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A Box of Longing with 50 Drawers...
Jen Benka
A Good War Is Hard to Find
David Griffith
A Gringo Like Me...
Jennifer L. Knox
A Woman Alone At Night
Tamara Faith Berger
A*hole
Hilton Obenzinger
Advanced Elvis Course
CAConrad
African Psycho
Alain Mabanckou
The After-Death Room: Journey in Spiritual Activism
Michael McColly
The Age of Sinatra...
David Ohle
All About Lulu
Jonathan Evison
All My Bones Shake
Robert Jensen
Amazing Rain
Sam Brown
The Amazing Snox Box
Brian Gage
Illustrated by Tom Ellsworth
Colored by Robert Park
America: A Prophecy
Sparrow, Edited by Marcus Boon
American Genius, A Comedy
Lynne Tillman
America's Mayor, American's President?...
edited by Robert Polner
with a Preface by Jimmy Breslin
The Amputee's Guide to Sex
Jillian Weise
Animal Rights and Pornography...
J. Eric Miller
Animals
coming soon
Don LePan
Apocalypse Jukebox...
Edward Whitelock and David Janssen
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Steve Knopper
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
Michael A. Bellesiles
The Art of the Possible!...
Kenneth Koch, Introduction by David Lehman
Awake! A Reader for the Sleepless
edited by Steven Lee Beeber
Bad Habits...
Cristy C. Road
The Bad Life
coming soon
Frédéric Mitterrand, Translated by Jesse Browner
The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates
Edited by Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George, Foreword by Jim Brown
Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood
Edited by April R. Silver
Before, During, and After
Hal Sirowitz
Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginning of Desire...
Edited by T. Cole Rachel and Rita D. Costello
Black Flies
Shannon Burke
Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America
Michael Muhammad Knight
Bluebird
Vesna Maric
Bomb the Suburbs
William Upski Wimsatt
Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex
Edited by Diana Cage
Branwell: A Novel of the Bronte Brother
Douglas A. Martin
Broken Glass
coming soon
Alain Mabanckou
Burn, Christmas! Burn!!
Brian Gage
Candy In Action
Matthue Roth
Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Flicker
John Geiger
China Underground
Zachary Mexico
Choir Boy
Charlie Anders
The City In Crimson Cloak
Asli Erdogan, Translated by Amy Spangler
Classified + Creating Change Special Offer
Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change!
Karen Pittelman and Resource Generation, Illustrated by Molly Hein
The Colony
coming soon
Jillian Weise
Coming of Age at the End of History
Camille de Toledo, translated by Blake Ferris
Conductors of the Pit...
Clayton Eshleman
Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
Tony DuShane
Confronting Capitalism
Edited by: Eddie Yuen, George Katsiaficas, & Daniel Burton-Rose
Cool for You
Eileen Myles
Creating Change Through Family Philanthropy:...
Alison Goldberg, Karen Pittelman & Resource Generation
Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger:...
Prem Shankar Jha
The Cult TV Book...
coming soon
Edited by Stacey Abbott

Curse & Berate in 69+ Languages
R.V. Branham, editor
Cursed from Birth...
David Ohle
The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles
Jeff Martin, editor
Daily Negations
John S. Hall
Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground
Edited by Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Laura Allen, and Oskar July Cole.
Illustrated by Annie Danger
The Day After the Day After: My Atomic Angst
coming soon
Steven Church
Dead in Desemboque...
Eddy Arellano. illustrated by William Schaff, Richard Schuler & Alec Thibodeau
Deathtripping
Jack Sargeant
Deliver Me from Nowhere
Tennessee Jones
Deviant Propulsion
CAConrad
The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler
Leslie Fiedler, Edited by Samuele F.S. Pardini
The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fielder
Leslie Fielder, Edited by Samuele F. S. Pardini
Diary of an Emotional Idiot
Maggie Estep
Did I Wake You?...
Beth Lapides
Down and Derby: The Insider's Guide to Roller Derby
Alex Cohen and Jennifer Barbee
Drawn Out
Don Nace
Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving
coming soon
Martin Millar
Drenched
Marisa Matarazzo
Drugs Are Nice...
Lisa Crystal Carver
Electric Flesh
Claro, translated by Brian Evenson
The Endless Search: A Memoir
David Ray
Enough About You: Notes Toward the New Autobiography
David Shields
Escape Velocity
David Breskin
Everyone's Pretty
Lydia Millet
Exit Strategy
Douglas Rushkoff
Father Said...
Hal Sirowitz
Filthy Talk for Troubled Times...
coming soon
Neil LaBute
Final Girl
Daphne Gottlieb
Food of Love
Kate Evans
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story of Burma's Never-Ending War
coming soon
Mac McClelland
The Fountain at the Center of the World...
Robert Newman
Freaks and Fire...
J. Dee Hill
Photographs by Phil Hollenbeck
Freedom From Want: American Liberalism And The Global Economy
Edward Gresser
The French Revolution
coming soon
Matt Stewart
From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry
coming soon
Justin Pearson

