Date: Wed, 12 Apr 95 22:22:35 EDT From: "Ellen Greenblatt" FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS -- 1995 CATALOG 39 W. 14th Street, #503 New York, NY 10011 (212) 206-8965 FAX: (212) 206-8799 Spring 1995 frontlist BIKE CULTURE The Ultimate Guide to Human-Powered Vehicles By David Brunn Perry Packed with illustrations (over 500 of them), people, rides, and info on every aspect of bikes and cycling, BIKE CULTURE will provide the 100 million American cyclists with the most complete guide to their favorite conveyance. Unique in its wide view of bike culture, with plenty on mechanics and sports, BIKE CULTURE is an argument for a better way of life, a practical alternative to the wasteful -- and costly -- American car culture. This mega bike book features: *Cycling of every kind, from bedrock to high-tech, from Leonardo to Schwinn, from rickshaws to rollerblades. *The bicycle body and human-powered performance, from face-plant to heart rate training, from a bowl of rice to boxes of Power Bars, from couch potato to superstar athlete. *A fresh look at the transport landscape, from trailhead to veloway, from bike bans to bike-friendly, visions of the bikeable planet. *Bikes in pop culture and arts, and bike roles in love and life. *The ultimate bike database, including bike speak and bike measure, groups and zines, tours and museums, champions and records, books and movies, music and art. BIKE CULTURE is filled with bicycle lore, some from the golden age of bicycling (the late 19th Century) -- when the New York Police Department hired professional racers, known as "crack cyclists," to ticket speeding cyclists, called "scorchers," and early motorists; when suburbs were developed so people could commute to jobs in the city -- and some from the present: the fastest a bicycle has ever been ridden is 152 miles an hour (when Ironman John Howard drafted behind a race car). David Perry was raised in bike-friendly Palo Alto, California. He raced in Europe and the Americas with the U.S. Cycling Team in the 1970s. One of the editors of Transportation Alternative's City Cyclist, he was co-author of their nationally acclaimed master plan, Bicycle Blueprint: A Plan to Bring Bicycling in the Mainstream in New York City, which was released in 1993. He lives in New York City. June $18.95, trade paper ISBN: 1-56858-027-4, 400 pp., 8 x 10 Approx. 600 black-and-white illustrations ***** ELEUTHERIA By Samuel Beckett Translated by Albert Bermel Just before he wrote the classic _Waiting for Godot_, Samuel Beckett wrote another play, entitled ELEUTHERIA. The legend runs that Suzanne Dumesnil, Beckett's wife, presented the great French director Roger Blin with his choice of both plays. The play with five actors and two acts won out over the one with seventeen characters and elaborate, and numerous, scene changes. ELEUTHERIA then disappeared for some forty years, until the day Samuel Beckett placed a manuscript into the hands of his old friend and original American publisher, Barney Rosset, and told him it was his. As Beckett scholars, among them James Knowlson and John Spurling, have noted, elements in ELEUTHERIA prefigure many of the themes and characters of Beckett's most important works. Beyond the historical interest of this "lost" work by one of the century's great writers, there is the mesmerizing quality of the master playwright's language. ELEUTHERIA has been translated by Albert Bermel, Professor of Theater at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Bermel, author of 16 books on theater, has received a Gugenheim Fellowship in Playwriting and the George Jean nathan Award for Theatre Criticism. He has translated plays of Cocteau, Camus, Moliere, Alfred Jarry, and many others. Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, near Dublin, in 1906. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His major works include Waiting for Godot, which has sold over a million copies and is generally acknowledged as one of the most important plays ever written. March $20.00, cloth ISBN: 0-9643-740-0-5, 200 pp., 5 x 8 PUBLISHED BY FOXROCK, INC. Distributed by Four Walls Eight Windows ***** A FROZEN WOMAN Annie Ernaux Translated by Linda Coverdale "Bestselling French novelist Ernaux takes apparently autobiographical facts and constructs perfect little novels in almost unimaginably distilled prose." -- Library Journal In A FROZEN WOMAN, Annie Ernaux describes her teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and the need to fulfill herself in her chosen profession -- with the inevitable conflict between the two. By the end of A FROZEN WOMAN, the lead character is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She lives in a nice apartment. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity -- her strength and happiness -- ebb and then disappear under the weight of the daily household routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal for a woman is killing her. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, this is Ernaux at her most harrowing, affecting and inspiring. She shows herself to be a fierce defender of all those who are expected to be others ahead of themselves. Once again, Annie Ernaux lends legitimacy and power to a distinctly womanist voice. