The Maintenant series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and often eye-opening) perspective. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Heide Hatry, Avelino de Araujo, Pawel Kuczynski, Inas Al-Soqi, Giovanni Fontana, Nicole Eisenmann, Syporca Whandal, and Kazunori Murakami; past writers have included Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, Harry E. Northup, Malik Crumpler, Maw Shein Win, and more, with a strong contingent of artist-writers from the world of punk rock, including Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Bibbe Hanson and more.
Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, literary voices of the Vietnamese American diaspora and authors currently living in postwar Vietnam speak to the experience of those who left and those who stayed in this anthology of new short fiction edited by Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran.For much of the twentieth century, Vietnam played an outsized role on the global stage, charting the destinies of superpowers and reshaping the world’s politics. Now fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War comes The Colors of April, an anthology of fiction that finally speaks to the Vietnamese experience: voices of both those who left and those who stayed, what was gained and lost in the half century since, and for the generations that followed—what it means to be Vietnamese. More than two dozen distinct literary voices are featured in this collection, including those of Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Lam, Barbara Tran, and Vi Khi Nao, among others. The stories are as diverse in style, tone, and subject matter as the ancestral lands of the Vietnamese people. From the rubble of the Ancient Citadel in Quảng Trị to the makeshift orphanages outside Sài Gòn, from Palo Alto to a tony Lincoln Park apartment in Chicago, the narratives straddle continents and generations, the political as well as the personal. But what they share is much greater than their differences. They speak to a common language, to a culture steeped in history and myth and storytelling that vividly captures the enduring spirit of the Vietnamese people.Editor Quan Manh Ha is Professor of English at the University of Montana and the co-translator of Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and Its Aftermath, among other titles. Co-editor Cab Tran holds an MFA from University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Vagabond: Bulgaria’s English Monthly, Black Warrior Review, The Iconoclast, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction for Gotham Writers Workshop. In 2023, Ha and Tran co-translated and co-edited Bảo Ninh’s Hà Nội at Midnight.
Washington, DC’s notorious detective, former drug-addled street denizen Dickie Cornish, faces off with bloodthirsty cops and the justice department in the latest thrilling release by award-winning noir author Christopher Chambers.In StreetWhys, underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president. Broke and desperate, Cornish soon finds himself on a collision course with shady public defenders and corrupt police officers, forcing him to use his street connections to flip their plan. Or die.Chambers’s Dickie Cornish series has met with widespread critical acclaim. Publishers Weekly dubbed the series debut, Scavenger, “[A] no-holds-barred crime novel...a 21st-century twist on traditional hardboiled noir.” The Strand Magazine selected Standalone, the second book in the series, as one of the “Top 25 Mystery Novels of the Year,” adding “It’s apparent that the modern heir to Chandler, Woolrich, and Cain is Christopher Chambers, enough said.” And renowned crime author George Pelecanos raves that the series "really nails Washington, DC in the current environment."Chambers is an award winning author of mystery, noir, pulp, and graphic novels. He sits on the board of the Bouchercon World Mystery Writers Convention and is a judge for Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards. He lives in Washington, DC.
Một ký sự về những hành trình khác nhau của một người cha, từng trốn khỏi Việt Nam sau chiến tranh trên một chiếc thuyền nhỏ để tìm chốn dung thân ở Hoa Kỳ, và cô con gái của ông, người sinh ra ở Mỹ, đã mạo hiểm đến Việt Nam khi trưởng thành. Hồi ký đồng hành của cha và con ghi lại sự tương phản hoàn toàn trong quan điểm của họ về quê hương Việt Nam, khi họ tìm kiếm sự đồng điệu và một con đường đưa đến sự hàn gắn cho nhau. Kalynh Ngô, DịchKalynh Ngô's Vietnamese translation of the critically-acclaimed dual memoir, MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM, by Christina Vo and her father, Nghia M. Vo. A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a Vietnamese father, who fled his home country in desperation, and his American-born daughter, who ventured to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives as they strive to heal the long-term wounds of war. In this captivating, heartfelt dual memoir, Christina Vo and her father, Nghia M. Vo, delve into themes of their identity, heritage, and the tragic multi-generational ordeals of war, with intertwined stories that present a multifaceted portrayal of Vietnam and its profound influence on shaping both familial bonds and individual identities across time.
