This month we're highlighting IF SF Publishing, based in San Francisco. Started in 1999, IF SF is a not-for-profit press that has published books in a range of genres, including memoir, poetry, and photography. The IFSF imprint, praised in the past for publishing the work of 'voices that deserve to be heard in books of visually arresting formats' is known for taking a collaborative approach to each project, inviting the artist to take part in the creation of the book. Each IFSF book is published in the medium best suited to the material.
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978173338648744 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.008/15/2023
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By Michael D. Meloan
Michael D. Meloan’s new novella PINBALL WIZARD is a story of love, sex, jets, and Bukowski. Ralph is buffeted between a controlling father, international intrigue in the US defense industry, and a friendship with the writer Charles Bukowski. A wild ...
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978173338647071 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$24.005/15/2023
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By Brooks Roddan
A tour de force wiz-bang of a book by a well-seasoned poet-golfer who struggles between agony and ecstasy while playing a gentleman’s game. Golf is the most perplexing sport in the world, a game where questions far outnumber answers. You’re decent ...
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978173338646341 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$19.954/30/2021
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By Joseph Harms & C. Winn Mahoney (Illustrator)
Poetry. Art. Illustrated by C. Winn Mahoney. NOUS explores young love and the adulterants (bad parents, violence, alcohol, heroin, prison, maturation) that both heighten and inevitably truncate it. It also looks into divorce (from spouse, oneself, t...
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978173338645636 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$17.959/15/2020
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By Eileen Aronson Ireland
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's80's, civil rights, woman's rights, the Vietnam War and later called...
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978173338644933 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$17.008/15/2020
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By Muriel Schneps
Literary Nonfiction. Humor. Cartoons. Art. Ms. Schneps knows all about "getting used to things" and the book comes with a not-so-funny backstoryshe suffered a mysterious collapse from low sodium several years ago, and when she awoke from a comatose...
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978173338641855 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$20.005/15/2020
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By Eric Goodman
Fiction. Memoir. Winner of a Finalist Award at the 2020 Foreword Indie Book Awards for General Adult Fiction. 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 ...
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978173338642580 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$55.004/25/2020
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By Sheila Newbery
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 ...
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978173338640161 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$18.9510/17/2019
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By Dan De Vries
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 ...
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978098597739917 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$25.006/15/2018
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By Thomas Fuller
Fiction. The hero of Thomas Fuller's new book walks around while asking one big question after anotherwhat is truth, what is beauty, what is justiceon his journey through the classical world. Along the way he comes into contact with peoplea cave ...
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978098597734421 Currently In Stock CLOTH$75.006/15/2018
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By Thomas Fuller
Fiction. The hero of Thomas Fuller's new book walks around while asking one big question after anotherwhat is truth, what is beauty, what is justiceon his journey through the classical world. Along the way he comes into contact with peoplea cave ...
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9780985977382109 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$19.956/6/2017
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By Renate Stendhal
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...
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978098597737537 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$18.954/15/2017
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By Dawn McGuire
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...
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978098597736820 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.004/1/2016
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By Brooks Roddan
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...
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978098597735132 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$17.004/24/2015
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By Claire Scott
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...
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978098597733751 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.007/30/2014
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By Dan De Vries
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...
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978098597731321 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.0010/1/2013
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By Thomas Fuller
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...
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97809859773206 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.001/5/2013
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By Sam Haskins
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 influenceDylan, John Prine, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchellbut Haskins found his own ...
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978098597730616 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.0012/18/2012
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By Sally King
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.
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97809674720580 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$18.954/24/2012
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By Dawn McGuire
Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of poetry! The poems of THE APHASIA CAFÉ write the lives of individuals who, because of stroke or dementia, have lost all or part of their ability to use language, explorin...
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978145371719656 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$10.0010/11/2011
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By Howard Junker
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. AN OLD JUNKER is a rambling multi-genre first booka blognovel, a proto-memoir, a novel of ideas, a coming-of-age narrative, a meta-parody whose rambling plot savages Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen and Richard Serra, ...
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97809674720723 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.006/20/2011
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By Michael Hannon
Poetry. Two words make the prosodic "line," three lines make a "lyrica," linked lyrica make a serial poem. More koan than haiku, THE LYRICA POEMS work that thin vein where words are mistaken for things. Hannon's poems are insects gathered at the cra...
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978096747206531 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$20.001/15/2010
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By Kevin McCollister
Nonfiction. Photography. California Studies. "I'm Photographing LAAll of it" is Kevin McCollister's self-proclaimed lifetime project. Determined to walk the city, perhaps one of the most determinedly unwalkable cities in the world, seeing to make a...
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