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TOSH: Selling and Marketing Points: Candid, funny, name-dropping, page-turning memoir by Tosh Berman, the son of Wallace Berman. Wallace Berman is one of the most significant artists of American culture, associated with the Abstract artists, as well as the Beat Generation. He is “the father” of assemblage art. To get a sense of how well-known he was in his own time, Wallace Berman was featured on The Beatles' “Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover, standing next to Tony Curtis. Cast of characters in the memoir is famous and distinguished, with photographs of many of them in their gorgeous prime included in the book: Actors: Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil (fascinating back story on the woman most of us only know for “Mickey”), Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn (Russ’s daughter, who authors preface), Billy Gray, and Randy Mantooth. Musicians: Brian Jones, Keith Richards, and Mick Jagger (of the Rolling Stones), James Brown, Neil Young, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Sammy Davis Jr., Devo, Sparks, Donovan, Micky Dolenz, Oingo Boingo, Brian Ferry, John Cage, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. Artists and writers: Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Jasper Johns, , Marcel Duchamp, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Cameron, Michael McClure, John Wieners, Walter Hopps, George Herms, Robert Frazer, Alexander Trocchi, Diane di Prima, Billy Jahrmarkt, Robert Duncan, Jess, and Ed Kienholz. Tosh Berman was a long-time bookseller at Book Soup in Los Angeles, and is eager to do events in California, New York, and from other interested stores. Wallace Berman’s reputation continues to grow, as evidenced by the recent book, Wallace Berman: American Aleph and the reissue of his Semina Culture Likely excerpts of this book in The Paris Review and The Evergreen Review . Have contacts at art magazines like Frieze , and Artforum, and will seek interviews with Tosh. Many famous people providing endorsements for this book, which attests to Wallace Berman’s wide-ranging and enduring influence and big fan base: filmmakers Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, actor Jason Schwartzman, musicians John Zorn, Richard Hell, Thurston Moore, and John Taylor of Duran Duran, and writers Luc Sante, Gillian McCain, Jonathan Ames and Lisa See. Book Trailer to come. Tosh Berman producing a web-based interview series, TOSH TALKS, dedicated to the book, featuring interviews with those mentioned, blurbers, art critics, culture vultures, and many more fascinating people bonded by a love of Wallace Berman’s work. City Lights will heavily promote on our popular social media channels with 44,000 fans on Facebook and 129,000 fans on Twitter
Violence
There are a number of anthologies on violence, but none exist as presented in this conversational interview format, which provides a meaningful and sophisticated introduction into the most cutting-edge thinking on the problem of violence in the contemporary world. The market for this book includes readers of the New York Times , as half of these conversations were first published in their online philosophy column «The Stone.» The other half come from the Los Angeles Review of Books . The issue of violence cuts across many disciplines of study and inquiry, and this book connects them through the eclectic range of thinkers, filmmakers, artists, and theorists with whom Evans and Lennard speak. Brad Evans has gained more public recognition in the U.S. given his editorial work on the New York Times's «The Stone.» Natasha Lennard's work is well-known as she regularly contributes to Esquire , The Intercept , The Nation , and the New York Times .
