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contentspolitics

Maonomics by Loretta Napoleoni............................................6The Anti-American Manifesto by Ted Rall.............................8The Torturer in the Mirror by Ramsey Clark, Haifa Zangana, & Thomas Erlich Reifer.............10Censored 2011 by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips, & Project Censored.................................................12Dreams by Derrick Jensen.......................................................14Deep Green Resistance by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, & Aric McBay...........................................................16The Night Wanderers (World English only) by Wojciech Jagielski..............................................18Operation Massacre (World English only) by Rodolfo Walsh...................................................20

women’s issues

Rose by Inga Muscio................................................................22Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin............................................24In Our Control by Laura Eldridge.........................................26The Sweetest Thing by Mischa Merz.........................................28

graphic works

Fidel by Néstor Kohan & Nahuel Scherma..........................30The Graphic Canon edited by Russ Kick...............................32Anti-Capitalism by Ezequiel Adamovsky & United Illustrators...............................................34

contentsfiction & literature

Tea of Ulaanbaatar by Christopher Howard.........................................36Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confuson? (World English only) by Johan Harstad..............38Love Like Hate by Linh Dinh.................................................40Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate..................42Kurt Vonnegut and the American Dream by Gregory Sumner.................................................46Like Shaking Hands with God by Lee Stringer & Kurt Vonnegut...........................48

hot and selling.....................................................................50radically new 2nd editions...............................................52

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maonomicsLoretta Napoleoni

Current Affairs | Economics

Trade Paper | 308 pages

Fall 2011

World Rights

Manuscript available

From the discards of Western capitalism, the Chinese mir-acle was born. Maonomics centers on the prodigious ascent of a country that, because of ideology or ignorance, the West continues to misunderstand. Maonomics describes the equally prodigious collapse that awaits the West if we obstinately continue to follow a discredited economic and political model. In Maonomics, Loretta Napoleoni looks at whether we have misread the huge changes wrought by the two key symbolic events of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square protests. In asking who really won the cold war—and why—she examines the rise of China’s combination of capi-talism and communism and how it may be better equipped to take advantage of the downturns as well as the opportunities of the globalized economy.

LoreTTA NAPoLeoNi is the author of Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality, which has been translated into fifteen languages, and Terror Inc.: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, which has been translated into twelve languages.

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One of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing, she has worked as the London cor-respondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica, El País, and Le Monde. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Inter-national Studies in Washington DC, and a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics. For her work as a con-sultant for the commodities markets, she travels regularly to Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to meet with top financial and political leaders. She lives in London.

Published in Italy (Rizzoli). Rights sold in Spain (Paidos). Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Portuguese (Portu-gal), and Swedish through Diana Finch Agency. All other rights through Seven Stories Press.


the anti-american manifestoTed Rall

Politics


September 2010

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Finished books available

“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know is necessary. 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

In The Anti-American Manifesto political columnist and cartoonist Ted Ralls presents a daring and inspiring new roadmap for an America that is currently heading toward eco-nomic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the current global fiscal crisis, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are finally opening their minds to the possibility of getting rid of America’s current form of gov-ernment and economic structure—and replacing it with one that works for everyone. Not someday. Not later. Not by someone else. Now. By us.


A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Ted rALL is a syndicated political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist, and war correspondent whose work appears in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.


the torturer in the mirrorRamsey Clark, Haifa Zangana, & Thomas Ehrlich Reifer

Current Affairs


September 2010

World rights


“An indispensable, powerful, well-written book [that] dispenses with the endless scholasticism that seems to be the rage in America when writing about the US torture program. This book says something new—read it and be surprised.”

—Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights

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 our government’s justifica-tion for engaging in torture. The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how, when one of us tortures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncom-promising essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer teach us how physically and psycho-logically insidious torture is, how deep a mark it leaves on its victims, and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers accountable.


rAmsey CLArk is an attorney, teacher, and writer. He served as attorney general of the United States during the Johnson Administration. He is actively engaged in the practice of law, in fields of peace, disarmament, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, voting rights, health, education, and others. In 1991 he founded the International Action Center.

HAifA ZANgANA is an Iraqi political commentator, novelist, and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime. She is a weekly columnist for al-Quds newspaper and a commenta-tor for the Guardian, Red Pepper, and al-Ahram Weekly. She lives in London.

