US catalogue, Fall 2012

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Arsenal Pulp Press’s top-10 essential stock list: Hoopla, page 15, isbn 978-1-55152-406-1 Yarn Bombing, page 15, isbn 978-1-55152-255-5 How it all Vegan!, page 12, isbn 978-1-55152-253-1 Persistence, page 21, isbn 978-1-55152-397-2 The Tastes of Ayurveda, page 11, isbn 978-1-55152-438-2 Shoot It!, page 18, isbn 978-1-55152-408-5 Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, page 13, isbn 978-1-55152-224-1 We Sure Can!, page 12, isbn 978-1-55152-402-3 The Bearded Gentleman, page 18, isbn 978-1-55152-343-9 La Dolce Vegan!, page 12, isbn 978-1-55152-187-9

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High-energy raw vegan recipes from Vancouver’s famed Gorilla Foods café.

GORILLA FOOD Living and Eating Organic, Vegan, and Raw NEW RELEASE

Raw food diets have exploded in popularity in recent years; some believe that the cooking process destroys nutrients and even produces dangerous chemicals through the interaction of heat with fat, protein, and carbohydrates.

Enter Aaron Ash, a charismatic chef whose organic raw vegan restaurant Gorilla Food has taken Vancouver by storm for its inventive and delicious dishes, all prepared without the use of animal products or a stove. Aaron is a conscientious raw vegan whose beliefs about food are tied to personal and social well-being. Gorilla Food strives to promote the idea that a sustainable, healthy culture depends on humankind living as “lightly” as possible, mitigating the damage wrought on the environment and ourselves.

Gorilla Food the book is both an innovative cooking manual and a raw vegan bible; recipes include a raw lasagna made with zucchini “newdles,” kale, a “cheese” made from walnuts, and a raw soup made from seasonal greens, tomatoes, and avocado. There are also amazing raw pizzas, fruit pies, and chocolate desserts that will delight vegans and non-vegans alike with their surprisingly complex flavors. As well, the book contains recipes for dehydrated and cultured foods, important for a raw food diet and surprisingly simple to prepare.

Aaron Ash Aaron Ash is the founder of Gorilla Food, an organic, vegan, raw food restaurant in downtown Vancouver. In addition to running Gorilla Food, Aaron Ash was a former personal chef to Mike-D of the Beastie Boys. He is also an in-demand caterer for high-profile events around North America, and is making plans to open additional Gorilla Food locations in Greater Vancouver.

Gorilla Food will make you go ape for living life to the rawest! isbn 978-1-55152-470-2 8 x 9 | 232 pp | paper $24.95 full color throughout

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cooking (vegan) ckb086000 pub month: october

An irresistible guide to all things cute and collectible.

HELLO, CUTIE! Adventures in Cute Culture NEW RELEASE

A doe-eyed doll, a smiley-faced cupcake, a sweet plush kitten: they’re cute—and cute is at the heart of a growing legion of adult collectors and enthusiasts who live and breathe all things cuddly and adorable.

Pamela Klaffke, author of Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping and herself an avid collector of cute since she was a child, takes readers on a rainbow-and-unicorn-filled journey through cute culture, from its origins in Japan where teenaged girls help drive the “cute” economy, to its modern-day manifestations in the bubblegumcolored careers of performers like Katy Perry.

The book also delves into the fanatical world of cute creators and collectors, the psychology of nostalgia, and the phenomenon known as creepy/cute. There’s also cute food, anthropomorphized animals, and cute superstars such as Blythe, My Little Pony, and Hello Kitty herself.

Full-color throughout, the book also includes many photographs of cute objects from the author’s extensive personal collection.

Pamela Klaffke Pamela Klaffke is a newspaper and magazine journalist turned novelist and photographer. She is the author of the the non-fiction book Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping (page 18) and the novels Snapped and Every Little Thing. She lives in Calgary with her partner and her daughter.

isbn 978-1-55152-472-6

cultural studies /

8 x 8 | 206 pp | paper

antiques & collectibles

$19.95

soc022000 / ant050000

full color throughout

pub month: october

As charming and captivating as its subject matter, Hello, Cutie! invites readers to indulge their cuddliest guilty pleasures. It’s as cute as can be!

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A fun romp through the cultural history of the mustache.

ONE THOUSAND MUSTACHES A Cultural History of the Mo NEW RELEASE

The ’stache is back! After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the mustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (the international campaign in which men grow facial hair during the month of November to raise funds for prostate cancer research; in 2011, 1.8 million men in fourteen countries participated), and the retro/modern mo’s sported by the likes of Ryan Gosling, Ashton Kutcher, and James Franco. Shaving companies are offering new-fangled mustache groomers, and even Dr Seuss’s mustachioed The Lorax has made a comeback.

One Thousand Mustaches is both a lighthearted cultural history and an earnest style manual: it’s the story of the ’stache through the ages and its manifestations in politics, war, movies, music, sports, and art, as well as information on various ’stache styles and how to grow and wear them with pride. The book also includes numerous photos and drawings throughout.

Contemplating a handlebar or considering a Fu Manchu? Find them and more styles here in One Thousand Mustaches: a book for those with mo’s, and those who love ’em.

Allan Peterkin Allan Peterkin is the author of One Thousand Beards (page 18), now in its third printing, as well as The BaldHeaded Hermit and the Artichoke and Outbursts!; more recently he is the co-author of The Bearded Gentleman (page 18). He is a doctor and freelance writer based in Toronto.

isbn 978-1-55152-474-0

cultural studies / men’s

5 x 8 | 144 pp | paper

health (grooming)

$12.95

soc022000 / hea003000

b&w photos

pub month: september

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Ivan E. Coyote’s first book aimed at queer youth: stories about being true to yourself.

ONE IN EVERY CROWD NEW RELEASE

Ivan E. Coyote is one of Canada’s best-loved storytellers; her honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences around the world. For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where her talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace their own sense of self and to be proud of who they are. One in Every Crowd, Ivan’s eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, is her first specifically for queer youth.

Comprised of new stories and others culled from previous collections, One in Every Crowd is for anyone who has ever felt different or alone in their struggle to be true to themselves. Included are stories about Ivan’s own tomboy past in Canada’s north, where playing hockey and wearing pants were the norm; and about her adult life in the big city, where she encounters both cruelty and kindness in unexpected places. Then there are the tales of family and friends who live their lives by example, like Francis, the curlyhaired little boy who likes to wear dresses, and the brave kids she meets at queer youth camp.

