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SEVEN STORIES PRESS 2014 Catalog

S E V E N S T O R I E S P R E S S â&#x20AC;˘ 2014

SE V E N S T OR I E S PR E S S 2014 Catalog including new titles from Triangle Square books for young readers

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contents Madiba A to Z The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela danny schechter

World Report 2014 Events of 2013 human rights watch

Sammy Wong, All-American A Novel charley rosen

Overpowered What Science Tells Us About the Dangers of Cell Phones and Other WiFi-Age Devices martin blank

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society inga muscio

If This Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Nice, What Is?

Advice to the Young kurt vonnegut

The Third Chimpanzee for Young People

On the Evolution and Future of the Human Animal jared diamond

My Depression A Picture Book elizabeth swados

Joyous Childbirth Changes the World dr. tadashi yoshimura

Lizzie!

A Novel

maxine kumin

Relatively Indolent but Relentless A Cancer Treatment Journal matt freedman

The Shadow of Arms A Novel hwang sok-yong

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The Walls of Delhi

Three Stories

uday prakash

Hearts and Hands, 2nd Edition Creating Community in Violent Times luis j. rodriguez

Natural Histories guadalupe nettel

The Disunited States vladimir pozner

Moments Politiques jacques rancière

Congress and the Shaping of the Middle East kirk j. beattie

Dark Alliance The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion gary webb

The Family Hightower A Novel brian francis slattery

The Story of Hurry emma williams

Exercise Will Hurt You dr. steve barrer

Censored 2015

Inspiring We the People The Top Censosred Stories and Media Analysis of 2013–14 mickey huff, andy lee roth, and project censored

The Jugheads A Novel j. r. helton

Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released Collected and New Poems 1974–2011 barbara chase-riboud

More Than a Game phil jackson and charley rosen

A de activista martha e. gonzalez

The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature The Definitive Anthology of Kid’s Lit as Graphics and Visuals russ kick

The Crocodiles youssef rakha

Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition howard zinn and anthony arnove

Misdirected A Novel ali berman

Thony Belizaire, Witness to History 100 Photographs of the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti thony belizaire

The Walrus and the Elephants John Lennon’s Years of Revolution james a. mitchell

Compañeras Zapatista Womens’ Stories hilary klein

The Up-Down

A Novel

barry gifford

In the Spirit of Homebirth Modern Women, An Ancient Choice bronwyn preece

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13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty mario marazziti

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World Report 2015

Events of 2014

human rights watch

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Recent Awards and Honors Recently Published About Seven Stories Press and Triangle Square books for young readers Seven Stories Press Staff Distribution Information Contact Information

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Madiba A to Z

The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela

Da n n y sch e ch t e r foreword by a n a n t si ngh

“Storytelling that is unique, refreshing, and revealing . . . Mandela emerges—more nuanced than I ever understood and even more admirable.” —bill moyers An intimate, revelatory, compulsively readable, non-traditional alphabet book on the multifaceted and iconic world leader. DANNY SCHECHTER is an American journalist and

a documentary filmmaker who made six nonfiction films with Mandela and who was asked personally by the filmmakers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom to make a five-hour television documentary about the making of the forthcoming film. Schechter has worked in South Africa since the 1960s, which has given him unprecedented access to insiders. Schechter wrote about the liberation struggle and produced a TV news magazine for three years in its most crucial years 1988–91. Having worked both in public television and for CNN and ABC News, Schechter has been part of the anti-apartheid movement globally, earning him the confidence of many activists and leaders. He continues to work around the world and lives in New York City. ANANT SINGH is widely recognized as South Africa’s pre-eminent film produc-

er, having produced sixty-five films since 1984, including Sarafina!, Red Dust, Captives and The Road to Mecca. Nelson Mandela called him “a producer I respect very much . . . a man of tremendous ability” when he granted him the film rights to his autobiography; Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom premiered in the US in November 2013. November 26, 2013 hc • $35.00 • 978-1-60980-559-3 TR • $16.95 • 978-1-60980-557-9 E-isbn: 978-1-60980-558-6 5.5" x 8.25" • 272 pages

“Schechter knows Nelson Mandela’s story deeply and his new book features insights and stories we haven’t heard before.” —jesse jackson, civil rights leader and president of Rainbow PUSH “Schechter has long earned his spurs by embracing our struggle and communicating its strengths and weaknesses from those risky times, to deepen a lifelong contribution over five decades as a committed and insightful writer, reporter, critic and filmmaker. He’s an outsider who learned to think like an insider; his book Madiba A to Z tells the story from personal experience and goes beyond the surface with a lively sense of humor and deep caring that even we South Africans can learn from.” —ronnie kasrils, former commander in the armed struggle and South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence in the post-apartheid government 7

World Report 2014 Events of 2013

h u m a n r igh t s wat ch int roduct ion by k e n n e t h ro t h

Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2014 is the global rights watchdog’s flagship twenty-fourth annual review of global trends and news in human rights. An invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, it features not only incisive country surveys but also several hard-hitting essays highlighting key human rights issues. World Report 2014 also features striking photo essays by award-winning photographers. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, headed by Executive Director Kenneth Roth, is one

of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than ninety countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the

world’s leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than ninety countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, DC. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world. He has written extensively on a wide range of human rights abuses, devoting special attention to issues of international justice, counterterrorism, the foreign policies of the major powers, and the work of the United Nations.

february 25, 2014 TR • $30.00 6" x 9" • 672 pages 978-1-60980-555-5 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-556-2

“The reports of the New York-based Human Rights Watch have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses. . . .” —ahmed rashid, The New York Review of Books

• Coordinated publicity with Human Rights Watch to schools and libraries • Academic outreach to contemporary history departments • Outreach to human rights organizations and grassroots groups

Sammy Wong, All-American A Novel

Ch a r l e y rose n

Sammy Wong, All-American tells the tale of an Asian basketball player’s rise and stumble. American basketball may be among the most international of team sports, yet until recently Asians were unwelcome. On his high school, college, and professional teams, Sammy isn’t given much of a chance. Then when he does get into games, he turns out to be the kind of player who can turn a losing team into a winning one. Wong’s career turns on chance opportunities and unexpected twists as much as on talent, persistence, and hard work. There are great scenes that describe pivotal plays on the hardwood floor as only Charley Rosen can. Like all Rosen’s novels, this is about basketball as experienced from the inside. CHARLEY ROSEN is America’s leading writer

of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball. Before he began chronicling the sport, he was a three-time MVP and holder of several scoring and rebounding records as a starter on the Hunter College team and, later, as a storied Continental Basketball Association coach. Rosen led the league in technical fouls in each of his six seasons as a head coach in the CBA. Rosen holds a master’s degree in medieval literature from Hofstra. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Barney Polan’s Game, both from Seven Stories; his many nonfiction books include The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball and The Scandals of ’51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball, both from Seven Stories. An analyst for hoopshype.com, Rosen is the New York Times bestselling co-author, with Phil Jackson, of More Than a Game from Seven Stories. He lives with his wife, Daia Gerson, in New York State. march 11, 2014 TR • $14.95 5" x 8" • 240 pages 978-1-60980-545-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-546-3

• Cross-promotion with Asian American Writers Workshop • Tie in with March Madness • Coverage by sports bloggers and basketball coaches • Academic outreach and pitched to FYE program

Overpowered

What Science Tells Us About the Dangers of Cell Phones and Other Wi-Fi Age Devices

M a rt i n Bl a n k , P h D

Keys, wallet, cell phone . . . ready to go! Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of twenty-first-century life—suctioned to our ears and stuck in our pockets. Yet, we’ve all heard whispers that these essential little devices give you brain cancer. Many of us are left wondering, as Maureen Dowd recently asked in the New York Times, “Are cells the new cigarettes?” Overpowered brings readers, in accessible and fascinating prose, through the science, indicating biological effects resulting from low, non-thermal levels of nonionizing electromagnetic radiation (levels considered safe by regulatory agencies). coming not only from cell phones, but many other devices we use in our homes and offices every day. Dr. Blank arms us with the information we need to lobby government and industry to keep ourselves and our families safe. DR. MARTIN BLANK is an expert on the

health-related effects of electromagnetic fields and has been studying the subject for over thirty years. He earned his first PhD from Columbia University in physical chemistry and his second from the University of Cambridge in colloid science. From 1968 to 2011, he taught as an associate professor at Columbia University, where he now acts as a special lecturer. Dr. Blank has served as an invited expert regarding EMF safety for Canadian Parliament, for the House Committee on Natural Resources and Energy (HNRE) in Vermont, and for Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court. March 11, 2014 HC • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 256 pages 978-1-60980-509-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-510-4

“Reads like an environmental thriller! Dr. Blank does a superb job of explaining the biological effects of cell phones and all things wireless on cell physiology and how to protect ourselves—an inconvenient truth we must consider.” —ann louise gittleman, PhD

• Author interviews on national radio • Outreach to local activists and advocates

Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil My Life and Times in a Racist, Imperialist Society

i nga m usc io

In an updated second edition of her follow-up to the cult classic Cunt, Inga Muscio asserts that the history taught in schools and perpetuated in all areas of life in the US is, in fact, a marketing brand developed by powerful people to maintain gross inequities. With Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil, it’s Muscio’s turn to take Americans on a tour through our history, from Columbus to today. Whose country is this? Has democracy ever really existed? With her trademark ability to deconstruct reality and expose truths that allow us to see our culture and ourselves more clearly, Muscio delves deep to answer these fundamental questions. Including chapters such as “God Told Me To Kill You,” on religious intolerance from the 1600s to the 1800s, and “Postage Stamp Redemptions,” in which she challenges the myth that White supremacy and imperialism in the US ended with the civil rights movement, Muscio offers new perspectives on our history that might shock even the most ardent alternative history buff. INGA MUSCIO is the author of Cunt: A Declaration

of Independence and Rose: Love in Violent Times. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and lectures widely on racism, sexual violence, and feminist issues.

march 25, 2014 TR • $16.95 5.75" x 7" • 400 pages 978-1-60980-520-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-610-1

â&#x20AC;˘ Author tour to Seattle, Portland, Eugene, and Olympia â&#x20AC;˘ Reviews and interviews on feminist media and blogs (Bust, Bitch, Ms. Magazine, Feministing and Feministe)

If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?

