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SEVEN STORIES PRESS� FALL/WINTER 2010–11� RECENT RELEASES

Please visit www.sevenstories.com:

� complete backlist

� 25% discount on all web orders

� special offers for K-12 teachers and universityprofessors (www.sevenstories.com/textbook)

� tour and event information

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RECENT AWARDS HONORSOnce You Go Backby Douglas Martin

FINALIST, LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, 2010

Racing While Blackby Leonard T. Miller and Andrew Simon

“BOOK TO READ FOR 2010" BY AUTOWEEK MAGAZINE

10,000 Dressesby Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray

AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 2009 RAINBOW LIST

HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTLITERATURE, 2009

Hello, Cruel Worldby Kate Bornstein

FINALIST FOR LGBT NONFICTION LAMBDALITERARY AWARD, 2009

HONOR BOOK FOR THE STONEWALL CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTLITERATURE, 2009

Live Through Thisedited by Sabrina Chapdjiev

FINALIST FOR LGBT ANTHOLOGIES LAMBDALITERARY AWARD, 2009

Peter Phillips

2009 DALLAS SMYTHE AWARD, UNION FORDEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATION

Censored 2009by Peter Phillips and Project Censored

PEN/OAKLAND LITERARY CENSORSHIP AWARD, 2008

The Sun Climbs Slowby Erna Paris

FINALIST, SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZEFOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2008

GLOBE AND MAIL TOP NONFICTION BOOK, 2008

The Possessionby Annie Ernaux

translated by Anna Moschovakis

MORE MAGAZINE TOP TEN OF 2008

Dreaming Up Americaby Russell Banks

BLOOMSBURY REVIEW EDITORS' FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008

Oblomovby Ivan Goncharov

translated by Marian Schwartz

SLATE BEST BOOKS OF 2008

The Class (Entre les murs)by François Bégaudeautranslated by Linda Asher

PRIX FRANCE CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA PRIZE, 2006

CANNES PALME D’OR, 2008 (FILM VERSION)

NOMINEE, BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ACADEMY AWARD, 2008[FILM VERSION]

Rogue Economicsby Loretta Napoleoni

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2008

STRAIGHT.COM FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2008

Derrick Jensen

ONE OF UTNE READER’S 50 VISIONARIES WHO ARECHANGING YOUR WORLD

PRESS ACTION’S DYNAMIC DOZEN, 2008

ERIC HOFFER AWARD, 2008(for Thought to Exist in the Wild [NoVoice Unheard])

PRESS ACTION PERSON OF THE YEAR, 2006

Voice Overby Céline Curiol

translated by Sam Richard

FINALIST, INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE, 2008

FINALIST, BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2008BY THE HERMENAUTIC CIRCLE

FRENCH VOICES AWARD, 2008

Life of Meaningedited by Bob Abernethy and William Bole

NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER, 2008

Coco Fusco

WHITNEY BIENNIAL ARTIST, 2008

A Field Guide for FemaleInterrogatorsby Coco Fusco

SHORTLIST, INDEX ON CENSORSHIPT. R. FYVEL AWARD, 2008

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Fall/Winter 2010–11

LOVE LIKE HATEA NovelLINH DINH 10

THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTOTED RALL 12

THE TORTURER IN THE MIRRORRAMSEY CLARK, HAIFA ZANGANA,

and THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER 14

BODY POLITICDispatches from the Women’sHealth Revolutionedited by BARBARA SEAMAN

with LAURA ELDRIDGE 16

FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUNMy Life as a WeathermanCATHY WILKERSON 18

CENSORED 2011The Top Censored Stories of2009–10MICKEY HUFF, PETER PHILLIPS,

and PROJECT CENSORED 20

SAD STORIES OF THE DEATHOF KINGSBARRY GIFFORD 22

ELEGY WRITTEN ON ACROWDED STREETA NovelPETER PLATE 24

THE SWEETEST THINGInside the World of Women’s BoxingMISCHA MERZ 26

ROSEINGA MUSCIO 28

GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIANKURT VONNEGUT 30

LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GODA Conversation about WritingKURT VONNEGUT and LEE STRINGER 32

THE KILLING GAMEThe Writings of an IntrepidInvestigative ReporterGARY WEBB

edited by ERIC WEBB 34

MAMA’S BOYA NovelRICK DEMARINIS 36

“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT ANDINCH OF ME”The Letters of Barney Simon toLionel AbrahamsBARNEY SIMON 38

DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the PlanetARIC McBAY, LIERRE KEITH

and DERRICK JENSEN 40

STOLEN IMAGESScreenplays and WritingsRAOUL PECK

translated by CATHERINE TEMERSON 42

WORLD REPORT 2011HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 44

TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’SVOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OFTHE UNITED STATES AND YOUNGPEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THEUNITED STATESGAYLE OLSON-RAYMER 46

BIRTH MATTERSINA MAY GASKIN 48

Recent Releases

IN OUR CONTROLThe Complete Guide to Contracep-tive Choices for WomenLAURA ELDRIDGE

foreword by JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER 52

FIDELNÉSTOR KOHAN

with illustrations by NAHUEL SCHERMA

translated by ELISE BUCHMAN 54

GRAND CENTRAL WINTERStories from the StreetLEE STRINGER

foreword by KURT VONNEGUT 56

BAD SHOES AND THE WOMENWHO LOVE THEMLEORA TANENBAUM

illustrated by VANESSA DAVIS 58

TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMYHow the War on Terror isBankrupting the WorldLORETTA NAPOLEONI 60

BETWEEN THE FENCESBefore Guantánamo there was thePort Isabel Service ProcessingCenterTONY HEFNER 62

TALK SOFTLYA MemoirCYNTHIA O’NEAL 64

THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORYConversations with W. G. Sebaldedited by LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ 66

SAILOR & LULAThe Complete NovelsBARRY GIFFORD 68

OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESSA Poet Encounters the Horror inRwanda, Eastern Congo, andPalestine/IsraelALICE WALKER 70

JESUS OF NAZARETHPAUL VERHOEVEN

translated by SUSAN MASSOTTY 72

About Seven Stories Press 75About Seven Stories Institute 76Seven Stories Staff 77Contact Information 78CO

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Lauded for his incisive short prose and poetry, Linh Dinh brings

to his long-awaited first novel, Love Like Hate, an alphabet soup

of characters struggling through the fall of Saigon and all that fol-

lowed. Spiraling around the relationship between café owner Kim

Lan and South Vietnamese army captain Hoang Long, who marry

in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Dinh describes his mushroom-

ing cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways.