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A FROZEN WOMAN is the most autobiographical of all. Where A WOMAN'S STORY described her relationship with her mother, and SIMPLE PASSION described a fleeting love affair with a younger man, A FROZEN WOMAN concentrates the spotlight on Annie herself. Annie Ernaux was born in Normandy and grew up in the small town of Yvetot. Her books have sold over a million copies in France, where they are taught in schools as contemporary classics. Two of Ernaux's previous books from Four Walls Eight Windows were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. May $17.00, cloth ISBN: 1-56858-029-0, 160 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 ***** THE MARK By Jacques Leslie At the height of the Vietnam War, in 1972, Jacques Leslie was a brash and ambitious 24-year-old, with little experience in journalism and none in warfare. Through a trick of fate -- his predecessor committed suicide -- Leslie landed a job as a war correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and thus undertook a life-transforming experience. By the end of his stay in Indochina, Leslie had become an award-winning veteran combat reporter: he had experienced first-hand the collapse of both the American-supported regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia; and he had become the first American journalist to cross the frontlines and report on the Viet Cong from their point of view. THE MARK is at once a chronicle of a complex and fascinating time and place -- Indochina in the 1970s, a flashpoint for what was supposed to be the showdown between Communism and democracy -- a coming-of-age-story, and an exploration of the inner workings of journalism. And it is an effort to identify the source of the author's own "mark" -- the obsession that many journalists develop with violence and personal danger, the feeling that they are most alive in a war zone. Jacques Leslie was born in Los Angeles in 1947. Shortly after graduating from Yale, he went to Vietnam to work for the L.A. Times as a war correspondent. For his writing there, he was awarded the Overseas Press Club Citation (1973) and the Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Society Distinguished Service Award for Best Foreign Correspondence (1973). He writes for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, and Wired. March $22.00, cloth ISBN: 1-56858-024-X, 144 pp., 6 x 9 ***** The first major work to bring together nutritional approaches to a wide range of problems affecting our mental health. NUTRITION AND THE MIND Dietary Approaches to Illnesses from Alcoholism to Migraines to Depression By Gary Null In NUTRITION AND THE MIND, Gary Null, America's premier health and nutrition advocate, addresses the nation's #1 hidden health area: mental health. He comes up with nutrition-based solutions - - solutions that you most likely will not find in other books or learn about from your physician. Yet his findings are well- documented and entirely credible. Take alcoholism, for example. Dozens of studies show that alcoholics are chronically deficient in certain essential nutrients. Other studies show that when these nutrients are given at optimal levels, the chemical imbalances that cause the craving for alcohol are diminished or eliminated. Similar distinctions characterize other illnesses, including anorexia, bulimia, depression, learning disorders, migraines, obsessive-compulsive behavior, and even schizophrenia. The research for NUTRITION AND THE MIND included reviewing thousands of articles in current medical literature and interviewing hundreds of clinicians and over 3,000 patients. The approaches featured in the book range from detoxification programs, vitamin anti-oxidant therapies and bio-oxidative therapies, to more experimental techniques. Specific programs developed by individual physicians are emphasized. Gary Null hosts several of the most popular radio and television shows in America. The award-winning broadcast journalist can be heard on the ABC radio network, as well as seen on his weekly syndicated television program. His books include Healing Your Body Naturally, The Complete Guide to Sensible Eating and The Joy of Juicing. He lives in New York City. January $14.95, trade paper ISBN: 1-56858-021-5, 288 pages, 6 x 9 ***** CENSORED The News That Didn't Make the News--and Why The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook By Carl Jensen and Project Censored Illustrated by Tom Tomorrow Introduction by Michael Crichton "CENSORED offers devastating evidence of the dumbing-down of mainstream news in America. . . stories that were sacrificed to make room for Woody and Mia, Michael Jackson, and Amy Fisher." - -L.A. Times There is no other handy, up-to-date, easy-to-read book that brings together in one volume the most important stories of the year, stories which you probably didn't hear about, because they were underreported. Compiled annually by Carl Jensen, professor of Media Studies at Sonoma State University, with the help of 12 news watchdogs and a national panel of 19 leading media scholars and critics, last year's top stories included: * the slaughter of young people in the U.S. * the real reasons we went to war in Somalia * the Sandia Report on education * America's corporate welfare cheats * the worldwide consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy * the resumption of biowarfare testing by the U.S. Army * the little- known ecological disaster that rivals the Exxon Valdez * American doctors who are hurting their patients * the business of exploiting poverty * CIA-assisted thugs in Haiti. Next year's stories will be kept under wraps until the Censored Awards Ceremony at Columbia University's School of Journalism on April 3, 1995. This year's compilation of the top 25 censored stories also includes: complete reprints of ten stories; interviews with the winning journalists; an eclectic in-depth chronology of censorship from 605 B.C. to 1995; the junk food news that replaced the censored stories on the airways and in the headlines; and an alternative writer's market and resource guide, among other features. April $14.95, trade paper ISBN: 1-56858-030-4, 320 pages, 5 1/2 x 81/4 ***** THE GIRAFFE By Marie Nimier Translated by Mary Feeney "Without doubt the most romantic novel of the season. ...In short a novel of innocence. Or of perversity." --Le Nouvel Observateur "The only being in this world I ever loved, I killed. Her name was Solange. Her skeleton is on display at the Museum of Natural History. Thousands of children file by it every year." So begins this unique novel of passion and alienation, an interspecies affair of the heart, by one of Europe's rising literary stars, Marie Nimier. With a precise, almost clinical eye, Nimier lays the fantastic groundwork of this story: Joseph, a young man, himself