Advice to the Young—The Graduation Speeches

K u rt von n e gu t

selected a nd int roduced by

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Best known as one of our most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occasion to savor on his own behalf. Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? capture this side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of Vonnegut receiving the Carl Sandburg Award. In each of these talks Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn’t heavyhanded or pretentious or glib, but funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so. KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of late-twentieth-century American letters. Vonnegut’s other books from Seven Stories Press include his last major bestseller A Man without a Country, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God. Seven Stories also publishes Kurt’s son Mark Vonnegut’s bestselling memoir, Eden Express: a Memoir of Insanity, with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, and Gregory D. Sumner’s Unstuck in Time: A Journey through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels.

A longtime friend of Kurt Vonnegut’s, DAN WAKEFIELD edited and introduced Kurt Vonnegut Letters. Wakefield is the author of the memoirs New York in the Fifties and Returning: A Spiritual Journey. His novel, Going All the Way was made into a movie starring Ben Affleck. Wakefield also created the NBC prime time series, James at 15. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. april 8, 2014 hc • $21.95 5.625" x 8" • 144 pages 978-1-60980-591-3

“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut’s crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted.” —A. O. Scott in The New York Times Book Review

• Author signing at PLA in Indianapolis, Indiana • Launch event at Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library • First serial in The Nation • Finished book giveaway at ALA and BEA

One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poetry of four seasons is all wrong for this part of the planet, and this may explain why we are so depressed so much of the time. I mean, Spring doesn’t feel like Spring a lot of the time, and November is all wrong for Fall and so on. Here is the truth about the seasons: Spring is May and June! What could be springier than May and June? Summer is July and August. Really hot, right? Autumn is September and October. See the pumpkins? Smell those burning leaves. Next comes the season called “Locking.” That is when Nature shuts everything down. November and December aren’t Winter. They’re Locking. Next comes Winter, January and February. Boy! Are they ever cold! What comes next? Not Spring. Unlocking comes next. What else could April be? One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one. For years I have been looking for the best joke in the world. I think I know what it is. I will tell it to you, you but have to help me. You have to say, “No,” when I hold my hand like this. All right? Don’t let me down. Do you know why cream is so much more expensive than milk? AUDIENCE: No. It is because the cows hate to squat on those little bottles. —from If This Isn’t Nice, What is? 19

The Third Chimpanzee for Young People

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At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclear weapons and the effects of climate change, it seems our innate tendencies for violence and invention have led us to a crucial tipping point. Where did these traits come from? Are they part of our species immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species’ future if we change? With fascinating facts and his unparalleled readability, Diamond intended his book to improve the world that today’s young people will inherit. Triangle Square’s The Third Chimpanzee for Young People is a book for future generations and the future they’ll help build. JARED DIAMOND is professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature, and Geo magazines. He is the author of several books including Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and has sold over 1.5 million copies, the international bestseller Collapse, and the recently published The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? REBECCA STEFOFF specializes in writing nonfiction for young readers, with a

focus on scientific, historical, and literary subjects. Her adaptations include A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and A Different Mirror for Young People by Ronald T. Takaki. triangle square ages 12 and up april 8, 2014 hc • $22.95 5.5" x 5.8" • 352 pages 978-1-60980-522-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-523-4

• Major events in New York, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles • Reviews in popular science magazines and blogs (Scientific American, National Geographic, Popular Science, Science Daily, Brain Pickings, io9) • National Science Teacher’s Association magazine profile of Jared Diamond and the book

My Depression A Picture Book

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This intimate journey through long-term depression is by turns tender, funny, poignant, and uplifting. Swado’s charming words and frenzied drawings bring home the experience of severe depression, from the black cloud forming on the horizon to feelings of self-loathing and loss of self-confidence; from contemplating suicide, which Swados describes as wandering off into the Sahara desert (discounting the buzzards and the scorpions) to actively seeking out methods for fighting depression—including psychics, diet, and repression therapy—to experimenting with antidepressants that make you snippy, sleepy, or judgmental. My Depression is an engaging and heartening memoir of an illness that has been stigmatized for too long and on how it is possible to survive, one little challenge at a time, with medication and the occasional tasty, messy slice of pizza; with dancing to a boombox on the street and thanking the mailman for the newest catalogue, then proceeding to read it cover to cover! Musical artist ELIZABETH SWADOS is the author of six children’s books, three novels, and one collection of poetry. She has composed, written, and directed theater for over thirty years and is perhaps best known for her Broadway and international hit Runaways. Her works include the Obie Award winning Trilogy at La Mama and Alice at the Palace with Meryl Streep at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Swados teaches in the drama department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and at The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts as a visiting artist. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. Her other awards include five Tony nominations, three Obie Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Fellowship, Helen Hayes Award, Lila Acheson Wallace award, and a Special International PEN Citation. April 15, 2014 HC • $22.95 6" x 8" • 176 pages 978-1-60980-549-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-550-0

A startling, honest . . . surprisingly charming, funny, and poignant illustrated memoir. —Time Out New York

• Animated HBO feature starring Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi to be released in Fall 2014 • Coverage in art/graphic magazines and blogs (Artforum, Flavorwire, Flavorpill, Brain Pickings, The Beat, Comics Journal, Graphic Novel Reporter) • Review coverage in feminist and women’s health magazines (Women’s Health Magazine, Vanity Fair, More, Ms., O, Ladies Home Journal, Elle, Marie Clarie, Woman’s Day) • Events and performances in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia

Joyous Childbirth Changes the World

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br e t t I i m u r a , k aor i I z u m i , a nd M ay u ko K a m ata foreword by i n a m ay g a sk i n “No matter how science has progressed, childbirth, in essence, has remained unchanged from ancient times . . . [It] is the last natural process left to us,” writes internationally lauded obstetrician Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura. “The fact that it has remained unchanged means that there is truth in it.” The truth and power of birth is the subject of Dr. Yoshimura’s first book published in the United States. Yoshimura describes babies born so directly into the arms of their mothers that they do not cry, and women so transformed with pride and passion in their ability that they are joyous and forever changed. Instead of a medical emergency, Yoshimura describes birth as a transcendent and natural process that cannot be perfected, and that, when performed through the innate power of women, reveals what he calls a “mystic beauty.” Full of delightful stories of birthing women and peaceful smiling infants, and helpful tips from his childbirth preparation program, Joyous Childbirth Changes the World is a must-read for all expectant parents and those who care for them. Yoshimura’s clinic serves as a testament to the kind of compassionate birth culture that is possible if we prioritize the health and experience of women and babies. DR. TADASHI YOSHIMURA is a Japanese obstetri-

cian and natural birth advocate. His maternity clinic in Okazaki, Japan, is known internationally for its incredibly positive birth outcomes including a 3.4% Cesarean rate, despite the clinic accepting many high-risk patients.

april 29, 2014 TR • $16.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-524-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-525-8

“Joyous Childbirth Changes the World provides an insightful look at the secrets that giving birth holds, as told through the amazing story of one physician awakening to the ‘Spark of life!’ Dr Yoshimura fills us with nurturing information that will guide you to claim your power, release fear, find joy, and birth yourself and your baby in love.” —Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Director of Orgasmic Birth “Joyous Childbirth Changes the World is a masterpiece of truth and wisdom and hope. May its message transform the way we approach birth.” —Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom • Ina May Gaskin will help to promote in the US • Outreach to birthing community and birth/parenting/pregnancy media • Reviews in Mothering, Squat, Midwifery Today magazines

Lizzie! A Novel

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Lizzie, age eleven, does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her curiosity. After she is partially paralyzed in a diving accident, Lizzie and her single mom are starting life over in a small town in Florida, where Lizzie’s thirst for knowledge and adventure makes her some unlikely friends and gets her into some sticky situations. Resilient and precocious, Lizzie has a passion for learning new words (especially those with Latin roots) and a propensity for finding trouble. which is how she ends up stumbling upon criminal activities involving seedy characters, beautiful golden monkeys, and murder. Honored as America’s poet laureate from 1981 to 1982, MAXINE KUMIN has been the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and many other awards. In addition to her seventeen poetry collections, novels, and essay collections for adults, she is the author of many children’s books, but Lizzie! is her first YA novel. Seven Stories Press is also re-releasing the books that Kumin wrote together with her close friend Anne Sexton. With her husband, Victor, she made her home on a farm in the Mink Hills of Warner, New Hampshire, where they raised horses for forty years and enjoyed the companionship of several rescued dogs. She died in early 2014.