A vivid palette for his idiosyncratic characters and dark, deadpan

humor, Love Like Hate embraces contradictions with the surreal

exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo

Calvino.

• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia

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LOVE LIKE HATEA Novel

Linh Dinh

Praise for Linh Dinh:

“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy,Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.”—Village Voice

“[Linh Dinh’s Blood and Soap] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, butuses Borgesian metafiction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity,confusion, and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen.”

—Matthew Sharpe, Brooklyn Rail

“[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverenceand experimental fun.”

—AsianWeek

A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow-ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, LINH DINH is theauthor of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood andSoap, one of the Village Voice’s best books of 2004; and four booksof poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Border-less Bodies, and Jam Alerts. He is editor of the anthologies Night,Again and Three Vietnamese Poets. Love Like Hate is his first novel.

Fiction • September 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Trade Paperback

$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-909-5

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In arguably his most radical book, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall

has produced a new manifesto for an America heading toward

economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage

to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent

global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of

people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are

opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radically differ-

ent form of government and economic infrastructure.

But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right-

wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a

collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is

not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not

in the future, but now.

“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know isnecessary. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for. Pick this book

up. Read it. And then get ready to fight back.”—Derrick Jensen

• Author appearances and book signing atComic-Con

• Features in Left Turn magazine andthe Village Voice

• Promotion targeting graphic novel andleftist publications

• Promotion through the author’s Web site:www.rall.com

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THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTOTed Rall

Praise for Ted Rall

“Rall is known first and foremost for his political cartoons, but, man,he knows how to tell a story, too.”

—Publishers Weekly

“As tangible and real of a story as was ever put on paper. Raw, honestand completely visceral, [The Year of Loving Dangerously] is a

book for the ages.”—Comics Waiting Room

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F.Kennedy Journalism Award, TED RALL is a syndicated political car-toonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist, and occasional warcorrespondent whose work appears in hundreds of publications,including the NewYork Times, the Washington Post, the VillageVoice, andthe Los AngelesTimes.

Politics • September 20105 x 7 • 160 pages • Trade paperback

10 illustrations$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-933-0

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Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw

the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the

White House with a question: what, according to the Constitution,

was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that

line be moved? The White House lawyers’ answer—in the form of

legal documents later known as the “torture memos”—became the

US’s justification for engaging in torture.

The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tor-

tures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising

essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US attorney general

Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is,

how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners,

and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers account-

able.

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THE TORTURERIN THE MIRRORRamsey Clark, Haifa Zangana,

and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

RAMSEY CLARK was the US attorney general during the Johnson administration, and isfounder of the International Action Center.

HAIFA ZANGANA is an Iraqi political commentator and former prisoner of the Ba’ath regime.She is the author of City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance, pub-lished by Seven Stories Press.

THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER is associate professor of sociology at the University of San Diego,and an associate fellow of the Transnational Institute.

Current Events / Politics • September 20105 x 7 • 80 pages • Trade paperback

$8.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-919-4

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© Cindy H. Rice © Hela Faik © University of San Diego

“If we hope to revive with any credibility our widely claimedcommitment to constitutional government, the rule of law, freedom,

and justice, and to provide for the common defense consistent with thoseclaims, the people who led us to torture must be held accountable.”

—Ramsey Clark, former United States attorney general

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Pioneering feminist author Barbara Seaman spent the last forty

years on the front lines as a women’s health advocate. Through-

out her career, she was not only a tireless muckraker and book

writer, but also a relentless supporter of other women’s voices. Here

she brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and

commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists

on topics ranging across reproductive rights, sex and orgasm,

activism, motherhood and birth control. The more than two hun-

dred contributors include Jennifer Baumgardner, Susan

Brownmiller, Phyllis Chesler, Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich,

Germaine Greer, Shulamith Firestone, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,

Erica Jong, Molly Haskell, Shere Hite, Susie Orbach, Judith Ross-

ner, Alix Kates Shulman, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Rebecca

Walker, Naomi Wolf, and many others. For this volume Seaman

worked together with her friend, former assistant, and last collab-

orator, the young feminist health author Laura Eldridge.

BODY POLITICDispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution

Edited by Barbara Seaman with Laura Eldridge

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“In 1969, Barbara Seaman proved that women can talk back to doc-tors—calmly, rationally, and scientifically. For many of us, women’s

liberation began at that moment.”—Barbara Ehrenreich

BARBARA SEAMAN’s (1935–2008) first book, The Doctors’ Case Againstthe Pill (1969), prompted Senate hearings, exposed the biases ofthe medical establishment regarding women’s health issues, andinspired women around the world to take control of their health.She was also the author of Free and Female (1972), Women and theCrisis in Sex Hormones (1977), Lovely Me: The Life of JacquelineSusann (1987), The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women(2003), and The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause (2008).

LAURA ELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latestbooks are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, coauthored withBarbara Seaman, and In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Con-traceptive Choices for Women.

Current Events / Health • September 20106 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 1120 pages • Trade Paperback

$29.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-844-9

© Joan Roth

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• Author Events: New York

FLYING CLOSE TO THE SUNMy Life and Times as a Weatherman

Cathy Wilkerson

Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white, mid-

dle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the

Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the

1960s. CathyWilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Vil-

lage townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the legacy of the

movement, at times finding contradictions that many others have

avoided: the absence of women’s voices then, and in the retelling;

the incompetence and the egos; and the hundreds of bombs deto-

nated in protest, which caused little loss of life but which were also

ineffective in fomenting revolution. In searching for new paradigms

for change, Wilkerson asserts with brave humanity and confessional

honesty an assessment of her past—of those heady, iconic times—

and somehow finds hope and faith in a world that at times seems to

offer neither.

“Unsparingly maps the idealism, fanaticism, moral absolutism and personalpassions that carried her to the town house [explosion].”

—The New York Times

“[A] clear-sighted, self-critical yet unapologetic account.”—Los Angeles Times

“You’ll want to plunge right into Cathy Wilkerson’s Flying Close to the Sun. Ifyou’re a ’60s survivor (as I am), you’ll know it’s the real thing.”

—Carol Brightman, Truthdig

“At times exciting and at other times reflective, Flying Close to the Sunis always captivating.”—Ron Jacobs, CounterPunch

CATHY WILKERSON was active in the civil rights movement, SDS, andtheWeather Underground. In 1970, she, along with Kathy Boudin,after surviving an explosion in the basement of her parents’ town-house that killed threeWeathermen, were forced underground. Forthe past twenty years she has worked as an educator.