Ivan E. Coyote Ivan E. Coyote is a writer, performer, and author of six previous books published by Arsenal Pulp Press, the most recent of which is Missed Her (page 30). Ivan is also the co-editor (with Zena Sharman) of the anthology Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (page 21). One of her stories appears in the anthology It Gets Better, edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller.

isbn 978-1-55152-459-7 5.5 x 8.5 | 160 pp | paper $15.95

Funny, inspiring, and full of heart, One in Every Crowd is really for everyone; it’s about embracing and celebrating difference and feeling comfortable in one’s own skin, no matter what the circumstance.

ya fiction (lgbt / contemporary) juv039080 / juv039140 pub month: september

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Musician Rae Spoon’s first book, about a young person growing up queer in Alberta.

FIRST SPRING GRASS FIRE NEW RELEASE

Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses “they” as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in Alberta.

The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father’s schizophrenia causes their parents’ marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings, in their nascent feelings for a girl at school, and in their growing awareness that they are not the person their parents think they are. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a quietly devastating, heartwrenching coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance.

From First Spring Grass Fire: I would stare at the slivers of the Rocky Mountains that I could see from my bunk bed and imagine crawling over them like they were tiny pebbles to the ocean. I would look into the clouds for messages that confirmed my doubts and found nothing—just a huge God-filled sky over the dry grass on Nose Hill, brown after the snow had melted and waiting for a cigarette to set the first spring grass fire.

Rae Spoon Rae Spoon is a transgender musician/writer/workshop facilitator originally from Calgary. Rae has been nominated for a Polaris Prize, toured internationally, and released six solo albums. They were recently published in the Arsenal Pulp anthology Persistence (page 21) and composed the instrumental score for the National Film Board film Dead Man. Rae will soon be the subject of a National Film Board documentary. Rae lives in Montreal.

isbn 978-1-55152-480-1

fiction

5.5 x 8 | 144 pp | paper

fic018000

$14.95

pub month: september

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An epic graphic novel for young people about Chinese immigrants in North America.

ESCAPE TO GOLD MOUNTAIN A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America NEW RELEASE

The history of Chinese immigration to North America over the past 100-plus years has been fraught with sadness and indignity; newcomers encountered discrimination, subjugation, and separation from loved ones, and in the US, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act outright banned Chinese immigration to America. Despite such obstacles, these Chinese newcomers persevered in order to create a better life for the generations to come.

Escape to Gold Mountain is the first graphic novel to tell their story: based on historical documents and interviews with elders, this is a vivid history of the Chinese in their search for “Gold Mountain” (the Chinese colloquialism for North America) as seen through the eyes of the Wong family. They traverse the challenges of eking out an existence in their adopted homeland with hope and determination, creating a poignant immigrant’s legacy for their sons and daughters.

Escape to Gold Mountain is a moving and gripping story for all young people.

Ages 12 and up.

David H.T. Wong David H.T. Wong was born and raised in Vancouver, where he still lives. He is an accomplished architect and a respected Asian-Canadian community activist whose family first emigrated from China 130 years ago.

isbn 978-1-55152-476-4 7 x 10 | 256 pp | paper $19.95

juvenile nonfiction (graphic novels) jnf062020 / jnf053240 pub month: october

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An extravagant novel about powerful desires that destroy and create.

THE LAVA IN MY BONES NEW RELEASE

A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah.

Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary.

Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality.

Barry Webster Barry Webster’s first book, The Sound of All Flesh (Porcupine’s Quill), won the ReLit Award for best shortstory collection in 2005. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, the CBC-Quebec Prize, and the Hugh MacLennan Award. Originally from Toronto, he currently lives in East Montreal.

isbn 978-1-55152-478-8

fiction

5.5 x 8 | 304 pp | paper

fic019000 / fic011000

$16.95

pub month: september

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A Queer Film Classic on Hitchcock’s acclaimed homoerotic thriller.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN A Queer Film Classic NEW RELEASE

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 thriller based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (who also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley) is about two men who meet on a train: one wishes to divorce his unfaithful wife so he can marry a US senator’s daughter; the other is an enigmatic bachelor with an overbearing father. Together they enter into a murder plot that binds them to one another, with fatal consequences.

This Queer Film Classic delves into the homoerotic energy of the film, especially between the two male characters (played by Farley Granger and Robert Walker). It builds on the question of the sexuality the film puts on view, not to ask whether either character is gay so much as to explore the queer relations between sexuality and murder and the strong antisocial impulses those relations represent. The book also includes a look at the making of the film and the critical controversies over Hitchcock’s representations of male homosexuality.

Jonathan Goldberg Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has directed the Studies in Sexualities Program since 2008. He is the author of many books, including Writing Matter, Sodometries, and Desiring Women Writing, and is the editor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s posthumous 2012 book The Weather in Proust.

isbn 978-1-55152-482-5 5 x 7| 160 pp | paper $14.95

QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed book series that launched in 2009, edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering twenty-one of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people made between 1950 and 2005, and written by leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics. For other Queer Film Classic titles, see pages 26–27.

performing arts (film) lgbt studies per004030 / soc012000 pub month: november

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A Queer Film Classic on the 1997 film about a boy who insists that he is a she.

MA VIE EN ROSE A Queer Film Classic

This Queer Film Classic considers the ramifications of the film’s controversial themes within the context of contemporary queer studies, especially in the relationships between predicament, the politics of identity, and metaphors of the self. It also delves into the film’s cultural impact as a bright and bold story about difference, rejection, and the innocence of youth.

QUEER FILM CLASSICS is a critically acclaimed book series that launched in 2009, edited by Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, covering twenty-one of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people made between 1950 and 2005, and written by leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics. For other Queer Film Classic titles, see pages 26–27.

NEW RELEASE

Ma vie en rose (“My life in pink”) is the acclaimed 1997 Belgian film directed by Alain Berliner, about a seven-year-old garçon-fille (boygirl) who loves wearing dresses watching Le monde de Pam, and celebrating pink as the true color of gender, sexuality, and race. Ludovic lives happily in the suburbs with his typical nuclear family, and his parents indulge his taste for being a she until his bold wedding game with Jérôme, the boy next door, provokes a family crisis by setting things queer in the pastelcolored neighborhood. The film won a Golden Globe Award for best foreign film but was rated Restricted by the Motion Picture Association of America, a move that some regarded as transphobic. The film resonates in current debates on transgenderism, especially as they relate to children.

Chantal Nadeau Chantal Nadeau is originally from Montreal and is now Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, IL. She is the author of Fur Nation: From the Beaver to Brigitte Bardot (Routledge).

performing arts (film) isbn 978-1-55152-484-9

lgbt & gender studies

5 x 7 | 160 pp | paper

per004030 / soc012000

$14.95

soc032000 pub month: november

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V6A Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Elee Kralji Gardner and John Mikhail Asfour, editors

NEW RELEASES

“V6A” is the postal prefix for what is often described as “the poorest neighbourhood in Canada”—Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Statistics about the area depict conditions related to crime, drugs, sex work, and poverty that overshadow another reality based on self-determination.

