queer male life, to be used as a launching point for exploring the queer male condition: essays that delve into the diverse manifestations of desire between and among men.

Unlike other books of gay male erotica, I Like It Like That features smart, savvy writing about desire and sex. Unlike mainstream porn imagery that by default dominates our cultural (and therefore personal) references, contributors reach into the far reaches of memory to tell true tales about personal erotic space.

Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel Co-editors Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel have written, edited or co-edited well over 100 books between them, including First Person Queer (page 23), Second Person Queer (page 23), and The Future is Queer (page 21), all published by Arsenal.

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A moving, funny novel about tradition, destiny, and the complexities of love.

A Little Distillery in Nowgong NEW RELEASE

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. The narrative follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America.

The novel begins in 1899 with the birth of a boy named Jamshed to a rural Parsi family in central India. As he comes of age, Jamshed feels he is faced with the choice between spirituality and materiality: he has the opportunity to train to become a Parsi priest, or may follow family connections to a business opportunity as a distillery manager. Jamshed, who will become the family patriarch as a result of his choice, quickly becomes obsessed with the question of free will.

His preoccupations, however, are complicated by frequent, often disturbing, visitations by his as-yet-unborn grandchildren, who may or may not come into existence based on the choices he makes. After much soul-searching (and fantastical communications), Jamshed decides to take on the management of the distillery where he discovers the almost-magical properties of its main product, a much sought-after rum called Asha.

This beautifully told, engaging novel, by the author of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, humanizes the politics of ethnicity, culture, and colonial rule.

Ashok Mathur Ashok Mathur is the author of two previous novels, both published by Arsenal: Once Upon an Elephant and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (page 37). Born in Bhopal, India, he immigrated to Canada with his family in 1962. Currently, he is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada.

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Witty poems for the fast-food generation.

McPoems NEW RELEASE

Billeh Nickerson’s first poetry book, The Asthmatic Glassblower, was shortlisted for the Publishing Triangle’s Gay Men’s Poetry Award.

The hilarious and illuminating poems in his new collection, McPoems, are based on his years working at a particularly well-known fastfood restaurant; they paint a vivid picture of life behind the counter and will resonate with anyone who has ever held a fast-food job. Hold the pickle!

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Winner of the 3-Day Novel Contest, held every Labor Day weekend.

the videographer A New York film school dropout falls into a job setting up spycams and porn shoots for a shady underground video producer. His plans to escape the low-brow 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. 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.

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GO VEGAN! Go Vegan! is Sarah’s first wall calendar, featuring photographs of her in beguiling re-creations of advertisements, movie posters, and other iconic images of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s that have been reworked for modern vegan audiences.

Each month features a recipe appropriate for the season or a particular holiday, as well as various vegan facts, trivia, and dates in history.

With Sarah Kramer’s fun and fab Go Vegan! c­ alendar, vegans can stay happy, healthy, and “up to date.”

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2010 Wall Calendar

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VEGAN À GO-GO! A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road Vegan à Go-Go! represents a change of pace for Sarah: a cookbook and more for vegan travelers, many of whom are daunted by the idea of going on the road and being able to locate and/or prepare the kind of nutritious animal-free meals they enjoy at home. 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 pertinent to vegan travelers.

With these dishes, Sarah has managed to make vegan food fun, tasty, and sexy!

—Jane Wiedlin, The Go-Go’s

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LA DOLCE VEGAN! Vegan Livin’ Made Easy

GET IT RIPE A

Fresh Take on Vegan Living

Sarah Kramer

jae steele

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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 cookbooks (vegan / vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-187-9 $23.95

Get It Ripe is a vegan cookbook for the twenty-first 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 second printing cooking (vegan / vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-234-0 $23.95

THE GARDEN OF VEGAN How It All Vegan Again!

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 Teach the world at least two things: that being a vegan can be loads of fun and that vegan food is to die for.

—vegsource.com

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THE MODERN AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK Healthful, Healing Recipes for Life

EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating

Dreena Burton In Dreena Burton’s first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered This all-vegetarian cookbook based a dazzling array of healthy, animalon Ayurvedic traditions features delectable and nutritious recipes that appeal to particular free recipes, many of which were based on her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husdoshas, which are one’s personal constitution based on physical and mental characteristics: air (vata), fire (pitta), band are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and website (everyand earth (kapha) (the book includes a dosha questionnaire so readers can determine their own). And while the dayvegan.com) and and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her family-oriented, nutritious recipes. In recipes are authentically Ayurvedic, they feature easy-tofind ingredients and modern-day cooking methods appro- this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food—imaginative, colorful, and delectable priate for busy lifestyles.