triangle square ages 9–12 April 29, 2014 hc • $21.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-518-0 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-519-7

“Smart, spunky, and delightfully quirky, Lizzie is an unforgettable heroine.” —Kyoko Mori, author of Shizuko’s Daughter “I love Lizzie!—the novel and the delightful, spirited girl at the heart of it.” —Hilma Wolitzer, author of Out of Love

• Reviews in Horn Book Review, School Library Journal, and other children’s book review magazines • Cross-promotion with children’s disability advocacy groups

Relatively Indolent but Relentless A Cancer Treatment Journal

M at t F r e e dm a n

From October 3 to November 28, 2012, noted artist Matt Freedman underwent radiation and chemotherapy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, for treatment of adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare cancer that had spread from his tongue to his neck to his lungs by the time it was discovered. This is the funny, moving, courageous, and witty journal he kept during that time, in comics and words, of his thirty-five-day course of treatment. MATT FREEDMAN is an artist, writer, and curator liv-

ing in Queens, New York. He graduated from Harvard College and the University of Iowa. He teaches in the graduate fine arts and Visual Studies programs at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in fiction writing. He co-curated the Paper Sculpture show that began at SculptureCenter in New York and toured nationally and the (B 19) exhibition at Long Island University. Recent solo shows of Freedman’s artwork have been held at Pierogi, FiveMyles, Big&Small/Casual, Valentine and Studio 10 galleries in Brooklyn.

April 29, 2014 HC • $23.95 6.125" x 9.25" • 240 pages 978-1-60980-516-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-517-3

“This is a staggering and beautiful book. It reminded me of the impact of Maus—how an unexpected form suddenly breaks your heart and takes an axe, as Kafka said, to that frozen sea inside us. In all honesty, I found this book . . . impossible not to read.” —jonathan ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!

• Cross-promotion with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation, Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Organization International (ACCOI), and Oral Cancer Foundation • Promotion on medical newsletters (Faster Cures, Medscape) and “living with cancer” blogs and newsletters (Our Cancer, Mayo Clinic) • Feature in comics and arts magazines/blogs

The Shadow of Arms Second Edition

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A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author’s experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides. Scenes of battle are breathtakingly well told. The plot is thick with intrigue and complex subplots. But ultimately The Shadow of Arms is a novel of the human condition rather than of the exploits and losses of one side or the other in war. This second English-language edition has been completely re-edited. HWANG SOK-YONG is the author of nine works of fic-

tion that have been bestsellers and prize-winners in his native Korea. His work, which grapples with the troubled history of his divided country, has been the cause of his imprisonment, his exile, and the rare achievement of a wide international readership and now sells hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of copies in his native Korea.

April 29, 2014 TR • $18.95 6" x 9" • 576 pages 978-1-60980-507-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-508-1

“Hwang Sok-yong is undoubtedly the most powerful ‘voice of the novel’ in East Asia today.” —kenzaburō Ōe, winner of the Nobel Prize “Hwang Sok-yong , one of South Korea’s most important modern writers, poignantly shows us that history is also a story of how individuals live, love, and sacrifice in the tumult of time.” —krys lee, author of Drifting Houses

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Ja son Gru n e b au m

A street sweeper discovers a cache of black market money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress; an Untouchable races to reclaim his life that’s been stolen by an upper-caste identity thief; a slum baby’s head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find a cure. One of India’s most original and audacious writers, Uday Prakash, weaves three tales of living and surviving in today’s globalized India. In his stories, Prakash portrays realities about caste and class with an authenticity absent in most English-language fiction about South Asia. Sharply political but free of heavy handedness. UDAY PRAKASH is one of contemporary Hindi’s most exciting and celebrated

voices. In 2010 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award from India’s National Academy of Letters to writers and their works for their outstanding contributions to Indian literature. His work has been translated into ten languages. Also a filmmaker and playwright, Prakash divides his time between New Delhi and Sitapur in Madhya Pradesh. JASON GRUNEBAUM’s short stories and translations have appeared in many

journals. His English translation of Uday Prakash’s Hindi novel The Girl With The Golden Parasol was awarded a PEN Translation Fund grant and published by Penguin India. He is senior lecturer in Hindi at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches creative writing.

May 13, 2014 HC • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 240 pages 978-1-60980-528-9 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-529-6

“An extremely important voice in Hindi literature, but also a profound mapping of our times’ civilization crisis.” —The New Indian Express “Three . . . stingingly comic tales [with an] appealing mix of social realism and pungent sarcasm.” —Frontline (India)

• Events in Chicago with author and translator • Feature in Bomb Magazine, Three Percent, Shelf Unbound, The Paris Review, Granta • Pitching to PEN World Voices Festival and support from Words Without Borders

I ordered two cups of deluxe chai from Ratan Lal, and got my first inkling of how desperate Ramnivas was when I saw him down the piping hot tea in one gulp, burning his mouth and everything else. It was early afternoon, and Ramnivas, eyes full of pleading, looked at me and said, “Vinayakji, I’ve gotten into a big mess. Way in over my head. Help me find a way out—please! I won’t forget it for the rest of my life.” I asked him to tell me all about it, and he did; and now I’ve told you everything he told me. When he finished, just as I was about to see if I could find some way to help—Sushma showed up. “Meet me here tomorrow morning. I’ve got to go,” Ramnivas said, and the two of them jumped in a rickshaw. I watched them ride away until I couldn’t see them any longer. That was the last time I saw Ramnivas. He won’t come back to this little corner of the street. He’ll never come back. If you ask anyone about him, no one will say a word: not Sanjay, not Ratan Lal, not Devi Deen, not Santosh, and not Madan.

—Excerpt from The Walls of Delhi 39

Hearts and Hands, 2nd Ed. Creating Community in Violent Times

Lu i s j. Rodr igu e z

Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material gain when we incarcerate or marginalize people already on the edge of society. His drive to dissolve gang influence on kids is as personal as it is societal; his son, to whom he dedicates Hearts and Hands, served over a decade in prison for gang-related activity. With anecdotes, interviews, and time-tested guidelines, Hearts and Hands makes a powerful argument for building and supporting community life. LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ ’s bestselling autobiographical

account, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (1993) has been followed by numerous other books. He has written for The Nation, Grand Street, Los Angeles Weekly, and Americas Review, among others. Winner of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Poetry, Rodríguez is also the founder of Tía Chucha Press, publishing emerging, socially conscious poets. He lives in San Fernando, California with his wife, Trini, and their family. Luis is currently a candidate for the Green Party nomination for Governor of California.

may 13, 2014 tr • $19.95 6" x 9" • 384 pages 978-1-60980-553-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-554-8

“[A] beautifully written and politically astute account.” —Entertainment Weekly

• Chapter sampler available for social service organizations and political offices in gang-ridden districts • Video of talks and workshops posted to YouTube • Author op-ed in national newspaper • Bilingual fliers and promotional materials available to community organizations

Natural Histories

Gua da lu pe Nette l t ra nsl ated f rom t he Spa n ish by

J. T. L ich t e ns t e i n

Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space wherein her characters feel excruciatingly human, exploring how the wounds we incur in life manifest themselves within us, clandestinely, irrevocably, both unseen and overtly. In a precise writing style that is both subtle and spellbinding, Nettel renders the ordinary unsettling, and the grotesque exquisite. Natural Histories is the winner of the 3rd Ribera del Duero International Award for Short Narratives, an important Spanish literature prize.

GUADALUPE NETTEL (Mexico City, 1973) is a regular contributor to both Span-

ish- and French-language magazines. In 2006, she was voted one of the thirtynine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival. She is the author of Juegos de artifice (False Games), Les jours fossils (Fossil Days), Pétalos y otras historias incómodas (Petals and other Awkward Stories), El huésped (The Host), and also El cuerpo en que nací (The Body Where I Was Born), a novel forthcoming in Spring 2015 from Seven Stories Press. She is the recipient of the Radio France International Award, the Premio Herralde, third place, the Prix Antonin-Artaud, and the Gilberto Owen Short Story Prize, and her work has been translated into nine languages. She lives in Mexico City.

june 10, 2014 hc • $18.95 5" x 8" • 128 pages 978-1-60980-551-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-552-4

“The gaze [Nettel] turns on madnesses both temperate and destructive, on manias, on deviances, is so sharp that it has us seeing straight into our own obsessions.” —xavier houssain, Le Monde “A master of style, with a marvelous poetic naturalism.” —joaquin marco, El Cultural

• Major events in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle • First serial pitched to New York Times, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle • Book blog tour to literary and translation blogs • Galley giveaway at ALA and BEA