The anthology V6A refracts the experience of thirty-two writers, emerging and established, who have been a part of the DTES community in some way. Their prose, poetry, and essays reappropriate the coding of the area and recast the DTES as a site of creative energy and human dignity. Includes a preface by writer Gary Geddes. Partial proceeds from the sale of this book will fund Thursdays Writing Collective, a program for DTES writers directed by co-editor Elee Kraljii Gardiner.

isbn 978-1-55152-462-7

fiction (anthologies)

6 x 9 | 208 pp | paper

lc006000

$19.95

pub month: september

HEIDIGGER STAIRWELL Kayt Burgess Music journalist Evan Strocker has almost finished a book about his time with Heidegger Stairwell, an indie-rock legend from small-town Ontario whose members he has known his whole life. But the band thinks he’s left a little too much of himself on the page—letting his experiences as a transgender man and his complicated “romance” with the lead guitarist eclipse the story of the group’s dramatic rise and fall. Through notes and marginalia, the musicians argue over their friend’s version of the truth and fight to put their own testimony on the record. And, as Strocker’s manuscript finally comes together, both band and writer are forced to face a shocking new event that will change their fortunes once again.

Heidegger Stairwell is the winner of the 34th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest—a notorious literary marathon held every Labor Day weekend that pushes writers to produce risky, original, and fast-paced narratives within highly demanding constraints.

isbn 978-1-55152-476-3

fiction

5.75 x 8.25 | 160 pp | paper

fic019000 / fic011000

$14.95

pub month: september

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More Healthful, Healing Recipes for the Modern Ayurvedic Amrita Sondhi In her second vegetarian cookbook, Amrita Sondhi, author of The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook (opposite), provides new twists on traditional Ayurvedic recipes that are also inspired by the growing popularity of whole grains (quinoa, spelt, and barley) and raw foods. Recipes include modern interpretations of Indian cuisine (Spicy Paneer Zucchini Kabobs and Mango & Coconut Kulfi), and Ayurvedic spins on vegetarian fare (Barley Rainbow Pilaf and Raw Zucchini Hummus). The Tastes of Ayurveda offers simple and delicious ways to achieve a more healthful and serene life.

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

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

summer 2012 release fourth printing

cooking (healthy) isbn 978-1-55152-438-2 $26.95

THE NEW GRANVILLE ISLAND MARKET COOKBOOK Judie Glick and Carol Jensson

cooking (healthy) isbn 978-1-55152-204-3 $24.95

WE SURE CAN! How Jams and Pickles Are Reviving the Lure and Lore of Local Food Sarah B. Hood

The New Granville Island Market Cookbook features a bounty of recipes using fresh produce, gourmet meats, wild seafood, artisanal cheeses, fresh pasta, and other goods found at this or any other public market offering quality, healthful, seasonal foods. Full-color throughout, the book also includes lively food photos, Market snapshots, and profiles of the Market’s dedicated vendors, several of whom have been purveying their wares for many years.

The book features over 100 recipes from an international assembly of inventive canners (including the author herself), as well as profiles of those who do it best. The book’s recipes are divided according to the seasons; some of the more tantalizing creations include Lemongrass, Ginger, & Kaffir Lime Jelly; Blackberry Lime Jam; Dandelion Jelly; and Pickled Watermelon Rinds. The book also features practical and important information and safety tips for those wanting to start canning produce at home.

spring 2012 release second printing I’ve loved the original edition of this cookbook since its release in 1985. This new book is a wonderful resource to have when shopping at Granville Island or any other great public market.

—Susan Mendelson, The Lazy Gourmet cooking (healthy) isbn 978-1-55152-439-9 $24.95

A comprehensive guide to preserving — from the “BareBones Cheat Sheet” on the front flap to a back section on styling the fruit of one’s jars with labels and tags.

—National Post cooking (jams & preserves) isbn 978-1-55152-402-3 $24.95

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FOOD & DRINK

THE TASTES OF AYURVEDA

HOW IT ALL VEGAN!

LA DOLCE VEGAN!

10th Anniversary Edition

Sarah Kramer

Vegan Livin’ Made Easy

Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer

FOOD & DRINK

The 10th-anniversary edition of the bible for vegan cooks.

Includes new recipes, as well as updates and advice that better reflect the new vegan reality; it also includes a color photo section and a new introduction by co-author Sarah Kramer, who speaks personally and passionately about the impact of veganism on her life over the past decade. over 150,000 sold (original and new editions)

Sarah’s first solo cookbook, featuring more of the delectable, easy-to-prepare recipes that vegans around the world have come to adore. For Sarah, vegan cooking can be an adventure in dining, without a lot of investment in time or money. Most of these recipes can be prepared in thirty minutes or less. Includes a fun do-it-yourself section of vegan tips and non-food items. over 60,000 copies sold sixth printing Every self-respecting vegetarian should own at least one book by Sarah Kramer. She’s a venerable vegan kitchen goddess who knows that eating cruelty-free doesn’t mean sacrificing taste.

—Memphis Flyer

cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-253-1 $22.95

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

VEGAN À GO-GO!

THE GARDEN OF VEGAN

A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road

How It All Vegan Again!

Tanya Barnard & Sarah Kramer

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

—vegsource.com

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 nutricious animal-free meals they enjoy at home. It includes 150 recipes, many of them new, and others that have been adapted from her earlier books. The rest of the book contains information and advice pertinant to vegan travelers. second printing With these dishes, Sarah has managed to make vegan food fun, tasty, and sexy!

—Jane Wiedlin, The Go-Go’s

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

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

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

—VegNews

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

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

EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating Dreena Burton In her third cookbook, Dreena Burton turns her attention to celebratory food—imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals for two to dinner parties to casual potlucks. fourth printing Dreena has the know-how and a knack for whipping up inviting, festive dishes in minutes that anyone can enjoy as healthful weekday fare ... her Gimme Chimis is a mouth-watering creation that features nutritious ingredients in a south-of-the-border-style sauce with a touch of fire.

—Vegetarians in Paradise

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

THE EVERYDAY VEGAN Recipes & Lessons for Living the Vegan Life Dreena Burton

In her second cookbook, Dreena Burton is here to show you how the decision to “go vegan” doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice nutrition or flavor, and in fact will make you and your family feel healthier and more alive. The recipes in Vive le Vegan! don’t over-rely on the use of soy, given recent concerns about over-consumption, and many feature whole grains and hemp. They’re also disarmingly easy to prepare. fifth printing Vive le Vegan! gives you everything you need, all in one fun and inviting book.