THomAs eHrLiCH reifer is associate professor of sociol-ogy at the Univerity of San Diego, and an associate fellow of the Transnational Institute.


censored 2011 The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009–10

Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips, & Project Censored

Current Affairs


October 2010

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“Read this book, it will make you angry and then it will energize you to take on a significant societal problem in the New Year.”

—Ralph Nader

“Did you know that, with the largest military budget in history, the US Department of Defense is also the worst polluter on the planet? Did you know that the medicine you may be taking to improve your health may be made of toxic nanoparticles? Probably not, because the mainstream media is not telling you, but Project Censored is!”

—Elliot D. Cohen, author of Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project

“Most of what passes for mainstream ‘news’ in the twenty-first century United States is little more than carefully packaged corporate spin, imperial propaganda, or mind-less sensationalism. Every year, Project Censored delivers a collaborative kick—‘news we can use’—to the collective American psyche. Censored is our annual wake-up call: get off the couch . . . and fight like hell to make the world a better place.”

—Rob Williams, president, Action Coalition for Media Education


Censored 2011 presents the most censored stories of 2009 and 2010, including:• Global plans to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency• How external capitalist forces wreak havoc in Africa• Massacre in Peruvian Amazon over US Free Trade Agreement• Cuba provided the greatest medical aid to Haiti after the earthquake• 1.2 billion people in India to be given biometric ID cards

ProJeCT CeNsored, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States. In 2008, Project Censored received the PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the publica-tion of Censored 2009.


dreamsDerrick Jensen

Environmentalism | Mind,

Body, Spirit


April 2011

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Derrick Jensen’s furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams chal-lenges the “destructive nihilism” of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, who believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern indigenous peoples as evidence of alternative ways of understanding reality, informed by thinkers such as Ameri-can Indian writer Jack Forbes, theologian and American Indian rights activist Vine Deloria, shaman Martín Prechtel, Dakota activist and scholar Waziyatawin, and Okanagan Indian writer Jeannette Armstrong. He draws on the wisdom of Carolyn Raffensperger, an advocate of the precautionary principle; Dr. Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World; and sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, who discusses science’s lack of accountability to the earth. As in his other books, Jensen draws heavily from his own life experience living alongside the frogs, redwoods, snails, birds, and bears of the Upper Northwest, about which he writes with exquisite tenderness.


Having taken on the daunting task of understanding one’s dreams as a source of knowledge, Jensen achieves the near impossible in this breathtakingly brave and ambitious new work.

Hailed as the philosopher-poet of the environmental move-ment, derriCk JeNseN is author of fifteen books, including Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and What We Leave Behind (with Aric McBay). He holds degrees in creative writ-ing and in mineral engineering physics. He lives in Crescent City, California.


deep green resistanceStrategy to Save the Planet

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, & Aric McBay

Environmentalism


February 2011

World Rights


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. Technology can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a seri-ous resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, 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 deter-mined to fight for this planet—and win.


Hailed as the philosopher-poet of the environmental move-ment, derriCk JeNseN is the author of fifteen books, includ-ing Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, What We Leave Behind, and A Language Older Than Words.

Lierre keiTH is a writer, small-scale farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of two novels, as well as The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She’s been arrested six times. She lives in Humboldt Country, California.

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 recent book is What We Leave Behind, co-written with Derrick Jensen.


the night wanderersWojciech Jagielski

Reportage


Fall 2011

World English Rights


sHorT-LisTed for THe Nike LiTerAry AwArd, THe mosT PresTigious LiTerAry AwArd iN PoLANd

On an average night in northern Uganda, tens of thousands of children head for the city centers to avoid capture by the Lord’s Resistance Army. They find refuge on the floors of aid agencies in the nearby town of Gulu, where Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski meets them. In The Night Wanderers, Jagielski shows his readers the horror of children who have been abducted from their homes and forced to kill their own family members; children who, even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of their own acts of murder on their young shoulders. From the children he meets, Jagielski creates characters who are composites of these real children and looks at Uganda through their eyes as well as his own. What he finds is a country inspired by a kind of magical spirit, blessed by gorgeous vistas, and tormented by repeated dictatorships, poverty, and unending bloodshed. Jagielski, author of Towers of Stone: Battle of the Wills in Chechnya (Seven Stories Press, 2009) as well as books on the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and South Africa, has never shied away from a hot zone or a battleground.


Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jag-ielski has dug himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and emerged with a compassionate, incisive, and painful report on a situation that the world has neglected for too long.

woJCieCH JAgieLski is a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland’s first and biggest independent daily, where he spe-cializes in Africa, Central Asia, the Trans-Caucasus, and the Caucasus. He has been witness to some of the most important political events of the end of the twentieth century and is a permanent observer of developments in Afghanistan. He is the author of A Good Place to Die, the result of several years of travel to the Caucasus in the era of the Soviet Union’s collapse and of the emergence of new independent states; Praying for Rain, the bestseller chronicling Afghan regimes. Jagielski is the recipient of the Dariusz Fikus Award, one of Poland’s most prestigious awards for excellence in journal-ism. In 2007, Towers of Stone received the Letterature dal Fronte Award in Italy.


operation massacreRodolfo Walsh

Reportage


Spring 2012


Sample translation available

Nearly a decade before Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, there was Rodolfo Walsh’s Operación Masacre (1957). Operation Massacre, as a work of creative nonfiction, is taken by some to be among the first examples of its kind. The book is a full account of Walsh’s investigation into a secret shooting that took place in the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1956. A group of civilians were led out to a garbage dump and shot pointblank by the de facto government that had ousted President Juan Perón in Argentina a year earlier. These men disappeared from the world without a trace, just as Walsh would twenty years later. The author confronts this forgotten event and turns it inside out: he envisions the lives of each victim on the night of their death, retells the facts of the case in astonishing detail, and sifts through all the evidence he can collect with an open, suffering heart and a tremendously light pen.


rodoLfo wALsH (1927–77?) was a crime-fiction-writer-cum-journalist and an activist. Originally from Patagonia, Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in his teens, joined the Nation-alist Liberationist Alliance, and shortly thereafter became a member of the radical Peronist group, the Montoneros. Among his other writings are Un kilo de oro (1967) (A Kilo of Gold), El caso Satanovsky (1973) (The Satanovsky Case), Asesinato a distancia (Murder at a Distance published post-humously in 1998), and “Open Letter to the Military Junta,” which he wrote a day before he died. Walsh himself is said to have been killed in a shooting by military forces in 1977, but his body was never found.


roseInga Muscio

Women’s Issues


November 2010

World Rights


PrAise for iNgA musCio

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

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

—Bust

“Cunt is one of the most dangerous books I ever read, ever.”

—Robin D. G. Kelley

With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio explores the impacts of passive violence, abuse, war, and cul-tural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover a path toward healthy and imaginative sex and love. Rose breaks new ground in answering a fundamental question in most feminist and antiracist writing: how do we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as


individuals, as families, as communities, and as a country? Muscio’s ability to address dire topics with a unique freshness and bravery allows her readers to confront the true brutality of a violent culture, then to react powerfully with righteous rage and hopeful determination. Chilling, eye-opening, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rose offers a fresh and exhilarating perspective on achieving empower-ment and self-possession.

iNgA musCio is the author of Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed Devil and the controversial, generation-defining cult clas-sic Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, which called for women to break down boundaries between themselves and their bodies. Over 100,000 copies of Cunt have been sold in the US and it is estimated that each of those copies has been read by five different people. For more information, visit www.ingalagringa.com.


birth mattersHow What We Don’t Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us

Ina May Gaskin

Women’s Issues |

Pregnancy & Childbirth


March 2011 | World Rights


AmeriCA’s LeAdiNg midwife exPLAiNs wHy BirTH is A femiNisT issue

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

—Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s and Children’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

Renowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low inter-vention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved


leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medical-ization of birth 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 instinctually 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.

Called “the midwife of modern midwifery” by Salon, iNA mAy gAskiN has practiced for nearly forty years at the internationally lauded Farm Midwifery Center. She is the only woman in history to have an obstetric maneuver named after her. She is the author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding, and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, which is consistently ranked #1 in Amazon’s Obstetrics & Gynecology category.


in our controlThe Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women

Laura Eldridge

Women’s Issues | Health


July 2010

World Rights


“In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women, isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The last time I remember reading so much detail about con-traceptive options was poring over Our Bodies, Ourselves when I was in my 20s . . . This is women’s health activism at its best.”

—Elizabeth Kissling, Ms. Magazine

“Straightforward, nonjudgmental, and honest . . . Eldridge . . . allows the reader to become a smart consumer of con-traceptive options.”

—Gwen Emmons, Feminist Review

“This book is about to regalvanize the women’s health revolution!”

