Stories, chronicles, and poems by both well-established and up-and-coming young writers about how it was to come to LA or what it was like to grow up there, about the ocean and the desert, the enterta
Throughout his adventurous life, Ralph Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding mem
Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, th
With a seamless weave of letters, reminiscences, poems, and journal entries, Eleni Sikelianos creates a loving portrait - and an unblinking indictment - of her father, Jon: a talented musician, a hig
David Barsamian is widely known in progressive circles for his interviews with prominent intellectuals on a wide range of political issues. In this volume, he presents three 2007 interviews with longs
This bilingual anthology, compiled and edited by Francisco Moran, with the collaboration of a superb group of Spanish-English translators, presents a dramatic selection of work by a new generation of
Long out of print, Rebecca Brown’s brilliant debut novel explores the psychic repercussions of growing up in an alcoholic family, and the ways in which one woman’s past continues to inform and inhabit
“His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us.”—Seattle Post-IntelligencerPraise for Tom Hayden:“One comes away enthralled by Hayden’s ody
Considered a leading light of the "Latin-American Boom" generation, Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was forced to leave her country at the age of thirty-one when her work was
Edie Parker was 18 years old when she met Jack Kerouac at Columbia University in 1940. A young socialite from Grosse Point, Michigan, she had come to New York to study art, and quickly found herself
In light of the recent terrorist threats at U.K and U.S. airports, this book is a timely and provocative read about what governments should and should not be doing to protect us from further terrorist
Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon—which Publishers Weekly described as “strong as dignity and as subtle as love”—Mexico’s enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brillian
Interventions by Noam Chomsky is getting new press after the Pentagon banned the book from Guantanamo Bay's prison library. The Miami Herald broke the story on October 11, 2009 and stories followed in
Praise for A Not-So-Distant Horror:“[A] remarkable book.”—Noam ChomskyTold through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, Dying to Live is a compelling account of US immi
We have entered the age of "peep culture": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity. Peep culture
". . . [Weaver] paints a romantic picture of Greenwich Village in the 1950s and '60s, when she worked in publishing and hung out with Allen Ginsberg and the poet Richard Howard and was wild and loose,
Companion to our Beat tour guides to San Francisco and New York, Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America is a guide to the rest of the nation's significant Beat locales. F
"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!"Vanity FairMaking the Future presents more than thirty concise a
Praise for Hal Niedzviecki's fiction:"Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened reveals the super powers of story telling for the digital age--or any age. The collection encompasses a range of li