Written with both converts and beginners in mind, vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals for two to dinner parties to casual potlucks.

The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook is a twenty­-first-century approach to an ancient tradition that will restore your third printing health, energy, and sense of well-being.

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THE EVERYDAY VEGAN

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VIVE LE VEGAN!

Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life

Simple, Delectable Recipes for the Everyday Vegan Family

Dreena Burton

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Burton 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. over 12,000 copies sold fifth 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 cookbooks (vegan / vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-106-0 $21.95

Veganism—the animal-free diet—is here to stay. And Dreena Burton is here to show you how the decision to “go green” 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 cookbooks (vegan / vegetarian) isbn 978-1-55152-169-5 $22.95

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WHERE PEOPLE FEAST

THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL

An Indigenous People’s Cookbook

Natasha Kyssa

Dolly & Annie Watts

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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, Alder-Grilled 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, 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. spring 2009 release

featured on npr second printing health / special diet isbn 978-1-55152-250-0 $18.95

cookbooks (native 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 and 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 is a new-style French cookbook designed with contemporary North American audiences in mind, featuring healthy, easy-to-find ingredients prepared using traditional French techniques tweaked with the home cook in mind.

The book includes beautiful yet simple recipes, that take advantage of meats, seafood, and vegetables abundant in North American markets; in keeping with their contemporary flair, pan-cultural influences abound, yet all the while the recipes remain faithful to French traditions. second printing cookbooks (french) isbn 978-1-55152-223-4 $29.95

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

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THE DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA 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.

Subjects include religious and ideological forces such as the Bible, Communism, Judaism, Hinduism, and Islam; historical events such as AIDS and Stonewall; and other topics such as coming out, adoption, deportation, ex-gays, lesbophobia, and biphobia.

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

G AY & L E S B I A N

edited by Louis-Georges Tin

A rich, rewarding, enlightening, and often entertaining read.

—Gay City News

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

queersexlife

ROY & AL

Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity

Ralf König

Terry Goldie Evocative of writers Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, whose best works explore gender and sexuality through personal memoir, queersexlife is a frank and intimate collection of responses to theories of queer sexuality and identity as viewed through the author’s own experiences.

By 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 27).

An important contribution to queer theory.

—Feminist Review

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

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

—Edge

comics & graphic novels / gay humor isbn 978-1-55152-206-7 $11.95

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GAY ART

COMIN’ AT YA!

A Historic Collection

The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield

Felix Lance Falkon with Thomas Waugh

David L. Chapman and

G AY & L E S B I A N

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

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

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. second printing lambda literary award finalist [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. second printing lambda literary award finalist 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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FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

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. Kristyn Dunnion’s “Homeland” reveals the horrors that lurk in your average night at a lesbian bar; Elizabeth Bachinsky’s “Postulation on the Violent Works of the Marquis de Sade” is a response to Sade from a feminist (yet kinky) perspective; and Amber Dawn’s “Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental” is a paranormal fantasia about urban gentrification, set in a house rented by lesbians on the eve that it is sold to new owners.

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?”

G AY & L E S B I A N

edited by Amber Dawn

Amber Dawn is a writer, performance artist, and radical sex/gender activist who co-edited With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (page 22). spring 2009 release

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

THE VIEW FROM HERE

THE FUTURE IS QUEER

Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers

edited by Richard Labonté & Lawrence Schimel

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.

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

lambda literary award winner film & tv / gay & lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-220-3 $22.95

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WITH A ROUGH TONGUE

RED LIGHT

Femmes Write Porn

Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts

edited by Amber Dawn

edited by Anna Camilleri

& Trish Kelly

G AY & L E S B I A N

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

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 twenty-first century. lambda literary award finalist Brave and bold and in your face, a brazen mix of passionate intelligence and striking sexuality.

—Herizons

fiction (anthologies) / women’s isbn 978-1-55152-184-8 $18.95

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 / lesbian 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 A bold, groundbreaking collection.