—Erik Marcus, vegan.com

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

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

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FOOD & DRINK

THE SIMPLYRAW LIVING FOODS DETOX MANUAL

GET IT RIPE

RIPE FROM AROUND HERE

A Fresh Take on Vegan Living

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

FOOD & DRINK

jae steele jae steele’s second cookbook underscores the importance of local, sustainable eating and living by helping readers deepen their understanding of organic and local foods, and their positive impact on our health and our planet. The book includes chapters on finding a balance between various food issues and personal priorities and values; and the benefits of the local food movement that go beyond reducing the carbon footprint on our plates.

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

—Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)

jae steele jae’s first book is a vegan cookbook for the 21st century, with an emphasis on holistic living and whole foods (i.e., unprocessed and unrefined) ingredients. jae steele is a registered holistic nutritionist; she has also been a professional vegan baker, and worked on organic farms on both the east and west coasts of Canada. jae offers practical advice and truly delicious recipes in her friendly, never-judgmental voice. This book is a breath of fresh, yummy air.

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

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

cooking (vegan) isbn 978-1-55152-254-8 $23.95

FROM THE OLIVE GROVE

THE REAL JERK New Caribbean Cuisine

Mediterranean Cooking with Olive Oil

Lily & Ed Pottinger 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 cooking (caribbean) isbn 978-1-55152-115-2 $23.95

Helen & Anastasia Koutalianos The healthful virtues of olive oil, a key component of the Mediterranean diet, have become well-known in recent years; its monounsaturated fats and antioxidants are beneficial in preventing heart disease by controlling LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels while simultaneously raising HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels. In this charming, intimate cookbook, Helen and her daughter Anastasia have collected 150 delectable, Mediterranean-inspired recipes (Greek and beyond), many of which have been passed along from Helen’s mother and grandmother, in which olive oil is a central ingredient.

This useful, straightforward, and informative cookbook is a valuable addition … It will appeal to seasoned cooks as well as novices. —Library Journal cooking (mediterranean) isbn 978-1-55152-367-5 $21.95

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YARN BOMBING

The Art of Unexpected Embroidery

The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti

Leanne Prain

Mandy Moore & Leanne Prain

Hoopla, by the co-author of the bestselling Yarn Bombing (opposite), showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it’s never gone before, in an astonishing full-color display of embroidered art. Bursting with history, technique, and sass, Hoopla will teach readers how to stitch a mythical jackalope and mean and dainty knuckle-tattoo church gloves, as well as encourage them to create their own innovative embroidery projects. If you like anarchistic DIY craft and the idea of deviating from the rules, Hoopla will inspire you to wield a needle with flair! second printing With hilarious DIY projects, like needlepoint nipple doilies, Hoopla proves that there’s a place in every woman’s heart (and wardrobe) for some cheeky thread work.

—Elle crafts & hobbies isbn 978-1-55152-406-1 $29.95

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

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

crafts & hobbies isbn 978-1-55152-255-5 $19.95

STAN DOUGLAS ABBOTT & CORDOVA, 7 AUGUST 1971

STAN DOUGLAS: EVERY BUILDING ON 100 WEST HASTINGS

Stan Douglas

edited by Reid Shier

This book takes Douglas’s 30 x 50-foot translucent photo mural depicting Vancouver’s Gastown Riot of 1971 as a point of departure to discuss dissent and conflict based on class, lifestyle, or other issues.

Includes essays by Alexander Alberro, Nora Alter, and Sven Lütticken.

This richly illustrated volume focuses on events of 1971’s Gastown Riot ... Simmering narratives of protest and inequality run alongside a study of the mechanics and meaning of representation.

—Canadian Art

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

—Canadian Art

visual arts (photography) isbn 978-1-55152-413-9 $40.00

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

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

HOOPLA

THE ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK

THE 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK

Gord Hill

Gord Hill

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

In this startling, politically astute graphic novel, Gord Hill documents the history of capitalism as well as anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements around the world, from the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” against the World Trade Organization to the Toronto G20 summit in 2010. The dramatic accounts trace the global origins of public protests against those in power, then depict recent events based on eyewitness testimony; they paint a vivid and historically accurate picture of activists who bring the crimes of governments and multinationals to the world’s attention.

A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous resistance to the European colonization of the Americas, beginning with the Spanish invasion under Christopher Columbus and ending with the Six Nations land reclamation in Ontario in 2006.

spring 2012 release

Hill’s raw images convey the events depicted effectively.

—Publishers Weekly

graphic novels / politics isbn 978-1-55152-444-3 $11.95

The book includes an introduction by Ward Churchill, a writer, political activist, and co-director of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. second printing

graphic novels / politics isbn 978-1-55152-360-6 $11.95

AMERICAN HUNKS

VENUS WITH BICEPS

The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970

A Pictorial History of Muscular Women

David L. Chapman with Brett

David L. Chapman with Patricia

Josef Grubisic

Vertinsky

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

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

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

—Booklist

A truly fascinating tour of the hardbodied heroines of the photographic age ... I opened the book prepared to gawk at the weirdness of a past when most women were tiny, fluffy, corseted creatures and those who weren’t were sent to the freak show, but by the time I’d read it through to the end, I’d realized that nothing of any significance has occurred in the realm of thinking about women’s figures for at least a hundred years. An edifying read indeed.

—The New Yorker

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

women’s studies / popular culture isbn 978-1-55152-370-5 $27.95

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POLAROIDS Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael

THE IMAGINARY INDIAN The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture

Attila Richard Lukacs is best known for his epic paintings that depict masculine, homoerotic imagery, featuring figures such as gay skinheads and military cadets. This is the first book to document the work of this important artist, from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-color Polaroid images (12 per page) taken by Lukacs over the past 20 years as core referents for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator Michael Morris.