I’ve been a biology professor at the Universidad de Valle de México for over ten years. I specialize in insects. Some people in my field of research have pointed out to me that when I’m in the laboratory or lecture hall I almost always keep to the corners of the room. It’s like when I’m walking along a street; I feel safer if I’m near a wall. Though I can’t explain exactly why, I’ve begun to think it’s a habit born of the depths of my nature. My fascination for insects emerged at a young age, when I was about eleven and passing from childhood into adolescence. My parents had recently split up, and as neither one of them was psychologically sound enough to be responsible for the mistake they had engendered together, they decided to send me to live with my mom’s older sister, my aunt Claudine, who had managed to build a functional family with two disciplined, tidy, and studious sons. I knew their house well. It was part of a middle-class housing complex with American dreams, as my dad would say. Very different from the place where I’d been born and had spent eleven long years. My house and my aunt’s were opposite in every way. . . . —from “War in the Trash Bins” in Natural Histories (continues on the inside of the back cover) 45

The Disunited States v l a di m i r p oz n er

t ra nsl ated f rom t he Frenc h by

a l i son s t r ay e r

Influential French novelist, screenwriter, pioneer in literary genre and Oscar nominee Vladimir Pozner came to the United States in the 1930s. He found the nation and its people in a state of profound material and spiritual crisis, and took it upon himself to chronicle the life of the worker, the striker, the politician, the starlet, the gangster, the everyman; to document the bitter, violent racism tearing our society asunder, the overwhelming despair permeating everyday life, and the unyielding human struggle against all that. Pozner writes about America and Americans with the searing criticism and deep compassion of an outsider who loves the country and its people far too much to render anything less than a brutally honest portrayal. Recalling Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pozner shatters the rules of reportage to create a complete enduring and profound portrait. Never before published in English, Pozner’s work is brought to life in Alison Strayer’s translation. VLADIMIR POZNER (1905–1992) was a French writer whose prestigious career as

a novelist took off in the 1930s with Tolstoï est mort (Tolstoy is Dead) and Le mors aux dents (The Bit Between the Teeth). A militant antifascist who took refuge in the United States during the war, Pozner was also a Hollywood screenwriter, where he got to know Bertolt Brecht and Charlie Chaplin, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Story for The Dark Mirror, a film noir crime drama. Backpacker, raconteur, and pioneer of literary styles, Pozner dedicated his life to giving a testimony of his times writing for Entertainment Weekly among other publications. ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator, author of Jardin et prairie,

a novel, and numerous literary essays, articles and stories. She lives in Paris and has recently completed a novel in English.

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“By dint of names, dates, and figures, of classified ads, of sundry facts, of statistics, of the confessions of great writers and of anonymous passersby, of quotations from small-town newspapers and from official discourses, Vladimir Pozner reconstructs, vibrantly, so terribly vibrantly and magnificently, the American civilization.” —Les Lettres Françaises

• Book trailer with archival images of Depression-era America • Reviews in translation and history magazines and blogs • Academic outreach to American History professors

He bent his white horse head towards me. “And where do you live in New York?” The hallowed rituals of a cocktail party carried on around us: docile, invoked by the tinkling of ice in the shaker, the manwho-never-drinks, the young-woman-who-never-gets-drunk and other mythological figures emerging from the clouds of smoke. I answered: “Starting tomorrow, I’m going to live in Harlem.” “Sorry?” “Harlem.” He’d understood perfectly well but thought he hadn’t. “You know,” he said, “we never think of them.” “Really?” “No. We don’t think of those people existing.” “And yet “those people” represent nearly one-seventh of the US population.” “Yes, yes, I know,” he said absently. “So you found yourself a decent hotel in Harlem?” “I’ll be living with a family.” “With Negroes?” He was appalled. “Yes. Or actually, the husband is black and his wife is white.” “Oh . . . You know, that’s very, very rare. I hope you won’t go telling people in France that it’s common. That’s really tough luck,” he added in a woebegone voice. He was quiet for a moment and then small talk, once again, got the upper hand on dismay. “So what do you think of this other American institution, the cocktail party?”.

—from The Disunited States

Moments Politiques jacqu e s r a nc i è r e

t ra nsl ated f rom t he Frenc h by

m a ry fos t e r

To speak of “political moments” is to say, first and foremost, that politics is not the continuous unfolding of governmental acts and power struggles; rather, it exists in those moments that question what politics is, exactly, what kind of community it engages, what people are contained therein and what those people are capable of. Politics, for Jacques Rancière, is the impulse that either sparks or stalls a movement. Moments Politiques collects the short essays and interviews of Jacques Rancière from a span of over thirty years, 1977 to 2009. Sparked by specific events in European and world news and written as they were happening, these pieces suggest that what we might think is inevitable might not be, and what we assume could never happen can. By examining the issues in which political moments arise, such as 9/11, the passage of new immigration laws, and even Foucault’s death, Rancière opens us up to reimagining and re-charting the map of the possible. JACQUES RANCIÈRE is one of most important figures of contemporary French

philosophy. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Future of the Image, and The Nights of Labor. MARY FOSTER has translated numerous texts in the area of philosophy and

political science. She recently completed translating a manual for the Accompaniment and Solidarity Project with Colombia, Decolonizing Our Solidarity, and Normand Baillergeon’s Order Without Power: History and Current Challenges.

august 26, 2014 tr • $17.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 208 pages 978-1-60980-533-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-534-0

• Review coverage in Three Percent, New York Review of Books, Jacobin Magazine, Cabinet Magazine • Advanced copy giveaway at ALA and BEA • Op-ed in major national newspaper

Congress and the Shaping of the Middle East K i r k j. be at t i e

The upside-down logic of US policy in the Middle East is one of the great foreign policy conundrums today precisely because it touches on so many different problematic areas. The March 2006 article by Walt and Meersheimer that appeared under the title The Israel Lobby in the London Review of Books, and the bestselling book that followed, attributed our pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others, including Chomsky, have criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle East watcher Professor Kirk Beattie seeks to arrive at a deeper understanding by looking closely at the inner workings of Congress. Beattie analyzes staffing, campaign funding, bipartisan alliances within the Senate and the House, and the agenda-driven allocation of foreign aid. He addresses the many internal and external pressures that impact such processes. His findings, based on interviews with members of Congress and their staff and years of research, are laid out in straight-talking prose that untangles the complexity of the issue. kirk j. beattie is the author of two books on Egyptian

politics: Egypt During the Nasser Years and Egypt During the Sadat Years. A professor at Simmons College in the Political Science and International Relations Department, specializing in comparative politics with regional expertise in Middle East and West European politics, Beattie has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the University of Michigan. He is a recipient of numerous national scholarships including a Fulbright grant, a Fulbright-Hays grant, an International Rotary Foundation Fellowship, an American Research Center in Egypt grant, and a Center for Arabic Study Abroad fellowship. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin. october 7, 2014 hc â&#x20AC;˘ $30.00 6" x 9" â&#x20AC;˘ 320 pages 978-1-60980-561-6 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-562-3

• Giveaways at political science and international relations conferences including the American Political Science conference in August • Academic outreach to Interational Relations, Political Science, and Middle Eastern Studies departments • Author events in Massachusetts

Dark Alliance

The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion

ga ry w e bb foreword by M a x i n e Wat e r s

Kill the Messenger movie tie-in edition In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Pushing his investigation further, Webb’s book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, draws from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, demonstrating how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. GARY WEBB’s (1955–2004) bold, controversial reporting in the “Dark Alliance” series was the target of a famously vicious media backlash that ended his career as a mainstream journalist. When Webb persisted with his research compiled in the book Dark Alliance, some of the same publications that had vilified him for his series retracted their criticism and praised him for having the courage to tell the truth about one of the worst official abuses in our nation’s history. Others, including his own former newspaper and the New York Times, continued to treat him like an outlaw for the brilliant and courageous work he’d done. Webb’s death on December 10, 2004, at the age of 49, was determined to be a suicide SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 tr • $22.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 592 pages 978-1-60980-621-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-622-4

â&#x20AC;˘ Major motion picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, Kill the Messenger, set to be released in October 2014

The Family Hightower A Novel

Br i a n F r a nc i s sl at t e ry

In this novel of mistaken identity, two boys are born in the same year and both are named after their grandfather: Peter Henry Hightower, a wealthy Ukranian-American criminal. One Peter grows up alienated from the family and ends up as a journalist. The other Peter, who goes by Petey, ends up a small-time criminal. When Petey disappears, the people who are after him track down the wrong cousin, and Peter the journalist finds himself on the run without any sense of why. He runs from one family member to the next, piecing together what his cousin was involved in as well as his family’s long and complicated relationship with organized crime. Along the way he unearths long-held family secrets that may be the key to escaping his past. The Family Hightower takes a close look at capitalism and organized crime in the late 20th century, and how, increasingly, the former is starting to look a lot like the latter. It’s about the legend of the self-made man, and what money can do to people who don’t know when they have enough. Slattery’s fourth novel, The Family Hightower is a taut literary thriller about crime and family at the dawn of the new global age. Novelist, musician and editor brian francis slattery is the author of three previous novels. Spaceman Blues (2007) was nominated for the Lambda Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. Liberation (2008) was named by Amazon’s editors the best science-fiction book of 2008. Lost Everything (2012) won the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award. He was previously a senior editor of the Journal of International Affairs and an editor and co-founder of the New Haven Review. He lives with his wife and young son in New Haven, Connecticut. SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 hc • $27.95 6" x 9" • 400 pages 978-1-60980-563-0 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-564-7