Full Spectrum Disorder...
Stan Goff
GAMERS...
Editor: Shanna Compton
Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008
David Rees
with an introduction by Matt Taibbi
Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be...
Jacinta Bunnell, Irit Reinheimer
God Save My Queen
Daniel Nester
God Save My Queen II:...
Daniel Nester
Going Postal: School Shootings, Workplace Massacres, and the Untold History of America's Failed Rebellions
Mark Ames
Going to Heaven
Elizabeth Adams
Gone and Back Again
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
The Good Fairies of New York
Martin Millar
Guantanamo: A Novel
Dorothea Dieckmann, Translated by Tim Mohr
H2O
Mark Swartz
The Haiku Year...
Michael Stipe, Douglas A. Martin, Grant Lee Phillips, Tom Gilroy, Anna Grace, Rick Roth, and Jim McKay, Introduction by Steve Earle
Half/Life...
edited by Laurel Snyder
Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists
Angus Cargill (Editor)
The Haunted Hillbilly
Derek McCormack
Heavenly Days Illuminated
John Ashbery, Illustrated by Archie Rand

Heredity
Jenny Davidson
Homewrecker...
Daphne Gottlieb
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex...
Edited by David Henry Sterry and R.J. Martin, Jr.
Hotel Theory
Wayne Koestenbaum
How the Dead Dream
Lydia Millet
How To Be Inappropriate
Daniel Nester
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office...
Edited by William Upski Wimsatt and Adrienne Brown
How to Make a Life as a Poet
Gary Mex Glazner
How To Make A Living As A Poet
Gary Mex Glazner
I Wouldn't Start from Here:...
Andrew Mueller, with an Introduction by Robert Young Pelton, author of The World's Most Dangerous Places
Impossible Man
Michael Muhammad Knight

In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre
Josh Frank with Charlie Buckholtz

In the Time of Assignments
Douglas A. Martin
The Irish Wine Trilogy
Dick Wimmer
It Disappears...
Nate Powell
Jamestown
Matthew Sharpe
Jane:...
Maggie Nelson
Jesus Was Way Cool
John S. Hall
Jim & Dave Defeat the Masked Man
James Cummins and David Lehman, Illustrated by Archie Rand
Jokerman 8
Richard Melo
Journey to the End of Islam
Michael Muhammad Knight

jrnls80s
Lee Ranaldo
Juncture...
Edited by Lara Stapleton and Veronica Gonzalez
Kicking In
coming soon
Richard Wirick