—Betty Dodson

“Laura Eldridge provides an eye-opening history of the issues women’s health advocates have fought for, and assesses where we stand today.”

—Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report


In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women’s health activist Laura Eldridge discusses the history, scientific advances, and practical uses of everything from condoms to the male pill to Plan B. Do diaphragms work? Should you stay on the Pill? What does fertility aware-ness really mean? Find these answers and more in In Our Control, the definitive guide to modern contraceptive and sexual health. Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method or want to know more about your current contraceptive choice, In Our Control offers the cutting-edge information and practical wisdom you’ll need to make empowered deci-sions about your sexual health.

LAurA eLdridge is a women’s health writer and activist. Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic: Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolu-tion, with Barbara Seaman.


Biography | Sport


March 2011

World Rights


the sweetest thing

Mischa Merz

Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers the hor-rors 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.


misCHA merZ is a journalist and author of fiction and creative nonfiction. She began training as an amateur boxer in 1995 and is the 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League women’s welterweight champion. Her memoir about the boxing in Australia, Bruising, was published by Picador in 2000 and shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. She resumed her fighting career in the United States in 2009, in the Mas-ter’s Division of USA Boxing, winning five out of five fights including the National Women’s Golden Gloves 138lb title, the Georgia Games championship and the Ringside World championship. Her journalism has appeared in numerous publications, including the Age, the Sunday Age, and the Herald Sun.

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In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, many things are said about Fidel Castro: that he is a liberator, that he is a dictator. In Fidel, Néstor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma restore bal-ance to these views, presenting one of the towering figures of the twentieth century as he is seen by Latin Americans: 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 illustrations, 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 govern-ments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin America—the man who fought, above all, to transform the conscience 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.

fidelAn Illustrated Biography of Fidel Castro

Néstor Kohan & Nahuel Scherma

Biography | Images & Art


July 2010

World Rights



NÉsTor koHAN, born in Buenos Aires in 1967, is the author of a number of Spanish-language books on Marxism, Che Guevara, and social movements in Latin America.

NAHueL sCHermA is an Argentinean filmmaker and docu-mentarian. Fidel is his first book of illustrations.

Published in Spanish by Era Naciente. Brazilian and Finn-ish rights available through Era Naciente. All other rights available through Seven Stories Press.


the graphic canon

Edited by Russ Kick

Literature | Images & Art


Fall 2011

World Rights

Manuscript Available

TodAy’s ToP ComiCs ArTisTs ANd wriTers + THe greATesT LiTerAry works iN HisTory=

THe grAPHiC CANoN

Imagine a single book in which Robert Crumb illustrates Kafka, Gary Panter adapts Dante’s Purgatory, Eric Drooker visualizes “Howl,” Lynda Barry gives us the “Miller’s Tale,” Matt Groening does Candide, Rick Geary interprets Oliver Twist, Alison Bechdel illuminates Sappho, and manga art-ists serve up Shakespeare. Other artists and illustrators will tackle Don Quixote, Walden, Faust, The Tale of Genji, the Alice books, “The Waste Land,” Poe, Proust, Tolstoy, Dos-toevsky, Homer, Plato, Virgil, Nietzsche, Austen, Milton, Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire, and many others. Not only will the source material be wide-ranging, but the styles and approaches of the artists interpreting it will likewise run the gamut. Unlike any graphic adaptation of literature that has come before it, The Graphic Canon will embrace the whole of the Western canon, and a little of the Eastern, from Gilgamesh to the postmodernists, resulting in a hefty, evergreen collection that will be like catnip to fans of comics/graphics/art and


lovers of literature. In short, it essentially will be The Norton Anthology of Literature in Graphic Form.

russ kiCk is the author of five books and editor of seven anthologies, which have sold over 330,000 copies in the US and Canada. He is the editor at large for The Disinformation Company, where he has published several books including The Book of Lists and 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know. He is also the editor of the website The Memory Hole which publishes unearthed US government documents. The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have run profiles of him; Details magazine called him a “Renaissance man”; and Utne Reader named him one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”