Desperate to find a plot for her second novel, author Mallory Shepard attends her estranged best friend’s wedding in Austin, where she and six friends try to settle old scores—with unexpected deadly consequences—in this debut for fans of Veronica Mars, Tara Isabella Burton, and Tana French.Mallory Shepard has her back against the wall. Her girlfriend dumped her, her landlord wants to evict her and her literary agent is about to drop her—unless she can come up with a compelling follow-up to her debut novel. A book deal would solve her problems, which is why she agrees to attend an estranged college friend’s wedding in Texas. It’ll be the first time she’s seen that friend group since an incident tore them apart eight years earlier, and Mal intends to squeeze her ex-friends for information. The plan is nearly foolproof, except that her anger problem threatens to expose her agenda, as does her weakness for her college nemesis: Andrew Rosen.Danit Leibowitz is—was—Mal’s best friend. Together they transformed the Newts, a secret society, into a group that tracks alleged rapists long after they graduated from the prestigious halls of Weston College. Now a rising lefty political star, Dani is asked to come up with another plan to reinvent the Newts, which Gen Z deems out of touch amid ever-changing gender and sex politics. When she learns Mal will be there, Dani hatches a plan to appease the Newts and win back her friend, all in 72 hours. Crammed into an Austin rental for the weekend, the six friends seek to settle old scores and win back ex-friends and lovers. But when the Newts infiltrate the wedding, with deadly consequences, Mal and Dani are forced to consider whether they’re willing to separate the personal from the political—even at the expense of protecting the people they love.
Unable to afford rent, Mia-a community college student-lives out of her car, cleaning houses of the well-to-do in the LA area to meet her shoestring budget. Then Covid hits, and everything changes. For people living in houses and apartments, with stay-at-home jobs, the pandemic was inconvenient. For Mia-a student and housekeeper whose budget is so tight she lives in her car-the pandemic destroys the very source of her paltry income. Fortunately, gutsy and funny Mia is a determined survivor. After weeks of cutting her limited spending even further, missing meals along the way, her wealthy employers become desperate for her services again. This time, she's determined not to let them take advantage of her as they have in the past. Her newfound confidence gives her new hope as she works to escape the shackles of poverty on her own terms. Sally Rooney meets Elizabeth Strout in this brilliant fiction debut.
"A chronicle of the divergent journeys of a father, who fled post-war Vietnam on a small boat to find refuge in the United States, and his American-born daughter, who ventures to Vietnam as an adult, capturing the stark contrast between their perspectives as they strive to heal the longterm wounds of war" --
In a small Kentucky college town in 1953, two married women desperately fall in love with each other, until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy both their lives.In her new adult novel, award-winning author Julia Watts creates a compelling, emotional queer tale of power and passion. Colleagues and neighbors of Samuel and Boots are more than willing to accept their married status, even though Samuel “dresses like a boy” and the pair’s relationship is one of convenience that will never be consummated. But when Samuel meets a new professor’s wife, Frances, at a faculty party, she soon falls in love, and learns the difficulty of discretion in a small town—with tragic consequences. LAMBDA award-winning author Julia Watts (Needlework, Quiver) returns to adult fiction in this heartbreaking, yet hopeful novel. Highly recommended for fans of Lauren Groff, Rosie Walsh, and Alexandria Bellefleur.