Loaded
[b]"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."–Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books [b]"If . . . anyone at all really wants to 'get to the root causes of gun violence in America,' they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes." — Los Angeles Review of Books "Her analysis, erudite and unrelenting, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives, but, crucially, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence, Loaded is an indispensable book."— The New Republic With President Trump suggesting that teachers arm themselves, with the NRA portrayed as a group of «patriots» helping to Make America Great Again, with high school students across the country demanding a solution to the crisis, everyone in America needs to engage in the discussion about our future with an informed, historical perspective on the role of guns in our society. America is at a critical turning point. What is the future for our children? Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment , is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control, we must understand the history of U.S. guns, from their role in the «settling of America» and the early formation of the new nation, and continuing up to the present. Praise for Loaded : "Dunbar-Ortiz's argument will be disturbing and unfamiliar to most readers, but her evidence is significant and should not be ignored."— Publishers Weekly " . . . gun love is as American as apple pie—and that those guns have often been in the hands of a powerful white majority to subjugate minority natives, slaves, or others who might stand in the way of the broadest definition of Manifest Destiny."— Kirkus Reviews "Trigger warning! This is a superb and subtle book, not an intellectual safe space for confirming your preconceptions—whatever those might be—but rather a deeply necessary provocation."—Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us
Gibler's is the first and only book available in English that is based on extensive interviews with survivors of the September 2014 killings and abductions of students in Iguala, Mexico. It is a peerless expose of the crimes and the official cover up. The only other book available in English on the subject («The Iguala 43: The Truth and Challenge of Mexico's Disappeared Students» (Semiotext(e) – February 3, 2017) is, according to Gibler, based on Web searches and conjecture: the writer never once set foot in Ayotzinapa nor spoke with a single survivor or relative of the disappeared.Gibler is an internationally recognized authority on the Ayotzinapa attacks and has been referenced with prestige by the New Yorker and NPR's All Things Considered."The journalists John Gibler (the author of the book “To Die in Mexico”) and Marcela Turati have provided the most complete reports of what happened in Iguala on the night of September 26th." – Francisco Goldman in his New Yorker essay. NPR's All Things Considered reporter Arun Rath says, «Gibler has interviewed more than a dozen survivors and witnesses. He's pieced together the most detailed account yet of what happened that night.»
Behind the Moon
O Magazine 's Top 20 Books to Read – Summer 2017 "Best known for his acclaimed Haitian trilogy— All Souls' Rising , Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That the Builder Refused —Bell draws on his own experiences with voodoo possession to re-create his characters' descent into a sinister otherworld. The novel toys with perspective—women shape-shifting into rocks or animals; the same life-or-death scene played repeatedly, with myriad outcomes—in a kind of primal storytelling that crackles with dread and desire."— O Magazine When Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert, she finds herself the target of unwanted, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans. Marko, her attacker, tries to cover his tracks, menacing those who know what happened in the desert that night. Jamal, the youngest son in a family of Iraqi refugees living in Julie’s small town, is one of his prime targets. He defies Marko, keeping him away from Julie’s bedside and refusing to fall prey to his threats of violence. Meanwhile, Marissa, who gave Julie up for adoption fifteen years earlier when she became pregnant as an adolescent, is following an instinct that leads her back to the daughter she once abandoned. With the aid of Jamal and a local Native American hitman/shaman, she attempts to draw Julie back to consciousness. Madison Smartt Bell is best known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, including All Souls’ Rising , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Praise for Behind the Moon : "Madison Smartt Bell writes with the urgency of someone who just received a dire prognosis. And Behind the Moon will remind you that you are alive."—Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Here I Am "Between fever dreams and stone hard reality, Madison Smartt Bell has crafted a powerful examination of what is and what might be. It is simply wonderful." —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina "I love these characters. I love the writing. Behind the Moon is a brilliant work." —Percival Everett, author of Half an Inch of Water "Bell gives us this fast-paced, spiritually inspired dream-story, full of heart and hope and danger. It's adventure at its finest: a spiked drink, a desert cave, a gunshot, a mother looking for her child. Buckle in: you are headed for a terrific ride."—Deb Olin Unferth, author of Wait Till You See Me Dance
Storming the Wall
Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to «challenge» borders. The response unfortunately has been militarization. Population movement due to climate change is an emerging issue and this book is in a unique position to address this as a national security issue. Last year alone, 19.2 million people were displaced as a result of climate change.Immigration, border fortification, and climate change legislation will continue to be subject to ongoing debates, giving Miller many opportunities for op-eds on the top political blog TomDispatch, where he's a regular contributor, as well as The Nation, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Common Dreams and Guernica, where he regularly writes, too.
