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T H E W I N N E R O F T H E S LO W B I C YC L E R AC E Paul Krassner
The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race collects a wealth of Krassner’s later stories, as well as his most famous satirical pieces from past years. Swiftian in intention and contemporary in subject matter, the book reveals Krassner to have the heart of a muckraker and the soul of a seeker. PAPER 978-1-88836-344-9 $11.95 352 PAGES
O N C E YO U G O B AC K Douglas A. Martin
Depicting a strained working-class household transplanted to the South, Once You Go Back brings out the curiosity of children on the verge of awakening to sexuality, and their confusion in the midst of family violence. PAPER 978-1-58322-878-4 $16.95 208 PAGES
B A L L A D O F T H E B L AC K A N D B LU E M I N D Anne Roiphe
An unsparing portrait of New York’s close-knit psychoanalytic milieu, as well as a meditation on aging and loss, Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind tells the story of Dr. Estelle Berman, a distinguished analyst who must now face her own family difficulties and inevitable decline. “Her writing is alive with unsparing insight and keen feeling.” —Morris Dickstein, author of Gates of Eden and Dancing in the Dark HARDCOVER 978-1-60980-608-8 $23.95 240 PAGES
FINAL EDITION Wallace Shawn, ed.
With contributions by Wallace Shawn, Jonathan Schell, Mark Strand, Noam Chomsky, and Deborah Eisenberg, Final Edition is a one-issue-only political magazine shaped by the belief that the people who run our country have a crude and minimal imaginative life. PAPER 978-1-58322-684-1 $10.00 80 PAGES
AT T H E H E A R T O F T H E UNIVERSE Samuel Shem
From the bestselling author of The House of God, an epic novel about the love of a daughter for her two mothers—the one who birthed her in China, and the one who adopted and raised her in America—set against the backdrop of an ancient mountain monastery in rural China during the time of Mao’s one-child population control policies. “An inmaginative and truly creative exploration of the amazing ways that adoption affects the many people touched by it.” —Shanti Fry, founder of the nationwide organization Families of Children from China CLOTH 978-1-60980-641-5 $26.95 320 PAGES
AVAILABLE MAY 2016
THE FREE THINKERS Two Novellas
Layle Silbert
“A splendid and exciting book. . . . Silbert writes with a keenly observing eye and ear, and creates characters who are different yet familiar. It is yet another successful artistic attempt to portray the shtetl personality torn from its roots and replanted in foreign soil.” —Jewish Currents
PAPER 978-1-58322-075-7 $14.95 320 PAGES