The large-format (13 x 16.5") book features essays by award-winning author Michael Turner (Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem); writer Stan Persky; Scott Watson, director of the Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery in Vancouver; and Vince Aletti, the American curator, critic, and journalist. visual arts / gay men’s isbn 978-155152-295-1 $55.00

Daniel Francis The Imaginary Indian has been, and continues to be—as Daniel Francis reveals in this book—just about anything the non-Native culture has wanted it to be; and the contradictory stories non-Natives tell about Imaginary Indians are really stories about themselves and the uncertainties that make up their cultural heritage. This is not a book about Native people; it is the story of the images projected upon Native people—and the desperate uses to which they are put. spring 2012 release Daniel Francis’s study is a worthy addition to the growing corpus of provocative literature on an important subject. —Canadian Geographic canadian studies / first nations studies isbn 978-155152-425-2 $23.95

LUST UNEARTHED

OUT/LINES

Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection

Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall

Thomas Waugh

Thomas Waugh

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

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

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

—Frontiers

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

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Morris

THE BEARDED GENTLEMAN

ONE THOUSAND BEARDS

The Style Guide to Shaving Face

A Cultural History of Facial Hair

Allan Peterkin & Nick Burns

Allan Peterkin

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

An authoritative yet lighthearted guide that offers detailed information on shaving and some 50 specific facial hair styles: where they come from, how to grow them, and how to maintain them. Among them are many well-known styles, such as the Handlebar, the Fu Manchu, the Goatee, the Van Dyck, and the more recent Soul Patch. There’s also practical advice on choosing a facial hair style that’s right for you, as well as insight into how facial hair figured in the history of masculinity, including its impact on politics, class, and sexuality. featured in the new york times, out, nylon, money

men’s health (grooming) isbn 978-1-55152-343-9 $14.95

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. See also One Thousand Mustaches (page 3). third printing featured in time magazine, esquire, the new yorker An entertaining and informative combination of a history, a documentary, an appreciation and a catalogue.

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

SPREE

SHOOT IT!

A Cultural History of Shopping

Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film

Pamela Klaffke

David Spaner

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.

A revealing history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers. It is also a passionate portrait of American and international independents, and others outside the studio system, who have risen up to fill the void.

An engaging, comprehensive history of the highs and lows of independent film.

—Movie Maker

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

—New York Times

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

cultural studies isbn 978-1-55152-408-5 $22.95

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THE LAST GENET A Writer in Revolt Hadrien Laroche, translated by David Homel

THE ONLY POETRY THAT MATTERS Reading the Kootenay School of Writing

In The Only Poetry That Matters, novelist and poet Clint Burnham offers the first book-length examination of the Kootenay School of Writing, the notorious group of poets who came to international attention in Vancouver during the 1980s. spring 2012 release

Hadrien Laroche analyzes and connects Genet’s writing to his involvement with disenfranchised political groups ... Highly recommended for readers interested in Genet and his works.

—Library Journal

Burnham ventriloquizes the old master in his ideological and psychoanalytic readings of the poets of the Kootenay School of Writing, an absolutely crucial, compelling, and provocative poetry collective that emerged on Canada’s West Coast in the 1980s. Burnham is right: it is the poetry that matters.

—Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven

biography isbn 978-155152-365-1 $22.95

literary criticsm isbn 978-155152-429-0 $23.95

TALK – ACTION = 0

I, SHITHEAD

An Illustrated History of D.O.A.

A Life in Punk Joe Keithley

Joe Keithley The punk band D.O.A., established in 1978, is considered one of the founders of hardcore punk, alongside such other seminal groups as Black Flag and Minor Threat. Its slogan, “Talk – Action = 0,” refers to the importance of artists and others who need to “walk the walk” when it comes to their politics. This large-format book is a sprawling visual history of the group by lead singer/guitarist Keithley—made up of vintage photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, and other various ephemera—that offers a visceral glimpse into the hardcore life of one of the hardest-working punk bands in the business.

They rock out. They blow the roof off. Some of the best shows I’ve ever seen in my life were D.O.A. gigs. I’ve never seen them not be amazing.

—Henry Rollins (Black Flag) music isbn 978-1-55152-396-5 $27.95

Joe Keithley, a.k.a. Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978—punk kings who spread counterculture around the world. They’ve been cited as influences by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, and The Offspring and have toured with the likes of The Clash, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and Nirvana. This is Joe’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. third printing An autobiography that’s every bit as gnarly and entertaining as the punk rock music Keithley is famous for.

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

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Clint Burnham This translation of Le dernier Genet (Seuil) considers Genet’s insights, failures, and critique of humanism, and examines the way in which his energetic prose forged a new political, aesthetic, and philosophical relation between literature and the world. The Last Genet focuses on a critical moment in western culture, but also, on a broader scale, questions of borders, language, and identity, offering an alternative to Sartre’s concept of engagement.

ANARCHY AND ART

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla

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

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

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

—Bookforum An accessible, well-researched history.

—Canadian Art

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

politics / current affairs isbn 978-0-88978-045-3 $18.95

AFTER CANAAN

SEEING REDS

Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

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

Wayde Compton

Daniel Francis

The first non-fiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous 20th century. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. “passing”), the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself.

Author Daniel Francis examines Canada’s Red Scare in a global context, including government responses to similar activities in the United States and western Europe, as well as its ramifications for the contemporary war on terror, in which issues of free speech and political dissent are similarly compromised in the name of national security. Seeing Reds is a gripping account of a little known episode in Canadian history.

These essays are, first and foremost, essays of ideas rather than style, and Compton’s ideas are always fresh and often downright exhilarating.

—Rain Taxi

The Winnipeg General Strike took place more than 90 years ago, but it resonates still – as in historian Daniel Francis’s new book ... A well-told tale.

—The Globe and Mail

african-american studies isbn 978-155152-374-3 $18.95

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history isbn 978-1-55152-373-6 $26.95

PERSISTENCE

BRAZEN FEMME

edited by Ivan E. Coyote & Zena

Queering Femininity

Sharman

edited by Chloë Brushwood Rose

lambda literary award finalist second printing There is no doubt in my mind that this book will soon be recognized as a major contribution to the shelves of our queer literature.

—Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw

gender studies / lgbt studies isbn 978-1-55152-397-2 $19.95

BUTCH IS A NOUN S. Bear Bergman

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

—Lambda Book Report

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

THE NEAREST EXIT MAY BE BEHIND YOU S. Bear Bergman

Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman is a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In 34 deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home. Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living life outside the gender binary. This new edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Bear’s poetry of butchness lets us see into facets of gender that usually aren’t so transparent. And made me fall in love with butches all over again.

—Carol Queen, author of Real Live Nude Girl

gender studies / lgbt studies isbn 978-1-55152-369-9 $18.95

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

—Feminist Review

gender studies / lgbt studies isbn 978-1-55152-264-7 $18.95

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LGBT NON-FICTION

& Anna Camilleri An anthology on the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts pounded the first time they read or heard the words butch or femme. Contributors include Jewelle Gomez, Thea Hillman, S. Bear Bergman, Amber Dawn, and Zoe Whittall, with a foreword by Joan Nestle, editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader.

THE INVERTED GAZE

THE DICTIONARY OF HOMOPHOBIA

Queering the French Literary Classics in America

edited by Louis-Georges Tin

François Cusset

LGBT NON-FICTION

François Cusset, author of the acclaimed book French Theory, investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars in this thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics.