Biography & Autobiography • September 20106 x 8 1/2 • 432 pages • Trade paperback$18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-925-5

19© Ann W. Olson

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Each year, as it has for the past quarter century, Project Cen-

sored lists the top twenty-five censored stories—the major

new stories that were ignored or under-reported by a mainstream

press too busy covering the latest junk food news story. Stories are

presented in depth, and the original reporters are given the oppor-

tunity to provide updates and comments on how their stories came

about.

Additionally, the project commissions articles on the hot-button

issues of the year having to do with censorship, alternative media,

international news, and other relevant topics.

• Events in Northern California andNew York City

• National radio and TV interviews

• Excerpts in AlterNet and The Huffington Post

• Promotion through the author's web site: www.pro-jectcensored.org

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CENSORED 2011The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009–10

Edited by Mickey Huff,

Peter Phillips, and Project CensoredIntroduction by Kristina Borjesson • Cartoons by Khalil Bendib

“Required reading for broadcasters, journalists,and well-informed citizens.”

—Los Angeles Times

MICKEY HUFF is associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College. He isthe associate director of Project Censored, with which he has been involved since 2001. Heblogs at www.mythinfo.blogspot.com and www.dailycensored.com.

PETER PHILLIPS, director of Project Censored, is associate professor of sociology at SonomaState University. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independentnewspapers nationwide. He is the 2009 recipient of the Dallas Smythe Award, presented bythe Union for Democratic Communication.

PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacyfor and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United

States. In 2008, Project Censored received thePEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for thepublication ofCensored 2009. Formore information,visit www.projectcensored.org.

Media Studies/Journalism • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 416 pages • Trade paperback

$19.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-920-0

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“Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledgethis collection of suppressed stories allows us.”

—San Diego Review

“For the smart and courageous news manager, this annual report is a virtualroad map for the coming year's news schedule.”

—Village Voice

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Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young

man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Sur-

rounding him—whether to support him or to drag him under—is

the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence,

poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charla-

tans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls

with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to

navigate the compromises, disillusionments, and regrets that come

with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and fiction, the forty-

two short stories in Sad Stories of the Death of Kings bring a

city—and a boy’s growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life.

• Promotion targeting fiction and online reviewers, readinggroups, and librarians

• Promotion through the author's web site:www.barrygifford.com

• Author Events: San Francisco • New York

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SAD STORIES OF THE DEATHOF KINGSBarry Gifford

The author of more than forty published works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eightlanguages, BARRY GIFFORD writes distinctly American stories formillions of readers around the globe. His novel Wild at Heart wasmade into a film by David Lynch, which won the Palme d’Or atthe Cannes Film Festival, and his novel Perdita Durango wasmade into a feature film by Alex de la Iglesia. For more informa-tion, visit www.barrygifford.com.

Young Adult Fiction • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 240 pages • Paper over boardB&W illustrations throughout$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-948-4

Fiction • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 208 pages • Trade paperbackB&W illustrations throughout$16.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-922-4

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© Bompiani

Praise for Barry Gifford:

“A master of the vignette . . . Mr. Gifford also has a fine ear for dia-logue. . . . [He] gratifyingly kisses the past without entirely telling it.”

—Jonathan Wilson, New York Times Book Review

“Gifford’s great talent captures defining moments with the casualgrace of anecdote. [He] makes the anecdotal monumental.”

—Jonathan Keats, San Francisco Magazine

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• Author Events: San Francisco • Los Angeles •Portland, OR • Seattle

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ELEGY WRITTEN ON A CROWDED STREETPeter Plate

Ayoung black woman, Mary Anderson, is up on second-degree

murder charges for killing her boyfriend in self-defense. He was

a police informant in the Fillmore district, the Harlem of the West.

April Jones owns Universal Bail, “Your Freedom Is Our Job.” April

gets Mary out of jail, and that’s when her troubles with the police

begin. Peter Plate drives a poetic narrative of gentrification, con-

science, good clothes, and bad cops in a world where the only

choice is life over the proximity of death.

lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Soon theRest Will Fall, Fogtown, One Foot off the Gutter, Snitch Factory,Angels of Catastrophe, and Police and Thieves.

Fiction • October 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 160 pages • Trade paperback

$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-931-6

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© Nina Glaser

“[Plate’s] San Francisco is a fiery hell, where the devil rides in a squadcar, and God doesn’t deign to put in an appearance.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

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Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfils a long-held

ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a

series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinat-

ing journey she meets her idols, including Laila Ali and Lucia Rijker

of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary

characters. Merz discovers the horrors and delights of the world of

women's boxing and gains insights into this eccentric subculture’s

place in American life. She also meets some of the pioneers and

trailblazers of the contemporary rise in women’s boxing, as well as

some of the younger stars now hoping to make it onto the first

women’s boxing team in the 2012 Olympic Games.

Written in a compelling and highly entertaining narrative style,

Mischa Merz takes us right into the ring and reports, with a rare

insider’s view, on a sport that has for centuries defined our ideas

about masculinity.

• National radio and TV

• Author tour to Los Angeles and New York City

• Promotion through the author’s web site:www.mischamerz.com

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THE SWEETEST THINGInside the World of Women’s Boxing

Mischa Merz

Praise for Mischa Merz’s memoir Bruising:

“Merz makes her own body, discipline, and courage her subjects of experimentas she explores the terrors and the exhilarations of the female capacity for vio-

lence with startling honesty. You can almost smell the sweat.”—Inga Clendinnen

“The work fits (more) comfortably within the stylish nonfiction popularizedby writers such as Dava Sobel, Helen Garner and Janet Malcolm.”

—Mary Rose Liverani, The Australian

MISCHA MERZ is a journalist and author of fiction and creative non-fiction. She began training as an amateur boxer in 1995 and isthe 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League women’s welter-weight champion. Her book Bruising, about her experiences as aboxer, was published to critical acclaim by Picador Australia in2000 and was shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. Her journalismhas appeared in numerous publications, including The Age, theSunday Age, and the Herald Sun.

Sports / Women’s Studies • November 20105 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 304 pages • Trade paperback

$18.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-928-6

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© Jess D’cruze

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With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio

explores the impact of violence, abuse, war, and cultural

trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path

toward healthy and imaginative sex and love. The long-awaited fol-

low-up to Cunt, Rose breaks new ground in answering a

fundamental question in feminist and antiracist writing: how do

we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as individu-

als, as families, as communities, and as a country? Muscio's ability

to address dire topics with vigor and bravery allows her readers to

confront the true brutality of a violent culture, then to react pow-

erfully with righteous rage and hopeful determination.