an outsider to mainstream French society because of his African ancestry, gets a job in the zoo. There he is made caretaker of the giraffe, Solange. Solange both literally and metaphorically rises above the clumsy, grasping humans who are her captors: and Nimier makes plausible Joseph's tragi-comic love -- both sexual and spiritual -- for the creature. Joseph develops an elaborate system of punishments and rewards, and conducts them with great delicacy, devotion, and cruelty. Solange responds with tremulous sighs, the batting of eyelashes, sidelong glances -- each as subtle and as full of meaning as a lover's. But while Joseph's love for Solange grows, his relationship with the rest of the world disintegrates... Since her appearance on the literary scene a few years ago, Marie Nimier has come to be recognized as one of the most promising new talents in France. Widely translated throughout Europe, she is known for her quick, irreverent wit and her unusual perspectives on adolescence, sexual desire, and individuality. Born in 1957 in Paris, Marie Nimier has published five novels with Gallimard. THE GIRAFFE, her second novel, was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt. She has been honored for her work by the French Academy and the French Literary Society. March $18.00, cloth ISBN: 1-56858-026-6, 144 pp., 4 1/2 x 7 1/4" ***** "DiFilippo is the spin doctor of SF -- and it's a powerful medicine he brews." --Brian Aldiss THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY By Paul DiFilippo First there was cyberpunk, pioneered by the likes of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Now comes steampunk, the twisted offspring of science fiction and post-modernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul DiFilippo is master. Inside the wide realm of science fiction or out, there is nothing like the three short novels in THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY. Set in a very alternative 19th Century, they feature a mix of historical and imaginary figures. In Victoria, a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and hide the terrible secret from the nation. In Hottentots, Massachusetts is threatened by H.P. Lovecraft-style monsters from the deep and, of course, Hottentots; in Walt and Emily, Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she and her companions meet the future Allen Ginsberg. With remarkable linguistic and historic precision, DiFilippo recreates a people and era fascinating to our late 20th Century sensibilities precisely because of their strict sets of social rules -- and shatters the perfect picture with an outrageous premise. Paul DiFilippo has long been an open secret in science fiction circles. A two-time finalist for the prestigious Nebula Award, his stories and reviews have appeared in many science fiction and fantasy publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing, Semiotext(e), Interzone, The New York Times and The Washington Post. His short stories have been included in many anthologies, including the groundbreaking Mirrorshades collection of cyberpunk SF edited by Bruce Sterling. April $20.00, cloth ISBN: 1-56858-028-2, 420 pp., 5 x 8 ***** NO ENTRY By Edward A. Nagel Rex Dupree is a former All-American "Gators" football star, a man whose life has, since he graduated from the University of Florida, been on a long, inexorable decline. Now a middle-aged architect with a straying eye and a penchant for the bottle and fast cars, this "ex-hero" reaches a crisis when, one fine morning, his wife with a flourish tosses her divorce lawyer's card in his scrambled eggs. His downward spiral accelerates as he is helplessly swept along by the inexorable and unpitying bureaucracy of the legal system of which he is himself a part. Rex finally loses everything: family, career, and self-respect. His wife and child, even his doctor, his minister, and his accountant, all turn against him and hasten his downfall. At the journey's end, he has come full circle: freed of the emotional and sleazy social baggage that bourgeois life in Florida imposed upon him, he can now begin a sort of reconciliation with his soul. But if NO ENTRY is a moral tale, it is also a sharply observed, occasionally sardonic chronicle of a life corrupted by excess. In the tradition of Harry Crews, NO ENTRY is both black comedy and a deeply spiritual novel of the modern South. It is peopled by extremes--an eccentric judge, a hapless lawyer, a lustful proctologist, a hypocritical minister--sad and funny examples of the American ruling class, who conspire to undermine Rex Dupree and, in doing so, unwittingly provide him with the means to save himself. Edward A. Nagel was born in New York City and moved to Florida in the early 1950s, where he practiced law for twenty years. He now lives in Maitland, Florida. Twice divorced, the father of three children, he is editor of The Black Hammock Review. NO ENTRY is his first novel. April, $20.00, Cloth ISBN: 1-56858-025-8, 300 pp., 5 x 8 ***** Colette launched his career; D.H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke and Andr Gide admired him. Samuel Beckett said of him, "More than anyone else, he has an instinct for the essential detail." NIGHT DEPARTURE and NO PLACE By Emmanuel Bove Translated by Carol Volk By turns bizarre and touching, NIGHT DEPARTURE and NO PLACE are the culminating works of Bove's extraordinary career, written even as the war they describe was raging. Together they form a diptych of war. Much in the same way that Homer contrasted the heroic exploits of battle and idyllic scenes of home life, Bove contrasts the terrors of escaping from a prison camp, in NIGHT DEPARTURE, with the absurdity of returning home to German- occupied France, in NO PLACE. NIGHT DEPARTURE relates the escape of a band of French soldiers following the murder of two German guards at a prisoner-of-war camp, and their ensuing journey, on foot and unarmed, to their native land. It is a powerfully antiheroic tale in which the escaped prisoners' irrational devotion to one