Like a Dog
Debut novel from someone firmly entrenched in the LA arts scene. Jepsen has acted in the Emmy-Award winning show Transparent and a web series with Beth Lisick on ( Transparent creator) Jill Soloway's site, wifey.tv. She's also appeared in music videos for Peaches and the band Two Gallants. Jepsen's novel is from the point of view of a female skater, the culture of female skaters in particular was recently covered in the New York Times . Tara Jepsen's prose is fresh, intimate, and accessible, and will win over readers from the first page.
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Written from the perspective of someone who was shot by police, and who advocates for justice for himself and the police officer killed. Mumia gives a voice to African Americans whose lives have been taken by police activity. Mumia names our current political moment in order to transform it. The national Black Lives Matter movement continues to grow and intensify in response to news of police killings of innocent people of color. Mumia is in many ways the moral, intellectual, and political mentor of this movement and the movement's involvement in spreading awareness of the book will add to its success.Mumia is the world's most renowned political prisoner. A large and committed support base for his freedom, writings, and perspectives continues to grow as a result of his intellectual output and a constant flow of support work, media, and films about him and what he represents as an imprisoned black journalist and intellectual.What makes this book particularly marketable is that it is accessible. Each of the 100 commentaries is short, focused, and well argued.Most of the pieces have never been published in any form. Most were written to be heard as radio commentaries, commencement speeches, or as podcasts.
Whistleblower at the CIA
As a former senior CIA analyst and author critiquing the inner workings of the US intelligence community, Melvin A. Goodman brings peerless authority, gravitas, and first-person source material to a subject that is of intense interest to those on all positions of the political spectrum: the failure of US intelligence to keep the country safe by providing neutral, politically unbiased facts and analysis.The power of his insider analysis combined with widespread indignation about politicians make for a super timely and much needed book on a subject of urgent relevance to public debate. Offers relevant insights into facetious claims made in recent memoir by Robert Gates («A Passion for Leadership») His congressional testimony against Gates for CIA Director was reported and printed in national media including the New York Times. (See sales kit)Sales and marketing will be driven by major reviews and major media. Media appearances on CNN, CSPAN Book TV, Democracy Now, NPR are planned; op-eds and letters to the editor in newspapers of record, as well as reviews in major trade, A-list newspapers, and academic journals. Volatile international perfectly position this highly credentialed author to influence national debate.
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."–Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Roy Scranton's Learning to Die in the Anthropocene presents, without extraneous bullshit, what we must do to survive on Earth. It's a powerful, useful, and ultimately hopeful book that more than any other I've read has the ability to change people's minds and create change. For me, it crystallizes and expresses what I've been thinking about and trying to get a grasp on. The economical way it does so, with such clarity, sets the book apart from most others on the subject."–Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy "Roy Scranton lucidly articulates the depth of the climate crisis with an honesty that is all too rare, then calls for a reimagined humanism that will help us meet our stormy future with as much decency as we can muster. While I don't share his conclusions about the potential for social movements to drive ambitious mitigation, this is a wise and important challenge from an elegant writer and original thinker. A critical intervention."–Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate"Concise, elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise."–Amitav Ghosh, author of Flood of Fire "War veteran and journalist Roy Scranton combines memoir, philosophy, and science writing to craft one of the definitive documents of the modern era."–The Believer Best Books of 2015 Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought–the shock and awe of global warming. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from every quarter. From war-stricken Baghdad to the melting Arctic, human-caused climate change poses a danger not only to political and economic stability, but to civilization itself . . . and to what it means to be human. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in–the Anthropocene–demands a radical new vision of human life. In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world, taking readers on a journey through street protests, the latest findings of earth scientists, a historic UN summit, millennia of geological history, and the persistent vitality of ancient literature. Expanding on his influential New York Times essay (the #1 most-emailed article the day it appeared, and selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014), Scranton responds to the existential problem of global warming by arguing that in order to survive, we must come to terms with our mortality. Plato argued that to philosophize is to learn to die. If that’s true, says Scranton, then we have entered humanity’s most philosophical age–for this is precisely the problem of the Anthropocene. The trouble now is that we must learn to die not as individuals, but as a civilization. Roy Scranton has published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Boston Review, and Theory and Event, and has been interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air, among other media.