Chilling, eye-opening, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rose offers a

fresh and exhilarating perspective on achieving empowerment and

self-possession.

• Features in Bitch, Bust, Venus Zine,and other feminist and queer magazines

• Author Events: Los Angeles • San Francisco • Boston• New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Seattle

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Praise for Cunt:

“Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high fiber diets—it reinventsthe oft-indigestible into something sweet and delicious.”

—Bust

“Cunt is one of the most dangerous books I ever read, ever.”—Robin D. G. Kelley

INGA MUSCIO is the author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independenceand Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil. She lives in the PacificNorthwest and lectures widely across the nation. For more infor-mation, visit www.ingalagringa.com.

Current Events/Women’s Studies • November 20105 3/4 x 7 • 256 pages • Trade paperback$17.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-926-2

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©Misty Muscio

ROSEInga Muscio

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“So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever,God forbid, I hope someone will say ‘He’s up in Heaven now.’

Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.”—from God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters ofcontemporary American letters, one without whom the very termAmerican literature would mean much less than it does. Hisbooks endure as defiant, and charming, embodiments of theheights to which the human imagination will go in search ofessential rights and freedoms. Vonnegut’s other books from SevenStories Press include the national hardcover and paperback best-seller, A Man Without a Country, and, with Lee Stringer, LikeShaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing.

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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut’s in-

trepid investigative reporting from the afterlife, from when he

was sent there in 1998 by local NPR affiliate WNYC to interview,

among others, Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray,

Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, and

Kilgore Trout.

What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes evolved

into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we

live for, and how much it all matters in the end.

From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces

the cover, to the last word of the last entry, God Bless You, Dr.

Kevorkian is a joy forever.

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GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIANKurt Vonnegut

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In Like Shaking Hands with God, two distinguished writers—

separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing

common goals and aspirations—talk about the place where the

lives they lead meet the art they practice. That these two writers

happened to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer made it a his-

toric celebration.

The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thurs-

day, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Vonnegut

and Stinger took up the challenge of writing books that would

make a difference and the concomitant challenge of living from day

to day. As Vonnegut said afterward, “It was a magical evening.”

A book for anyone interested in why the simple act of writing

things down can be more important than the amount of memory

in our computers.

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LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GODA Conversation about Writing

Kurt Vonnegut and Lee StringerModerated by Ross Klavan • Foreword by Dan Simon • Photographs by Art Shay

KURT VONNEGUT (1922–2007) was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century Amer-ican letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much lessthan it does now. Vonnegut’s other books from Seven Stories Press include God Bless You, Dr.Kevorkian, and the national hardcover and paperback bestseller, A ManWithout a Country.

LEE STRINGER is the author of the acclaimed Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street,which chronicled his twelve years of homelessness in New York City. A former editor andcolumnist of Street News, his is also the author of Sleepaway School: A Memoir. He is atwork on the forthcoming White People: Stories from the Suburbs.

DAN SIMON is founder and publisher of Seven Stories Press; coauthor of Run, Run, Run: TheLives of Abbie Hoffman; translator of Pascal Bonafoux’s Van Gogh: Self Portraits; and coeditorof three volumes onNelson Algren:Nonconformity;TheMan with the Golden Arm, critical edi-tion; and Entrapment and OtherWritings with Brooke Horvath.

ROSS KLAVAN is a writer and performer in New York City. His critically acclaimed originalscreenplay Tigerland, based on his novel of the same name, was nominated for the Inde-pendent Spirit Award.

ART SHAY is the author of Chicago’s Nelson Algren. His pho-tographs have graced the covers of Life and have been in-cluded in the museum exhibits around the world.

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• National radio and TV interviews with Eric Webb

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Gary Webb was best known for his three-part series, “Dark

Alliance,” that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in August

1996. In it, Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in

Los Angeles during the Iran-Contra scandal. By October of that year

Webb was reeling from a concerted government-sponsored smear

campaign that led to front-page vilification in the New York Times,

Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post. However Webb’s findings

were later confirmed, and Webb himself vindicated two years later

by the investigation of the CIA’s inspector general and the US Senate.

His only published book, Dark Alliance, is still a classic of con-

temporary journalism. But Webb’s journalistic career consisted of

much more than this one story. The Killing Game collects the best of

his investigative stories from his beginnings at the Kentucky Post to

his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb’s series

at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the

Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and

on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games.

The Killing Game, by illuminating Webb’s work outside of Dark

Alliance, is a testament to investigative journalism at its best.

THE KILLING GAMEThe Writings of an Intrepid Investigative Reporter

Gary WebbEdited by Eric Webb • Afterword by Bob Parry

GARY WEBB (1955–2004) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist best knownfor Dark Alliance.

ERIC WEBB is Gary Webb’s youngest son. Surrounded by journalism all his life, he is now ajournalism student in Southern California.

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Praise for Dark Alliance :

“GaryWebb wrote a series of articles that said some bad things about theCIA and drug traffickers. The CIA denied the charges, and every majornewspaper in the country took the agency’s word for it. GaryWebb was

ruined.Which is a shame, because he was right.”—Charles Bowden, Esquire

“Gary Webb wrote the truth. . . . [Dark Alliance] brings to light oneof the worst official abuses of our nation’s history.”

—US Congresswoman Maxine Waters

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Gus Reppo’s parents have everything figured out for their son,

right down to the county where they hope he’ll practice den-

tistry. And when his parents follow him to the air force where he

enlists—who else will make sure he is served adequate meals?—he

realizes it’s not going to be easy shaking off his kin, or their Man-

tovani obsession. After his mother introduces the possibility that

his parents are not who they seem, Gus’s life takes a turn for the

weird. But steadied by Rick DeMarinis’s hilarious prose and guid-

ing hand, Gus’s world, though left a little wearier, is finally given

room to journey.

“DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition inAmerican short story writing that, by way of Hawthorne,

Melville, Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and Cheever, is essen-tially religious and, because rooted in everyday, comic. . . .

His art, then, is comedy of a very high order.”—Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review

• Author events in Missoula, MT and Olympia, WA

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MAMA’S BOYA Novel

Rick DeMarinis

Praise for Rick DeMarinis:

“However similar the existential suffering of his characters,DeMarinis expertly probes the contours of their condition. You

simply can’t move your eyes from the page.”—Mark Smirnoff, New York Times Book Review

“Rick DeMarinis has long been one of my favorite writers;wherever he has cast his gaze, he has taught me something new

about the way to see things.”—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a

Strange Mountain

RICK DEMARINIS is the author of eight novels, including The Year ofthe Zinc Penny, a New York Times Notable Book, and six shortstory collections, including Apocalypse Then and Borrowed Hearts.In 1990, he received an Academy Award for Literature from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year, Cutthroat: AJournal of the Arts awards a short story prize in his name.