another is offset by acts of petty betrayal and violence. Paranoia and hopelessness propel them along their way as often as does the desire to be free. Their leader, who is also the book's narrator, finds himself despised and mistrusted. In NO PLACE, the same selfless and comical narrator is beaten down by the bureaucratic stupor of occupied France -- more than he had been by his earlier imprisonment and escape. Freedom remains elsewhere. Little by little, Bove's hero is transformed into a vaguely odious parasite, his sense of grandeur replaced by a simple fear of dying. Born in 1898, EMMANUEL BOVE began and ended his career in obscurity. For a period in the 1920s and `30s, he became a darling of French literary society. He wrote and published 30 books in his lifetime. He completed NIGHT DEPARTURE and NO PLACE just prior to his death in 1945. April $25.00, cloth ISBN: 0-941423-91-3 $14.95, trade paper ISBN: 0-941423-98-0, 384 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 ***** CERTAIN THINGS LAST: The Selected Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson Edited and introduced by Charles E. Modlin "Anyone who still cares about the art of writing cannot afford to pass up this book." --American Bookseller "A rich collection with an essential American flavor." -- The San Francisco Chronicle The short story was the form at which Sherwood Anderson excelled. And the American short story probably owes more to Anderson, author of Winesburg, Ohio, than to any other American writer. It was he who wrested short fiction from the upbeat conventionality of the popular magazines of the day and made it the genre of interiority. CERTAIN THINGS LAST is the first one-volume edition of Anderson's stories. But what makes this book truly remarkable is that five of the 30 stories appear in print here for the first time. On the eve of its hardcover release, CERTAIN THINGS LAST was serialized in both The New York Times Book Review and Esquire, and the book was heralded as an unprecedented publishing event. This important publication is now available at a price everyone can afford. Charles E. Modlin is a trustee of the Sherwood Anderson estate. He is professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic, and author of numerous scholarly articles on Anderson and other 20th century American writers. February $14.95, trade paper ISBN: 1-56858-022-3, 388 pages, 6 x 9 Also available from Four Walls Eight Windows: THE TRIUMPH OF THE EGG, introduced by Herbert Gold. Including "The Egg" and fourteen other stories, along with an essay by Anderson on writing. $8.95 (paper), 320 pages. ISBN: 0-941423-11-5 ***** Spring 95 backlist BACKLIST (by subject; within subject, alphabetical by author) ARTISTS ON ART Asphyxiating Culture and Other Writings By Jean Dubuffet Translated by Carol Volk Introduction by Thomas M. Messer Known for his spontaneity and irreverence, Dubuffet was the champion of "art brut" ("raw art"). "Entertaining and provocative." --Choice 128 pages/illustrated $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-09-3 Joseph Beuys in America: Energy Plan for the Western Man Edited by Carin Kuoni "A tasty collection of hitherto uncollected/unpublished writings by and about the legendary German artist." --FlashArt 288 pages/illustrated $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-007-X BLACK STUDIES Familiarity Is the Kingdom of the Lost By Dugmore Boetie Afterword by Barney Simon The autobiographical novel of a black thief in South Africa. "There are images in this book that burn the mind." --Publishers Weekly 172 pages $6.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-20-4 Frontline Southern Africa: Destructive Engagement Edited by Phyllis Johnson and David Martin Preface by Julius Nyerere Officially banned in South Africa. "Incisive investigative journalism with a spy-thriller intensity that will keep you up into the night." --The Nation 565 pages/illustrated $23.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-15-8 $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0_941423_08_5 Where Is Home? Living Through Foster Care By E.P. Jones "Where Is Home? is a must read.... Foster children have a mighty advocate in E.P. Jones. She is the embodiment of a movement that is waiting to happen." --The San Francisco Chronicle 184 pages $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-34-4 $9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-53-0 GRAPHIC WORKS Our Cancer Year By Joyce Brabner and Harvey Pekar Illustrations by Frank Stack "[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 252 pages/Illustrations throughout $17.95 (paper) Flood! A Novel in Pictures By Eric Drooker "A complex, dream-charged vision of alienation in the wet, mean streets of New York City. ...Poetic and lyrical." --Art Spiegelman in The New York Times Book Review L.A. Times fiction prize finalist. N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year. 1994 American Book Award Winner. 166 pages/Illustrations throughout $15.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-79-4 Mea Culpa By Peter Kalberkamp "An intriguing tale of the corruption of an all-American youth who goes on to political glory, only to be haunted by his bloody past." -- Los Angeles Reader 312 pages/illustrations throughout $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-43-3 The New American Splendor Anthology By Harvey Pekar The latest illustrated anthology by the winner of the 1987 American Book Award. "I love Harvey's stuff." --Matt Groening 300 pages/illustrations throughout $18.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-64-6 Green Tales Written and illustrated by Batrice Tanaka Veteran storyteller and award-winning children's book illustrator Batrice Tanaka has selected eight magical myths from around the world for Green Tales. 48 pages/four-color illustrations throughout $16.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-020-7 ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS Deadly Deceit: Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Cover-Up By Dr. Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A. Goldman Supplemented by graphs, maps, references, an index and appendices. "A powerful report. The book should serve as a springboard for national debate." --Publishers Weekly 266 pages/ illustrated/index $19.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-35-2 $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-56-5 The Petkau Effect: the Devastating Effect of Nuclear Radiation on Human Health and the Environment. Revised Edition By Ralph Graeub Introduction by Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass "The Petkau Effect is really a paradigm for the unknown havoc we stir into action when we blindly pursue industrial advance. No one who reads this book will come away having learned nothing. No one could be left unaffected." --The San Diego Review 250 pages/illustrated with maps and graphs $14.95 (paper)ISBN: 1-56858-019-3 Green Inheritance: The World Wildlife Fund Book of Plants By Anthony Huxley Foreword by David Attenborough "In this timely, comprehensive volume Huxley documents the remarkable contributions by plants to world culture, the strains placed on these 'green resources' today and the price we are paying for the loss of plant species...." __Publishers Weekly 200 pages/color illustrations throughout/index $26.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-70-0 COOKING, HEALTH, and HOW-TO How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid--and Survive--an Audit By Amir D. Aczel Over a million people a year are audited by the I.R.S., about one percent of all individual taxpayers. How to Beat the I.R.S. gives taxpayers an inside chance to defend themselves__before they find themselves under attack. 224 pages/illustrated $8.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-013-4 Saving Your Skin Early Detection, Treatment and Prevention of Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers By Dr. Barney Kenet and Patricia Lawler An illustrated look at all aspects of melanoma -- the deadliest skin cancer, victimizer of 300,000 Americans, and millions worldwide. "Practical and thorough." __Library Journal 224 pages/illustrated with color photographs $14.94 (paperback) ISBN: 1-56858-009-6 Healing Your Body Naturally Alternative Treatments to Illness By Gary Null The first time Gary Null has focused on the alternative treatments available to those already suffering from major illness. 330 pages $16.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-66-2 The Complete Guide to Sensible Eating: The Egg Project updated with new and expanded chapters on detoxification, homeopathy, herbs and healing By Gary Null Illustrated by Judith Lerner The bestselling comprehensive guide for those interested in beginning or maintaining a holistic, alternative health program. 300 pages/illustrated/index $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-37-9 How to Keep Your Feet and Legs Healthy for a Lifetime: The Complete Guide to Foot and Leg Care With special sections for walkers, joggers and runners By Gary Null and Dr. Howard Robins, D.P.M. Everything you always wanted to know about your most active body parts. 288 pages/illustrated $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-36-0 Puerto Rican Cuisine in America: Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes By Oswald Rivera A stylish and witty feast for the imagination and the heart, as well as the stomach. Contains over 200 recipes. 320 pages/illustrated/index $16.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-84-0 The Anti-Aging Plan By Dr. Roy L. Walford With recipes by Lisa Walford A robust disease-preventative diet that can also be used as a comfortable and hunger-free weight loss program. "A pioneer in caloric-restriction studies." --Consumer Reports 300 pages/index $19.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-010-X INSPIRATIONAL Preach Liberty: Selections from the Bible for Progressives Edited by Steve Bachmann Beautifully illustrated by John Bowdren, Preach Liberty culls a wide selection of sayings from both the Old and New Testaments. 180 pages/illustrated/index $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-29-8 Notes on an Unhurried Journey By John A. Taylor An inspiring, non-sectarian document that will serve as a source of both quiet wisdom and spiritual invigoration. 300 pages $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-63-8 LITERARY CLASSICS Nonconformity: Writing on Writing By Nelson Algren. Edited and introduced by Daniel Simon "Algren...is a moral force of considerable dimensions and a wonderful user of the language." --Donald Barthelme. Never before published in any form, this major, book-length work is also one of the most quotable -- on both the literary art and the literary artist. 96 pages $15.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-015-0 The Man with the Golden Arm By Nelson Algren Introduction by James R. Giles Algren's finest novel, winner of the first National Book Award. "...I was going to write a war novel. But it turned out to be this Golden Arm thing. I mean, the war kind of slipped away, and those people with the hypos came crawling along and that was it." -- Nelson Algren 348 pages $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-38-7 Never Come Morning By Nelson Algren Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Including a rare interview with Algren by H.E.F. Donohue. "One of the most important American novels that I have read." --James T. Farrell 336 pages $8.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-00-X The Neon Wilderness By Nelson Algren Introduction by Tom Carson Afterword by Studs Terkel Algren's only short story collection. "Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs." --The New York Times Book Review 286 pages $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-86316-122-7 Certain Things Last: The Selected Stories of Sherwood Anderson Edited by Charles E. Modlin 30 stories in all, including previously unpublished manuscripts. "A rich collection with an essential American flavor." -- The San Francisco Chronicle 388 pages $24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-85-9 The Triumph of the Egg By Sherwood Anderson Introduction by Herbert Gold Including an essay on writing by Anderson. "A wonder." --Ernest Hemingway 320 pages $8.