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contents
politics
Maonomics by Loretta Napoleoni............................................6
The Anti-American Manifesto by Ted Rall.............................8
The Torturer in the Mirror by Ramsey Clark,
Haifa Zangana, & Thomas Erlich Reifer.............10
Censored 2011 by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips,
& Project Censored.................................................12
Dreams by Derrick Jensen.......................................................14
Deep Green Resistance by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith,
& Aric McBay...........................................................16
The Night Wanderers (World English only)
by Wojciech Jagielski..............................................18
Operation Massacre (World English only)
by Rodolfo Walsh...................................................20
women’s issues
Rose by Inga Muscio................................................................22
Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin............................................24
In Our Control by Laura Eldridge.........................................26
The Sweetest Thing by Mischa Merz.........................................28
graphic works
Fidel by Néstor Kohan & Nahuel Scherma..........................30
The Graphic Canon edited by Russ Kick...............................32
Anti-Capitalism by Ezequiel Adamovsky
& United Illustrators...............................................34
contents
fiction & literature
Tea of Ulaanbaatar
by Christopher Howard.........................................36
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confuson?
(World English only) by Johan Harstad..............38
Love Like Hate by Linh Dinh.................................................40
Elegy Written on a Crowded Street by Peter Plate..................42
Kurt Vonnegut and the American Dream
by Gregory Sumner.................................................46
Like Shaking Hands with God
by Lee Stringer & Kurt Vonnegut...........................48
hot and selling.....................................................................50

radically new 2nd editions...............................................52
Current Affairs | Economics
maonomics
Trade Paper | 308 pages
Loretta Napoleoni
Fall 2011
World Rights
Manuscript available
From the discards of Western capitalism, the Chinese mir-

acle was born. Maonomics centers on the prodigious ascent
of a country that, because of ideology or ignorance, the
West continues to misunderstand. Maonomics describes
the equally prodigious collapse that awaits the West if we
obstinately continue to follow a discredited economic and
political model.
In Maonomics, Loretta Napoleoni looks at whether we have
misread the huge changes wrought by the two key symbolic
events of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen
Square protests. In asking who really won the cold war—and
why—she examines the rise of China’s combination of capi-
talism and communism and how it may be better equipped to
take advantage of the downturns as well as the opportunities
of the globalized economy.
LoreTTA NAPoLeoNi is the author of Rogue Economics:

Capitalism’s New Reality, which has been translated into
fifteen languages, and Terror Inc.: Tracing the Money Behind
Global Terrorism, which has been translated into twelve
languages.
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One of the world’s leading experts on money laundering
and terror financing, she has worked as the London cor-
respondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica,
El País, and Le Monde. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Johns
Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Inter-
national Studies in Washington DC, and a Rotary Scholar
at the London School of Economics. For her work as a con-
sultant for the commodities markets, she travels regularly to
Asia, Europe, and the Middle East to meet with top financial
and political leaders. She lives in London.
Published in Italy (Rizzoli). Rights sold in Spain (Paidos).

Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Portuguese (Portu-
gal), and Swedish through Diana Finch Agency. All other
rights through Seven Stories Press.
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Politics
the anti-american
manifesto
September 2010
Ted Rall
World Rights
Finished books available
“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution

we all know is necessary. This is the book we’ve all been
waiting for. Pick this book up. Read it. And then get ready
to fight back.”
—Derrick Jensen
In The Anti-American Manifesto political columnist and

cartoonist Ted Ralls presents a daring and inspiring new
roadmap for an America that is currently heading toward eco-
nomic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage
to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the
current global fiscal crisis, Rall sees an opportunity.
As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes, they
and millions more are finally opening their minds to the
possibility of getting rid of America’s current form of gov-
ernment and economic structure—and replacing it with one
that works for everyone.
Not someday. Not later. Not by someone else. Now. By us.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and twice the winner of the Robert
F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Ted Rall is a syndicated
political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist,
and war correspondent whose work appears in hundreds
of publications, including the New York Times and the Los
Angeles Times.
Current Affairs
the torturer in
the mirror
September 2010
Ramsey Clark, Haifa
Zangana, & Thomas
World rights
Ehrlich Reifer Finished books available
“An indispensable, powerful, well-written book [that]