—Lambda Book Report

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

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SECOND PERSON QUEER

Who we are (so far)

Who you are (so far)

edited by Richard Labonté &

edited by Richard Labonté &

Lawrence Schimel

Lawrence Schimel

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 winner 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

PETER FLINSCH

Second Person Queer is an unusual companion book: an anthology of essays on LGBT life written in the second person. They take the form of 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. They deal with subjects as large and looming as violence, coming out, gay marriage, and AIDS. Powerful, funny, poignant: these are the stories of who you are as a LGBT person, or the person you would most like to be.

G AY & L E S B I A N

FIRST PERSON QUEER

spring 2009 release

nonfiction (anthologies) / gay & lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-245-6 $18.95

The Body in Question

THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB

Ross Higgins

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, introduction

by Sharon Feldman

At the age of 87, Peter Flinsch is one of the art world’s unsung heroes; for the past sixty years, he has produced hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculptures which depict the eroticized male body. In 2006, he won the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York, and now, for the first time, his work has been collected in a beautiful, full-color edition that celebrates his life and art.

This brilliant novel is set in the 1950s, narrated by a thirteen-yearold 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

spring 2008 release 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

visual arts / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-237-1 $27.95

Triumphant … provocative and carnal … An astute examination of a repressive political and religious environment’s impact on moral judgment and behavior.

—Gay & Lesbian Review fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-230-2 $16.95

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PATIENCE & SARAH Isabel Miller, introduction by

FRANNY, THE QUEEN OF PROVINCETOWN

Emma Donoghue

John Preston, introduction by Michael Lowenthal

G AY & L E S B I A N

Set in the nineteenth 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.

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

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

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-191-6 $17.95

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 nineteenthcentury 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

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

—Gay & Lesbian Review

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WHISPER THEIR LOVE

Fritz Peters, introduction by

Valerie Taylor, introduction by

Michael Bronski

Barbara Grier

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.

G AY & L E S B I A N

FINISTÈRE

a little sister’s classic

The best novel this reviewer has ever read on the theme of homosexuality. —New York Times (1951) fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-211-1 $17.95

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

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 33).

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 (page 6), Rat Bohemia (page 32) and The Child (page 32).

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

With Empathy, the lesbian novel comes of age.

—Fay Weldon

fiction / lesbian isbn 978-155152-201-2 $15.95

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HOT & BOTHERED 4

QUICKIES 3

Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire

Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire

edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky

edited by James C. Johnstone

G AY & L E S B I A N

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.

The third installment of the bestselling international gay men’s erotica series, consisting of stories of 1,000 words or less that articulate desire between men. Previous books in the series have made bestseller lists, and feature many award-winning writers and anthologists among their contributors. lambda literary award finalist

lambda literary award finalist PRAISE FOR KAREN X. TULCHINSKY: [A]n editor with an extraordinary gift for collecting and editing very short pieces that carry the emotional complexity of a good novel. —Bay Area Reporter

lesbian anthology / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-145-9 $15.95

PRAISE FOR QUICKIES 2: [T]his is a fine read … will spark both passion and conversation… —Outlooks Succeeds in creating a portrait about desire…

—Quill & Quire

gay anthology / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-144-2 $15.95

OUTBURSTS!

also available

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus compiled by A.D. Peterkin 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 30).

HOT & BOTHERED isbn 978-1-55152-051-3 $16.95

HOT & BOTHERED 3 isbn 978-1-55152-102-2 $15.95

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

QUICKIES 2

isbn 978-1-55152-069-8 $14.95

QUICKIES

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 / pop culture isbn 978-1-55152-151-0 $16.95

isbn 978-1-55152-052-0 $14.95

QUEER FEAR

isbn 978-1-55152-084-1 $22.95

QUEER FEAR II

The Bald-Headed Hermit & the Artichoke isbn 978-1-55152-063-6, $14.95 also available:

isbn 978-1-55152-122-0 $17.95

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LET ME KISS IT BETTER

A Memoir

Elixirs For the Not So Straight and Narrow

Daniel Gawthrop

Billeh Nickerson

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 14), The Asthmatic Glassblower and editor of Seminal (both on 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 / biography / cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-189-3 $16.95

G AY & L E S B I A N

THE RICE QUEEN DIARIES

gay studies / humor isbn 978-1-55152-125-1 $13.95

IN A QUEER COUNTRY

CONTRA/DICTION

Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context

New Queer Male Fiction edited by Brett Josef Grubisic

edited by Terry Goldie 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 19).