The Inverted Gaze is a guide to the more sexually daring exploration of the human condition as it unfolds in French literature through the ages.

—Windy City News Francois Cusset is an elegant, playful, occasionally outrageous writer ... [He shows] a flair for boisterous, intellectual tomfoolery.

—subTerrain

Based on the work of 70 researchers in 15 countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality and various cultural responses to it, in all regions of the world: a masterful, engaged, and wholly relevant study that traces the political and social emancipation of a culture. The Dictionary of Homophobia is a both a revealing and necessary history lesson for us all.

At once exhilarating, daunting, and endlessly fascinating.

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

—InsightOut Book Club

literary criticism / lgbt isbn 978-1-55152-410-8 $17.95

lgbt studies isbn 978-1-55152-229-6 $44.95

FIRST PERSON QUEER

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT

Who we are (so far)

True Stories of Gay Male Desire

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.

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

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) / lgbt isbn 978-1-55152-227-2 $17.95

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

—Xtra!

nonfiction (anthologies) / lgbt / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-259-3 $16.95

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FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

WITH A ROUGH TONGUE

Tales of Fear & Queer Desire

Femmes Write Porn

edited by Amber Dawn

& Trish Kelly

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

—Ms. Magazine

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

A rebellious anthology of stories about sex and the modern femme: no-holds barred, queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in ways that are transgressive and empowering. 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) / lgbt isbn 978-1-55152-193-0 $16.95

MISSOURI

PATIENCE & SARAH

Christine Wunnicke

Isabel Miller, introduction by Emma Donoghue

Written in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing novel set in the 19thcentury American Midwest is a love story between two men: Douglas Fortescue, a successful poet in England who flees the country for America following an Oscar Wilde-like scandal insinuating sexual impropriety; and Joshua Jenkyns, a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six, and who, against the wishes of his father, teaches himself how to read, a skill that then unleashes a world of possibility beyond that which he knows. best books of the year list (ala lgbt roundtable)

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

Set in the 19th century, this classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. First published in 1969, Patience & Sarah won the American Library Association’s first Gay Book Award. a little sister’s classic second printing The writing has the directness and whimsicality of primitive paintings—it is like spiked gingerbread or surprising samplers. The tone is sweetly bold. And the tale evokes many kinds of frontier at once. —Village Voice

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

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LGBT FICTION

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

edited by Amber Dawn

SONG OF THE LOON

FINISTÈRE

Richard Amory, introduction by

Fritz Peters, introduction by

Michael Bronski

Michael Bronski

LGBT FICTION

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

—Gay & Lesbian Review

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

—New York Times (1951)

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

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

THE CARNIVOROUS LAMB

BLACKBIRD

Agustín Gómez-Arcos, introduc-

Michael Nava

Larry Duplechan, introduction by

tion by Sharon Feldman This brilliant novel is set in the 1950s, narrated by a thirteenyear-old who describes himself as a “carnivorous lamb”; an innocent who in truth is anything but. He rebels against those who wish to contain him, and his turbulent rites of passage are veiled responses to a hateful mother, an indifferent father, and the authority of church and state. Winner of France’s Prix Hermès.

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 Lambda Award winner Got ’til it’s Gone.

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

—Gay & Lesbian Review

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

fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-230-2 $16.95

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WHISPER THEIR LOVE

Patrick Califia, introduction by

Valerie Taylor, introduction by

Wendy Chapkis

Barbara Grier

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

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

—Curve fiction / lesbian / erotica isbn 978-1-55152-260-9 $17.95

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

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

Sarah Schulman, introduction by

THE YOUNG IN ONE ANOTHER’S ARMS

Kevin Killian

Jane Rule, introduction by

EMPATHY

Katherine V. Forrest 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 32), Rat Bohemia (page 31), and The Child (page 32). a little sister’s classic With Empathy, the lesbian novel comes of age.

—Fay Weldon

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

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

—Feminist Studies

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

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LGBT FICTION

MACHO SLUTS

QUEER FILM CLASSICS

DEATH IN VENICE

WORD IS OUT

A Queer Film Classic

A Queer Film Classic

Will Aitken

Greg Youmans

Analyzes the cultural impact of the Luchino Visconti film Death in Venice, based on Thomas Mann’s novel about a middle-aged homosexual artist vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. A bracing exploration of both a complicated director and a complex film.

An examination of the historical, political, and aesthetic significance of Word Is Out, a groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiles the lives of gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds. Youmans delves beneath the film’s placid surface to explore the backstory of its making, from the complicated relationships among its six filmmakers to the more than 140 pre-interviews conducted in the search for the perfect cast.

A romp ... Aitken zigzags from Platen to Plato to Visconti’s love life with irresistible charm.

—Washington Post What makes the book so engaging is how Aitken depicts the director’s fascinating life.

—2B Magazine

Youmans’ monograph is a work that is filled with richness and contradiction, elements that fill our daily lives.

—Senses of Cinema

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ZERO PATIENCE

MONTREAL MAIN

A Queer Film Classic

A Queer Film Classic

Susan Knabe and Wendy Gay

Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison

Pearson A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson’s controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient Zero, the male flight attendant accused of bringing the AIDS crisis to North America.

A gripping tale ... Passionate and smart.

—Washington Post Knabe and Pearson do a stellar job summarizing the political and populist discourse about AIDS in Canada in the early years of the disease.

—Quill and Quire

Montreal Main considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal’s bohemian neighborhood “The Main” and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is a fascinating cinema vérité take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s, about a twentysomething photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and his growing obsession with Johnny, the young son of acquaintances, a relationship that is doomed from the start.

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

—John Greyson, filmmaker

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FIRE A Queer Film Classic

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

Shohini Ghosh

A Queer Film Classic

Farewell My Concubine is a thought-provoking consideration of Chen Kaige’s acclaimed 1992 Chinese film set in the mid-20th century about two male Peking opera stars and the woman who comes between them, set against the political turmoil of a China in transition.

The film’s treatment of gender performance and homosexuality was a first in Chinese cinema, and the subject of much controversy there.

An intimate, provocative and original look at the film ... I left this book with a deep understanding not only of the film itself but also the way in which sexuality and gender has developed and grown in China in the last two centuries.

—GScene magazine (UK)

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LAW OF DESIRE

GODS & MONSTERS

A Queer Film Classic

A Queer Film Classic

José Quiroga

Noah Tsika

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

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

—Library Journal

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

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

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QUEER FILM CLASSICS

Helen Hok-Sze Leung Fire delves into the controversial 1996 lesbian love story by Indianborn director Deepa Mehta. Set in a contemporary middle-class Hindu household in the heart of Delhi, Fire is the story of Radha and Sita, the wives of two brothers, who fall in love with one another. Crisis overtakes the extended family when a servant discovers the relationship and tells one of the husbands; overcoming both a literal and allegorical “trial by fire,” the two women leave their marriages to make a life together.