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Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and

told in the letters home of a young theater director to a friend

who is a struggling novelist, here is the true story of one of South

Africa’s national treasures, co-founder of the Market Theatre, direc-

tor of the early productions of the plays of Athol Fugard, and

mentor to a generation of South African actors, as he begins his

artistic journey wrestling with the angels.

“A SINGING IN EVERY MOMENT ANDINCH OF ME”The Letters of Barney Simon to Lionel Abrahams

Barney Simon

“No one knows how many men and women who have become mak-ers of a unique black theatre and a unique non-racial theatre in SouthAfrica known all over the world come from [Barney Simon’s] vision

and patient energy as director/writer.”—Nadine Gordimer

BARNEY SIMON (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director,writer, and co-creator of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.The Market Theatre challenged the apartheid regime, armed withlittle more than the conviction that culture can change society,and became recognized as one of the most influential and distin-guished theaters in South Africa and the world.

Biography & Autobiography • January 20115 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 176 pages • Cloth

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For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think

this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane

and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.

Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement

leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technol-

ogy can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it.

To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can

bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates

strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla war-

fare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful.

It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruit-

ment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and

underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture

of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.

Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone determined

to fight for this planet—and win.

• Promotions tied to Earth Day in April

• Publicity and promotion in conjunction with theauthors’ speaking engagements

• Promotion through the authors’ web sites:www.inthewake.org (Aric McBay);www.derrickjensen.org; www.lierrekeith.com

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DEEP GREEN RESISTANCEStrategy to Save the Planet

Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen

ARIC MCBAY is a writer, activist, and small-scale organic farmer living in Ontario, Canada.His first book was Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash. His most recentbook is What We Leave Behind, co-written with Derrick Jensen.

LIERRE KEITH is a writer, small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the authorof two novels, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She’s beenarrested six times. She lives in Humboldt County, California.

Hailed as the philosopher poet of the environmental movement, DERRICK JENSEN is authorof fifteen books, including Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, WhatWe Leave Behind, and A Lan-guage Older Than Words.

Ecology / Current Affairs • February 20116 x 9 • 592 pages • Trade paperback

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Among today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen

such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to

Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as

Raoul Peck, whose documentary Lumumba took the world by

storm when it appeared in 1992.

Collected here for the first time are Peck’s screenplays and pierc-

ing images from nine major features and documentary films,

including Lumumba, the award-winning feature about Republic of

Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, and The Man by the

Shore, the first Haitian film ever to be screened in theaters in the

United States and the first Caribbean film ever entered into com-

petition at the Cannes Film Festival. With over one hundred

production stills, storyboards, and poster art.

• Author book and film events in New York City

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STOLEN IMAGESScreenplays and Writings

Raoul PeckTranslated by Catherine Temerson

“A filmmaker with a fine eye for people and landscapes.”—New York Times

RAOUL PECK’s feature films and documentaries explore interna-tionalist themes of inequality and offer compelling depictions ofHaiti under political duress. In addition to filmmaking, Peck hasserved as Haiti’s minister of culture. In 2001 he received theHuman Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. His mostrecent film is Moloch Tropical.

CATHERINE TEMERSON’s most recent translations include AminMaalouf ’s Origins, Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance, FlorenceNoiville’s Isaac B. Singer: A Life, and Hiner Saleem’s My Father’sRifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan.

Film / Social Science • February 20118 x 8 • 320 pages • 100 b&w plates

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Human Rights Watch, under director Kenneth Roth, leads the

struggle to focus the world’s eye on human rights issues at

home and abroad. Its annual World Report, written in straightfor-

ward, nontechnical language, conducts a systematic investigation

of human rights abuses in every country from Afghanistan to Zim-

babwe, with a particular focus on the roles played in each country

by key domestic and international figures. Then—in incisive essays

written by staff, scholars, and activists—the report describes the

way forward to a more humane future.

Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the US and inter-

national press every year, World Report—collecting reports on

human rights issues from 2010—is an invaluable resource for jour-

nalists, diplomats, and citizens.

• Author event in New York City

• National drive-time radio tour

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“A wonderful report. An attempt to bring rationality whereemotion 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

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH is the largest US-based international humanrights organization. It investigates, reports on, and seeks to curbhuman rights abuses in over seventy countries. For more infor-mation, visit www.hrw.org.

Current Affairs • February 20116 x 9 • 624 pages • Trade paperback

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KENNETH ROTH© Human Rights Watch

WORLD REPORT 2011Human Rights Watch

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GAYLE OLSON-RAYMER is professor of history and education atHumboldt State University and a participating professor in theTeaching American History program in two California elemen-tary and high school districts. She is the author of Terrorism: AHistorical and Contemporary Perspective and Instructor’s Manualfor Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey.

Education • February 20106 x 9 • 400 pages • Trade paperback

$21.00 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-897-5

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Courtesy of Gayle Olson-Raymer

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Howard Zinn’s influential books have inspired students and

activists of all ages, affirming the power of the people to influ-

ence the course of events. From the classic A People’s History of the

United States, to the primary sources in Voices of a People’s History of

the United States, to the stories of young leaders in A Young People’s

History of the United States, arises a symphony of our nation’s origi-

nal voices, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and

dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

In this teaching guide, history professor Gayle Olson-Raymer pro-

vides insight into how to apply Voices of a People’s History of the United

States and AYoung People’s History of the United States in the classroom.

It includes questions for discussions, exams, and essays; creative ideas

for in-class activities and group projects; and suggestions for teaching

Voices alongside Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.

In conjunction with the newly launched Zinn Education Proj-

ect—a collaboration between Teaching for Change and Rethinking

Schools—Olson-Raymer’s teaching guide will bring the writings of

Howard Zinn to the most critical population: our youth.

TEACHING WITH HOWARD ZINN’SVOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORYOF THE UNITED STATES AND AYOUNG PEOPLE’S HISTORY OFTHE UNITED STATESGayle Olson-Raymer

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Renowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low inter-

vention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international no-

toriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader

of a movement that seeks to stop the hypermedicalization of

birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in Amer-

ica to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's

natural ability to birth.

Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which

women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is the act

that perhaps most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctu-

ally human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how

to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a

process as old as our species.