“‘There will be blood,’ Brian Slattery promises early on, and, man, does he deliver. Expertly paced and beautifully detailed, The Family Hightower is a Ukrainian-American Godfather—a time-traveling, globetrotting crime saga spanning the last century, spiriting the reader from Morocco to Zimbabwe to Romania and always back home to strangely exotic Cleveland. Completely satisfying and completely brilliant.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of A Prayer for the Dying and Last Night at the Lobster

• Author events in New York and Connecticut • Book blog tour to crime fiction blogs • Galley giveaways at ALA and BEA conferences

The Story of Hurry

emma williams i l lust rat ions by i br a h i m qu r a i sh i

After a major invasion of the Gaza Strip in late 2008, twenty-year-old Mahmoud Barghout decided to become a zookeeper. He saw that the children around him were exhausted by war, and so to provide respite, he set up the Happy Land Zoo. But the war made feeding and caring for the animals impossible—they died of thirst, hunger, or injury— and replacing them meant finding large sums of money and overcoming the blockade or the risk of bringing them in through tunnels connecting the Strip to Egypt. So Mr. Barghout came up with a solution for at least one animal: he dyed two local white donkeys with dark stripes, to create zebras, which visiting children could touch and even ride. The Story of Hurry recounts the tale of these “made in Gaza” zebras, of an inventive zookeeper just like Mr. Barghout, and of the wondrous capacity of the imagination of children. Written by Emma Williams, together with thought-provoking mixedmedia illustrations by Ibrahim Quraishi, this picture book for inquisitive children aged 3 to 103 includes an historical note for parents, teachers, and librarians. EMMA WILLIAMS studied history at Oxford Universi-

ty and medicine at London University. As a doctor she has worked in the UK, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West Bank, the US, and South Africa. Her memoir of living in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada (It’s Easier to Reach Heaven than the End of the Street) came out in 2006. She has four children and currently lives in New York City. The recipient of numerous international grants and awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, ibrahim quraishi explores visual performativity through photography, photo painting, video, film, installation, performance, dance, and theater. He lives in Amsterdam. triangle square ages 3–7 SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 hc • $16.95 10" x 8" • 36 pages 978-1-60980-589-0 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-590-6

• Finished book giveaway at ALA and BEA conferences • ABA Advanced Access promotion • Book blog tour to children’s book blogs

Not long ago, a little donkey lived in a dry and lonely land by the sea.

Wattan and the other children were sad. They were often hungry. They were often thirsty. They often had to sit in darkness. And their land was a land of storms. Some nights the sky thundered and the brightness cracked the sky. Then the children were afraid. 61

Exercise Will Hurt You

A Doctor’s Case for Moderation in Running, Cycling, Skiing, and Other Things We Do Because We Think Our Bodies Invincible

dr . s t e v e b a r r e r

A (Philadelphia Magazine) Top Doc’s case for moderation in running, cycling, skiing, and other things we do because we think our bodies are invincible. When was it decided that exercise could only be good for you? Leading neurosurgeon Dr. Steve Barrer argues—based on his extensive career treating exercise-related injuries, a cornucopia of his own personal injuries from exercise over the years, and ample scientific data—that we ought to change the way we think about exercise. Instead of succumbing to what Barrer calls “the cult of exercise” that follows the mantra “no pain, no gain,” how about some common sense? In a clear, friendly, and compelling voice, Barrer surveys exercise and sports that are commonly practiced—yoga, soccer, skiing, running—and informs the reader knowledgeably and conscientiously about the injuries that can result. We’ve come to believe that the body can handle the abuse that comes with these sports, but it can’t. Before we get carried away with the culture of excess that has been assigned to exercise, let’s remember that exercise is not always good for you, and make sure we don’t get the wrong idea from the model that’s been set. STEVEN J. BARRER, MD is currently Director of the

Neurosciences Institute and Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery at Abington Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Barrer was named among the “Top Docs” in Philadelphia Magazine from 2009–2012 and has published numerous journal articles and papers in his area of expertise, neurosurgery. Dr. Barrer is involved in educating medical students and residents, holds a position on the clinical faculty of Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and is frequently invited as a guest speaker for his patient-centered passion, wisdom and wit. september 30, 2014 hc • $22.95 5" x 8" • 224 pages 978-1-60980-535-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-536-4

• Book trailer promoted to blogosphere including Boing Boing & Gawker • Author interviews on national morning shows • Reviews in health and fitness magazines and blogs

Censored 2015

Inspriring We the People The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2013–14

a n dy l e e ro t h a nd m ick e y h u f f w it h pro j e c t ce nsore d int roduct ion by R a l ph n a der c a r toons by K h a l i l Be n di b

At Berkeley during the 1964–65 school year, Mario Savio and his fellow students led the fight to lift a ban of on-campus political activities, a struggle that blossomed into the Free Speech Movement. As Savio declared in his famous December 1964 speech: “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels . . . upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!” Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, Censored 2015—Project Censored’s annual yearbook of the top 25 most censored stories and media analysis as voted on by activists, scholars, and media workers across the country—continues where last year’s volume left off: The US has left Iraq with an epidemic of cancers and birth defects. A fifth of Americans go hungry. The richest global 1 percent hide trillions in offshore tax havens. . . . And so much more that didn’t make the front page (or even back page). Informative and timely, appalling and sometimes uplifting, Censored alerts readers to the stories that were quashed in favor of media bias, celebrity scandals, and self-censorship, in hopes that we the people, armed with knowledge, put our bodies upon the gears—before it’s too late. Project Censored director MICKEY HUFF is a co-chair of the history department and professor of social science at Diablo Valley College, and, with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips, co-host of the Project Censored Show on KPFA (Berkeley), which rebroadcasts on WBAI, No Lies Radio, Progressive Radio Network, and other stations. ANDY LEE ROTH is associate director of Project Censored. He teaches sociology at Sonoma State University and the College of Marin. October 7, 2014 TR • $19.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 320 pages 978-1-60980-565-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-566-1

Praise for Censored 2014: “It is always a must read.” —Ralph Nader, Huffington Post “This book is evident of Project Censored’s profoundly important work in educating readers on current events and the skills needed to be a critical thinker.” —Publishers Weekly “[Project Censored is] a clarion call for truth telling.” —Daniel Ellsberg “[T]he most important stories of the year that you never saw or heard about.” —Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System • Prepublication release of Top 25 censored stories in July 2014 • Author events in Northern California and Bay Area • Promotion on all Project Censored–related websites and social media • Cosponsor of Banned Book Week

The Jugheads A Novel

J. R . h e lt on

In America, the mass of men still lead lives of quiet desperation, as do their children and wives. You’re either a loser or a winner, depending on whether you can strike it rich, find fame, or just win the big game. The Jugheads tells the story of a father and his son and of the now tarnished American Dream--and what so often happens when that dream comes true. We follow Jake Stewart and his family as they struggle under his father’s draconian rule from the inner city through the sprawl of 1970s-era suburbia to the seemingly pristine countryside envisioned by Americans since the time of Thoreau. As Jake comes of age, his father drags the family across Texas and the American West in an attempt to find home and realize his own dreams of “getting back to Nature.” Instead—for Jake and his father, for his mother and sister—all they really find is themselves. By turns hilarious and shocking, The Jugheads is the story of an everyday family, told by a master of the underside of the American psyche. j. r. helton’s first novel Drugs, a modern homage to William S. Burrough’s classic Junky, introduced the world to his wry writing and unique genre of fictionalized memoir. A professor of writing at the collegiate level, Helton has also published two memoirs and a number of short stories—for one of which he won an Honorable Mention Pushcart Prize—and poems in such literary magazines as The Sun, The Missouri Review, and Mineshaft. He lives, writes, and teaches in Texas.

october 7, 2014 TR • $17.95 6" x 9" • 304 pages 978-1-60980-583-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-584-5

“J. R. Helton really speaks to me—starkly honest, darkly funny, acutely observant, and captures the tragic absurdity of human life. . . . [H]e’s right up there with the best of them.” —Robert Crumb, cartoonist and musician “This guy Helton could be the next Bukowski.” —Terry Zwigoff, director of Crumb and Ghost World “If Mark Twain had snorted coke, chomped on painkillers like they were Tic Tacs and huffed enough nitrous to keep a fleet of dental surgery patients grinning, Drugs is the book he’d have written.” —Tony O’Neill, author of Digging the Vein and Sick City

• Author events in San Antonio and Austin • Author attending Texas Book Festival in October 2014 • Book blog tour to literary blogs

Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released Collected and New Poems 1974–2011

B a r b a r a Ch a se -r i b ou d

A highly anticipated collection of poems from Barbara Chase-Riboud—distinguished artist and writer, and winner of the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize. Rich with literary allusions traversing cultures and epochs, Everytime a Knot is Undone, a God is Released consists of collected and never-before published poems by a writer whose mastery of words captures our imagination with daring and elegant verses. In this powerful collection, the poet’s words sculpt sensuous, captivating imagery out of the physical world in ways that are surprising--sometimes jarring—and yet, beautiful . . . the human body, diverse natural and urban landscapes, decay . . . With unabashed honesty and refined craftsmanship of language and form, Chase-Riboud is a bewitching storyteller. barbara chase-riboud is a distinguished poet and winner of the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize for Best American Poet awarded by the prestigious Daniel Webster Platform Association for her second book of poetry, Portrait of a Nude Women as Cleopatra in 1988. She received a knighthood in Arts and Letters from the French government in 1996, the same year as poet Seamus Heaney. Chase-Riboud has read her poetry in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Mali, Ghana, Senegal, France, Germany, and the United States. She was the first American woman and first American artist to visit Mainland China after the revolution in 1965. Well-known as a world-class sculptor, she has personal exhibitions in many museums. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has mounted a major exhibition of her sculpture and drawings from 1970 to the present which opened in 2013 and moved to Berkeley Museum of Art in 2014. october 14, 2014 hc • $35.00 5.5" x 9" • 384 pages 978-1-60980-594-4 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-595-1