BASEMENT OF WOLVES

KRAKOW MELT Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox

FICTION

In this taut, beautifully layered novel, Michael-David is a paranoid actor who feels that fame has ruined him. When a film shoot with wolves for co-stars takes a troubling turn, he disappears shortly before the premiere and barricades himself in an L.A. hotel, convinced that he’s cursed and must ride it out in hiding.

An intriguing fantasia of Hollywood noir.

—Sarah Schulman Cox has a punchy, darkly humorous style that embraces the profane, but is still probing and exciting.

—Publishers Weekly

An incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fight homophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of the fronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. lambda literary award finalist ferro-grumley award finalist Cox’s splintered narrative, polished to an incisive gloss, bristles with both mischief and menace, and any of its short, titled chapters could stand alone. References to Pink Floyd, Polish pope John Paul II, and an unquenchable anger course from the first page to the last—a pointillistic poisoned pill.

—Publishers Weekly

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SUB ROSA

CROSSINGS

Amber Dawn

Betty Lambert

In this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero’s quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart. lambda literary award winner A uniquely rewarding read.... Amber Dawn keeps the proceedings at a darkly whimsical remove from the real hurts of the world. She knows we know that pain is real, that women are made chattels, that masters are cruel.

She’s after a larger vision that raises questions about the entire emotionally fraught edifice of our received beliefs about sex, men and women, roles and rights and abuses.

—The Globe and Mail

Crossings is revolutionary for its frank and unsettling portrayal of Vicky, a female writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, an educated and intelligent woman who struggles to come to terms with herself as she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a violent logger and ex-con. Their physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships and female suffering. spring 2012 release That rara avis, the novel that makes you say, now here’s a real novelist … Crossings is a powerful novel of a woman discovering herself. And we discover a powerfully talented writer.

—Globe and Mail

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CLASS WARFARE

Kevin Chong

D.M. Fraser

In this tragicomic modern immigrant’s tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twenty-something AsianCanadian about to embark on a modeling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two nearsimultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fiancée who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister he never knew existed, and as their tentative relationship grows, Malcolm is forced to confront his past relationships with women.

The story is whip smart, and as Malcolm comes to understand his parents’ mistakes and the reality of their lives, he grows to understand who he wants to become, and how he wants to love and connect with the people in his life. It’s a story most people will relate to on some level, and one told with humour and insight.

—Globe and Mail fiction isbn 978-1-55152-416-0 $16.95

THE DIRT CHRONICLES

Class Warfare is an extraordinary collection of stories rooted in the politics and counter-culture of the 1970s; a gloriously written call to arms addressed to the disenfranchised about the possibilities of “the sweetness of life.” spring 2012 release D.M. Fraser’s manipulation of language shows all the deftness of a skilled surgeon. His technical brilliance is charged here and there with a frisson of misanthropic humour that delights and unsettles.

—Globe and Mail

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SHUCK Daniel Allen Cox

Kristyn Dunnion In these linked tales, urban outlaws in Toronto map out their plans to take over the world while living collectively in an abandoned chair factory, destined for demolition according to a real estate gentrification plan. Their community is infiltrated by the King, a dirty cop bent on obliterating the city’s defiant underclass and exterminating the group’s rogue members; in order to survive, they may have to betray what they value most: autonomy, friendship, and newly discovered concepts of freedom. spring 2012 release

Shuck is the intense, dazzling diary of Jaeven Marshall, a quasihomeless 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. lambda literary award and relit award finalist second printing An invigorating first novel … Cox’s New York City has an off-hand, vibrant authenticity. It glitters and fumes.

—Globe and Mail

A visceral and violent book that could have set out to shock is instead touching.

—This Magazine

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FICTION

BEAUTY PLUS PITY

FICTION

MISSED HER

THE SLOW FIX

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

In her fifth story collection, Ivan traverses love, gender, and identity with a wistful, perceptive eye, and a warmth that’s as embracing and powerful as Ivan herself.

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

second printing

lambda literary award finalist second printing

Her stories, all culled from her personal experience, yield a glimpse of a life not frequently spoken of in mainstream queer circles. Coyote’s perspective on small town queer life resists what Judith Halberstam calls “metronormativity,” or the assumption that queer desire and community cannot exist fully outside of urban centers.

—Lambda Literary

These stories are elegant and homespun, light and piercing, straightforward with a twist. Ivan Coyote unsettles and reassures with a single, skilled stroke.

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

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LOOSE END

ONE MAN’S TRASH

Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote

In her third story collection, Ivan focuses her attention on the city: specifically a diverse neighborhood of all types—communing at local coffee bars over hot rods, the art of skinny-dipping, and changes in the weather. With the observant eye of a master storyteller, she shows us how to break free of the rigors of authority and be true to ourselves. ferro-grumley award finalist third printing [A] talent for telling multi-layered stories in unaffected prose.

—Girlfriends

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

—Toronto Star A collection that I will treasure for a long time to come.

—Lambda Book Report

Ivan’s genius is in the composition of the story.

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BOW GRIP Ivan E. Coyote

CLOSE TO SPIDER MAN

ferro-grumley award finalist ala stonewall honor book third 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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Ivan’s first collection: connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. Startling in their intimacy, these tales make up a moving scrapbook of what it’s like to be a young queer woman in the North, journeys imbued with the colors of a prescient sexuality and an honest heart. danuta gleed award runner-up third printing Blissfully rich … [a] thoroughly entertaining … surefooted, humorous take on misfit love and familial solidarity.

—Publishers Weekly

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SOUCOUYANT

RAT BOHEMIA

David Chariandy

Sarah Schulman

A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas.

This extraordinary first novel focuses on a man who reconnects with his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. third printing finalist, governor general’s literary award finalist, ethel wilson fiction prize longlisted, scotiabank giller prize longlisted, impac dublin literary award A haunting coming-of-age story.

—Publishers Weekly

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

By the author of The Mere Future (page 32), The Child (page 32), and Empathy (page 25). ferro-grumley award winner My surrender to Rat Bohemia is a testimonial to its gimlet-eyed accuracy, its zero-degree honesty … [It blows] the traditional novel off its hinges.

—Edmund White, New York Times Book Review

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FICTION

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.

THE MERE FUTURE

THE CHILD

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman

FICTION/POETRY

The paperback edition of Sarah Schulman’s dystopian satire about urban mores and gentrification gone awry. Set sometime in the not-too-distant future, 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.