• National drive-time radio tour

• Features in Bitch, Bust, Midwifery Today, Ms., NewYork Magazine, Salon.com, and Venus Zine

• Author Events: San Francisco • Boston • Ann Arbor, MI• New York • Portland, OR • Philadelphia • Nashville,Memphis, and Summertown, TN • Seattle

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BIRTH MATTERSIna May Gaskin

Praise for Ina May Gaskin:

“Simply put, midwife Ina May Gaskin is the most important personin maternity care in North America, bar none.”

—Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s andChildren’s Health, World Health Organization

“There is no better guide to have at your side than the legendary Ina May!”—Harvey Karp, MD, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block

“Ina May Gaskin is an American treasure.”—Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth and Misconceptions

Called “the midwife of modern midwifery” by Salon, INA MAYGASKIN has practiced for nearly forty years at the internationallylauded Farm Midwifery Center. She is the only midwife for whoman obstetric maneuver has been named (Gaskin maneuver). She isthe author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth,and Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding.

Women’s Studies / Health & Fitness • March 20115 x 7 • 128 pages • Trade paperback

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Combining meticulous research and an understanding of the

real-life issues that influence birth control choices, Laura

Eldridge has crafted an accessible guide to contraception for men

and women of all ages. She not only urges her readers to consider

the pros and cons of each method, she provides them with the

information and perspective they need to take part in a productive

dialogue on reproductive health.

Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method or

want to know more about your current contraceptive choices, In

Our Control will empower you to make critical decisions about your

sexual health.

“Laura Eldridge carries the torch for women’s health advocacy withthis important new book.”

—Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report

• Author Events: New York • Philadelphia •Providence, RI • Boston • Bridgeport, CT

• College tour in September 2010

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IN OUR CONTROLThe Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

Laura EldridgeForeword by Jennifer Baumgardner

“A wonderfully engaging and accessible book that will help women tonavigate today’s contraceptive maze.”

—Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair in the Social History of Medicineat McGill University, author of Devices and Desires

“Real choice requires information. . . . In Our Control is a handbook forrevolution from the inside out.”

—Holly Grigg-Spall, Bitch blog

“Wow! I couldn’t put [In Our Control] down. Reading Laura Eldridge’shistory about contraception blew my mind. We cannot allow pharmaceutical

companies to endanger women lives! This book is about to regalvanizethe women’s health revolution!”

—Betty Dodson, author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving

LAURA ELDRIDGE is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latestbooks are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic:Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolution, both authoredwith women’s health pioneer Barbara Seaman. In Our Control isher first book as a solo author.

Health & Fitness / Women’s Studies • July 20106 x 9 • 384 pages • Trade paperback

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NÉSTOR KOHAN, born in Buenos Aires in 1967, is the author of a number of Spanish-lan-guage books on Marxism, Che Guevara, and social movements in Latin America.

NAHUEL SCHERMA is an Argentinian filmmaker and documentarian. Fidel is his first book ofillustrations.

ELISE BUCHMAN worked in children’s theater for twenty years. This is her first book-lengthtranslation.

M. JONES is an illustrator and fiction writer living in Austin, Texas.

Graphic Novel / Current Affairs • June 20105 x 7 1/4 • 192 pages • Trade Paperback$14.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-782-4

Spanish-language edition:$13.95 US • ISBN: 978-1-58322-783-1

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In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, tempers flare

on the subject of Fidel Castro: some say he is a dictator, some say

he is a liberator. In Fidel, Néstor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma present

one of the towering figures of the twentieth-century as he is seen by

Latin Americans: as the leader who, for over fifty years, has stood up

to the greatest military power in the world, and remained standing.

Here, in Kohan’s incisive prose and Scherma’s passionate illus-

trations, is the man who, inspired by decades of Latin American

Marxist thinking, fought from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra

to free his country—the man who walked the razor’s edge between

military threats by the United States and political coercion by the

Soviet Union—the man who became a leader in the revolution

against colonial governments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin

America—the man who fought, above all, to transform the con-

science of his people, spreading literacy, culture, and free medical

care to everyone on the island. Here is Fidel—the man who became

the symbol of the revolution in the New World.

FIDELNéstor KohanIllustrated by Nahuel Scherma • Translated by Elise BuchmanAdditional illustrations by M. Jones

Fidel también será publicado en español por Siete Cuentos Editorial.

Con historietas y fotos divertidas, este texto corto expone las ambiciones de Cas-tro, el líder que quiso dar rasgos creativos, inteligentes, y humanitarios a la caradel socialismo. Fidel nos muestra un hombre que no puede ser distinguido ni desu revolución, ni de su patria.

“A man of austere habits and insatiable illusions . . . incapable ofconceiving any idea that is not colossal.”

—Gabriel García Márquez, from “The Fidel I Think I Know”

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With humane wisdom and biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles

the unraveling of his seemingly secure existence running a

graphic design company and his odyssey of survival on the streets of

New York City. Whether he is writing about taking shelter under-

neath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day, whether

saving a stranger from a pair of robbers or stealing from a friend,

Stringer powerfully conveys the paradoxes and emotional com-

plexity of “normal” life on the street. Gestures of human kindness,

even heroism, stand alongside acts of wanton violence and desper-

ation, creating in the end one of the most remarkable urban

memoirs of our time.

This revised paperback edition features four never-before-

published chapters, and a startling new ending.

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GRAND CENTRAL WINTERStories from the StreetExpanded 2nd Edition

Lee StringerForeword by Kurt Vonnegut

A New York Times Notable Book

A USA Today Top Ten Pick

As seen in People and USA Today and featured onCBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR

“Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born ofpain but delivered with style and heart.”

—John Jiler, New York Times Book Review

“Stringer’s crisp detail, straight no-chaser wit, and uncompromisingfrankness are as bracing as his subject is significant.”

—Booklist

LEE STRINGER lived on the streets from the early eighties until themidnineties. A former editor and columnist of Street News, hisother books include Sleepaway School: A Memoir and, with KurtVonnegut, Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation AboutWriting. He is at work on the forthcoming White People: Storiesfrom the Suburbs. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York.

Memoir • May 20105 1/2 x 8 1/4 • 256 pages • Trade Paperback

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Bad Shoes & theWomenWho LoveThem is a lighthearted but highly

informed wake-up call to women to make smart decisions when

buying and wearing fashionable shoes. It explores the significance of

shoes, the psychology behind the foot fetish, the history of foot bind-

ing, the feminist critique (or celebration) of high heels, and the history

of how they came to be.

Illustrated throughout by artist Vanessa Davis, Bad Shoes also

includes hilarious anecdotes from women who love shoes. And in case

you’re wondering: yes, it is possible to make good footwear decisions

without sacrificing style! Tanenbaum shows you how.

“A witty, insightful, highly readable, and frankly shockingexploration of high heels that is a must-read.”