“The livingness of the body is in these poems . . . Barbara ChaseRiboud comes at you whole, all of her at once, the way only a real talent makes possible.” —Arthur Miller “The poems, like the sculpture, are a lucid reflection of their creator; tensile strength tempered with softness. Poetry, as she sees it, is a natural extension . . . a trip from one three dimensional world to another.” —The Washington Post

More Than a Game Second Edition

ph i l jack son a nd ch a r l e y rose n n e w pre face b y t h e au t hor s

More Than a Game is the odyssey of two prominent figures in basketball history and the friendship they forged in the sacred brotherhood of the hoop. Phil Jackson’s journey is chronicled here from his role as a New York Knick and world champion, to CBA coach, to six-time Chicago Bulls world champion, to L.A. Lakers world champion. The preface, new for this edition, updates readers on Jackson’s latest role in the NBA as the president of the New York Knicks. Charley Rosen, who began as a star college player then CBA coach, continues to carry the torch for basketball as today’s preeminent novelist of the game. PHIL JACKSON is a seven-time world

champion NBA coach and currently sits as the president of the New York Knicks. CHARLEY ROSEN is America’s leading

writer of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Barney Polan’s Game, both from Seven Stories; his many nonfiction books include The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball and The Scandals of ’51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball, both from Seven Stories. An analyst for hoopshype.com, Rosen is the New York Times bestselling co-author, with Phil Jackson, of More Than a Game from Seven Stories. He lives with his wife, Daia Gerson, in New York State.

october 21, 2014 tr • $17.95 6" x 9" • 320 pages 978-1-60980-623-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-262-2

“The technical details in this wonderful book will give any fan a better appreciation of the game.” —Publishers Weekly “Jackson is becoming a prolific chronicler of his life in basketball. . . . An unusual amalgam of biography, spiritualism, basketball technique, and journalism, this will be of strong interest for all basketball collections.” —Library Journal “There’s plenty here to attract a broad spectrum of fans, from celebrity talk to techno-hoop strategy, but underlying it all is a reverence for a game that, when played well, can be a transcendent personal experience and a joy to watch.” —Booklist

A de activista

M a rt h a e . G onz a l e z i l lust rat ions by i n nos a n t o n ag a r a

Following on the outrageous success of Innosanto Nagara’s A is for Activist (now in its fourth printing), A de activista is a Spanish-language ABC board book written by Grammy Award-winning lyricist and singer Martha Gonzalez and illustrated by Nagara for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, calling them to action while teaching them a love for books. MARTHA GONZALEZ is an artist, activist, feminist music theorist, mother, and

Fulbright and Ford Fellow from East Los Angeles. For the past seventeen years, she has been a singer and percussionist for the band Quetzal, a group that has made a considerable impact on LA’s Chicano music scene, winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album for Imaginaries. Gonzalez has recently worked on a project entitled Entre Mujeres: Feminine Translocal Music Composition, and is currently finishing a dissertation on Chicana artivista resistances in Los Angeles. INNOSANTO NAGARA is a graphic designer who worked for a range of social

change organizations before founding the Design Action Collective, a workerowned cooperative design studio in Oakland, California. He wrote and illustrated A is for Activist, his first book for children, for his (then) two-year-old son, and it was at his invitation that Gonzales came aboard to author the Spanish-language version. Inno lives in Oakland with his partner and son.

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“A is for absolutely wonderful! B is for beautiful illustrations. C is for creative use of labor philosophy. D is for promoting Democracy. E is for Excellent. This is NOT a mundane, rote memorization academic book. This book makes me want to jump and sing and color and paint and learn.” —New Mexico State Representative Christine Trujillo

• Author and illustrator tour to San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle • Promotion at children’s book festivals • Promotion at anarchist book fairs

The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature The Definitive Anthology of Kid’s Lit as Graphics and Visuals ed ited by

rus s k ick

Fifty artists and illustrators reimagine classic and contemporary children’s tales in the newest graphic canon volume from The New York Times bestselling trilogy The Graphic Canon Volumes 1-3. The original three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon presented the world’s classic literature—from ancient times to the late twentieth century—as eyepopping comics and visuals. In this follow-up volume, children’s literature through the ages is given new life by today’s best comics artists and illustrators. From Aesop’s Fables to Watership Down, from The Hardy Boys to Harry Potter, the most cherished works of children’s literature are interpreted as stunning works of graphic art. These are the books you read and fell in love with as a child, at once familiar and like you’ve never experienced them before. Best-selling anthologist RUSS KICK embarked on an entirely new kind of project in 2009, returning to his love of literature and art, and to comics art in particular. For his groundbreaking new series of books The Graphic Canon, Kick commissioned new work from over 170 artists, as well as reintroduced hard-to-find existing work. With over 35,000 copies in print of the first three volumes, The Graphic Canon series has been welcomed by a wide range of different types of media, from traditional print to comics blogs, from NPR and the New York Times to Wired and Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings blog, which have all hailed Kick as a visionary, expanding readers’ visual vocabulary through the creation of a new kind of canon. (Right) Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, art/adaptation by Pia Valaer

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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, art/adaptation by Andrea Tsurame

Praise for The Graphic Canon: “The Graphic Canon is absolutely the most ambitious book I’ve picked up this year.” —Newsday “An exciting new benchmark for comics!” —Library Journal “These works of literature do not reside just on the shelves of academia; they flourish in the eye of our imagination.” —New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice “Easily the most ambitious and successfully realized literary project in recent memory, and certainly the one that’s most relevant for today’s readers.” —NPR, Indie Booksellers Pick 2012’s Best “This meaty slab is laced with more wit, beauty, social commentary and shock than one might expect.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is not only a survey of the world’s diverse artistic past, but also a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium’s incredible future.” —Booklist (starred review)

Four Fables by Jean de la Fontaine, interpreted by MaĂŤlle Doliveux

The Crocodiles

yous se f r a k h a Tra nsl ated f rom t he A rabic by rob i n mo ge r

Set in Cairo between 1997 and 2011, The Crocodiles is narrated in numbered, poem-like paragraphs, set against the backdrop of a burning Tahrir Square, by a man looking back on the magical and explosive period of his life when he and two friends started a secret poetry club amidst a time of drugs, messy love affairs, violent sex, clumsy but determined intellectual bravado and retranslations of the Beat poets. Youssef Rakha’s masterly novel of growth and change begins with a suicide and ends with a doomed revolution. This provocative, brutally intelligent novel forcefully captures thirty years in the life of a living, breathing, daring, burning, and culturally incestuous Cairo. Novelist, reporter, poet and photographer youssef rakha was a reporter, copy editor, and cultural editor-cum-literary critic at Al-Ahram Weekly, the Cairo-based English-language newspaper, and the founding features writer at the Abu Dhabi-based daily, the National. His work has appeared in English in the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, Parnassus Aeon Magazine, McSweeney’s, and the Kenyon Review, among others. His photographs have been exhibited at the Goethe Institute in Cairo. Seven books by Rakha have appeared in Arabic. He was chosen among the 39 writers representing the new voices of modern Arabic literature at the Hay Festival/Beirut World Book Capital competition, Beirut39 in 2009. His essay, “In Extremis: Literature and Revolution in Contemporary Cairo (An Oriental Essay in Seven Parts)” appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of The Kenyon Review.

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“What happened in Egypt around its second revolution was a mixture of grandeur and pettiness, of sorrow and mirth, of expectation and despair, of theory and flesh. All of which may be found in The Crocodiles, a novel where reality sheds its veil to reveal its true face — that of a timeless mythology.” —Amin Maalouf, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Samarkand “Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles is a fierce ‘post-despair’ novel about a generation of poets who were too caught up in themselves to witness the 2011 revolution in Egypt. Or is it? With its numbered paragraphs and beautifully surreal imagery, The Crocodiles is also a long poem, an elegiac wail singing the sad music of a collapsing Egypt. Either way, The Crocodiles— suspicious of sincerity, yet sincere in its certainty that poetry accomplishes nothing—will leave you speechless with the hope that meaning may once again return to words.” —Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? “Youssef Rakha has channeled Allen Ginsberg’s ferocity and sexual abandon to bring a secret Cairo poetry society called The Crocodiles to life. He’s done something daring and not unlike Bolaño in his transforming the Egyptian revolution into a psychedelic fiction thick with romantic round robins, defiant theorizing and an unafraid reckoning with the darkest corners of the Egyptian mentality.” —Lorraine Adams, author of Harbor

Voices of a People’s History of the United States 10th Anniversary Edition

howa r d z i n n a nd a n t hon y a r nov e Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People’s History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience. The visionary historical work of professor and activist HOWARD ZINN (1922–2010) is widely considered one of the most important and influential of our era. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, Zinn became convinced that there could no longer be such a thing as a “just war,” because the vast majority of victims in modern warfare are, increasingly, innocent civilians. In his books, including A People’s History of the United States, its companion volume Voices of a People’s History of the United States, and countless other titles, Zinn affirms the power of the people to influence the course of events.

