Tribespotting: American Cult(ure) Stories

Overview:
Employing the same inimitable style that he honed while infiltrating extremist groups, Harmon Leon drastically changes his look and attitude as he goes undercover in an exploration of how tribalism manifests itself in American culture throughout the western hemisphere. In Tribespotting: American Cult(ure) Stories, Leon dives directly into the eye of the tribal storm and introduces readers to a series of vastly different tribes, including a gathering of 5,000 assault weapons fanatics, a group of white supremacists who recruit at Applebee's, and cult members whose stare their leader's handsome face.

COMING SPRING 2019

Dumpster, for God's Sake

Overview:
Loviers City believes that cleanliness leads to Godliness. But order quickly descends into chaos when a sighting of the Virgin occurs. Soon, thousands of undocumented immigrants, tourists, and cultists arrive to visit the spot where She appeared. Business thrives, but the visitors leave their mark, discarding refuse and besmirching Loviers City’s All-America vision.

Suspense mounts as Rudy Squazza, the red-bearded ringleader of the homeless, and Jasmine, a rich teenager working on a high school project, fall in love. He is a dumpster diver and the victim of police brutality. She dresses in black leather, rides a red Ducati Supersport 750, and is known as the "Angel from Hell."

Equal parts sociological lore and screwball comedy, Dumpster, for God’s Sake bends reality into fiction in a uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human. With compelling prose, canny insight, and artful empathy, Ben Stoltzfus brilliantly examines group behavior in a timely tale of collective zeal and righteous intent that explores a city’s urgent quest for soul.

COMING 9 APRIL 2019

Isle of the Amazons

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In Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea, Gregory MacDonald has pieced together excerpts from diaries, letters, field notes, books, and journals, creating a stunning narrative of the mythology, history, and topology of the Baja land, sea, and people. These short impressions give us the sights, smells, sounds, and tastes of mountain hamlets, lush valleys, hot deserts, and blue seas. Original illustrations by award-winning printmaker Judith Palmer transform Isle of the Amazons in the Vermilion Sea into a masterpiece.

COMING SPRING 2019

To Act Is To Do
Six Classes for Teachers and Actors Based on the Uta Hagen Technique

Overview:
To Act Is To Do by Richard Alan Nichols, who studied with Uta Hagen for five years at the HB Studio in New York, is the ultimate guide for both actors and teachers. With over twenty exercises—spread over six classes—designed to solve acting problems that come up while working on plays, this book will help actors develop the discipline necessary to fine tune their acting instruments and discover new behaviors in themselves.

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Meet the Deplorables
Infiltrating Trump America

Overview:
Legendary infiltration journalist Harmon Leon is at it again, this time teaming up with ferocious political cartoonist Ted Rall to answer the question most of America has been asking: "What the hell happened in 2016?" In their new book, Meet the Deplorables: Infiltrating Trump America, Leon goes deep undercover into the heart of Trump America, and Rall—two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist—adds an innovative extra dimension to the book with his own essays and full-color cartoons.

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Striking the Black Snake
Poems from Standing Rock

by MG Salazar

Overview:
Striking the Black Snake by MG Salazar is a wild and raw book in equal parts manifesto, testimonial, how-to-manual, and confessional. Written during the winter of 2016-2017 after Salazar's "calling" to travel to the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota to be a water protector and prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the poems chronicle the struggles and trials of the protesters, look deeply at those behind the crop dusters and riot gear, and speak to the children of the future, for whom the water must be preserved.

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Black Girl Shattered

by Sheri Purpose Hall

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Black Girl Shattered, the third book by spoken word artist Sheri Purpose Hall, effortlessly weaves her spirituality, black consciousness, and femininity into a tapestry of fully poetic words that are part memoir, part Black Studies thesis, part feminist manifesto, and part sacred text.

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The Life and Times of José Calderon

by José Faus

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The Life and Times of José Calderon — compiled from papers he left behind and the cryptic asides he made to the few acquaintances he let into his musty house on Independence Avenue in Anytown, USA, where he lived with a rambunctious cat and a majestic harp — follows This Town Like That, the debut volume of poetry by José Faus.

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Romoland

by Judith Palmer & Ben Stoltzfus

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Romoland, a postmodern event conjoining feminist artist Judith Palmer and novelist Ben Stoltzfus, uses twenty-five art works as generative surfaces for a series of dialogues between a man and a woman. The images and the text explore the historical subjection of women by men, their deliverance through art, and the dismantling of cultural codes. Both texts foreground the voice of the Other as it manifests itself in the traces, lines, and cracks of speech—be they visual or verbal. The arabesques of the woman’s sensibilities oppose the squares of man’s authority. Her art speaks and his text sees. Together, they unveil another space between the pictures and the text—the body of bliss and equality—in a way that is ironic, comic, and playful.

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Corazón y una lengua peregrina

by Latino Writers Collective
edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

Overview:
Corazón y una lengua peregrina es una antología atípica que recoge en sus páginas a escritores de diferentes meridianos literarios. Es un compendio de historias en que la realidad y la ficción se mezclan para crear un mundo alterno que surge de la problemática social de sus protagonistas.

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Fringes

by Ricardo Quinones

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In his latest collection of poems, scholar-poet Ricardo Quinones announces (with little regret) that last year's Finishing Touches did not quite live up to its name. Other poems, some worthy of the best of his earlier volumes, obtruded, seeming to call for the special attention of a new volume: Fringes.

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Desolate Country
We the Poets, United, Against Trump

edited by j.d.tulloch

Overview:
Desolate Country represents an amalgamation of defiant work by established artists and those who, as a result of Trump's election, were inspired to write in protest. It aims to give voice to believers in the power of art as both a spiritual catharsis and a manifestor of change and to those who are morally opposed to saying, "Trump is my President."

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Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler

by Hugh Merrill

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Hugh Merrill, the printmaker, has a dirty little secret: for many years, he has been covertly writing … poetry. His debut book of poems, Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler, reflects the intense and unguarded energy of a vital artist and natural storyteller who has deep connections to both historic and current movements.

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Gender Treason

by Ryan Wilks

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Gender Treason, a series of portrait paintings by Kansas City based artist Ryan Wilks, chronicles his latest exhibition, which debuted at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center on July 1, 2016, and includes interviews with the artist's subjects, providing a rare glimpse into the lives of queer people living in the Midwest.

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