Clever word craft, poetical political satire and biting humour on every page.

—Publishers Weekly

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

—Publishers Weekly

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The Titanic Poems

HOPEFUL MONSTERS

Billeh Nickerson

Hiromi Goto

IMPACT

Impact is an intimate and evocative poetry collection that depicts the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic in a series of poetic snapshots. spring 2012 release Nickerson’s poetry is soulful, drawn to alienation, love/ lust/heartache, cultural politics, and the infernal contradictions of daily life … For Impact, Nickerson maintains a characteristic focus on fleeting poignant moments and instances of individual perspective.

—Vancouver Sun

“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 Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautful hand.

—Multicultural Review

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Turner

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Bolen

978-1-55152-400-9

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Basement of Wolves

Cox

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Chong

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14.95

Fist of the Spider Woman

Amber Dawn (ed)

978-1-55152-251-7

17.95

Flat

Macdonald

978-1-55152-090-2

11.95

Flesh Wounds & Purple Flowers

Ibañez-Carrasco

978-1-55152-098-8

13.95

Franny, The Queen of Provincetown

Preston

978-1-55152-190-9

13.95

Future is Queer, The

Labonté & Schimel (eds)

978-1-55152-209-8

17.95

Futureways

McBride & Rubsamen (eds)

978-1-55152-172-5

14.95

Girl Unwrapped

Goliger

978-1-55152-375-0

15.95

Got ’til it’s Gone

Duplechan

978-1-55152-244-9

17.95

Hard Core Logo

Turner

978-1-55152-341-5

15.95

Heartways

McBride & Cosgrove (eds)

978-1-55152-160-2

14.95

Heidegger Stairwell

Burgess

978-1-55152-486-3

14.95

Hopeful Monsters

Goto

978-1-55152-157-2

15.95

Hot & Bothered

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-051-3

16.95

Hot & Bothered 2

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-068-1

15.95

Hot & Bothered 3

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-102-2

15.95

Hot & Bothered 4

Tulchinsky (ed)

978-1-55152-145-9

15.95

In the Inner Quarters

Mengchu / Hu (trans)

978-1-55152-134-3

16.95

Kid Stuff

Walmsley

978-1-55152-153-4

17.95

Krakow Melt

Cox

978-1-55152-372-9

15.95

Last Pentacle of the Sun, The

Anderson & Savory (eds)

978-1-55152-162-6

16.95

Lava in My Bones, The

Webster

978-1-55152-478-8

16.95

Little Distillery in Nowgong, A

Mathur

978-1-55152-258-6

24.95

Loose End

Coyote

978-1-55152-192-3

16.95

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isbn

US$

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Califia

978-1-55152-260-9

17.95

ManBug

Ilsley

978-1-55152-203-6

15.95

Mere Future, The

Schulman

978-1-55152-424-5

15.95

Missed Her

Coyote

978-1-55152-371-2

16.95

Missouri

Wunnicke

978-1-55152-344-6

12.95

Myways

McBride & Gray (eds)

978-1-55152-198-5

14.95

Once Upon an Elephant

Mathur

978-1-55152-058-2

18.95

One in Every Crowd

Coyote

978-1-55152-459-7

15.95

One Man’s Trash

Coyote

978-1-55152-120-6

16.95

Only Thing I Have, The

Waterfall

978-1-55152-293-7

17.95

Patience & Sarah

Miller

978-1-55152-191-6

17.95

Queer Fear

Rowe (ed)

978-1-55152-084-1

22.95

Queer Fear II

Rowe (ed)

978-1-55152-122-0

17.95

Queer View Mirror

Johnstone & Tulchinsky (eds)

978-1-55152-026-1

17.95

Queer View Mirror 2

Johnstone & Tulchinsky (eds)

978-1-55152-039-1

17.95

Queeries

Denisoff (ed)

978-0-88978-271-6

14.95

Quickies

Johnstone (ed)

978-1-55152-052-0

14.95

Quickies 2

Johnstone (ed)

978-1-55152-069-8

14.95

Quickies 3

Johnstone (ed)

978-1-55152-144-2

15.95

Quixotic Erotic

Kobayashi

978-1-55152-139-8

16.95

Random Acts of Hatred

Ilsley

978-1-55152-152-7

16.95

Rat Bohemia

Schulman

978-1-55152-235-7

17.95

Red Light

Camilleri (ed)

978-1-55152-184-8

18.95

Reverend’s Apprentice, The

Odhiambo

978-1-55152-242-5

17.95

Roy & Al

König

978-1-55152-206-7

11.95

Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, The

Mathur

978-1-55152-113-8

15.95

Shuck

Cox

978-1-55152-246-3

14.95

Skids

With

978-1-55152-215-9

15.95

Smoke Show

Burnham

978-1-55152-196-1

14.95

Snowmen

Sedore

978-1-55152-366-8

14.95

So Long Been Dreaming

Hopkinson & Mehan (eds)

978-1-55152-158-9

24.95

Song of the Loon

Amory

978-1-55152-180-0

19.95

Soucouyant

Chariandy

978-1-55152-226-5

18.95

Sub Rosa

Dawn

978-1-55152-361-3

19.95

Terroryaki!

Chung

978-1-55152-412-2

14.95

Venous Hum

Mayr

978-1-55152-170-1

16.95

What Right?

Fisher (ed)

978-1-55152-137-4

16.95

What’s Wrong?

Fisher (ed)

978-1-55152-136-7

16.95

When Fox is a Thousand

Lai

978-1-55152-168-8

17.95

When X Equals Marylou

Dobozy

978-1-55152-133-6

16.95

Whisper Their Love

Taylor

978-1-55152-210-4

15.95

With a Rough Tongue

Amber Dawn & Kelly (eds)

978-1-55152-193-0

16.95

Young in One Another’s Arms, The

Rule

978-1-55152-181-7

16.95

Zed

McClung

978-1-55152-197-8

17.95

49th Parallel Psalm

Compton

978-1-55152-065-0

15.95

Archive For Our Times

Livesay

978-1-55152-059-9

19.95

Asthmatic Glassblower, The

Nickerson

978-1-55152-088-9

11.95

Automaton Biographies

Lai

978-1-55152-292-0

17.95

Impact

Nickerson

978-1-55152-442-9

14.95

McPoems

Nickerson

978-1-55152-265-4

13.95

Performance Bond

Compton

978-1-55152-164-0

17.95

Seminal

Barton & Nickerson (eds)

978-1-55152-217-3

21.95

Swallowing Clouds

Quan & Wong-Chu (eds)

978-1-55152-073-5

16.95

Tender Agencies

Denisoff

978-1-55152-012-4

12.95

Poetry

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