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“Voices should be on every bookshelf. [It presents] the rich tradition of struggle in the United States, from the resistance to the conquest of the Americas in the era of Columbus through the protests today of soldiers and their families against the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq.” —Arundhati Roy “Gut-wrenching.” —Jon Stewart • New York events with Anthony Arnove • Cross-promotion with HowardZinn.org, Zinn Education Project, and Rethinking Schools • New introduction to be offered for first serial

Misdirected A Novel

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Misdirected is the story of fifteen-year-old Ben, who moves to a small conservative Colorado town where his atheism seems to be the only thing about him that matters to everyone. His classmates bully him for not fitting in, his teachers don’t understand him, and with his brother serving in Iraq and his sister away at college with problems of her own, Ben is left on his own to figure things out. Being a teen is tricky to navigate when you’re an outsider, and Ben struggles to find his place without compromising who he is. He rebels against his teachers, he argues with his classmates, and he rejects what others believe, bringing the reader with him on his enlightening journey as he learns the value of challenging accepted beliefs—including his own. ali berman’s flash fiction and poetry have been published in Unsaid Literary Journal, Elimae, Used Furniture Review, and Puerto del Sol. In 2012, she co-founded flipmeover, a production company that uses media to raise awareness about important social issues, and co-wrote “quiet de luxe,” their debut short film that has played in film festivals around the world. She is senior editor of the popular “good gossip” website Ecorazzi.com, reaching millions of people per year with stories that both educate and entertain. Ali resides in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two cats.

triangle square ages 12 and up November 25, 2014 hc • $18.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 288 pages 978-1-60980-573-9 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-574-6

• Author events in New York and Portland • Galley giveaway at ALA and BEA • Galley giveaway on Goodreads and Riffle • ABA White Box and Advanced Access promotion

Thony Belizaire, Witness to History 100 Photographs of the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti

T hon y Be l i z a i r e forewa rd by r aou l pe ck Bi l ing u a l te x t, Engl ish-Frenc h

From bloodshed on the Ruelle Vaillant in November 1987, as the first presidential elections ended, to the bloody coup d’état by the army against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991; from the antigovernment protests of November 2002, to the violent earthquake that hit the Haitian capital in January 2010, leaving in its wake over 250,000 dead and a million homeless; —these are just a few of the images of devastation and endurance in Thony Belizaire—one man with a camera covering a small nation and a world of trouble. The photographs collected in Thony Belizaire are notable, as Raoul Peck notes in his foreword, “for their violence, their realism, their poetry.” These 100 fullcolor images are joined here by accompanying text the author was writing for this book right up to his untimely death. Legendary Agence France Press photographer thony belizaire was honored at the first Biennale Internationale d’Art Contemporain de la Martinique as one of Latin America’s and the Caribbean’s greatest photographers. In July 2006, he won the United Nation Population Fund’s environmental photography competition. His photographs have been published widely in magazines, books and newspapers, where they often accompanied front-page coverage of news from Haiti. He passed away from cancer in Port-au-Prince on July 21, 2013. Haitian filmmaker and former minister of culture raoul peck’s lauded feature films and documentaries explore internationalist themes of inequality. His film The Man by the Shore (1993) was the first Haitian film ever released in the United States. In 2001, he received the Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. Peck’s most recent film is Fatal Assistance, a critique of the international aid in Haiti and elsewhere. Peck lives in Paris and Haiti. december 9, 2014 hc • $39.95 7.5" x 9.75" • 192 pages 978-1-60980-585-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-586-9

• Goodreads giveaway • Promotion and giveaway at ALA and BEA conferences

No country goes from a dictatorship to a democracy from one day to the next. There first must come a transitory period. . . . These 100 images of mine bear witness to the convulsions at the end of the 20th century and in the first decade of the 21st. These images represent twenty-five years in the long and difficult transition towards the rule of law. They will serve as a reference point for historians and researchers to the benefit of future generations. This is our record of all the moments of inquietude and hope that I and so many others lived, and relive. It is our collective memory, and as such belongs to the Haitian people. To live and relive, through these images, such moments as these from this transitional period is goodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;even if these images raise ghosts that haunt us and that the next generation will have to put to rest. A people without a memory is a people without a history.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Thony Belizaire (Translated by Dan Simon)

The Walrus and the Elephants John Lennon’s Years of Revolution

Ja m e s A . M i t ch e l l

Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came to be seen by the leaders of the faltering anti-war movement as someone who was capable of reinvigorating it. The government was acutely aware of Lennon’s power as well, seeing him as a viable threat to Nixon’s reelection hopes, initiating extradition proceedings against him. Lennon’s second solo album, Imagine, appeared in 1971, followed the following year by Sometime in New York City. Meanwhile, John and Yoko are searching for her daughter, a primary reason they came to America in the first place. And John is struggling to embrace feminism. The Walrus and the Elephants tells a double-barreled story of music and politics, how the personal is political and the political is personal, of upheavals in one life amid the larger cultural upheavals of an era. james a. mitchell is the author of But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War, the story of an orphanage in Sri Lanka’s war-torn northeast; It Was All Right: Mitch Ryder’s Life in Music; and Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town. He has reported in print and on television from South Asia, and from Sri Lanka’s war-torn northeast in particular and the consequences of the twenty-six year civil war there. He lives in Southeast Michigan.

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“This isn’t a new story, and to an extent Mitchell is covering old ground; but he does so in fascinating detail. Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles, but there is a place for the niche approach, taking a sliver of the life and homing in on it. Mitchell has done the legwork, and there is enough new material to make it worthwhile, with insightful contributions from a clutch of fellow travellers.” —Chris Maume in The Independent (London) “I came away from this inspiring book truly happy to be a John Lennon fan. . . . For anyone whose faith in that image of peace and love is getting shaky, Mitchell’s book will restore it, reintroducing you to the man behind the slogans and peace signs. I loved The Walrus & The Elephants for that reason.” —Mike Segretto in Psychobabble 93

Compañeras

Zapatista Women’s Stories

H i l a ry K l e i n

Guerrilla army insurgents. Political leaders. Health and education promoters. Economic cooperatives members. These are just some of the prominent, everyday roles held by women in the Zapatista autonomous region in Chiapas, where the creation and maintenance of an alternative, democratic society has found women’s participation indispensible. Compañeras: Zapatistas Stories is the untold story of the women of the Zapatista movement. Gathered by longtime community organizer Hilary Klein, the Zapatista women’s own recollections of their lives, struggles, and critical involvement brings to light the tremendous transformation of gender roles that has occurred in this culture of revolution, and is instructive for all who are committed to examining how existing grassroots alternatives to global capitalism can guide the way toward justice, equality, and democracy. hilary klein has been engaged in social justice and community organizing for twenty years. She spent six years in Chiapas, Mexico, working with women’s projects in Zapatista communities. She currently works at Make the Road New York, a membership-based community organization that works with immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice. Hilary is originally from Washington, DC, and currently lives in New York, NY. Compañeras is her first book.

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• Events to coincide with anniversary of the Zapatista uprising (January 1994) • Academic potential with Mexican Studies and Women’s Studies programs

“Compañeras is an essential book for us to understand and learn from the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and no one is more qualified to write that book than Hilary Klein. This is the first book on the Maya women’s leadership and participation, which has formed this uniquely powerful and persistent movement.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie “Compañeras responds to the need for more in-depth writing about women in the Zapatista movement. . . . Hilary’s years of commitment, depth of relationship with Zapatista women, and history of writing about Chiapas make her the ideal person to write this book.” —Peter Rosset, author of Food Is Different: Why the WTO Should Get out of Agriculture “Hilary Klein is one of the very few people with a grasp of Zapatista history and culture, the compassion to be able to hear and reflect women’s histories, and the sensitivity to guide outsiders through the politics and struggle of one of the world’s most important social movements. . . . This is a book that should be on every activist’s reading list, and in every social studies class, too.” —Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved “Till now, there has been no serious, in-depth work based on first-hand information that explores the extremely rich experience of the women of the EZLN, and how much they have achieved in the construction of indigenous autonomy and in their personal self-determination. I am very familiar with the work that Hilary Klein carried out with Zapatista women for a number of years. Her experience and capacity guarantees the high quality of her book Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories.” —Dr. Mercedes Olivera Bustamante, Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y C.A., Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas

The Up-Down A Novel

B a r ry gi f for d

Something completely different from Barry Gifford, a novel of violence, introspection, the search for love—his best book in decades. A novel of violence, of love, and introspection, The Up-Down follows a man who leaves home and all that’s familiar, finds true love, loses it, and finds it again. Pace’s voyage is outward, among strangers, and inward into the fifth direction that is the up-down, in a sweeping, voracious human tale that takes no prisoners, witnesses extreme brutalities and expresses a childlike amazement. Here the route goes from New Orleans, to Chicago to Wyoming to Bay St. Clement, North Carolina, but the geography he is charting is always first and foremost unchartable. barry gifford is the author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. Gifford is considered by many to be among the greatest living American storytellers, one of those who can reveal, in his stories and novels, something we didn’t know that is happening in American hearts. His most recent prose works are Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems, The Roy Stories, and Landscape With Traveler. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at www.barrygifford.com.