—Liz Funk, author of Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the SecretCrisis of Overachieving Girls

“In Leora Tanenbaum’s Bad Shoes, the woman who exposed slut-bashing, cat-fighting, and God-reclaiming takes on women’s

masochistic relationship with their feet. Run (while you still can) toyour nearest bookstore and save your sole.”

—Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways, Manifesta, andAbortion & Life

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BAD SHOES & THE WOMEN WHO LOVE THEMLeora TanenbaumIllustrated by Vanessa Davis

“Being dressed to kill shouldn’t mean killing your feet! It’s time to liberateourselves from the tyranny of shoes that hobble our mobility and disfigureour bodies in the name of sexiness. With this book, Leora Tanenbaum

shows us how to take the first step.”—Audrey D. Brashich, author of All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing

Through Celebrity Hype and Celebrating Real Beauty

“Someone finally gets it! . . . Please, this is necessary reading for anyperson who wishes to remain safe, comfortable, and ambulatory in

their life. Please read this book—it can save your wheels.”—Dr. Johanna S. Youner, DPM, FACFAS

LEORA TANENBAUM is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with aBad Reputation; Catfight: Rivalries Among Women; and TakingBack God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality. Shelives in New York City.

VANESSA DAVIS is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Her firstbook, Spaniel Rage, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005,and her second is due out from Drawn & Quarterly in 2010.

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While we feared that al-Qaeda might destroy our world, Wall

Street ripped it apart.

Economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link

between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic cri-

sis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that

politicians and the media have ignored. In launching military and

propaganda wars in the Middle East, America overlooked the war of

economic independence waged by al-Qaeda.The Patriot Act boosted

the black market economy, and the war on terror prompted a rise in

oil prices that led to food riots and distracted governments from the

trillion-dollar machinations ofWall Street. Consumers and taxpayers,

spurred by propaganda, accepted crushing global debt.

Napoleoni shows that if we do not face up to the many serious

connections between our response to 9/11 and the financial crisis,

we will never work our way out of the global recession that now

threatens our way of life.

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TERRORISM AND THE ECONOMYHow the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World

Loretta Napoleoni

Praise for Rogue Economics:

“Timely and fascinating, Napoleoni’s top-notch reporting, in whichher attention turns from Viagra to blood diamonds to the banana

price wars in a few pages, works in the vein of Freakonomics and EricSchlosser’s Fast Food Nation, but much grimmer.”

—Publishers Weekly

Praise for Terror, Incorporated:

“A masterpiece . . . This book should be required reading for every-one in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon.”

—Greg Palast

LORETTA NAPOLEONI is the author of the bestselling book Rogue Eco-nomics: Capitalism’s New Reality, which has been translated intofourteen languages, and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the DollarsBehind the Terror Networks, which has been translated into twelvelanguages. One of the world’s leading experts on money launder-ing and terror financing, she has worked as a Londoncorrespondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Republica, ElPaís, and Le Monde.

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In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas

in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the Port Isabel

Service Processing Center—one of the largest immigration deten-

tion centers in America—pays the best wages for a hundred miles.

The guards follow orders and keep quiet.

For five years, Tony Hefner served as a security guard at the

detention facility and witnessed alarming corruption and constant

violations of basic human rights. Between the Fences is the shocking

story of the systematic sexual, physical, financial, and drug-related

abuses by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers,

and the incredible courage of the author, several fellow guards, and

many brave detainees who stood up against it. With 400,000 immi-

grant detainees in US custody annually, Between the Fences is a call

to action demanding that we look inside the detention centers on

our own soil and consider how they are run.

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BETWEEN THE FENCESBefore Guantánamo, there was the Port IsabelService Processing Center

Tony Hefner

“Tony Hefner’s descriptions of human rights abuses at the Port IsabelCenter mirror the complaints that continue to emerge from thefacility—including reports from over one hundred detainees who

went on a hunger strike there in 2009.”—Catherine Tactaquin, executive director of the National Network for

Immigrant and Refugee Rights

“People who care about social justice and America’s image in theworld should read former prison guard Tony Hefner’s disturbing

account of sexual and physical abuse at Port Isabel.”—Carol M. Swain, editor of Debating Immigration

TONY HEFNER created the Bearing Precious Seed Ranch ministry insouthern Texas for local Hispanic children while employed by theINS detention camp Port Isabel. After witnessing human rightsabuses within the camp, he began a fight for justice that is stillraising awareness about the treatment of detainees in America.Tony and his wife Barbara now live in northern Michigan.

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Cynthia O’Neal was living “the good life”—married to the

famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of

two young sons, resident of The Dakota downstairs from John

Lennon, owner of the successful Ginger Man restaurant, and friend

to many brilliant musicians and performers. When the AIDS epi-

demic hit the arts community hard, her life changed course

suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. With the support of long-

time friend Mike Nichols, she founded Friends In Deed and soon

found herself spending her days in hospitals, cramped rooms, and

dirty apartments: anywhere a patient needed a hug, a hand held, or

confidence boosted. And when Patrick became ill and passed away

in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead of

someone else’s, and she found her life transformed again.

An extraordinary testament to what we can achieve when people

come together with a shared purpose, Talk Softly is both one

woman’s story and a universal tale.

“[A] beautifully written memoir of a ‘noisy life,’ intricatelystructured, heartbreaking as well as joyous, and tense as athriller. With its wide cast of characters . . . it is a deeplymoving portrait of our time. I keep thinking that this is

what civilization means.”—Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient

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TALK SOFTLYA Memoir

Cynthia O’Neal

“This utterly winning book seems to sweep up the most devastating years ofthe AIDS epidemic and simply hold them, as if Cynthia O’Neal’s embrace is so

capacious that she can somehow contain the suffering of every man andwoman during those murderous times. . . . Nothing has escaped her gaze, and

nothing seems outside her enormous, indelible compassion.”—Mark Doty, author of the National Book Award–winning

Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

“One cannot read this book without wanting, in the most gentle way,to do better, live better, and be better. Her story has stayed very much

with me, a fine spirit to have around.”—Susan Minot, author of Rapture

CYNTHIA O’NEAL is the founder and president of Friends In Deed,a New York City crisis center that provides emotional and spiri-tual support for anyone diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, andother life-threatening illnesses. This is her first book.

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When German authorW. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the

age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a

writer whose oeuvre we were just beginning to appreciate. Through

published interviews with and essays on Sebald, American novelist

and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of

the late author, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinch-

ing explorations of modern history, dislocation, and the role of

memory. Includes essays from Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin,

Michael Silverblatt, and others.

