All My Bones Shake
Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice
ROBERT JENSEN

As the vast majority of the population identifies as Christian in America, religion invariably salts the political discourse, and unrest is manifested as the talking-heads debate between atheists and believers. In All My Bones Shake, Robert Jensen rips critically into America’s deepening spiritual chasm, and stitches together a new theology of religious tradition, contemporary philosophy, and progressive politics.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-234-6 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Blue-Eyed Devil
A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America
MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT

Michael Muhammad Knight embarks on a quest for an indigenous American Islam—traveling 20,000 miles by Greyhound in sixty days, he squats in run-down mosques, pursues Muslim romance, stink palms Cat Stevens, and meets an extensive cast of characters. Knight journeys from punk provocateur to a recognized voice in the community and watches firsthand the collapse of a liberal Islamic dream.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-240-7 | Trade Paper | $14.95

On the Lower Frequencies
ERICK LYLE A.K.A IGGY SCAM

Iggy Scam’s On the Lower Frequencies is at once a manual, memoir, and history of creative resistance in a world awash with poverty and war. Whether handing out fake Starbucks coupons or dreaming of a future with more public art and punk holidays, Scam gives the reader inspiration for living defiantly.

SOFT SKULL PRESS| 978-1-93336-898-6 | Trade Paper | $14.95

The Customer Is Always Wrong
The Retail Chronicles
EDITED BY JEFF MARTIN

A tragicomic and all-too-revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell about it.

“Cathartic and entertaining, these essays will rivet and delight, regardless of which side of the counter you stand on.” —Simon Doonan, author of Eccentric Glamour and creative director at Barneys New York

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-93336-890-0 | Trade Paper | $12.95

Tintin and the Secret of Literature
TOM McCARTHY

Is Tintin literature? asks Tom McCarthy in this slyly brilliant study of one of the greatest comics of the 20th century. McCarthy’s irresistibly clever, tightly constructed tour de force of literary theory shows how the themes Tintin generates are the very same that have fueled and troubled writers from the classical era to the present day.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-405-6 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Race to the Polar Sea
The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane
KEN McGOOGAN

Biographer and historian Ken McGoogan brings to life Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, a heroic figure famous in his day as America’s greatest explorer. In heart-pounding detail, McGoogan draws on documents never before seen to tell the story of Kane’s dramatic expedition to the top of the world.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-532-9 | Trade Paper | $15.95

A Man of No Moon
A Novel
JENNY McPHEE

In this lush novel set against the backdrop of postwar Italy, we meet Dante Sabato, who, after losing all the people he has loved, is “a man of no moon.” Then into his life step two American beauties, sisters Gladys and Prudence, two poles that will pull and shift his dark obsessions. McPhee’s storytelling mesmerizes on every page.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-462-9 | Trade Paper | $14.95

China Underground
ZACHARY MEXICO

An engaging firsthand account of a young American writer’s encounter with the new China and the young people who are pursuing their future there. From a wannabe rock star and a disillusioned journalist to a vagabond ladies’ man and a Chinese mafia kingpin, China Underground tells their stories, and some of Mexico’s as well.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-223-0 | Trade Paper | $16.95

The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
EDITED BY BILL MORGAN

One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s biographer, has selected the most significant of the 850 letters the two exchanged between 1956 and 1991. This correspondence paints the biographical and poetic portraits of two of America’s most important—and most fascinating—poets.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-533-6 | Trade Paper | $16.95

The Typewriter is Holy
The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation
Bill Morgan

Anyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this hugely entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country’s leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beat writers, narrates their history, tracing their origins in the 1940s to their influence on the social upheavals of the 1960s.

“Helpful, even necessary . . . a book that tries to put the far-reaching Beat tentacles and vast Beat cultural legacy into perspective.” —The New York Times

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-738-5 | Trade Paper | $15.95