dispenses with the endless scholasticism that seems
to be the rage in America when writing about the US
torture program. This book says something new—read
it and be surprised.”
—Michael Ratner, president,
Center for Constitutional Rights
Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public

saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went
to the White House with a question: what, according to the
Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from
torture—and could that line be moved? The White House
lawyers’ answer—in the form of legal documents later known
as the “torture memos”—became our government’s justifica-
tion for engaging in torture.
The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how, when one of us
tortures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncom-
promising essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US
attorney general Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer teach us how physically and psycho-
logically insidious torture is, how deep a mark it leaves on
its victims, and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold
torturers accountable.
Ramsey Clark is an attorney, teacher, and writer. He served
as attorney general of the United States during the Johnson
Administration. He is actively engaged in the practice of law,
in fields of peace, disarmament, human rights, civil rights,
civil liberties, voting rights, health, education, and others. In
1991 he founded the International Action Center.
Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi political commentator, novelist,

and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime. She is a
weekly columnist for al-Quds newspaper and a commenta-
tor for the Guardian, Red Pepper, and al-Ahram Weekly. She
lives in London.
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer is associate professor of sociol-

ogy at the Univerity of San Diego, and an associate fellow of
the Transnational Institute.
censored 2011 Current Affairs
The Top 25 Censored Trade Paper | 416 pages
Stories of 2009–10
October 2010
Edited by Mickey
World Rights
Huff, Peter Phillips, &
Project Censored Finished books available
“Read this book, it will make you angry and then it will
energize you to take on a significant societal problem in
the New Year.”
—Ralph Nader
“Did you know that, with the largest military budget in

history, the US Department of Defense is also the worst
polluter on the planet? Did you know that the medicine
you may be taking to improve your health may be made of
toxic nanoparticles? Probably not, because the mainstream
media is not telling you, but Project Censored is!”
—Elliot D. Cohen, author of Mass Surveillance and State
Control: The Total Information Awareness Project
“Most of what passes for mainstream ‘news’ in the twenty-

first century United States is little more than carefully
packaged corporate spin, imperial propaganda, or mind-
less sensationalism. Every year, Project Censored delivers
a collaborative kick—‘news we can use’—to the collective
American psyche. Censored is our annual wake-up call:
get off the couch . . . and fight like hell to make the world
a better place.”
—Rob Williams, president, Action Coalition
for Media Education
Censored 2011 presents the most censored stories of 2009 and
2010, including:
• Global plans to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve
currency
• How external capitalist forces wreak havoc in Africa
• Massacre in Peruvian Amazon over US Free Trade
Agreement
• Cuba provided the greatest medical aid to Haiti after the
earthquake
• 1.2 billion people in India to be given biometric ID cards
PROJECT CENSORED, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has

as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of
First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in
the United States. In 2008, Project Censored received the
PEN/Oakland Literary Censorship Award for the publica-
tion of Censored 2009.
dreams Environmentalism | Mind,
Body, Spirit
Derrick Jensen
April 2011
World Rights
Derrick Jensen’s furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams chal-

lenges the “destructive nihilism” of writers like Richard
Dawkins and Sam Harris, who believe that there is no reality
outside what can be measured using the tools of science.
He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and
modern indigenous peoples as evidence of alternative ways of
understanding reality, informed by thinkers such as Ameri-
can Indian writer Jack Forbes, theologian and American
Indian rights activist Vine Deloria, shaman Martín Prechtel,
Dakota activist and scholar Waziyatawin, and Okanagan
Indian writer Jeannette Armstrong.
He draws on the wisdom of Carolyn Raffensperger, an
advocate of the precautionary principle; Dr. Paul Stamets,
author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save
the World; and sociologist Stanley Aronowitz, who discusses
science’s lack of accountability to the earth.
As in his other books, Jensen draws heavily from his own
life experience living alongside the frogs, redwoods, snails,
birds, and bears of the Upper Northwest, about which he
writes with exquisite tenderness.