In her second poetry collection, Kat Georges consciously searches for joy in a world of growing darkness. Georges (Our Lady of the Hunger) has an adamant insistence on seeking light in the darkest of places, setting her work apart in a media-driven world bent on promoting grief and devastation for the sake of clicks. Georges provides both solace and inspiration for the reader. These new poems combine humor and deep insight into human nature to capture moments of much-needed wonder and enchantment. Kat Georges is an internationally-acclaimed poet, playwright, editor, and designer, whose work has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth Press), Arriving at a Shoreline (Great Weather for Media), From The Inside: NYC Through the Eyes of Poets Who Live Here (Blue Light Press), The Verdict Is In (also editor; Manic D Press), Love, Love Magazine (Paris), and Ladyland: Anthologie de Littérature Féminine Américaine (13E Note Editions), and many other publications. She lives in New York City.
In his impressive third volume, Peter Carlaftes digs into the beauty—and lunacy—of contemporary culture and its tendency to masque and disrupt the sustainability not just of the planet, but human nature itself. The poems in Life in the Past Lane are both daring and discreet, ranging from full frontal assaults on political and religious cults to tender, discerning, intimate studies of the challenges of self-faith, relationships and maintaining quiet equilibrium in the noisy space of modern life.Risk-taking and endlessly innovative, Carlaftes offers poems that dare to ask questions to which there is no answer, and to answer the unasked. It looks at the past clear-eyed, without reverence, and studies the place in the road where we are now, weaving cultural and personal memory with the currency that too-often ignores how we arrived. This extraordinary collection, relentlessly accessible, surprises with the depth of poems and the clarity of the thoughts, concepts, and execution that forged them.
Harris, San Francisco's most annoying gay barfly, doesn't mean to be bitchy, passive aggressive, or insulting. But he's so bedazzled by his own critical brilliance he feels morally obliged to share his scathing opinions with the world at any and every opportunity. This irritates no one more than his roommate, Maxine, an avant-garde transsexual cabaret singer. When she overhears him badmouthing her on the phone she flies into a rage and expels him from their apartment. This crisis couldn't come at a worse time. The year is 1999 and the "dot com" boom has rendered cheap housing nonexistent, and Harris, who works as a part-time telemarketer, is--as usual--low on funds. Will he be able to convince one of his eccentric, semi-dysfunctional friends with a rent-controlled apartment to let him move in?
Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Books: Young Adult Literature -LAMBDA LiteraryMust-Have 2023 Queer Book Releases -The Nerd DailyMost Anticipated Young Adult Books -LGBTQ ReadsRecommended LGBTQ+ YA -Reads RainbowAcclaimed musician Jessamyn Violet's debut LGBTQA+ novel sizzles with a coming-of-age story set in an industry of ambition, secrets, lies, and utter joy.Eighteen-year-old Kyla Bell dreams of one day being a professional musician... but gets little to no support from her parents. Still, she practices every day and performs locally, harboring her own secret hopes. One night, her dreams are answered in the form of sultry rocker Ruby Sky, the magnetic frontwoman of her favorite band, Glitter Tears. Ruby hears Kyla perform and asks her to join the band on keys for their upcoming tour.In order to accept, Kyla must drop out of her Western Massachusetts high school and move to Los Angeles immediately to live with a renowned yet highly volatile producer who has agreed to put her through "rock star boot camp" in a matter of weeks. Blindsided by her emerging feelings for Ruby Sky, Kyla tumbles through the lights and shadows of the 90s music scene in Los Angeles.
Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nations capital come alive.Publishers WeeklyCrime ReadsMost Anticipated Crime Books of Fall 2022Dickie Cornish, Washington, DC street denizen turned unlicensed private investigator, is forced at gunpoint to track down the daughter of an ex-con, setting up a chain of events that unleashes a war within the corrupt police force, exposes shocking conduct in child services, and unearths a secret that threatens to tear the nations capital apart. The second book in the Dickie Cornish mystery series, STANDALONE is a must-read for fans of S. A. Cosby, George Pelecanos, and Joe Ide.Its been over year since that bleak Christmas when a rich man peeled homeless, drug-addled Dickie Cornish from a steam grate, cleaned him up, and convinced him to use his street connections to track down his missing property. Now, as the summer sun bakes those same mean streets, the air is thick with crime, contagion, corruption. Dickie struggles with sobriety, anti-psychotic meds, and counseling at the VA, but manages to make a meager living as a private investigator with his sidekick, Stripeuntil an ex-con named Al-Mayadeen Thomas sticks a gun to Dickies forehead and kidnaps him to a grim flophousea motel filled with squatters more desperate than the poor souls in the shelters.Thomas demands that Dickie find his daughter, missing for years from the motel in a notorious cold case. The other squatters plead for him to find their vanished children as well. Thomas takes his own life to seal Dickies help, Police Chief Linda Figgis hauls Dickie in, gives him a Faustian choice: she directs him to help her close the Thomas cold case, but only if he forgets about the other vanished and abused children. To his horror, Dickie finds himself in the middle of a war within the police, with either side closing in for the kill to keep the truth hidden.
âA compilation of leading Dada-influenced artists from around the world." â¿TRIBE LA Magazine The 2022 edition of the worldâ¿s premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art continues a revolutionary approach to creation, inspired by the Dada movement. These days you hear a lot about NET ZERO, in reference to steps being taken to combat climate change. NET ZERO refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas produced and the amount removed from the atmosphere. At this time, NET ZERO is an ambition lacking absolute definition as corporate energy titans pledge distant adherence without clear or immediate commitments to act. In fact, these so-called âinnovativeâ? scions of wealth seem to not even be able to remove the layer of hot air greenhouse gases spewing from the mouths of the pundits and politicos pushing the affirmation of their endlessly pernicious promises. Enter NYET ZERO. With NYET ZERO, MAINTENANT 16 makes an artistic power grab using DADAâ¿in the form of original art, poetry, and writing aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the engine-idle rich on recycled paper. We can change the now with art and thought. Otherwise, the future has NOTENTIAL. When the corporate powers that be control all of the energy resources, Art Becomes A Necessity!!! Or as Tristen Tzara put it in his Dada Manifesto, âDada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE!â?For the first time since debuting in 2008,  MAINTENANT 16 includes work from all seven continents on the planet, with more than 250 creators from 35 countries. The MAINTENANT series gathers the work of internationally-renowned contemporary Dada artists and writers. MAINTENANT 16 offers compelling proof that concepts of Dada continue to serve as a catalyst to creators more than a century later.  Contributors to Maintenant 16 include: Derek Adams ⢠Susan Shoshannah Adler ⢠Jamika Ajalon ⢠Ina Al-soqi ⢠Youssef Alaoui ⢠Linda J. Albertano ⢠Austin Alexis ⢠Joel Allegretti ⢠Santiago Amaya ⢠Avelino de Araujo ⢠Wayne Atherton ⢠Liz Axelrod ⢠Mahnaz Badihian ⢠Amy Barone ⢠Vittore Baroni ⢠Amy Bassin ⢠Brent Bechtel ⢠Peter Beda ⢠Regina Lafay Bellamy ⢠C. Mehrl Bennett ⢠Carla Bertola ⢠Volodymyr Bilyk ⢠József BÃró ⢠Lucy Jane Bledsoe ⢠Mark Blickley ⢠Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier ⢠Clemente Botelho ⢠Bob Branaman ⢠Kathy Bruce ⢠Michael Lane Bruner ⢠Imanol Buisan ⢠Fork Burke ⢠Billy Cancel ⢠Angela Caporaso ⢠Peter Carlaftes ⢠Mutes César ⢠Peter Ciccariello ⢠Hal Citron ⢠Lynette Clennell ⢠Andrei Codrescu ⢠Terese Coe ⢠Roger Conover ⢠Anthony Cox ⢠Lars Crosby ⢠Malik Ameer Crumpler ⢠Tchello dâ¿Barros ⢠Wer Da ⢠Steve Dalachinsky ⢠Allison A. Davis ⢠Heather Dawish ⢠Holly Day ⢠Quỳnh Iris de Prelle ⢠Laylah DeLautréamont ⢠Lily Despic ⢠Sam Dodson ⢠Bruce Louis Dodson ⢠Gabriel Don ⢠Carol Dorf ⢠Robert Duncan ⢠Malcolm Easton ⢠Salvatore Esposito ⢠Jeff Farr ⢠Becky Fawcett ⢠Federico Federici ⢠Rich Ferguson ⢠Cheryl J. Fish ⢠Kathleen Florence ⢠Giovanni Fontana ⢠Robert C. Ford ⢠Kofi Fosu Forson ⢠Patrick Forsythe ⢠Abigail Frankfurt ⢠Dorothy Friedman ⢠Thomas Fucaloro ⢠Ignacio Galilea ⢠Sandra Gea ⢠Kat Georges ⢠Christian Georgescu ⢠Robert Anthony Gibbons ⢠Mark Glista ⢠Gemma Goette ⢠Gustavo Gómez-MejÃa ⢠S.A. Griffin ⢠Fausto Grossi ⢠Meghan Grupposo ⢠Egon Guenther ⢠Genco Gulan ⢠Elancharan Gunasekaran ⢠Ana-Maria Guta ⢠Janet Hamill ⢠Bibbe Hansen ⢠Jesper Hasseltoft ⢠Heide Hatry ⢠Erica ESH Henry ⢠Aimee Herman ⢠Jan Herman ⢠Karen Hildebrand ⢠Mark Hoefer ⢠Lawrence Holzworth ⢠Richard Humann ⢠Matthew Hupert ⢠Frie J. Jacobs ⢠Ayushi Jain ⢠Annaliese Jakimides ⢠Mathias Jansson ⢠Jerry T. Johnson ⢠Boni Joi ⢠Milana Juventa ⢠Marina Kazakova ⢠Anthony D. Kelly ⢠Rose Knapp ⢠Doug Knott ⢠Ron Kolm ⢠Mark Kostabi ⢠Eleni Kourti ⢠Hope Kroll ⢠PaweÅ¿ KuczyÅ¿ski ⢠Zygimantas Kudirka ⢠Bénédicte Kusendila ⢠David Lawton ⢠Serge Lecomte ⢠Jane LeCroy ⢠Sarah Legow ⢠Patricia Leonard ⢠Linda Lerner ⢠Martin H. Levinson ⢠Alexander Limarev ⢠Richard Loranger ⢠Ruggero Maggi ⢠Sara Maino ⢠Gerard Malanga ⢠Jaan Malin ⢠Sophie Malleret ⢠Mary Rose Manspeaker ⢠Philippe Marcade ⢠Fred Marchant ⢠Eliette Markhbein ⢠Bronwyn Mauldin ⢠Jesse McCloskey ⢠Philip Meersman ⢠Lois Kagan Mingus ⢠Charles Mingus III ⢠Julian Mithra ⢠Richard Modiano ⢠Mike M. Mollett ⢠Thurston Moore ⢠Luiz Morgadinho ⢠Alexander Nderitu ⢠Dustin Nelson ⢠J. D. Nelson ⢠Karen Neuberg ⢠Gerald Nicosia ⢠Lance Nizami ⢠Harry E. Northup ⢠Anna Gabrielle Oâ¿Meara ⢠Ruth Oisteanu ⢠Valery Oisteanu ⢠Suzi Kaplan Olmsted ⢠Marc Olmsted ⢠John Olson ⢠Jane Ormerod ⢠Yuko Otomo ⢠Bibiana Padilla Maltos ⢠Csaba Pal ⢠Lisa Panepinto ⢠Pamela Papino-Wood ⢠Gay Pasley ⢠John S. Paul ⢠Oladipo Kehinde Paul ⢠Giorgia Pavlidou ⢠Puma Perl ⢠Raymond Pettibon ⢠Charles Plymell ⢠Renaat Ramon ⢠Nicca Ray ⢠Mado Reznik ⢠Travis Richardson ⢠Wes Rickert ⢠Benjamin Robinson ⢠Radoslav Rochallyi ⢠L. Rose ⢠Alison Ross ⢠Martina Salisbury ⢠William