Unsuspecting Souls
The Disappearance of the Human Being
BARRY SANDERS

From the Industrial Revolution onward, society has become increasingly indifferent to the individual. Today, the bombardment of information and its continuous demand for our attention bring us into a sterile world of inhumanity and abstraction that is divorced from physical reality. Impeccably researched and compellingly written, Unsuspecting Souls is a scathing political indictment of our collective loss of humanity.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-472-8 | Cloth | $26.00

Naked Lens
Beat Cinema
JACK SARGEANT

Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, culture, and cinema, featuring essays and interviews with key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, and Gus van Sant. This book also contains the last ever interview with writer Allen Ginsburg, recorded three months before his death in 1997.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-220-9 | Trade Paper | $18.95

Not Now, Voyager
A Memoir
LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ

Not Now, Voyager takes us on a journey of self-discovery as Schwartz traces how travel has shaped her sensibilities from childhood through adulthood. This beautifully crafted memoir exemplifies the mind on a voyage or quest, and explores the meaning of travel—what we seek, what we find, and how we learn about who we really are.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-428-5 | Cloth | $23.00

Enough About You
Notes Toward the New Autobiography
DAVID SHIELDS
WITH A FOREWORD BY ROSS McELWEE

With insightful candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author David Shields dives into the autobiographical form with an analysis of memoir mania.

“Enough About You exudes a razor-edged, sad sack sensibility that’s hard to resist—like Jerry Seinfeld crossed with Lydia Davis or Maurice Blanchot.” —Joy Press, Village Voice

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-219-3 | Trade Paper | $14.95

Galen Rowell’s Sierra Nevada
COMPILED BY THE EDITORS OF SIERRA CLUB BOOKS
INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT ROPER

The twentieth century’s most celebrated adventure photographer, Galen Rowell, spent his life roaming the world with his camera. Yet he always returned to the land where he started out: California’s Sierra Nevada. Now the best of his work in his “favorite place on earth” is gathered in this magnificent book, reproduced to the highest standards from digital masters of his 35mm frames.

sierra club books | 978-1-57805-163-2 | cloth | $39.95 

Urban Soul Warrior
Self-Mastery in the Midst of the Metropolis
LALANIA SIMONE

A manual for the soulful city dweller traversing the wonders and dangers of the concrete jungle, Urban Soul Warrior is about becoming aware of our urban surroundings, and using that awareness to live fully, completely, and magnificently. Simone provides simple and effective insights, advice, and creative exercises that are designed to infuse readers’ lives with rich meaning and beauty.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-212-4 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Passage Through India
GARY SNYDER

In 1962, Gary Snyder joined Allen Ginsberg for a long trip to South Asia. After Snyder’s extensive journals of the trip were published in 1972, the journey took on legendary status as an iconic Beat voyage. In this new edition, the story of their seminal journey appears alongside over a hundred never-before-seen photos, with a new preface by Snyder.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-59376-178-3 | Trade Paper | $19.95

Defeat
Losing Iraq and the Future of the Middle East
JONATHAN STEELE

Award-winning reporter Jonathan Steele reveals U.S. decision-makers’ disastrous mistake of underestimating the complexity of Iraqi society and the deep well of proud nationalism that was bound to produce resistance. Blending vivid reportage, informed analysis, and powerful historical narrative, Defeat recounts the catastrophe that resulted from this arrogance, which will forever resonate in the darkest chapters of American and British history.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-479-7 | Trade Paper | $16.95

The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner
EDITED BY PAGE STEGNER

The New York Times called Wallace Stegner, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize, the “dean of Western writers,” and fellow writer Edward Abbey praised him as “the only living American writer worthy of the Nobel.” This collection of a lifetime of Stegner’s letters, edited by his son Page, provides a long-awaited look into the life and mind of one of America’s most important writers.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-446-9 | Trade Paper | $16.95

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.

Sex workers strip away the stiletto heels and G-Strings, revealing their humanity in this funny, tragic, and illuminating anthology of memoirs, rants, confessions, and poetry pieces, which includes contributions from the industry’s household names. Sex is a billion dollar industry. Meet the people who are its flesh and blood.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-241-4 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Assume Nothing
REBECCA SWAN | FOREWORD BY JUDITH “JACK” HALBERSTAM

With this intimate series of images, Swan launches an inquiry into the understanding of gender across cultures, nations, and generations. Assume Nothing features arresting images of twenty-five participants, along with their candid comments about what it has meant to them to exist outside of traditional gender identities. Swan’s images ask readers to examine their assumptions and even their own sexuality.

That’s Revolting!
Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
EDITED BY MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE

As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. That’s Revolting! offers a bracing tonic to this trend, collecting timely essays by such unrepentant activists as Patrick Califia, Kate Bornstein, and Carol Queen. This expanded edition includes seven new pieces.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-195-0 | Trade Paper Original | $19.95