Having taken on the daunting task of understanding one’s
dreams as a source of knowledge, Jensen achieves the near
impossible in this breathtakingly brave and ambitious new
work.
Hailed as the philosopher-poet of the environmental move-

ment, Derrick Jensen is author of fifteen books, including
Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and What We Leave
Behind (with Aric McBay). He holds degrees in creative writ-
ing and in mineral engineering physics. He lives in Crescent
City, California.
deep green Environmentalism
resistance Trade Paper | 592 pages
Strategy to Save the Planet February 2011
World Rights
Derrick Jensen,
Lierre Keith, & Aric McBay Manuscript available
For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you
think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to
a sane and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental
movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible
with life. Technology can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter
how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a seri-
ous resistance movement that can bring down the industrial
economy.
Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for
resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the
conditions required for those options to be successful. It
provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruit-
ment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and
underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses
a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it
can play.
Deep Green Resistance is a plan of action for anyone deter-
mined to fight for this planet—and win.

Hailed as the philosopher-poet of the environmental move-
ment, Derrick Jensen is the author of fifteen books, includ-
ing Endgame Volumes 1 and 2, What We Leave Behind, and
A Language Older Than Words.
Lierre Keith is a writer, small-scale farmer, and radical

feminist activist. She is the author of two novels, as well as
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability. She’s
been arrested six times. She lives in Humboldt Country,
California.
Aric McBay is a writer, activist, and small-scale organic

farmer living in Ontario, Canada. His first book was Peak
Oil Survival: Preparation for Life after Gridcrash. His most
recent book is What We Leave Behind, co-written with
Derrick Jensen.
the night Reportage
wanderers Trade Paper | 352 pages
Fall 2011
Wojciech Jagielski
World English Rights
Short-listed for the NIKE Literary Award, the

most prestigious literary award in Poland
On an average night in northern Uganda, tens of thousands

of children head for the city centers to avoid capture by the
Lord’s Resistance Army. They find refuge on the floors of aid
agencies in the nearby town of Gulu, where Polish journalist
Wojciech Jagielski meets them.
In The Night Wanderers, Jagielski shows his readers the
horror of children who have been abducted from their homes
and forced to kill their own family members; children who,
even after they have escaped the LRA, carry the weight of
their own acts of murder on their young shoulders.
From the children he meets, Jagielski creates characters
who are composites of these real children and looks at Uganda
through their eyes as well as his own.
What he finds is a country inspired by a kind of magical
spirit, blessed by gorgeous vistas, and tormented by repeated
dictatorships, poverty, and unending bloodshed.
Jagielski, author of Towers of Stone: Battle of the Wills in
Chechnya (Seven Stories Press, 2009) as well as books on the
Caucasus, Afghanistan, and South Africa, has never shied
away from a hot zone or a battleground.
Carrying on the rich tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, Jag-
ielski has dug himself deep into the Ugandan landscape and
emerged with a compassionate, incisive, and painful report
on a situation that the world has neglected for too long.
WOJCIECH JAGIELSKI is a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza,

Poland’s first and biggest independent daily, where he spe-
cializes in Africa, Central Asia, the Trans-Caucasus, and the
Caucasus. He has been witness to some of the most important
political events of the end of the twentieth century and is a
permanent observer of developments in Afghanistan. He is
the author of A Good Place to Die, the result of several years
of travel to the Caucasus in the era of the Soviet Union’s
collapse and of the emergence of new independent states;
Praying for Rain, the bestseller chronicling Afghan regimes.
Jagielski is the recipient of the Dariusz Fikus Award, one of
Poland’s most prestigious awards for excellence in journal-
ism. In 2007, Towers of Stone received the Letterature dal
Fronte Award in Italy.
Reportage
operation Trade Paper | 208 pages
massacre
Spring 2012
Rodolfo Walsh
Sample translation available
Nearly a decade before Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, there