Contra/Diction is an anthology of gay men’s fiction to re-establish the queer in queer; an attempt to show that not all gay men “drive to Ikea, go to the gym, and buy new ties for their management-level positions before taking in the latest stage hit.” The nightmare and paradise of sexuality, love, and community are viewed from different perspectives, along with issues of race, economics, violence, politics, and homophobia. Grubisic is also the co-author of American Hunks (page 5), and author of The Age of Cities (page 38) and editor of Carnal Nation (page 41).

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

finalist, ala award for gay and lesbian literature

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VANCOUVER ART & ECONOMIES

STAN DOUGLAS: EVERY BUILDING ON 100 WEST HASTINGS

edited by Melanie O’Brian

edited by Reid Shier

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

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-and-white images throughout.

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 monumentalsized 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 isbn 978-1-55152-214-2 $24.95

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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

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TO THE DOGS

HOPE IN SHADOWS

Peter Culley

Stories and Photographs from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

featured in modern dog magazine A lyrical exploration of the complex relationship between man and dog. —Montreal Gazette

Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome Hope in Shadows offers readers an intimate and honest look at what it really means to live in Canada’s poorest neighbourhood. The result is not at all bleak, but rather is full of grace, dignity, and plain simple truths that put a human face on the single most misunderstood community in Canada. This, then, is its story: about First Nations people who survived the residential school system; sex workers whose poor treatment at the hands of authorities precipitated the murder of dozens of women; those who cope with addiction and inadequate living conditions; those who overcome loss and search for loved ones; and the transformative power of hope and forgiveness. city of vancouver book award winner

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ONE RING CIRCUS Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues Brian Howell

social issues isbn 978-155152-238-8 $ 19.95

A R T S , P O L I T I 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 unsavoury 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.

THE GREENPEACE TO AMCHITKA An Environmental Odyssey Robert Hunter, photographs by Robert Keziere

Disco Fury. Wrathchild. BamBam Bambi. Ladies Choice.

Backyard Billy. Cheerleader Melissa. Backwoods Militia.

Gorgeous Michelle Starr. Welcome to the world of minor-league professional wrestling. One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for. This book of brilliant photographs and crisp narratives perfectly captures the visceral energy of a remarkable underground scene. By the author of Fame Us (page 31). a parallax book Captures the freak show in and beyond the ring with eyes-wide respect. —Toronto Star sports / photography isbn 978-1-55152-132-9 $16.95

This is the story of Greenpeace’s beginnings. In this visceral memoir, Robert Hunter vividly depicts the peculiar odyssey that led to the formation of the most powerful environmental organization in the world. With photographs

by Robert Keziere. winner, ryga award for social awareness roderick haig-brown book prize nominee Robert Hunter’s The Greenpeace to Amchitka offers the gonzo goods. The story is essentially a Kerouac and Kesey-inspired riff on a ‘60’s road trip, as interested in the antics of the Merry Pranksterish protagonists themselves as in the larger issues at hand … the innocent bravery that it depicts is still inspiring. —Quill & Quire environment isbn 978-1-55152-178-7 $19.95

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COMFORT FOOD FOR BREAKUPS

I, SHITHEAD

The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

Joey Keithley

Marusya Bociurkiw

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

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

A Life in Punk

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

—Vancouver Sun

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

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ONE THOUSAND BEARDS

SPREE

A Cultural History of Facial Hair

A Cultural History of Shopping

Allan Peterkin

Pamela Klaffke

As seen in Time, Esquire, and The New York Times, 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 An entertaining and informative combination of a history, a documentary, an appreciation and a catalogue.

—Publishers Weekly Touching on both the history and the psychological interpretations of this seemingly minor cultural cue, Peterkin analyzes the ever-changing shaving practices… .