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-11-5 NEW VOICES IN FICTION (See also World Literature and Women's Studies) *** By Michael Brodsky "A stunning redefinition of the novel, a postmodern extravaganza... Brodsky has been compared to Thomas Pynchon, and with good reason." --The San Francisco Chronicle 367 pages $26.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-000-2 $13.95 (paperback) ISBN: 1-56858-001-0 Three Goat Songs By Michael Brodsky Three novellas, each about a man who sits on a rocky coast by the seashore, contemplating. "A challenging, at times dazzling book." --Publishers Weekly 220 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-46-8 $ 9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-47-6 Dyad By Michael Brodsky "This extraordinary novel continues Brodsky's evolution as one of the most important writers working today, and demands our attention." --Library Journal 420 pages $23.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-30-1 $11.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-31-X Xman By Michael Brodsky A novel that is a study in alienation, of the making of a terrorist, by a young master of the avant-garde. "Highly recommended." --Library Journal 540 pages $21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423- 01-8 $11.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-02-6 X in Paris By Michael Brodsky A baker's dozen of short stories by Brodsky, representing the post_modern master at his best. "A tour de force." --The Columbus Post-Dispatch 180 pages $9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-13-1 Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler "A vividness so rare...that it's no wonder she's won both the Hugo and Nebula awards." --The Los Angeles Times 352 pages $19.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-99-9 A Stone of the Heart By Tom Grimes "Conveys a vivid sense of a boy coming of age... Fast-paced, funny, dramatic and convincing." --The Wall Street Journal N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year. 166 pages $15.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-40-9 I Was a White Slave in Harlem By Margo Howard-Howard with Abbe Michaels Foreword by Quentin Crisp A new edition of the underground classic. "The facts as Margo Howard-Howard invents them are entertaining and outrageous." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer 220 pages/illustrated $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-68-9 The Resurrections A Novel By Simon Louvish "Louvish has enough combustible talent to earn the comparisons with Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Swift that have come his way." --The New York Times Book Review 226 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-014-2 Lee By Tito Perdue An old man returns to his Southern hometown. "Written with uncompromising venom, Perdue's stunning novel tells us more about ourselves than we might want to know." --Booklist 300 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-39-5 Fire and Rain: A Novel of Vietnam By Oswald Rivera "War novels are often called uncompromising, brutally realistic, disturbing. This one really is." --The Kansas City Star "Written with Dostoyevskian precision." --The Washington Post 192 pages $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-41-7 Flan By Stephen Tunney "A vision that seems to owe as much to Dr. Seuss as to Bosch and Auschwitz... A profoundly weird book." --New York Press 350 pages $15.95 (paperback original) ISBN: 0-941423-83-2 Jordan Freeman Was My Friend By Richard White "The massacre at Groton, CT., in 1781...provides the background for this slender, affecting historical novel. ...Reminiscent of The Hessian and Johnny Tremaine." __Publishers Weekly 252 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-73-5 Mister Grey By Richard White A finalist for the 1992 Golden Spur Awards. "A moving tale of racism, kidnapping, love and loss of innocence... This intelligent western transcends its genre to achieve emotional depth and timely relevance." --Publishers Weekly 256 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-71-9 POETRY The Neglected Walt Whitman: Vital Texts Edited by Sam Abrams Sixty-five poems and fragments, along with three prose pieces, all by Whitman. "A finely edited, important book." -- Hayden Carruth 188 pages $22.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-90-5 $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-97-2 American Poetry Since 1970: Up Late Second Edition Selected and introduced by Andrei Codrescu "A reliable guide to alternative poetic strategies." --Library Journal "It breaks new ground. A blustery, exciting, generous sample." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch 654 pages/index $16.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-26-3 Hints & Allegations: The World (in Poetry and Prose) According to William M. Kunstler A collection of the sonnets of William Kunstler, civil rights attorney and orator of the Left for over thirty years. Together, they comprise a powerful portrayal of the injustices of our times and the men and women who struggled against them. 208 pages $17.