was Rodolfo Walsh’s Operación Masacre (1957). Operation
Massacre, as a work of creative nonfiction, is taken by some
to be among the first examples of its kind.
The book is a full account of Walsh’s investigation into
a secret shooting that took place in the outskirts of Buenos
Aires in 1956.
A group of civilians were led out to a garbage dump and
shot pointblank by the de facto government that had ousted
President Juan Perón in Argentina a year earlier. These men
disappeared from the world without a trace, just as Walsh
would twenty years later.
The author confronts this forgotten event and turns it
inside out: he envisions the lives of each victim on the night
of their death, retells the facts of the case in astonishing detail,
and sifts through all the evidence he can collect with an open,
suffering heart and a tremendously light pen.

Rodolfo Walsh (1927–77?) was a crime-fiction-writer-
cum-journalist and an activist. Originally from Patagonia,
Walsh moved to Buenos Aires in his teens, joined the Nation-
alist Liberationist Alliance, and shortly thereafter became
a member of the radical Peronist group, the Montoneros.
Among his other writings are Un kilo de oro (1967) (A Kilo
of Gold), El caso Satanovsky (1973) (The Satanovsky Case),
Asesinato a distancia (Murder at a Distance published post-
humously in 1998), and “Open Letter to the Military Junta,”
which he wrote a day before he died. Walsh himself is said
to have been killed in a shooting by military forces in 1977,
but his body was never found.
Women’s Issues
rose
Inga Muscio
November 2010
World Rights
Praise for Inga Muscio
“Bright, sharp, empowering, long-lasting, useful, sexy.”

—San Francisco Chronicle
“Cunt does for feminism what smoothies did for high-fiber

diets—it reinvents the oft-indigestible into something sweet
and delicious.”
—Bust
“Cunt is one of the most dangerous books I ever read,

ever.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley
With trademark precision and razor-sharp wit, Inga Muscio

explores the impacts of passive violence, abuse, war, and cul-
tural trauma on our most intimate lives in order to uncover
a path toward healthy and imaginative sex and love.
Rose breaks new ground in answering a fundamental
question in most feminist and antiracist writing: how do
we identify, witness, and then recover from trauma—as

individuals, as families, as communities, and as a country?
Muscio’s ability to address dire topics with a unique freshness
and bravery allows her readers to confront the true brutality
of a violent culture, then to react powerfully with righteous
rage and hopeful determination.
Chilling, eye-opening, and thoroughly enjoyable, Rose offers
a fresh and exhilarating perspective on achieving empower-
ment and self-possession.
INGA MUSCIO is the author of Autobiography of a Blue-Eyed

Devil and the controversial, generation-defining cult clas-
sic Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, which called for
women to break down boundaries between themselves and
their bodies. Over 100,000 copies of Cunt have been sold in
the US and it is estimated that each of those copies has been
read by five different people. For more information, visit
www.ingalagringa.com.
birth matters Women’s Issues |
How What We Don’t Pregnancy & Childbirth
Know About Nature,
Bodies, and Surgery Trade Paper | 128 pages
Can Hurt Us March 2011 | World Rights
Ina May Gaskin Manuscript available
America’s leading midwife explains why

birth is a feminist issue
“Simply put, midwife Ina May Gaskin is the most important

person in maternity care in North America, bar none.”
—Marsden Wagner, MD, MS, former director of Women’s
and Children’s Health, World Health Organization
“There is no better guide to have at your side than the

legendary Ina May!”
—Harvey Karp, MD,
author of The Happiest Baby on the Block
“Ina May Gaskin is an American treasure.”

