A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century
A Memoir
JANE VANDENBURGH

In the midst of private trauma and loss, Vandenburgh delights in revealing large truths about American culture and her life within it. Quirky, witty, and uncannily wise, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century is a brilliant blend of memoir and cultural revelation.

“A writer of great daring and skill to match.” —Newsweek

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-459-9 | Cloth | $25.00

Hakuin’s Precious Mirror Cave
A Zen Miscellany
EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY NORMAN WADDELL

Having devoted a large part of his life to translating and publishing work by and about Hakuin, Buddhism’s original ambassador to the West, Waddell presents us with this collection of six diverse and independent works that contains five pieces never translated into English before, some of which have been—until quite recently—unknown, even in Japan.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-475-9 | Cloth | $25.00

Legacy of Secrecy
The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination
LAMAR WALDRON & THOM HARTMANN

Legacy of Secrecy tells the full story of JFK’s murder and the tragic results of the cover-ups that followed, as revealed by two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, backed by thousands of files at the National Archives. The result of twenty years of research, it finally tells the full story long withheld from Congress and the American people.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-535-0 | Trade Paper | $24.95

Sex, Death & Oysters
A Half-Shell Lover’s World Tour
ROBB WALSH

Robb Walsh embarks upon a gastronomic adventure and offers a fascinating collection of the most exciting, instructive, poignant, and just plain weird experiences from his journey into the world of the most beloved and most feared of all seafood.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-457-5 | Cloth | $25.00

The Last Goodnights
Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides
JOHN WEST

John West’s memoir provides a unique, powerful, and unflinching look inside the reality of one of the most galvanizing issues of our time: assisted suicide. Told with intensity and bare honesty, his account of the deaths of his parents is both gritty and loving, frightening and illuminating, nerve-wracking and even, at times, darkly humorous.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-448-3 | Cloth | $25.00

Apocalypse Jukebox
The End of the World in American Popular Music
EDWARD WHITELOCK AND DAVID JANSSEN

An examination of American popular music—from hellfire hymnals through anarchic rock-and-roll—reveals the nation’s collective fixation with disaster, revelation, and impossible salvation. Whitelock and Janssen reveal apocalypse as a permanent and central part of the American character, and establish rock-and-roll as a true reflection of that character.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-221-6 | Trade Paper | $17.95

The Uncrowned King
The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
KENNETH WHYTE

A riveting profile of William Randolph Hearst’s astonishing rise in the golden age of newspaper journalism.

“Exhaustively researched and elegantly written . . . brims with charming characters and stories. It deftly captures the bygone era of Gilded Age newpapering . . . [a] valuable contribution to the literature of Hearst and the history of journalism.” —Washington Post

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-467-4 | Cloth | $30.00

The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
MARION WINIK

In The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, Marion Winik presents snapshot portraits of roughly fifty-five people who touched her life, and relates the circumstances of their deaths. Tying the pieces together is Winik’s inimitable voice, at once poetic, poignant, and evocative of losses to which we can all relate. Tapping into the rich territory of her own life, Winik delivers a lyrical journey that ultimately raises the spirits.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-431-5 | Cloth | $20.00

Dam Nation
Dispatches from the Water Underground
EDITED BY CLEO WOELFLE-ERSKINE, JULY OSKAR COLE,
AND LAURA ALLEN
ILLUSTRATED BY ANNIE DANGER

Not only a “how to” but also a “why to,” Dam Nation is timely and pressing because “[t]he politics of water—as this brilliant anthology makes clear—are the politics of human survival. Read this, and believe me, you’ll never flush with the same equanimity again.” —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-932360-80-6 | Trade Paper Original | $19.95

Corvus
A Life with Birds
ESTHER WOOLFSON

Woolfson describes in loving detail the intelligence, evolution, and capacity for affection of her pet corvids (a group that includes crows, ravens, and magpies), inviting us to reconsider the type of creature capable of being man’s best friend.

“A tender and nuanced book . . . richly observed and finely written.” —Guardian (London)

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-477-3 | Cloth | $25.00