Seaton ⢠Jack Seiei ⢠Silvio Severino ⢠Susan Shup ⢠Bertholdus Sibum ⢠Paul Siegell ⢠Denise Silk-Martelli ⢠Zoltan Simon ⢠Lily Simonson ⢠Neal Skooter Taylor (LA Dada) ⢠Angela Sloan ⢠Valerie Sofranko ⢠Paul Sohar ⢠Pere Sousa ⢠Orchid Spangiafora ⢠Dd. Spungin ⢠Marilyn Stablein ⢠Laurie Steelink ⢠J. J. Steinfeld ⢠Christine Sloan Stoddard ⢠Thomas Stolmar ⢠Rich Stone ⢠W. K. Stratton ⢠Belinda Subraman ⢠Kelly Talbot ⢠Zev Torres ⢠John J. Trause ⢠Ann Firestone Ungar ⢠Yrik-Max Valentonis ⢠Anoek van Praag ⢠Lynnea Villanova ⢠Barbara Vos ⢠Matina Vossou ⢠Silvia Wagensberg ⢠George Wallace ⢠Scott Wannberg ⢠Mike Watt ⢠Poul R. Weile ⢠Syporca Whandal ⢠Brenda Whiteway ⢠Maw Shein Win ⢠A. D. Winans ⢠Tracy Witt ⢠Francine Witte ⢠Jeffrey Cyphers Wright ⢠Yaryan ⢠Gerald Yelle ⢠Karen Romano Young ⢠Andrena Zawinski ⢠Larry Zdeb ⢠Nina Å¿ivanÄ?eviÄ¿ ⢠Joanie HF Zosike
Modern life seems to have a soundtrack for everything. Even crime. 'Crime + Music' collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors. Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli's selection of lively, chilling, sinister tales tap into the large span of rock and pop history.
In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes long after initial reading.The book received the 2013 Arab American Book of the Year Award for Poetry, an astounding achievement for a first collection. In addition, Alyan was recently tapped as a finalist in the Nazim Himet Poetry Competition.Already in her young career, Alyan has etched her mark on other award-winning poets who are universal in their praise: “Don''t miss the dazzling Hala Alyan. Wow. When she says ‘the poetry like a spear,’ she isn''t kidding.” —Naomi Shihab Nye; “Hala Alyan’s poems startle us with their beautiful, enigmatic images and capture us with their passionate engagement with the world. A powerful debut.” —Chitra Divakaruni; “For all the stunning angularity in this vision, we do not doubt that what we are seeing and sensing here is a surprising, sharp-edged sense of the real, of a world that had been there all along, just waiting for this poet and these poems to reveal. Start to finish, these poems convey a singular vision and represent an important new voice in the international poetry arena.” —Fred MarchantHala Alyan''s Atrium is truly a remarkable debut by a poet of stunning virtuosity and range.
SONGS OF MY SELFIE: An Anthology of Millennial Stories celebrates the millennial through the works of up-and-coming fiction writers, all under the age of twenty-six. This collection features seventeen short stories by millennial writers about actual millennial issues, exposing this generation's true ambitions and frustrations, humor and heartbreak, despair and joie de vivre.With fresh new voices and edgy prose, these compelling stories offer a cross-section of vibrant millennial characters: unemployed grads deep in debt, expectant mothers on the cusp of adulthood, online relationship addicts, and millennials at war with their families' expectationseven while stuck living at home. Here are the strong and the weak, the self-aware and those who reject realityall carefully crafted to buck the common perception of the millennial. And yet, with a knowing wink, each story is accompanied by a selfie of its author.Forget what the media saysSONGS OF MY SELFIE reveals what it really means to be twenty-something today.