—Naomi Wolf, author of
The Beauty Myth and Misconceptions
Renowned for her practice’s exemplary results and low inter-

vention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international
notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved

leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medical-
ization of birth and renew confidence in a woman’s natural
ability to birth.
Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in
which women become mothers is a women’s rights issue, and
it is the act that perhaps most powerfully exhibits what it is to
be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta
showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile
modern life with a process as old as our species.
Called “the midwife of modern midwifery” by Salon, Ina

May Gaskin has practiced for nearly forty years at the
internationally lauded Farm Midwifery Center. She is the
only woman in history to have an obstetric maneuver named
after her. She is the author of Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May’s
Guide to Breastfeeding, and Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth,
which is consistently ranked #1 in Amazon’s Obstetrics &
Gynecology category.
Women’s Issues | Health
In our control
The Complete Guide to Trade Paper | 512 pages
Contraceptive Choices July 2010
for Women
World Rights
Laura Eldridge Finished books available
“In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive

Choices for Women, isn’t kidding with that subtitle. The
last time I remember reading so much detail about con-
traceptive options was poring over Our Bodies, Ourselves
when I was in my 20s . . . This is women’s health activism
at its best.”
—Elizabeth Kissling, Ms. Magazine
“Straightforward, nonjudgmental, and honest . . . Eldridge
. . . allows the reader to become a smart consumer of con-
traceptive options.”
—Gwen Emmons, Feminist Review
“This book is about to regalvanize the women’s health
revolution!”
—Betty Dodson
“Laura Eldridge provides an eye-opening history of the
issues women’s health advocates have fought for, and
assesses where we stand today.”
—Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report

In the most comprehensive book on birth control since the
1970s, women’s health activist Laura Eldridge discusses the
history, scientific advances, and practical uses of everything
from condoms to the male pill to Plan B. Do diaphragms
work? Should you stay on the Pill? What does fertility aware-
ness really mean? Find these answers and more in In Our
Control, the definitive guide to modern contraceptive and
sexual health.
Whether you’re looking for your first birth control method
or want to know more about your current contraceptive
choice, In Our Control offers the cutting-edge information
and practical wisdom you’ll need to make empowered deci-
sions about your sexual health.
Laura Eldridge is a women’s health writer and activist.

Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause
and Body Politic: Dispatches from the Women’s Health Revolu-
tion, with Barbara Seaman.
Biography | Sport
the sweetest
thing
March 2011
Mischa Merz World Rights
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held

ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a
series of amateur boxing tournaments.
On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols,
including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some
other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers the hor-
rors and delights of the world of women’s boxing and gains
insights into this eccentric subculture’s place in American
life. She also meets some of the pioneers and trailblazers of the
contemporary rise in women’s boxing as well as some of the
younger stars now hoping to make it onto the first women’s
boxing team in the 2012 Olympic Games.
Written in a compelling and highly entertaining narrative
style, Mischa Merz takes us right into the ring and reports,
with a rare insider’s view, on a sport that has for centuries
defined our ideas about masculinity.

MISCHA MERZ is a journalist and author of fiction and
creative nonfiction. She began training as an amateur boxer
in 1995 and is the 2001 Australian Amateur Boxing League
women’s welterweight champion. Her memoir about the
boxing in Australia, Bruising, was published by Picador in
2000 and shortlisted for the Dobbie Award. She resumed
her fighting career in the United States in 2009, in the Mas-
ter’s Division of USA Boxing, winning five out of five fights
including the National Women’s Golden Gloves 138lb title,
the Georgia Games championship and the Ringside World
championship. Her journalism has appeared in numerous
publications, including the Age, the Sunday Age, and the
Herald Sun.
the
sweetest
thing
A B O X E R ’S
MEMOIR
M I SC H A M E R Z
Biography | Images & Art
fidel
An Illustrated Biography Trade Paper | 192 pages
of Fidel Castro July 2010
Néstor Kohan & World Rights
Nahuel Scherma Finished books available
In the United States, ninety miles from Cuban shores, many

things are said about Fidel Castro: that he is a liberator, that
he is a dictator.
In Fidel, Néstor Kohan and Nahuel Scherma restore bal-
ance to these views, presenting one of the towering figures of
the twentieth century as he is seen by Latin Americans: the
leader who, for over fifty years, has stood up to the greatest
military power in the world, and remained standing.
Here, in Kohan’s incisive prose and Scherma’s passionate
illustrations, is the man who, inspired by decades of Latin
American Marxist thinking, fought from the mountains of
the Sierra Maestra to free his country—the man who walked
the razor’s edge between military threats by the United States
and political coercion by the Soviet Union—the man who
became a leader in the revolution against colonial govern-
ments from Angola to Vietnam to Latin America—the man
who fought, above all, to transform the conscience of his
people, spreading literacy, culture, and free medical care to
everyone on the island.
Here is Fidel—the man who became the symbol of the
revolution in the New World.

