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Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern, editors
Witpunk
"Twenty-six big laughs at the way the world turns … of the 24
writers, some slap you upside the head, others turn to dark irony. Ringingly brilliant." —Kirkus Reviews
$17.00 | paperback | 352 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-256-0
Kathryn Larrabee
An Everyday Savior
"Not an everyday novel … a serious and perceptive book about love, eros, and responsibility, and it marks Kathryn Larrabee as an author to watch." —Charles Baxter
$24.95 | hardcover | 348 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-225-0
Fiction
E. Vernon Laux
Bird News
Vagrants and Visitors on Peculiar Island
"A fine example of what is best about local natural history, and I recommend it to those interested both in bird lore generally and the Cape islands in particular." — E. O. Wilson
Illustrations | Science | $20.00 | Hardcover | ISBN: 1-56858-113-0
Julia Leigh
The Hunter
"A strong and hypnotic piece of writing and Julia Leigh deserves every bit of praise she gets for it." — Don DeLillo.
$20.00 | hardcover | 176 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-169-6 | Fiction
Gerald Leinwand
1927
High Tide of the 1920s
A history drawing "uncanny parallels" between 1927 and today …
$32.00 | hardcover | 352 pp. | illustrated | index
ISBN: 1-56858-153-X | History
James B. Lieber
Rats in the Grain
The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland
The "Supermarket to the World"
Now in paperback! With a new afterword by the author. "Lieber meticulously serves up a seamy stew of sex, lies, and videotape revealing corruption that taints an entire industry." — Publishers Weekly
$16.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-218-8
$26.00 | hardcover| ISBN: 1-56858-142-4
black & white photographs | index
Gordon Lish
Dear Mr. Capote
"Gordon Lish is an important figure in American letters, and he has given us in this book a Lear as a middle-aged common man in his madness and rage, a murerous and murdered citizen.…" — Harold Brodkey.
264 pages | fiction | $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-079-7
Gordon Lish
Epigraph
A novel in letters. "A new invention, catapulting into the blackest hole of all, grinning all the way." — Cynthia Ozick.
176 pages | fiction | $22.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-076-2
Gordon Lish
Extravaganza
A Joke Book
"Lish's Extravaganza is the eeriest comic novel of our generation." — Cynthia Ozick
Lish's amazing allegory combines the tired with the bizarre, the mundane with the profound, the sublimely silly with references to mortality and the meaning of existence.
195 pages | fiction | $12.95 (paper) ISBN: ISBN: 1-56858-097-5
Gordon Lish
Krupp's Lulu
Short Stories
A new collection from the greatest threat to American literature since the television.
Fiction | Short Stories | $22.00 | 192 pages | cloth | ISBN: 1-56858-154-8 | World Rights
Gordon Lish
Mourner at the Door
"Mourner at the Door is Lish at his most characteristic, mixing courage and exuberance, transgressing literary limits, but always in the spirit of Ruskin's great aphorism: 'The only wealth is life.'" — Harold Bloom.
236 pages | fiction | $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-084-3
Gordon Lish
Peru
"Peru is a stunner, a novel that evokes, with unsettling vividness, the darker feelings of childhood. It is haunting and disturbing but also, in the most unexpected way, oddly funny — an absolute original." — Anne Tyler.
204 pages | fiction | $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-085-1
Gordon Lish
Self-Imitation of Myself
The third collection of short stories from the world of fictionÕs most eminent champion of the short story. Stories to challenge readers with their inescapable honesty, wit, obsession, and seductive and alluring prose.
337 pages | fiction | $22.00 (cloth) ISBN: ISBN: 1-56858-098-3
Gordon Lish
What I Know So Far
"Edgy and subtle … some [of the short stories] read like riddles and satires or like sketches and blackouts … It turns out the author of these eighteen stories is a cunning ventriloquist.…" — New York Times Book Review.
176 pages | fiction | $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-080-0
Simon Louvish
The Resurrections
A Novel
"Louvish has enough combustible talent to earn the comparisons with Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Swift that have come his way." — New York Times Book Review.
252 pages | fiction | $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-014-2
Alvin Lu
The Hell Screens
A first novel: a Chinese American searches for a serial killer in Taiwan.
$22.00 | 208 pages | cloth | ISBN: 1-566858-167-X | Fiction
Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray
The Decadent Cookbook
Book of the year choice by Nigella Lawson for The Times (UK).