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-017-7 Journeys in Dream and Imagination By Artur Lundkvist Introduction by Carlos Fuentes "So richly adventurous, so full of vivid and concrete detail...as to charm the casual reader, deeply engage the poet and captivate the harshest skeptic." -- Maxine Kumin in The New York Times Book Review N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year. 220 pages $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-67-0 In the Realms of the Unreal: "Insane" Writings Edited by John G.H. Oakes Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut "This is what poetic expression is all about." --Library Journal "Demanding but mind-expanding reading." --Publishers Weekly 350 pages $24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-52-2 $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-57-3 POLITICS/CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Capitalism Vs. Capitalism: How America's Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short- term Profit Has Led It to the Brink of Collapse By Michel Albert "A distinguished and highly literate French businessman, scholar and economist gives his view of the European, and notably, the American present and prospect. ...Do not miss it." --John Kenneth Galbraith 288 pages $25.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-004-5 $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-005-3 Japanese Rage: Japanese Business and Its Assault on the West By Leon Anderson Half a century ago, the United States was at war with Japan. That war continues today, in a slightly different guise -- but no less ruthlessly, suggests Anderson. 250 pages $22.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-59-X Ministry of Lies: The Truth Behind the Secret Relationship Between "Blacks and Jews" By Harold Brackman "Harold Brackman has documented that...[the] repeated insistence that the Jews dominated the slave trade depends on an unscrupulous distortion of the historic record."-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The New York Times 160 pages/illustrated $10.00 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-016-9 The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy By Ana Carrigan "Vivid, authoritative and righteously indignant... Could do for Colombia what Zola's J'Accuse did for France." --Kirkus Reviews 288 pages/illustrated $22.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-82-4 Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader Edited by Gene Fellner "Berkman is one of the last heroes of American radicalism, a rare, pure voice of rebellion. This anthology is a valuable treasure." --Howard Zinn 288 pages $16.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-78-6 The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy By Leo Damore "A book to buy and keep, not only as an important new chapter in the story of J.F.K., but as an expressive chronicle of the Cape." --The Boston Sunday Globe 288 pages/illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photos $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-81-6 A Child's War: World War II Through the Eyes of Children By Kati David "A rare and poignant account of World War II as witnessed through the eyes of 15 children of different faiths and countries." --The New York Times 220 pages $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-24-7 Thomas Paine: Apostle of F reedom By Jack Fruchtman, Jr. " A spirited, riveting biography that cogently argues that Paine was a pantheist who saw God's handiwork in all nature and in humanity's struggles to improve the common good." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) 572 pages/illustrations/index $30.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-94-8 Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam By Martha Hess Foreword by the Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin Jr. "It is difficult to imagine a more powerful indictment of American military conduct in Vietnam than these testimonies..." - -Publishers Weekly (starred review) 244 pages/illustrated with 50 black-and-white photos $22.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-92-1 Censored The News That Didn't Make The News -- And Why The 1994 Project Censored Yearbook By Carl Jensen and Project Censored Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow The Internet has called Carl Jensen "the Ralph Nader of the media" for Project Censored's annual list of the year's 25 most underreported stories. "CENSORED has opened my eyes..." --Noam Chomsky 324 pages/illustrated $14.95 (paperback) ISBN: 1-56858-012-6 Deadly Business: Legal Deals and Outlaw Weapons: The Arming of Iran and Iraq, 1975 to the Present By Herbert Krosney "A chilling report on how Western vendors have, over the past two decades, helped two of the Middle East's more unstable regimes acquire state-of-the-art arsenals... A timely alert." --Kirkus Reviews 320 pages/map/index $30.00 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-002-9 $13.95 (paper) ISBN: 1-56858-006-1 The Best of Abbie Hoffman: Selections from "Revolution for the Hell of It," "Woodstock Nation," "Steal This Book" and New Writings Edited by Daniel Simon Foreword by Norman Mailer "A unique first-person account of the irrepressible Hoffman and his times. ...BUY this book!" --Library Journal 440 pages/illustrated $21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-27-1 $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0_941423_42_5 The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America By David W. Moore "A thoughtful overview of public opinion research and of those who helped make it a socio-political force in the U.S." --Kirkus Reviews 400 pages/index $21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-74-3 The March to War Edited and introduced by James Ridgeway A forum on the Gulf War. With contributions by Noam Chomsky, Henry Kissinger, Alexander Cockburn, Anthony Lewis, Richard Nixon, and others. "Original... balanced...useful." The New York Times Book Review 258 pages/illustrated with maps $9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-61-1 Cast a Cold Eye: American Opinion Writing 1990-1991 Edited by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella Foreword by John B. Oakes Convincing evidence that on the opinion pages of our nation's newspapers, we find at least the promise of democracy at work. "Important, if disturbing reading." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review 304 pages $25.