NÉSTOR KOHAN, born in Buenos Aires in 1967, is the author
of a number of Spanish-language books on Marxism, Che
Guevara, and social movements in Latin America.
NAHUEL SCHERMA is an Argentinean filmmaker and docu-

mentarian. Fidel is his first book of illustrations.
Published in Spanish by Era Naciente. Brazilian and Finn-

ish rights available through Era Naciente. All other rights
available through Seven Stories Press.
Literature | Images & Art
the GRAphic Trade Paper | 304 pages
Canon Fall 2011
Edited by Russ Kick World Rights
Manuscript Available
Today’s Top Comics Artists and Writers +

The Greatest Literary Works in History=
The Graphic Canon
Imagine a single book in which Robert Crumb illustrates

Kafka, Gary Panter adapts Dante’s Purgatory, Eric Drooker
visualizes “Howl,” Lynda Barry gives us the “Miller’s Tale,”
Matt Groening does Candide, Rick Geary interprets Oliver
Twist, Alison Bechdel illuminates Sappho, and manga art-
ists serve up Shakespeare. Other artists and illustrators will
tackle Don Quixote, Walden, Faust, The Tale of Genji, the
Alice books, “The Waste Land,” Poe, Proust, Tolstoy, Dos-
toevsky, Homer, Plato, Virgil, Nietzsche, Austen, Milton,
Whitman, Dickinson, Baudelaire, and many others. Not
only will the source material be wide-ranging, but the styles
and approaches of the artists interpreting it will likewise
run the gamut.
Unlike any graphic adaptation of literature that has come
before it, The Graphic Canon will embrace the whole of the
Western canon, and a little of the Eastern, from Gilgamesh to
the postmodernists, resulting in a hefty, evergreen collection
that will be like catnip to fans of comics/graphics/art and

lovers of literature. In short, it essentially will be The Norton
Anthology of Literature in Graphic Form.
Russ Kick is the author of five books and editor of seven

anthologies, which have sold over 330,000 copies in the US
and Canada. He is the editor at large for The Disinformation
Company, where he has published several books including
The Book of Lists and 50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know.
He is also the editor of the website The Memory Hole which
publishes unearthed US government documents. The New
York Times and the Los Angeles Times have run profiles of
him; Details magazine called him a “Renaissance man”; and
Utne Reader named him one of “50 Visionaries Who Are
Changing Your World.”
From Alice by
Dame Darcy
Politics | Images & Art
anti-capitalism
Ezequiel Adamovsky May 2011
& United Illustrators World Rights
Any young person who enters the world of progressive poli-

tics has had this experience: You meet an arch-conservative
and you decide to convince him to join your side. You argue
passionately against the powers that be, bringing up labor
abuses, unnecessary wars, political corruption, simple com-
monsense injustice at every level of society. Your conservative
interlocutor agrees with you: these are all problems. But, he
asserts: exactly what do you intend to replace capitalism with?
Capitalism is, after all, the best system we have.
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adam-
ovsky gives the lie to the assertion, telling the story of the
long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an
abusive system at its heart.
Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist
group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle
against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in
the halls of academia, in the pages of radical newspapers,
and in the jungles and the streets.
From Marx through the Battle of Seattle and beyond, Ada-
movsky traces the beliefs and politics of the major figures in
the anti-capitalist tradition and explores modern experiments
in building different ways of living, in the process providing

an indispensible primer for anyone interested in finding
alternatives to the so-called “best system we have”—and
anyone interested in joining the fight.
Ezequiel Adamovsky is a writer and activist from Buenos