"An extravagant, shameless, and highly entertaining book that could change the course of contemporary cuisine." —The International Cookbook Review
$14.00 | paperback | 223 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-269-2
Cooking
Gary Lutz
I Looked Alive
Stories
"Gary Lutz is the best writer you've never heard of. To certain stylists, he's a kind of prose god. Lutz … belongs to a category of sentence geniuses that includes Ben Marcus, Aleksandar Hemon, and David Foster Wallace." —The (Seattle) Stranger
$14.00 | 224 pages | paperback | ISBN: 0-971248575
Fiction | Short Stories
Matthew Lynn
Birds of Prey
Boeing Vs. Airbus: A Battle for the Skies
The story of an industry now essential to heavily developed nations, it is a paradigm of business, the ongoing story of the struggle between two forces of international commerce. And it tells how, by manipulation both overt and covert, the battling giants marshall their various resources to achieve their ends: more orders for their factories. Now in paperback!
$14.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-107-6 | 256 pp.
Nonfiction | Business | US rights
A.B. McKillop
The Spinster and the Prophet
H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text
"… A compelling story, part mystery, part legal thriller …" —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A splendidly written story of injustice and male chauvinism, guaranteed to bring the blood to a full-rolling boil." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
$26.95 | hardcover | black-and-white photos | ISBN: 1-56858-236-6
History
Tim McNeese, editor
Myths of Native America
Dozens of authentic tales from the earliest inhabitants of pre-Columbian America.
$22.95 | paperback | 336 pages | color illustrations | ISBN: 1-56858-271-4
Folklore | Spiritual
Benjamin Miller
Fat of the Land
Garbage in New York — The Last Two Hundred Years
"Garbage is never just garbage, as Benjamin Miller makes clear. What's rank to Miller is not garbage and consumerism, but the politics that prevent it from being put to public use." — Paper Magazine
$18.00 | 420 pages | trade paper original | illustrated
|index | ISBN: 1-56858-172-6 | History | Politics
Michael Moorcock
The Cornelius Quartet
FEATURING A SPECIAL ANIMATED PRESENTATION
Never before published in the U.S. in its original, uncensored form: the classic saga of the time-travelling English assassin.
$22.00 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-183-1
Fiction | Science Fiction
Michael Moorcock
The Lives and Times of Jerry Corneliust
Stories of the Comic Apocalypse
The selected short stories of Michael Moorcock's most enigmatic hero: Jerry Cornelius, English assassin, physicist, rock star, messiah to the Age of Science.
$15.00 | 282 pages | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-273-0
Science Fiction | Short Stories
David W. Moore
The Superpollsters
How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America
A firsthand look at the people who claim to tell us what we think, by the managing editor of the Gallup Poll. "A thoughtful overview of public opinion research and of those who helped make it a socio-political force in the U.S." — Kirkus Reviews.
426 pages | nonfiction | index
$15.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-023-1
Richard Morris
The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything
What We Know and How We Know It
A concise discussion of the present state of our knowledge about the cosmos, its evolution, and the nature of scientific and creative thought.
$14.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-140-8 | illustrated | 240 pp. | Science
Jim Munroe
Angry Young Spaceman
"The book reads like a cross between Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and Douglas Coupland's Generation X, livened with Munroe's own DIY zinester sensibility. " — Wired
$13.95 | 244 pages | paperback original | ISBN: 1-56858-208-0
Fiction | Science Fiction
Jim Munroe
Everyone in Silico
What happens when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world...?
"… A fresh and amusing take on how technology can be used or misused in a consumption obsessed society … Those who value deft, witty SF should be well pleased." —Publishers Weekly
$13.95 | paperback | 256 pages | ISBN 1-56858-240-4
Fiction | Science Fiction
Jack Murnighan
Classic Nasty
More Naughty Bits: A Rollicking Guide to Hot Sex in Great Books, from The Iliad to The Corrections
Featuring excerpts from the dirty, dirty minds of Paul Bowles, The Winnebago Indians, Homer, George Saunders, Lucretius, Thomas Hardy, John Kennedy Toole, Rita Mae Brown, Anthony Burgess, Bram Stoker, William Styron, Thomas Pynchon, John Irving, Sappho, Judy Blume, Sren Kierkegaard, Saint Augustine, and many more.
$14.00 | peperback | 224 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-250-1 | Literature | Erotica
Edward A. Nagel
No Entry
"No Entry has moments of real brilliance. If you care anything at all for literature and hell-for-leather storytelling, put your money down and take this book home." — Harry Crews.