From Alice by Dame Darcy


Any young person who enters the world of progressive poli-tics has had this experience: You meet an arch-conservative and you decide to convince him to join your side. You argue passionately against the powers that be, bringing up labor abuses, unnecessary wars, political corruption, simple com-monsense injustice at every level of society. Your conservative interlocutor agrees with you: these are all problems. But, he asserts: exactly what do you intend to replace capitalism with? Capitalism is, after all, the best system we have. In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adam-ovsky gives the lie to the assertion, telling the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical newspapers, and in the jungles and the streets. From Marx through the Battle of Seattle and beyond, Ada-movsky traces the beliefs and politics of the major figures in the anti-capitalist tradition and explores modern experiments in building different ways of living, in the process providing

anti-capitalism

Ezequiel Adamovsky & United Illustrators

Politics | Images & Art


May 2011

World Rights



an indispensible primer for anyone interested in finding alternatives to the so-called “best system we have”—and anyone interested in joining the fight.

eZequieL AdAmovsky is a writer and activist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has published articles for Z Magazine, OpenDemocracy.org, and many other activist and progres-sive outlets. He currently teaches Russian history at the University of Buenos Aires.

Published in Spanish by Era Naciente. German, Korean, and Japanese rights available through Era Naciente. All other rights available through Seven Stories Press.


“With Tea of Ulaanbataar, Chris Howard takes to a rarely seen corner of the world, and then takes us fur-ther, into a spooky, trippy, gritty realm that is entirely his own.”

—Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s

“Like Robert Bingham’s Lightning on the Sun, Tea of Ulaanbaatar is a merciless dissection of lost young American volunteers drifting through a violent and absurd third-world capital, helping no one, especially themselves. Christopher Howard’s sharp, spare voice delivers a nightmarish geo-noir.”

—Stewart O’Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster and Songs for the Missing

National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard’s debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet indus-trial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious “blood

tea of ulaanbaatar

Christopher Howard

Fiction


May 2011

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tea” that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans—or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on an uneasy mind—as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly envelops him. With prose that combines Benjamin Kunkel’s satiric bite, William Burroughs’s dark historical reimagining, and a lush literary beauty all his own, Christopher Howard in Tea of Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst, the dark side of globalization, and middle-class nightmares—and announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious of the new generation of American novelists.

CHrisToPHer r. HowArd grew up in Illinois and spent a few months of an aborted Peace Corps sojourn in Mongolia in the late 1990s. His short story “How to Make Millions in the Oil Market,” published in McSweeney’s, was nominated for the 2007 National Magazine Award in Fiction.


Over 35,000 copies sold in Norway and published in 11 languages!

“A moonwalk of a novel.”—Dagbladet

“The language is precise, light, and so perfectly apposite that it almost swirls in the air as I turn the pages.”

—Aftenposten

“Exquisite artistry.”—Klassekampen

“Buzz Aldrin is an irresistible adventure with a fantasti-cally good storyteller.”—Het Parool (Amsterdam)

Mattias is a gardener who craves anonymity and simplicity. He is terrified of being noticed, preferring to follow the exam-ple of his hero Buzz Aldrin, content to be the second man on the moon, forever in the shadow of Neil Armstrong. One night Mattias finds himself in the middle of an asphalt road in the Faroe Islands, with about $2,500 in his pocket, and with no clue as to how he or the money got there.

buzz aldrin, what happened to you in all the confusion?

Johan Harstad

Fiction


Fall 2011




At that moment—when a mysterious man called Havstein offers him a ride—everything begins to change. Mattias is forced to face his life. This is the story of an ordinary man—and the struggle for self-realization that each of us must undertake. Buzz Aldrin is a grand-scale novel about life, death, love, and the sea. It’s also a story about gardeners and therapists, war photographers and the Cardigans, and about being loved and being invisible.

JoHAN HArsTAd is a thirty-one-year-old Norwegian author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and international sensation. He is the winner of the 2008 Brage Award, previously won by Per Petterson, and his books have been published in over eleven countries. In 2009, he was named the first-ever in-house playwright at the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, originally published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was in 2009 made into a TV series starring The Wire’s Chad Coleman. Harstad lives in Oslo and is working on his next novel.

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love like hate

Linh Dinh

“Love Like Hate affirms that Linh Dinh’s is one of the great original voices in American literature of the 21st century. The English language is a better, weirder, smart-er place with Dinh writing in it.”

—Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown

“Linh Dinh is already one of the secret masters of short fiction. Love Like Hate is something like a traditional cross-cultural novel that’s been shocked into life by Dinh’s uncanny ability to tell us stories we didn’t even know we wanted to hear.”

—Ed Park, author of Personal Days

“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Tho-reau’s economy, Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.”

