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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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Pinball Wizard
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44 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.008/15/2023

Pinball Wizard

IF SF Publishing

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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Golf is Ruining My Life
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Golf is Ruining My Life

IF SF Publishing

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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Nous
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41 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$19.954/30/2021

Nous

IF SF Publishing

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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Spoken Flares, Sung Beacons, selected poems & song lyrics
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Spoken Flares, Sung Beacons, selected poems & song lyrics

IF SF Publishing

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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Get Used to It, Words, Thoughts, and Drawings
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Get Used to It, Words, Thoughts, and Drawings

IF SF Publishing

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...

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Cuppy and Stew: The bombing of Flight 629,  A Love Story
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Cuppy and Stew: The bombing of Flight 629, A Love Story

IF SF Publishing

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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Los Caprichos: after Goya
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Los Caprichos: after Goya

IF SF Publishing

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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That Treeplanting Story
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61 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$18.9510/17/2019

That Treeplanting Story

IF SF Publishing

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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The Classical World
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17 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$25.006/15/2018

The Classical World

IF SF Publishing

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 ...

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The Classical World
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21 Currently In Stock CLOTH$75.006/15/2018

The Classical World

IF SF Publishing

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 ...

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Kiss Me Again, Paris A Memoir
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109 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$19.956/6/2017

Kiss Me Again, Paris A Memoir

IF SF Publishing

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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American Dream With Exit Wound
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37 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$18.954/15/2017

American Dream With Exit Wound

IF SF Publishing

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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Mare Island
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20 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$15.004/1/2016

Mare Island

IF SF Publishing

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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Waiting to be Called
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32 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$17.004/24/2015

Waiting to be Called

IF SF Publishing

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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Past & Presently, Poems
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Past & Presently, Poems

IF SF Publishing

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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Monsieur Ambivalence: A post-literate fable
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Monsieur Ambivalence: A post-literate fable

IF SF Publishing

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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Sam Haskins, Attorney: Poems 1970-1980
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Sam Haskins, Attorney: Poems 1970-1980

IF SF Publishing

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 ...

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A Tale of Two Heads
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A Tale of Two Heads

IF SF Publishing

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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The Aphasia Cafe

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The Aphasia Cafe

IF SF Publishing

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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An Old Junker: a senior represents
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56 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$10.0010/11/2011

An Old Junker: a senior represents

IF SF Publishing

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. AN OLD JUNKER is a rambling multi-genre first book—a 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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the lyrica poems, 2003-2010
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the lyrica poems, 2003-2010

IF SF Publishing

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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East of West LA
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31 Currently In Stock PAPERBACK$20.001/15/2010

East of West LA

IF SF Publishing

Nonfiction. Photography. California Studies. "I'm Photographing LA—All 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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