208 pages | fiction | $20.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-025-8
Stephanie Nolen
Promised the Moon
The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race
Forty years ago, it was proven that women astronauts tested as well, or better than, their male counterparts. This is the story of the women who were Space Age pioneers …
$22.95 | hardcover | 378 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-275-7
History | Women's Studies
Kem Nunn
Tapping the Source
"The all-time great surfing novel." —Robert Stone
$13.95 | paperback | 300 pages | ISBN 1-56858-162-9
Fiction
Edited by John G. H. Oakes
In the Realms of the Unreal
"Insane" Writings
Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.
"This is what poetic expression is all about." — Library Journal. "Demanding but mind-expanding reading." — Publishers Weekly.
350 pages | fiction | $24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-52-2
Frederick I. Ordway III
Visions of Spaceflight
Images from the Ordway Collection
Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke
In one oversized, full-color volume, gorgeous images from one of the greatest collections of space art.
$50.00 | cloth | 176 pages | index
illustrated with full-color throughout | ISBN: 1-56858-181-5
Art | Science
Written by Harvey Pekar. Illustrated by R. Crumb.
American Splendor Presents:
Bob & Harv's Comics
The two titans of comics in a rare collaboration. "Irreverent yet accessible … The perfect match." — the Boston Phoenix.
96 pages | graphic work | illustrated | $16.00 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-101-7
Harvey Pekar
The New American Splendor Anthology
From off the streets of Cleveland … Basis of the new film starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis … Winner of the Grand Prize at Sundance.
Now back in stock!
$18.95 | paperback | illustrated throughout | 276 pages
ISBN: 0-941423-64-6 | Autobiography | Comics
Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner. Illustrated by Frank Stack.
Our Cancer Year
"[Pekar and Brabner's] first book-length comics narrative is by turns amusing, frightening, moving, and quietly entertaining." — Publishers Weekly (starred review). "The most impressive non-fiction graphic novel since Art Spiegelman's Maus." — Booklist. Entertainment Weekly graphic novel of 1994.
252 pages | graphic work | illustrated | $17.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-011-8
David B. Perry
Bike Cult
The Ultimate Guide to Human-Powered Vehicles
Packed with illustrations (over 500 of them), people, rides, and info on every aspect of bikes and cycling, Bike Cult provides 100 million American cyclists with the most complete guide to their favorite conveyance.
576 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | index | $23.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-027-4
Tom Phelan
In the Season of the Daisies
A Novel of Ireland
One night in 1921 an IRA action went wrong. A young boy, Willie Doolin, was violently murdered before his twin brother's eyes. The story of that night unfolds like a mystery, revealing the sins of the past and the legacy left for the surviving twin and the upstanding citizens involved. Now in paperback!
$12.95 | paperback | ISBN: 1-56858-108-4 | 238 pp. | Fiction | US and Canadian rights
Nick Pitt
The Prince and the Prophet
The Rise of Naseem Hamed
From schoolyard brawler to world champion: the remarkable true story of a great fighter in the Ali tradition.
192 pages | memoir | history | sports | $16.00 (paper) | ISBN: 1-56858-130-0
George Plimpton
The Curious Case of Sidd Finch
With a new preface by Jonathan Ames, including the original Sports Illustrated article.
"Elegant … unique.… a funny, knowing and poignant first novel that, like the split-fingered fastball, moves in ways finally astonishing to behold … A strike." —A. Bartlett Giamatti, New York Times Book Review.
$13.95 | trade paperback | 320 pages, includes 18 illustrations
ISBN: 1-56858-296-X | Fiction
Nathaniel Popkin
Song of the City
An Intimate History of the American Urban Landscape
A stirring, Whitman-esque appreciation of urban life,
$24.95 | hardcover | black-and-white photos | map | ISBN: 1-56858-203-X
History
Idanna Pucci
The Trials of Maria Barbella
The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Crime of Passion
Translated by Stefania Fumo
A true story of women united, of the early struggle against the death penalty, and of turn-of-the-century New York City. "Pucci has skillfully crafted Barbella's suspenseful story.… Gripping social history." — Publishers Weekly.
324 pages | nonfiction | illustrated | $22.00 (cloth) ISBN:1-56858-061-4
Cassandra Pybus
The Woman Who Walked to Russia
A Writer’s Search for a Lost Legend
"A strange and singular search for traces of a woman rumored to have walked from New York to Siberia some 75 years ago…One of those gladdening, unselfconsciously idiosyncratic travel narratives that are all too rare." —Kirkus Reviews
$14.00 | paper | 256 pages | ISBN: 1-56858-290-0
Autobiography | History
Ellery Queen
The Hollywood Murders
A trio of Hollywood-based novels featuring the master sleuth's exploits.
$17.00 | paperback | 474 pages
ISBN: 1-56858-173-4 | Fiction | Short Stories
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