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-55-7 $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-54-9 Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States By Harvey Wasserman Introduction by Howard Zinn A lively chronicle of America from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War covering the industrialists and the political awakening of the working class. 220 pages/illustrated $8.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-10-7 SPORTS Miracle on 33rd Street: The New York Knickerbockers' Championship Season, 1969-70 By Phil Berger Introduction by Marv Albert "A brilliant moody tricky book that shifts from quick description to fascinating chunks of self-revealing monologues... Clear and non-technical explanations of how the Knicks won the world championship." --Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times 256 pages/illustrated $14.95 (paperback) ISBN 1-56858-008-8 Punch Lines: Berger on Boxing By Phil Berger Foreword by Bert Sugar Profiles of Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, and many more, by the former boxing correspondent for The New York Times. 350 pages/illustrated/index $24.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-93-X $13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-95-6 Corner Men: Great Boxing Trainers By Ronald K. Fried "Remarkable men... Enough to restore your faith in boxing." --The New York Times Including chapters on Ray Arcel, Jack Blackburn, Angelo Dundee, and many others. N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year. 414 pages/illustrated/index $21.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-48-4 WOMEN'S STUDIES (See also World Literature) A Woman's Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486 By Rebecca Chalker and Carol Downer A practical guide through the minefield of abortion, covering all available approaches. "The ultimate guerilla guide to reproductive choices." --Publishers Weekly 192 pages/illustrated/index $13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-86-7 Mercy By Andrea Dworkin "If Andrea Dworkin is the Malcolm X of feminism, then this novel is her version of his Autobiography. . . . She is brilliant, her anger is a polished and dangerous instrument, and even some of the people she's marked as enemies can hope she finds her way." --Madison Smartt Bell in The Chicago Tribune 352 pages $13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-88-3 $22.00 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-69-7 WORLD LITERATURE (See also Black Studies, Literary Classics, New Voices in Fiction, Women's Studies) Simple Passion By Annie Ernaux. Tranlsated by Tanya Leslie. "Ernaux's tale of an all-consuming love affair can leave you as drained as an early Godard movie...she shapes her story with notes sharp enough to start you thinking through the novels in your own life." --Greil Marcus in Artforum 72 pages $14.95 (cloth) ISBN: 1-56858-003-7 A Man's Place By Annie Ernaux Translated by Tanya Leslie An "austere but poignant account of those ties that bind as well as separate fathers from daughters.... Moving and memorable." -- Kirkus Reviews N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year/French/American Foundation Translation Award finalist 99 pages $15.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-75-1 A Woman's Story By Annie Ernaux Translated by Tanya Leslie "The story of every daughter who loses a mother..." --The New York Times Book Review N.Y. Times Notable Book of the Year/L. A. Times fiction prize finalist. 112 pages $15.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-51-4 Mr. Theodore Mundstock By Ladislav Fuks Prague, 1942: the Germans occupy the city and the Jews await the call to the concentration camps. "Crisply written, a model of its kind." --Anthony Burgess 216 pages $10.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-62-X The Bodhr n Makers: A Novel of Ireland By John B. Keane "Furious, raging, passionate and... very, very funny." --The Boston Globe "At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For those who wear the green, this book will provide a bounty of tears and laughs." --Publishers Weekly 256 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-80-8 Forgiveness: Ireland's Best Contemporary Short Stories Edited and with an introduction by Augustine Martin "Virtually every one of the 25 stories in this fine new collection conjures up vivid images of Irish life. ...Magical." - -The New York Times Book Review 340 pages $25.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-32-8 $12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0_941423_33_6 The Ships By Roberto Quesada Translated by Hardie St. Martin "Roberto Quesada is a lively and gifted writer full of amusing and thought-provoking ideas." --Kurt Vonnegut 182 pages $17.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-65-4 The Street By Israel Rabon Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf A novel of poverty and desperation in the tradition of Dostoyevski's Notes from Underground. "Bold, disturbing." --The New York Times 192 pages $9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-45-X And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America Edited by Rosario Santos Introduction by Jo Anne Engelbert Vivid and provocative fiction in original translations by Gregory Rabassa and Paul Bowles, among others. "Finely translated...powerful voices." --The Washington Post 220 pages $18.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-16-6 $9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-17-4 King Ludd By Andrew Sinclair "Exuberant, restless, and inventive. ...Hopping about through the years between 1811 and 1987...Sinclair tells very funny, deeply instructive stories and allegories, all rooted in his interpretation of the essential British myth." -- The Washington Post 352 pages $22.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0-941423-87-5 $13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0-941423-96-4 A School for Fools By Sasha Sokolov Translated by Carl R. Proffer. Introduction by D. 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