—Quill & Quire

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

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FAME US

From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Cult(ure) of Celebrity

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

—Bookforum

Brian Howell In this stunning book, photographer Brian Howell takes us into the world of celebrity impersonators—the faux famous people who make a living at pretending to be someone else. In addition, in two essays, cultural critic Norbert Ruebsaat looks at the history of celebrity culture, and Geist magazine editor Stephen Osborne delves into the nature of photographing impersonators. By the author of One Ring Circus (page 29).

An accessible, well-researched history.

—Canadian Art

One of the eeriest photography books of the year.

—New York Times

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.

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

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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 quarter-century 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

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

ANARCHY AND ART

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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RAT BOHEMIA

THE CHILD

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman

FICTION

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel, written from the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians who bond with one another in the wake of loss.

Navigating the currents of the city is Rita Mae, a rat exterminator who holds the optimism of all true bohemians—those who stand outside of the prevailing social apparatus. By the author of The Mere Future (page 6), The Child (this page) and Empathy (page 26).

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

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. shortlisted for the lambda literary award and the ferro-grumley women’s fiction award Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desire, mores, and the law.

—Publishers Weekly

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KUROSHIO: THE BLOOD OF FOXES Terry Watada A remarkable novel that explores the dark reaches of Issei, or Japanese immigrant, life in Canada prior to World War II. Murder, sexual intrigue, and broken dreams combine to create an intense depiction of Vancouver’s Second World War-era Japanese-Canadian community.

—Quill & Quire The novel at its best recalls the works of Dashiell Hammett or James M. Cain.

—Publishers Weekly

SMOKE SHOW Clint Burnham Smoke Show is a novel that will astound readers with its audacious, stripped-down narrative set in the mid-nineties about assorted diehards and lost souls, seen through a hazy filter of bus fumes and cigarette smoke. Told in “real time,” Smoke Show is raw, candid, amorphous; a novel told in conversation. finalist, ethel wilson fiction prize Burnham is pitch perfect all the way through.

—Publishers Weekly A novel of many voices… Burnham combines a poet’s rhythmic sensibility with an impeccable ear for self-contradictory speech.

—Bookforum

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SOUCOUYANT David Chariandy

THE REVEREND’S APPRENTICE

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

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-226-5 $18.95

SCRAPBOOK OF MY YEARS AS A ZEALOT

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.

FICTION

David N. Odhiambo 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

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

GOT ’TIL IT’S GONE Larry Duplechan

Nicole Markotic´ In a small town, a quirky young woman grows up amid a family dynamic that leaves her feeling misunderstood and left out.

She’s a child of immigrants from war-torn Germany and Croatia, parents who cling to vestiges of a traumatic past that never seem real enough for their daughter. To leave her stifling family behind and to forge a “new normal,” she earnestly tries to fit in with her best friend Vera and family, and subsequently—crazily—an even more rigid life of Mormonism.

A pleasure to read. It reminds us that we can never become something we aren’t, but neither can we entirely escape the self we have tried to become.

—Quill & Quire

fiction isbn 978-1-55152-248-7 $18.95

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—the first gay black coming-out 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. Duplechan is also the author of Blackbird (page 25). 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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ZED

IN THE GARDEN OF MEN

Elizabeth McClung

John Kupferschmidt

FICTION

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. foreword magazine book of the year, science fiction A hellishly engaging novel. —Rain Taxi

In 1968, an inconsequential civil servant finds himself swept into the mechanism of state oppression when the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia. Put to work processing the arrest warrants of anyone who opposes the repressive regime, he falls quickly into the moral no-man’s-land of repressive bureaucracy. As his humanity succumbs to the requirements of state doctrine, a series of chance encounters leads him to realize that in the world of men, there are no saints, no ideologies, no proclamations for a perfect salvation, only the fundamental choice: to act or not.

2008 3-day novel contest winner

Shocking and complete with alarming psychological insights, Zed is like nothing you’ve read before.

—Pages Magazine fiction isbn 978-1-55152-222-7 $14.95

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THE CONVICTIONS OF LEONARD MCKINLEY

THE SLOW FIX

Brendan McLeod

With The Slow Fix, Ivan returns to her short story roots in a collection that is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our pre-conceived notions of gender roles.

A raucous coming-of-age novel about a teenager whose faith in the world is being sorely tested.

Leonard McKinley’s failure to follow his own moral compass has caused his father’s heart attack and triggered an epilectic fit in his dog. How can he learn to suppress his dark, subversive tendencies and balance virtue with fitting in?