Aires, Argentina. He has published articles for Z Magazine,
OpenDemocracy.org, and many other activist and progres-
sive outlets. He currently teaches Russian history at the
University of Buenos Aires.
Published in Spanish by Era Naciente. German, Korean, and

Japanese rights available through Era Naciente. All other
rights available through Seven Stories Press.
Fiction
tea of
ulaanbaatar May 2011
Christopher Howard World Rights
“With Tea of Ulaanbataar, Chris Howard takes to a

rarely seen corner of the world, and then takes us fur-
ther, into a spooky, trippy, gritty realm that is entirely
his own.”
—Eli Horowitz, McSweeney’s
“Like Robert Bingham’s Lightning on the Sun, Tea of

Ulaanbaatar is a merciless dissection of lost young
American volunteers drifting through a violent and
absurd third-world capital, helping no one, especially
themselves. Christopher Howard’s sharp, spare voice
delivers a nightmarish geo-noir.”
—Stewart O’Nan, author of Last Night at
the Lobster and Songs for the Missing
National Magazine Award finalist Christopher Howard’s

debut novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar, tells the story of disaffected
Peace Corps volunteer Warren, who flees life in late-capitalist
America to find himself stationed in the post-Soviet indus-
trial hell of urban Mongolia. As the American presence
crumbles, Warren seeks escape in tsus, the mysterious “blood
tea” that may be the final revenge of the defeated Khans—
or that may be only a powerful hallucinogen operating on
an uneasy mind—as a phantasmagoria of violence slowly
envelops him.
With prose that combines Benjamin Kunkel’s satiric bite,
William Burroughs’s dark historical reimagining, and a lush
literary beauty all his own, Christopher Howard in Tea of
Ulaanbaatar unfolds a story of expatriate angst, the dark
side of globalization, and middle-class nightmares—and
announces himself as one of the most inventive and ambitious
of the new generation of American novelists.
Christopher R. Howard grew up in Illinois and spent a

few months of an aborted Peace Corps sojourn in Mongolia
in the late 1990s. His short story “How to Make Millions in
the Oil Market,” published in McSweeney’s, was nominated
for the 2007 National Magazine Award in Fiction.
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Mattias is a gardener who craves anonymity and simplicity.

He is terrified of being noticed, preferring to follow the exam-
ple of his hero Buzz Aldrin, content to be the second man on
the moon, forever in the shadow of Neil Armstrong.
One night Mattias finds himself in the middle of an asphalt
road in the Faroe Islands, with about $2,500 in his pocket,
and with no clue as to how he or the money got there.

At that moment—when a mysterious man called Havstein
offers him a ride—everything begins to change. Mattias is
forced to face his life.
This is the story of an ordinary man—and the struggle
for self-realization that each of us must undertake. Buzz
Aldrin is a grand-scale novel about life, death, love, and
the sea. It’s also a story about gardeners and therapists, war
photographers and the Cardigans, and about being loved
and being invisible.
Johan Harstad is a thirty-one-year-old Norwegian

author, graphic designer, playwright, drummer, and
international sensation. He is the winner of the 2008
Brage Award, previously won by Per Petterson, and his
books have been published in over eleven countries. In
2009, he was named the first-ever in-house playwright at
the National Theatre in Oslo. His first novel Buzz Aldrin,
What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, originally
published in Norway by Gyldendal in 2005, was in 2009
made into a TV series starring The Wire’s Chad Coleman.
Harstad lives in Oslo and is working on his next novel.
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Linh Dinh September 2010
World Rights
“Love Like Hate affirms that Linh Dinh’s is one of the

great original voices in American literature of the 21st
century. The English language is a better, weirder, smart-
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—Matthew Sharpe, author of Jamestown
“Linh Dinh is already one of the secret masters of short

fiction. Love Like Hate is something like a traditional
cross-cultural novel that’s been shocked into life by
Dinh’s uncanny ability to tell us stories we didn’t even
know we wanted to hear.”
—Ed Park, author of Personal Days
“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Tho-