—Village Voice

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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 unforgettable cast of characters struggling through the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the Saigon that emerges a generation later. Starting with the relationship between café owner Kim Lan and South Vietnamese army captain Hoang Long and culminating in the relationship between Kim Lan’s daughter Hoa and her punk rocker boyfriend Quang Trung, Love Like Hate provides a vivid palette for Linh Dinh’s idiosyncratic characters and dark, deadpan humor.

A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow-ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, LiNH diNH is the author of five books of poems and two collections of stories, including Blood and Soap, one of the Village Voice’s Best Books of 2004. Love Like Hate is his first novel.

Also available: Blood and Soap —Rights sold in Italy (Spartaco) and Japan (Hayakawa Publishing).


elegy written on a crowded street

Peter Plate

May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her living by putting people back onto the streets. Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the Fillmore District, also known as the “Harlem of the West,” the neighborhood that the powers-that-be of San Francisco would like more than anything to see disappear. May becomes a target of the police, and of her own shadowed past among the people of Fillmore—strippers, alcoholic policemen, psy-chic gunshot victims, fugitives—as she walks the narrowest tightrope on the West Coast: the line of personal conscience that separates justice from authority. By turns lyrical, incisive, hilarious, and bittersweet, Peter Plate’s Elegy Written on a Crowded Street explores the human cost of the twenty-first century American city with a unique honesty, beauty, and moral power.

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PeTer PLATe taught himself to write fiction during eight years spent squatting in aba-doned buildings. He is the author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger (1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir “psychic histories” of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes today.


kurt vonnegut and the american dream

Gregory Sumner

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In Kurt Vonnegut and the American Dream, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, from Player Piano (1952) to A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer’s profound engagement with the “American Dream” in its various forms. In this engrossing collection of essays, Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to cel-ebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and “winners” over “losers.” Instead, we share Vonnegut’s outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontier mentality—something he once memorably described as “an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness.” Heroic and tragic at the same time, Vonnegut’s novels reflect the pain of his own life’s experiences, relieved by small acts of kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an alternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books.


gregory sumNer, JD, PhD, is professor and chair of his-tory at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taught since 1993. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (1980), and holds a doctorate in American his-tory from Indiana University (1992). He is the author of Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of Cosmopolitan Democracy (Cornell University Press, 1996).Dr. Sumner has been awarded summer fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has twice been William J. Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Università di Roma Tre, most recently in spring 2010.


like shaking hands with godA Conversation About Writing

Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer

“Almost everyone I know is a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, and so the colorful and curmudgeonly wisdom he brings to the table here is no surprise. But who is this Lee Stringer guy? By the end, I began to think of him as a superior version of James Frey with the main difference that Mr. Stringer (1) writes well and (2) his tales about life on Skid Row are true.”

—Essaywriting blog

Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but shar-ing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thursday, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred, Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer took up the challenge of writing books that would make a difference and the con-comitant challenge of living from day to day. As Vonnegut said afterward, “It was a magical evening.”

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kurT voNNeguT (1922–2007) was among the few grand-masters of twentieth-century American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does now. His titles include Slaugterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and A Man Without a Country.

Lee sTriNger lived on the streets from the early eighties until the mid-nineties. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including the Nation, the New York Times, and Newsday. He is author of two memoirs: Grand Central Winter and Sleepaway School.

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Also available:Grand Central Winter by Lee StringerSleepaway School by Lee StringerA Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut


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“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” rALPH NAder

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Overcoming SpeechlessnessALiCe wALker

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Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them

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Entrapment & Other WritingsNeLsoN ALgreN• Rights sold in France (13 eme), Italy (Einaudi), and Spain (Galaxia).

Hello, Cruel WorldkATe BorNsTeiN• Rights sold in Italy (Castelvec-chi), Portugal (Babel), and Sweden (Karneval).

A Short Course in Intellectual Self-DefenseNormANd BAiLLArgeoN• Rights sold in Brazil (Campus/Elsevier), Finland ( niin & näin), Germany (Reimann), Korea (Galapagos), Poland (MiND), Romania (Editura Paralela), Spain (Critica), and Netherlands (Uit-geverij De Wereld).

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God Bless You, Dr. KevorkiankurT voNNeguT

Now with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman.Publication to coincide with the opening of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in November 2010.

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Grand Central WinterLee sTriNger

Now with four new chapters and never-before-published revelations.

A New York Times Notable BookA USA Today Top Ten Pick

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