2007 3-day novel contest winner

Ivan E. Coyote

second printing spring 2009 release 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

This 3-Day winner is an emotionally powerful book and an intense read. —NOW

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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.

finalist, ferro-grumley award ala stonewall honor book third printing

finalist, ferro-grumley award 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)

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ONE MAN’S TRASH Ivan E. Coyote

FICTION

BOW GRIP

[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

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

—Publishers Weekly

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MANBUG

RANDOM ACTS OF HATRED

George K. Ilsley

George K. Ilsley

FICTION

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.

In these raw, uncompromising stories, Ilsley explores the thin line between love and hate, and the outer parameters of desire that can both heal and destroy.

Evocative of Dennis Cooper and David Wojnarowicz, Random Acts of Hatred collects the fragments of a disintegrated generation, numbed yet empowered by their varied, inexplicable desires.

foreword book of the year award finalist 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

There are echoes throughout of Dennis Cooper’s poetic depravity, of A.M. Homes’ ironic eroticism, and even of Bernard Cooper’s memorish emotionalism—but Ilsley’s lucid prose is infused with invigorating originality … quite a range, evident in every one of these accomplished pieces. —Richard Labonté

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SHUCK

HARD CORE LOGO

Daniel Allen Cox

Michael Turner

Shuck 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. As his dreams of becoming a literary star grow dim, and when his love affair with a moody painter becomes hopelessly messy, he tries to reconfigure his life by documenting obsessive lists from found trash, and by hustling, which steals little pieces of his body and scatters them all over the city.

Michael Turner’s classic novelin-verse about the legendary punk band Hard Core Logo’s reunion tour across Western Canada transforms the rock ‘n’ roll road experience into a tale of broken dreams and shattered friendships. Bruce McDonald’s film version of Hard Core Logo won the City tv Award in 1996 and was released in the US by Quentin Tarantino.

So authentic that it practically gives off feedback.

—NOW

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

—Globe and Mail isbn

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HOPEFUL MONSTERS

VENOUS HUM Suzette Mayr

“Hopeful monsters” are genetically abnormal organisms that, nonetheless, adapt to and survive in their environments.

With humor and keen insight, Goto makes the familiar seem strange, and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd, the sublime, even the horrific.

Alternately poignant and noisy, these stories establish Hiromi Goto’s gift for short fiction that is as shining as her acclaimed novels.

Defies categorization. It’s a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. —Amazon.ca

A satire on race, gender, sexual preference, and vegetarianism, Venous Hum will cause you to throw your assumptions of the world and the people who inhabit it out the window. It’s an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence announcing the end of writing as you know it, and the beginning of something entirely new.

Venous Hum never fails to impress. Brash, macabre, and irreverent, it’s the kind of story you want to hear from a later day Scheherazade: So intoxicating you crave more.

—Vancouver Sun

Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautful hand.

—Multicultural Review

Suzette Mayr’s latest novel weaves an outrageously comical yet surreal tale of broken hearts, burning hearts, and hearts for dinner. —Quill & Quire

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THE SHORT, HAPPY LIFE OF HARRY KUMAR

FICTION

Hiromi Goto

WHEN FOX IS A THOUSAND Larissa Lai

Ashok Mathur 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 (page 13) and Once Upon an Elephant (isbn 978-1-55152-058-2, $18.95) commonwealth writers prize nominee A rich and multilayered story. —Georgia Straight fiction isbn 978-1-55152-113-8 $15.95

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.

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

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FLAT

THE AGE OF CITIES

Mark Macdonald

Brett Josef Grubisic

FICTION

When a dead man is discovered in his apartment, a distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess and has his own world turned upside down.

Elegantly written and full of sharp bursts of wit, Flat explores how we relate—and don’t—to one another, amid an unforgiving concrete landscape that holds more secrets than it can bear.

Equal parts Bildüngsroman and purported literary artifact: a manuscript is discovered inside a hollowed-out home economics textbook from the 1950s; the story of a male librarian from a small town who comes to the big city at the height of the Cold War in 1959. His accidental discovery of a gay subculture—culminating in a feverish, dream-like initiation—pushes him irrevocably towards crisis.

second printing city of vancouver book award finalist Uncanny … with a deadpan worthy of Kafka, and the eye of a satellite camera…

—Lambda Book Report

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The Age of Cities rewards the reader with the power of an unapologetic work of art. —Lambda Book Report Mingles past and present with powerful effect… A beautifully realized story. —Gay & Lesbian Review

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SO LONG BEEN DREAMING

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

These stories feel lived rather than imagined.

