Poetry. California Interest. Eileen Aronson Ireland, born with the Great Depression, friend of Venice West beat poets, marched for and wrote of the urgent social issues of the 60's–80's, civil rights, woman's rights, the Vietnam War and later called...
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Literary Nonfiction. Humor. Cartoons. Art. Ms. Schneps knows all about "getting used to things" and the book comes with a not-so-funny backstory—she suffered a mysterious collapse from low sodium several years ago, and when she awoke from a comatose...
Fiction. Memoir. In November, 1955, a young man in Denver, Colorado, hid twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a crude timer in his mother's suitcase. In what the FBI would term the first example of American air piracy, United Flight 629 blew up twelve...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Epigraph by Raúl Quintanilla Armijo. Interview with the artist by Larissa Archer. LOS CAPRICHOS: AFTER GOYA is an artist's book of palladium prints inspired by Francisco Goya's album of the same name, a series ...
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Short Stories. THAT TREEPLANTING STORY is a cycle of eight tales, including two novella-length, set in or around treeplanting camps in British Columbia. The first four stories were awarded an Avery ...
Fiction. The hero of Thomas Fuller's new book walks around while asking one big question after another—what is truth, what is beauty, what is justice—on his journey through the classical world. Along the way he comes into contact with people—a cave ...
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Memoir. Includes 130 vintage photographs. Winner of the 2018 International Book Award in the LGBTQ Non-Fiction category. Nominated for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. Winner of a 2016 WNBA Award...
Poetry. In this new collection by the award-winning poet and neurologist Dawn McGuire, the American Dream is an ironic construct at the end of Empire. Here, returning soldiers bring "hazardous materials" home in their bodies and minds; while home is...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Photography. What would it be like to discover your very own ghost town? To stumble upon the place by accident and feel it grow more and more mysterious with every step you take? The buildings, still standin...
Poetry. With photography by Joan Scott. Claire Scott's great accomplishment is in knowing how to make poetry out of every part of her life. She's patient enough to hold opposites to the breaking point, and then to keep going toward that frontier whe...
Poetry. California Interest. PAST & PRESENTLY erupted in two outbursts between Dan De Vries' longer excursions in fiction. PAST takes off in Ann Arbor in the year of the Foole (1981), and touches down a couple of years later in Redwood City with the...
Fiction. Set in a village in central France, an American man attempts to sit quietly in a room by himself for one hour, a method promoted by the 17th century philospher Blaise Pascal as the prescription for all mankind's ills. Tempted by almost ever...
Poetry. By "getting it out and writing it down," Sam Haskins paid attention to a turbulent personal and professional life through poetry. Songwriters were an obvious influence—Dylan, John Prine, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell—but Haskins found his own ...
Poetry. A TALE OF TWO HEADS is a series of phantasmagorically compressed dream lyrics, one extraordinary poem linked to another in a progression that is, for a reader, like watching someone become a poet right in front of their eyes.