Kissing Dead Girls
Daphne Gottlieb
Label 228
camden noir
Life and Limb...
Introduction by Jocko Weyland, Edited by Justin Hocking, Jared Maher, and Jeffrey Knutson
The Literary Press and Magazine Directory 2006/2007
Council of Literary Magazines and Press
Live Nude Elf
Reverend Jen
Logicalogics
Ronald Palmer
Lonely Werewolf Girl
Martin Millar
The Long Haul
Amanda Stern
Look Slimmer Instantly!
Jerome Sala
Lost in the Supermarket
Kay Bozich Owens and Lynn Owens
The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
Delia Falconer
Love All the People...
Bill Hicks, Introduction by John Lahr
Love in Infant Monkeys
Lydia Millet
Lux the Poet
Martin Millar
Making Love, Playing Power: Men, Women, and the Rewards of Intimate Justice
Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio
Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts
edited by Bee Lavender and Maia Rossini
Manstealing for Fat Girls
Michelle Embree
Marketing Paranoia
Prem Shankar Jha
Mercury Under My Tongue
Sylvain Trudel, Translated by Sheila Fischman
Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation
Martin Millar
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury
Sigrid Nunez
Model Life
Isobella Jade; illustrated by Jazmin Ruotolo
Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
Wayne Koestenbaum
Mr. Spic Goes to Washington
Ilan Stavans, Illustrated by Roberto Weil
My Dog Ate My Nobel Prize: The Fabricated Memoirs of Jeff Martin
Jeff Martin
My Happy Life
Lydia Millet
Naked Lens: Beat Cinema
Jack Sargeant
No More Prisons
William Upski Wimsatt
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Kevin Powell
Noise of the World: Non-Western Artists in Their Own Words
Hank Bordowitz
Northern Gothic
Nick Mamatas
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Lydia Millet
On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City
Erick Lyle (formerly known as Iggy Scam)
Open Letters To America
Kevin Powell
Osama Van Halen
Michael Muhammad Knight
P
Andrew Lewis Conn
Paris Cafe: The Select Crowd
Noel Riley Fitch, Illustrated by Rick Tulka
People Like Us: Images from the Middle East
Joris Luyendijk
Peops
Fly
Pisstown Chaos
David Ohle
Playing Right Field...
George Tabb, Introduction by John Strausbaugh
Please Feed Me...
Niall McGuirk
The Pornographers Poem...
Michael Turner
Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians: For My Parents
Seth Tobocman
Pretty Young Thing...
Danielle Pafunda
Putting the Pieces Together...
Benjamin Morgan and the Quality of Life Crew
Rapture Ready!...
coming soon
Daniel Radosh
Rebels Wit Attitude
Iain Ellis
Reproduce and Revolt:...
Edited by Josh MacPhee and Favianna Rodriguez
Republican Like Me
Sparrow
Resistance
Soha Béchara
Riot in the Charm Factory
Todd Colby
Road Movies...
Lee Ranaldo
Rock and Hard Places: Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows
coming soon
Andrew Mueller
Ruby and the Stone Age Diet
Martin Millar
The Saddest Little Robot
by Brian Gage, illustrated by Kathryn Otoshi
Saints of Hysteria
Edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad
Sandhogs
Thomas Kelly
Scorch
A.D. Nauman
Servants of War
Rolf Uesseler, translated by Jefferson Chase
Siberia
Nikolaï Maslov, translated by Blake Ferris
Skels
Maggie Dubris
Skipping Toward Armageddon...
Michael Standaert
Slanky
Mike Doughty
The Sleeping Father
Matthew Sharpe
Snark, Inc.:...
Brian Gage
Illustrated by Tom Ellsworth
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The Solitary Vice: Against Reading
Mikita Brottman
Someday We'll All Be Free
Kevin Powell
Something Bright, Then Holes
Maggie Nelson
Speaking Treason Fluently
Tim Wise
Stand and Deliver...
Yvonne Bynoe
Stencil Pirates...
Josh MacPhee
Subduing Demons in America
John Giorno, edited by Marcus Boon
Supermodel
David Breskin
Superworse - The Novel...
Ben Greenman, Edited by Laurence Onge
Surfing Armageddon: Fishnets, Fascists, and Body Fluids in Florida
George Tabb
Surviving the Moment of Impact
T. Cole Rachel
Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me
Martin Millar
The Taqwacores
Michael Muhammad Knight
Tea Time with Terrorists...
coming soon
Mark Stephen Meadows

Tear Down the Mountain: An Appalachian Love Story
Roger Alan Skipper
That's Revolting...
Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Tintin and the Secret of Literature
Tom McCarthy
Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf
Paul Fattaruso
Tremble & Shine...
Todd Colby
True Fiction Pictures and Possible Films
Hal Hartley
Trust...
Farai Chideya
Turquoise Days:...
Chris Adams
Typo ...
David Silverman
Under My Roof
Nick Mamatas
Understanding the Crash
coming soon
Seth Tobocman and Eric Laursen, Introduction by Doug Henwood

Urban Soul Warrior
Lalania Simone
Vibrator
Mari Akasaka
The Vinyl Countdown
Travis Elborough
Wake Up, You're Liberal! How We Can Take America Back from the Right...
By Ted Rall, with a Foreword by George McGovern
Wake-Up Calls...
Wanda Phipps
War Nerd
Gary Brecher
Watching the Door...
Kevin Myers
Waterbaby
Cris Mazza
We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs
Nasrin Alavi
West-Bloc Dissident:...
William Blum
What the Fuck?: The Avant-Porn Anthology
Michael Hemmingson, ed.
What Would Bill Hicks Say?
Edited by Ben Mack and Kristin Pulkkinen
The Whistleblower...
Peter Rost
White Like Me...
Tim Wise
Who's Your Mama? The Unsung Voices of Women and Mothers
Yvonne Bynoe
Why Things Burn
Daphne Gottlieb
The Wildly Irish Sextet
Dick Wimmer
The Withdrawal Method
Pasha Malla
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by Graham Rawle
Woman's World: A Novel
Graham Rawle
Words in Your Face
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
The Writing Workshop Note Book: Notes on Creating and Workshopping
Alan Ziegler
X Films
Alex Cox
Yes, You ARE a Revolutionary!...
Sparrow
© 2003 Soft Skull Press, Inc.


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