In Nigeria-born, America-based author Ebele Chizeas stunning debut novel, teenager Ada and her mother flee the civil war of their West African home and come to America in 1966, where Ada soon discoversand blossoms withinthe US counterculture movement, developing a drive for anti-war activism which she takes with her back to Nabuka only to uncover new truths about herself as well as family secrets that threaten to shatter her plans for the future. While protesting the Vietnam war in America, Ada forges friendships with other nonconformist youth: free-spirited Stacey, a boisterous hippie, and Sal, a philosophical wanderlust. Soon she seeks independence from her mother, love on her own terms, as well as sexual autonomy. College provides Ada with opportunities for academic success, personal experimentation, and full independence, as well as heartbreak. Despite loss and grief over a decade, Adas heart becomes her own true compass and guides her to fully become the leader and activist shed always been deep inside.Chizea's brilliant prose and storytelling skills are fully apparent as she reveals a young woman's struggle to find balance in her life and in herself while straddling physical and social borders of two distinctly different cultures.
A sharp-edged memoir of years of protest and resistance. Kirkus Reviews A fun read and a valuable political document, long overdue. CounterpunchLifelong activist Judy Gumbo, an original member of The Yippies, a 1960s anti-war satirical protest group, offers an insider feminist memoir of her involvement with the Yippies, Black Panthers, and her work in protest, women's rights, environmental actions, and a life of activism.In 1968, a 24-year-old woman moved to Berkeley, California and immediately became enmeshed in the Youth International Party, aka The Yippies, an anti-war satirical protest group. In the next few years, Judy Gumbo (a nickname given her by Eldridge Cleaver), was soon at the center of counter-cultural activityfrom protests in Peoples Park, to meetings at Black Panther headquarters, to running a pig for President at the raucous Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a protest that devolved into violent attacks by the police and arrests that led to the notorious Chicago Conspiracy Trial. In this historical account, Gumbo reveals intimate details ofand struggles withher fellow radicals Jerry Rubin, Anita & Abbie Hoffman, Eldridge Cleaver, Paul Krassner, Stew Albert, and more, detailing their experiences in radical protests. This deep dive into her activism includes details of her organization of a national women's rights group, her visit to North Vietnam during the war, her travels around the globe to promote women's liberation and anti-war protest, and her environmental activism. It also includes extensive excerpts from illegal wiretaps and surveillance by the FBI.Yippie Girl explores Gumbos life as a protester to show that, while circumstances always change, protesters can stay loyal to the causes they believe in and remain true to themselves. She also reveals how dogmatism, authoritarianism, and interpersonal conflict can damage those same just causes, offering a timeless and strategic guide for activists today protesting against injustice in all its forms.
A timeless and triumphant story of courage in the face of opposition. Foreword Reviews (starred review)Its 1974. Title IX has passed two years ago, but Louisas high school still refuses to fund an all girls basketball team. After hearing Gloria Steinem speak, Louisa learns an important lesson: The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Now what can she do but stand up and fight back? When Louisa asks her principal to start a girls team, shes soon viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and dismissed as out of line as she fights for a fair chance to be an athlete. No Stopping Us Now is a story about finding ones own voice through the joys of sports, love, and the power of sisterhood. Based on the author's true story, it is a compelling examination of the courage it takes to stand up for whats right. Young adult, LGBTQ historical fiction perfect for the 50th anniversary of Title IX in June 2022.
"Fulbright and mtvU sponsored scholar Jillian Marshall offers honest and often humorous vignettes that delve far beyond Western stereotypes of Japanese culture to portray a society's deep relationship with music, and what it means to listen and understand as a cultural outsider"--Amazon.com.