“The great achievement of [Sebald’s] work is that he makesit audible to his readers while still honoring the silence.”

—Evelyn Toynton, Harper’s Magazine

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THE EMERGENCE OF MEMORYConversations with W. G. Sebald

Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“Schwartz does a fine job of evoking this elusive author.”—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times

“If this interesting book of criticism and interviews introducesyou to Sebald or encourages you to return to him, it will have

served a noble purpose.”—Jerusalem Post

W. G. SEBALD was born in Germany in 1944. His novels—TheRings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have wona number of international awards, including the National BookCritics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, theBerlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He is alsothe author of three books of poems and a book-length essay. Hedied in December 2001.

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ has authored fourteen works of fiction,nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoirRuined by Reading. She won the PEN Renato Pogglioli Award forher translation from Italian of Liana Millu’s Smoke Over Birkenau.

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Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Sailor’s Holiday, Sultans of Africa,Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man,

and The Imagination of the Heart

On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gif-

ford’s searing contemporary classic Wild at Heart, and of David

Lynch’s Palme d’Or–winning film, Sailor & Lula: The Complete

Novels presents all seven of the books that comprise the saga of

Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, “the Romeo and Juliet of the

South” (Booklist).

“Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular—William Faulkner by way of B-movie film noir, porn

paperbacks, and Sun Records rockabilly—to forge thestealth-epic of Sailor & Lula. His accomplishment looks

more and more like one of the permanent glories of recentstorytelling, a set of crude masterpieces like Philip

Guston’s late paintings. The compression and verve on viewon every page of this compendium is as irresistible anddizzying as a dish of brandy-filled chocolates forged in

shapes of pistols, hangmen’s ropes, convertibleautomobiles, and unclad, steamy bodies, daring you

to keep gobbling them up.”—Jonathan Lethem

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SAILOR & LULAThe Complete Novels

Barry Gifford

“I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wildworld, and I wanted to go on that trip with them. . . . It’s like looking

into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.”—David Lynch

“[Sailor and Lula’s] talk comes from the hot dark of the innards,reminding us that the world is ‘wild at heart’ and that we

fear and love it that way.”—Washington Post Book World

The author of more than forty published works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that have been translated into twenty-eightlanguages, BARRY GIFFORD is one of the few contemporary Amer-ican writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around theworld. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

See page 22 for Sad Stories of the Death of Kings.

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In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women Inter-

national, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the af-

termath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by the antiwar group

CODEPINK,Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to

view the devastation on the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony.

Bearing witness to depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories

of the individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suf-

fering and courage. Part of what has happened to human beings over

the last century, she believes, is that we have been rendered speech-

less by unusually barbaric behavior that devalues human life. We

have no words to describe what we witness. Self-imposed silence has

slowed our response to the plight of those who most need us.

“Perhaps ordinary language cannot convey adequately thehorrors of our time. Perhaps it takes a poet to reach intoher own heart and into ours, to break out of silence anddespair, to speak the unspeakable truth. Alice Walker . . .

declares, by her words and by her actions, that shewill not, that we must not, let this go on.”

—Howard Zinn

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OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESSA Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Alice Walker

“[Alice Walker] bears witness but steps in as an activist, acknowledging that asglobal citizens, ‘allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.’

Read Overcoming Speechlessness to overcome despair.”—Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace

and Global Exchange

“Few books convey such a generosity of spirit, and such a commitmentto the idea of sharing, in pain as in love. And even fewer express soeloquently the idea that a true peace can only be built on justice.“

—Saree Makdisi, author of Palestine Inside Out:An Everyday Occupation

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, ALICEWALKER is the author of more than thirty books including TheColor Purple and Sent by Earth. Her writings have been translatedinto more than two dozen languages. From her essays concerningthe civil rights movement to cries for intervention on the GazaStrip, Walker continually and eloquently calls attention to ignoredinjustices around the world.

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Building on the work of the great biblical scholars of the twen-

tieth century, filmmaker Paul Verhoeven disrobes the mythical

Jesus to reveal a man who is, after all, startlingly familiar to us. Gone

is the Jesus of the miracles, gone the son of God, gone the weaver

of arcane parables whose meanings are obscure. In their place Ver-

hoeven gives us his vision of Jesus as a complete man, a man who

has much in common with other great political leaders throughout

history, human beings who believed that change was coming in

their lifetimes. Steeped in biblical scholarship but free of the insti-

tutional biases that so often dictate the terms of discussion of the

historical Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth builds a bridge reaching back to

Jesus’ lifetime, and forward to the present, and from biblical schol-

ars to lay readers whose interest might be personal or political.

“With . . . a filmmaker’s eye for detail, and a healthyskepticism about biblical scholarship, Verhoeven breaksdown the gospels . . . and reassembles them into a uniqueand fascinating reconstruction of the historical Jesus.”

—Robert J. Miller, author of Born Divine

“Paul Verhoeven’s reconstruction of the life of Jesus ofNazareth reflects throughout his profound understanding ofthe ancient works that testify to Jesus’ words and deedsand the scholarly literature of the modern quest for

Jesus as a historical figure.”—W. Barnes Tatum, author of In Quest of Jesus and

Jesus at the Movies

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JESUS OF NAZARETHPaul VerhoevenTranslated by Susan Massotty

“[Verhoeven] reflect(s) an astonishing familiarity with the trends of scholarshipduring the last 150 years . . . I recommend it with the utmost enthusiasm.”

—Dr. Gerd Lüdemann, University of Göttingen, Germany

“This is no zombie Jesus . . . but a human being who breathes our air, risks,dreams, imagines, and makes mistakes.”

—Arthur J. Dewey, Xavier University and fellow of the Jesus Seminar

PAUL VERHOEVEN is the only non-theologian admitted to the JesusSeminar, a group of seventy-seven eminent scholars in theology, phi-losophy, linguistics, and biblical history.Their discussions are devotedto determining what Jesus actually said and did. Verhoeven is thedirector of successful films such asTurkish Delight (1973),The FourthMan (1983), RoboCop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), StarshipTroopers(1997), and Black Book (2006).

SUSAN MASSOTTY is an award-winning translator who has translatednumerous books, including The Diary of Anne Frank, My Father’sNotebook by Kader Abdolah, All Souls Day by Cees Nooteboom,Wedding by the Sea by Abdelkader Benali, and The Kreutzer Sonataby Margriet de Moor. She lives and works in the Netherlands.

Biography & Autobiography / Religion • April 20106 x 9 • 304 pages • Cloth

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Seven Stories Press’s mission, paraphrasing Nelson Algren, dwells more on the American real-

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