—Quill & Quire

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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

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THE UNKNOWN CITY THE UNKNOWN CITY

City guides with a twist, full of fun and offbeat factoids, strange-but-true anecdotes, notorious scandals, and the inside scoop on the best places to dine, shop, and hang out. Plus: the obscure, trivial, and even macabre stories behind the people, places, and events that make a city unique. For first-time visitors and life-long denizens, The Unknown City books will change the way you look at a city.

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NEW YORK the unknown city isbn 978-1-55152-161-9 $17.95

TORONTO the unknown city isbn 978-1-55152-146-6 $16.95

VANCOUVER the unknown city isbn 978-1-55152-147-3 $16.95

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DESILICIOUS

CARNAL NATION

Sexy. Subversive.

South Asian.

Brave New Sex Fictions

edited by the Masala Trois

Josef Grubisic

edited by Carellin Brooks & Brett

Collective

E R OT I C A

A wide-ranging compilation of erotic literature by male and female writers of South Asian descent—a medley of arousing and thematically innovative fiction, poetry, and essays, spiced for mature appetites only. The contributions vary from suggestive to salacious, risque to ribald; challenging colonial stereotypes of South Asian sexuality, they also explode existing notions of cultural “norms.”

This compilation takes us well beyond the romatntic stereotypes of Bollywood or the souped-up sex of the Kama Sutra. —Globe and Mail

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Sex, once the great unspoken, is now regularly commodified and prepackaged for wide consumer consumption, on tv, in films, on billboards. In this context in which nothing is shocking—no boundary too sacred to cross—what does sex mean, particularly to those born under these conditions?

Carnal Nation collects stories about sex by an exciting new generation of writers who boldly push the narrative envelope.

Dispels any notion of polite reserve … startlingly frank and sometimes raunchy. —Publishers Weekly

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IN THE INNER QUARTERS

THE EMBROIDERED COUCH

Erotic Stories from Ling Mengchu’s Two Slaps

An Erotic Novel From China tranlsated by Lenny Hu

translated by Lenny Hu This startling collection of five erotic stories are from seventeenth-century Ming dynasty China, a period characterized by increasing industrialization and urbanization, which led to a more material society, and to a desire in the population to pursue luxury and pleasure. Ling Mengchu’s stories are preoccupied with sexuality and include a host of characters, including bold, aggressive, cunning, and seductive men, and highly passionate, sensual, and sexually insatiable women. The publication of In the Inner Quarters, for the first time ever in English, gives new life to the sensual pleasures of that era.

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

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

Full of the kind of courtly exoticism you might expect from so long ago … a lot racier than anything you find in Shakespeare, who was writing at the same time.

—Globe and Mail

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SEMINAL The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets

PERFORMANCE BOND Wayde Compton

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 RM 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.

POETRY

edited by John Barton & Billeh

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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49th PARALLEL PSALM

THE ASTHMATIC GLASSBLOWER

Wayde Compton

and other poems Billeh Nickerson

A poetic, historical revision, 49th Parallel Psalm documents the migration of blacks to Canada, and as such confronts the reality of the black presence here. With recurring themes of the unknowable, the crossroads, the trickster, and entropy, 49th Parallel Psalm jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon. It’s about the endless arrival. second printing 49th Parallel Psalm is a passionate, funny, dangerous, maddeningly obscure, unbearably lucid book that crackles with anger and subversive energy.

—January Magazine

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Billeh Nickerson is a poet for our times—a witty, urbane chronicler of life through ­lavender-colored glasses. His poems, full of astonishing pleasures, speak to the wonders of the world: about “the push of knowing you’re different” and “the pull of wanting to belong.” Nickerson is also the author of McPoems (page 14), Let Me Kiss it Better (page 27) and the co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets (above). publishing triangle award finalist Kind of like Sex in the City, but without too much of the City, this book was genuinely one of the funniest I’ve read in a long time. —Gay Times

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