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eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s Palm-of-the-Hand
Stories.”
—Village Voice

Lauded for his incisive short prose and poetry, Linh Dinh
brings to his long-awaited first novel, Love Like Hate, an
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later. Starting with the relationship between café owner Kim
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culminating in the relationship between Kim Lan’s daughter
Hoa and her punk rocker boyfriend Quang Trung, Love Like
Hate provides a vivid palette for Linh Dinh’s idiosyncratic
characters and dark, deadpan humor.
A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellow-

ship, and the Asian American Literary Award, Linh Dinh
is the author of five books of poems and two collections of
stories, including Blood and Soap, one of the Village Voice’s
Best Books of 2004. Love Like Hate is his first novel.
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a crowded street
November 2010
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May Jones is a bail bondswoman, someone who makes her

living by putting people back onto the streets.
Her most recent client, a young black woman, is on trial
for the murder of her boyfriend, a police informant in the
Fillmore District, also known as the “Harlem of the West,” the
neighborhood that the powers-that-be of San Francisco would
like more than anything to see disappear. May becomes a
target of the police, and of her own shadowed past among
the people of Fillmore—strippers, alcoholic policemen, psy-
chic gunshot victims, fugitives—as she walks the narrowest
tightrope on the West Coast: the line of personal conscience
that separates justice from authority.
By turns lyrical, incisive, hilarious, and bittersweet, Peter
Plate’s Elegy Written on a Crowded Street explores the human
cost of the twenty-first century American city with a unique
honesty, beauty, and moral power.

Peter Plate taught himself to write fiction during eight
years spent squatting in aba- doned buildings. He is the
author of many novels, beginning with Black Wheel of Anger
(1990) and continuing through his seven neo-noir “psychic
histories” of San Francisco, where he still lives and writes
today.
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In Kurt Vonnegut and the American Dream, Gregory Sumner

guides us, with insight and passion, through fifteen of Kurt
Vonnegut’s best known works, from Player Piano (1952) to A
Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential
American writer’s profound engagement with the “American
Dream” in its various forms.
In this engrossing collection of essays, Sumner gives us
a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to cel-
ebrating the traditional values associated with the American
Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success,
rugged individualism, and “winners” over “losers.” Instead,
we share Vonnegut’s outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for
those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest
in the frontier mentality—something he once memorably
described as “an impossibly tough-minded experiment in
loneliness.”
Heroic and tragic at the same time, Vonnegut’s novels
reflect the pain of his own life’s experiences, relieved by
small acts of kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify
another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an
alternative American Dream, and the reason we always
return to his books.
Gregory Sumner , JD, PhD, is professor and chair of his-
tory at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taught
since 1993. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan
Law School (1980), and holds a doctorate in American his-
tory from Indiana University (1992). He is the author of
Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of
Cosmopolitan Democracy (Cornell University Press, 1996).
Dr. Sumner has been awarded summer fellowships by the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and has twice
been William J. Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Università
di Roma Tre, most recently in spring 2010.
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“Almost everyone I know is a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, and

so the colorful and curmudgeonly wisdom he brings to
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version of James Frey with the main difference that Mr.
Stringer (1) writes well and (2) his tales about life on
Skid Row are true.”
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Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey

on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers
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ing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers
spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives
they live meet the art they practice.
The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date
Thursday, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of several hundred,
Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer took up the challenge of
writing books that would make a difference and the con-
comitant challenge of living from day to day.
As Vonnegut said afterward, “It was a magical evening.”

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) was among the few grand-
masters of twentieth-century American letters, one without
whom the very term American literature would mean much
less than it does now. His titles include Slaugterhouse-Five,
Breakfast of Champions, and A Man Without a Country.
Lee Stringer lived on the streets from the early eighties

until the mid-nineties. He is a former editor and columnist
of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a
variety of other publications, including the Nation, the New
York Times, and Newsday. He is author of two memoirs:
Grand Central Winter and Sleepaway School.
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