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• Author tour to New Orleans, LA; Jackson, MS; Austin, TX; Nashville, TN; and Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA • Major New York event at BAM with film screening • Book blog tour to literary blogs

In the Spirit of Homebirth Modern Women, An Ancient Choice

bron w y n pree ce

In the Spirit of Homebirth collects stories that celebrate the beauty and power of giving birth. Here are women from indigenous communities, of diverse socioeconomic classes and religions, in urban and rural settings, and the stories as well of family members and friends who witness and share the experience of homebirth with them. Partners describe the awe of watching a loved one bring new life into the world, children write sweetly about getting a baby brother or sister, and midwives and doulas tell us what it is like to aid women on their journeys. In the Spirit of Homebirth presents birth as a physical action as well as a sacred act, an expression of deep love and of belief in the power of the human spirit. Homebirth is a choice, and In the Spirit of Homebirth tells us why women from all walks of life and their families make this choice today when they have the right to give birth as they wish. In the Spirit of Homebirth presents homebirth, not as an archaic practice but as a remarkably contemporary expression of a long tradition and a profoundly empowering and joyous event. Writer and improvisational performance artist bronwyn preece wrote the children’s books Gulf Islands Alphabet and the upcoming Off-the-Grid Kid. The pioneer of earthBODYment, an eco-somatic exploratory approach to immersion in our surroundings, she also performs and gives workshops around the world. In 2000 she helped establish a land cooperative in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, which is where she lives today. FEBRUARY 3, 2015 tr • $18.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 304 pages 978-1-60980-579-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-580-7

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13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty M a r io m a r a zz i t i a f ter word by Pau l e l i e

Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse— remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind. mario marazziti co-founded the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002. He is the longtime spokesperson for the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Rome-based progressive Catholic NGO. In 2012 he was elected to the lower house of parliament in Italy, where he pursues a broad human-rights portfolio. He lives in Rome. paul elie is an American writer and editor, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2004. His most recent book is Reinventing Bach. He lives in New York. february 10, 2015 hc • $18.95 5" x 7" • 224 pages 978-1-60980-567-8 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-568-5

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World Report 2015 Events of 2014

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The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories is put into perspective in Human Rights Watch’s signature yearly report, which, in the 2014 volume, highlighted the armed conflict in Syria, international drug reform, drones and electronic mass surveillance, and more, and also featured photo essays of child marriage in South Sudan, the cost of the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, and religious fighting in Central African Republic. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2014 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report 2015 is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights, and operates in more than eighty countries. Its annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. KENNETH ROTH is the executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.

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“A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality where emotion tends to dominate.” —Simon Jenkins, former editor of the Times (London) “The reports of the New York–based Human Rights Watch (HRW) have become extremely important. . . . Cogent and eminently practical, these reports have gone far beyond an account of human rights abuses in the country.”—Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books

• International press conferences in New York and Washington, DC at publication • National radio tour with Executive Director Kenneth Roth

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Recent Awards and Honors The Albino Album

LoveStar

chavisa woods

andri snÆr magnason

Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Award for Lesbian General Fiction

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence 2012

Mundo Cruel

The Story of the Blue Planet

Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Award for Gay General Fiction

Selected as an Honor Book for The Nature Generation’s 2013 Green Earth Book Award in Children’s Fiction

luis negrón

What Makes a Baby cory silverberg

Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Award for LGBT Children/Young Adult

andri snÆr magnason

Birth Matters

ina may gaskin

Generation Roe

Named one of the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Top 6 Books of 2011

Selected for honor by the 2014 ALA Amanda Bloomer Project

loretta napoleoni

sarah erdreich

The Graphic Canon

edited by russ kick

Publishers Weekly Top 10 Graphic Books of the Season “The graphic literary publishing event of the year!” A New York Times Book Review “Editor’s Choice” Honorable Mention for “Comics World’s 2012 Graphic Novel Critics’ Poll” (Vols. 1 & 2) Brain Pickings Best Graphic Novels of 2013 (Volume 2)

Maonomics

First prize for a work on Economics by the Italian Association for Economic Development Ina May Gaskin

author of birth matters

Winner of the Right Livelihood Award, 2011 God Breaketh Not All Men’s Hearts Alike stanley moss

Winner of the Pushcart Prize for “Song of No God”

Great Reads in Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012’s Best (NPR)

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?

translator for mundo cruel

Suzanne Jill Levine

Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction title of 2011

Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Translation Award

Named one of Electric Literature’s Most Beautiful Books of the Year, 2011

johan harstad

Stephanie McMillan

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October 8, 2013 TR • $16.95 7.5" x 6" • 160 pages 978-1-60980-511-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-512-8

The Minimum Security Chronicles is a graphic novel telling the story of a group of friends who try to save the world from ecocide. As the five main characters attempt to fight back in various ways against the system that’s killing the planet, they advocate different strategies and test them out, discovering their limitations through experience.

october 17, 2013 TR • $19.95 6" x 9.875" • 192 pages 978-1-60980-492-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-493-0

According to Gandhi, the Four Stages of Protest are as follows: First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win! Fight the Power! shows how this process has been played out again and again throughout history—and has slowly but surely led to hard-won rights for the people along the way. 110

October 17, 2013 HC • $21.95 5.25" x 7" • 256 pages 978-1-60980-537-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-538-8

Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson the Game that Changed Everything is a personal history and a business history—a Cinderella story for the Internet age. It is the story of unlikely success, fast money, and the power of digital technology to rattle an empire.

triangle square Ages 3 to 7 november 19, 2013 board • $9.99 5.065" x 5.065" • 28 pages 978-1-60980-539-5 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-5401

A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: kids who want to grow up in a world that is safe, where activism, environmental justice, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights are respected.

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november 19, 2013 tr • $16.95 5.25" x 8" • 256 pages 978-1-60980-504-3 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-505-0

With a supremely human sympathy for the triumphs and defeats of everyday life, Beverly Gologorsky delivers an incisive story about healing in the shadow of seemingly endless war.

december 3, 2013 hc • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 272 pages 978-1-60980-467-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-468-8

In late 1971, John Lennon left London behind and moved to New York, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. Told by a cast of friends and fellow travelers who saw the man behind the Beatle, The Walrus and the Elephants is a look back by those who fought the fight; he was a dreamer, but he wasn’t the only one. 112

march 11, 2014 hc • $23.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 352 pages 978-1-60980-501-2 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-502-9

After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Put to back-breaking work by the nuns, Martha works hard, keeps to herself, and steals away when she can with a cherished book. She must find her own way. She is thirteen.

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triangle square Ages 10 and up august 6, 2013 TR • $9.95 5.5" x 8.25" • 112 pages 978-1-60980-487-9 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-421-3

An anti-bullying, LGBTQ-supportive piece of fiction with an IT GETS BETTER message, Trevor mixes humor and realism in an urgent look at what it is like to feel alienated from everything around you.

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october 22, 2013 tr • $23.95 6" x 9" • 576 pages 978-1-60980-496-1 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-386-5

World-renowned photographer, writer, and activist Subhankar Banerjee brings together first-person narratives from nearly forty of the world’s most recognized activists, writers, and researchers to address issues of climate change, resource wars, and human rights with stunning urgency and groundbreaking research.

triangle sqaure ages 8–12 november 26, 2013 tr • $9.95 5.5" x 8" • 136 pages 978-1-60980-506-7 E-ISBN: 978-1-60980-429-9

A fantastical adventure, beautifully told, set on a planet where there are only children and no adults.

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author photo credits Danny Schechter • Joyce Ravid Charley Rosen • Jennifer May Martin Blank, PhD • Alana Wilner Photography Inga Muscio • Jessica Orr Kurt Vonnegut • Jennifer S. Altman, Getty Images Jared Diamond • no credit available Elizabeth Swados • Rosalind Lichter Tadashi Yoshimura • no credit available Maxine Kumin • Susannah Colt Matt Freedman • Matt Freedman Hwang Sok-yong • Raphaelle Gaillarde / Gamma Uday Prakash • no credit available Luis J Rodriguez • Rohan B. Preston Guadalupe Nettel • Lisabeth Salas Vladimir Pozner • Hazel Strand Jacques Rancière • no credit available Kirk Beattie • Courtesy of Simmons College Gary Webb • Esquire Brian Francis Slattery • Penny Bird Emma Williams • Marcus Hodge Steven Barrer, MD • Amy Corbett J. R. Helton • Pamela Valentine Barbara Chase-Riboud • John Loup-Sief Phil Jackson and Charley Rosen • no credit available Russ Kick • Ross Smith Youssef Rakha • no credit available Howard Zinn • Rosalyn Zinn Anthony Arnove • Aradhana Seth Ali Berman • no credit available Raoul Peck • Philippe Mazzoni James A. Mitchell • Linda Remilong Hilary Klein • no credit available Barry Gifford • Tiago Russo Pinto Bronwyn Preece • Similkameen O’Rourke Mario Marazziti • no credit available

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