30 Must-Read Queer Fairytale Retellings For Pride Book RiotBest LGBTQA+ Books of 2021 She ReadsEight Queer Young Adult Books Coming this Fall Lambda LiteraryWhat happens when Tinker Bell is in love with both Peter Pan and Wendy? In this sparkling re-imagining of Peter Pan, Peter and Wendys granddaughter Hope Darling finds the reclusive Tinker Bell squatting at the Darling mansion in order to care for the graves of her two lost friends after a love triangle gone awry. As Hope wins the fairys trust, Tink tells her the truth about Wendy and Peterand her own role in their ultimate fate. Told in three alternating perspectivespast, present, and excerpts from a book called Neverland: A History written by Tinks own fairy godmotherthis queer adaptation is for anyone who has ever wondered if there might have been more to the story of Tinker Bell and the rest of the Peter Pan legend.
In a medieval French courtroom, animals are put on trial for "e;crimes"e; against mankind and must rely on preposterous legal diatribes by a court-appointed lawyer to defend them. Historical fiction has never been more uproarious as "e;master storyteller"e; Stephen Spotte unleashes this wild tale of opposing attorneys battling to defend or prosecute accused animals-including a rat and a pig-facing penalties of being hanged or burned alive at the stake. Based on actual court records, Spotte captures the wit and bluster of the era, where courtrooms were packed with cheering and heckling spectators in ever-more opaque, convoluted, and dilatory trials. By the end of this novel, Spotte uses his critically-acclaimed storytelling skills to explore still-relevant theories on legal precedent, the church vs. the state, mankind's place in nature, and animal rights. Fans of Umberto Eco, Edward Carey, and Amor Towles will devour ANIMAL WRONGS and its hilarious insights into pride, greed, and some of the most bizarre court trials in history.
Meet intuitive & charming sleuth T. R. Softly, who must solve the case of a secret agency threatening to topple both the mafia & the US government-perfect for fans of Chris Hauty, David Baldacci, and Joseph Finder.A federal plea deal in Manhattan goes off the rails when a mob boss inexplicably recants his testimony days after voluntarily confessing to a lifetime of crime, and immediately, an FBI agent involved with the case goes missing. To find out what happened, the Feds call in T. R. Softly, detective fiction's newest and most intuitive sleuth. Softly's search takes him to Washington, D.C., where the "e;oddest of the forty-odd presidents of the United States"e; is suddenly laying plans to evaporate the U.S. government, as assassination rumors percolate in dark corners. Co-opted into partnering with a secret government agency, Softly struggles to understand how many games are being played and by whom. Is he master of his fate or has he been the unwitting agent of friends and foe? A twisting, rollicking tale that enthralls readers until the last page.
In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother (Nanny), watching Golden Girls reruns, and listening to old Dolly Parton albums. Nanny is Kodys main caregiver, but it takes both Nanny and Kody to take care of Kodys mother, whose drug problem is spinning out of control. Between looking after Mommy and trying to survive in a place that doesnt look kindly on feminine boys, Kody already has a hard time making sense of his life. But then he uncovers a family secret that will change everything in his life.
A collection art and writing by more than 250 contemporary dada creators from 33 countries examining the theme "Humanity: The Reboot."
New & Noteworthy: The New York Times "e;Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave."e; -Mindy Kaling Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of "e;home"e; means to a Black millennial woman. How important is race to the idea of community? What are the consequences of gentrification on the life of a young Black woman? What aspects of a community help-or hurt-a family with a young child? In these profound, intimate essays, Baden has found a space where she can work out thoughts and feelings she feels unsafe saying out loud. As she processes the initial ideas more fully, her essays evolve from personal stories to fully-realized communiques of a generation of Black women who are finding a new sense of both belonging and ostracism in private, work, and public life. A single ride on a Los Angeles public bus that begins with the overwhelming odor of a man sleeping across one of the seats travels through a range of ideas and choices: "e;choosing"e; to sit in the back of the bus; the interconnectedness of living in a majority-Black community in the Crenshaw district; the segregation and gentrification of Los Angeles; the challenges of raising a child in a modern urban environment. Underlying the theme of each essay are questions of how a Black millennial woman can find "e;home"e; anywhere when confronted with its invasion by police, men, and society's expectations.
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