Memoir & Correspondence
(In order of publication)
My Deepest Desire (April release)
By Tamiki Hara, Art by Sandy Walker, Translated by Liza Dalby
Prose poetry about the yearning to live and love fully, free from the burden of loss and tragedy.
All royalties from this book will be donated to the Western States Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest organization founded in 1982 for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Letters That Breathe Fire: El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn
A revealing look at literary life in the 1960s in letters from some of its stars.
Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule
Edited by Sonya E. Pritzker
An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life.
ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia
Barbara Benish tells her story as a female artist who found a way to build a life in a rural, post-totalitarian, foreign country, it is a testament to the resilience of the people of that small nation that was sacrificed in the tumultuous chess game of colonial superpowers dividing up Europe after the devastation of WWII.
More Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations
A collection of letters exchanged between the author and four “outriders”—artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention.
Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations
By: Margaret Randall
By excerpting from letters she exchanged with five irreverent writers and artists, Margaret Randall constructs conversations that open windows on four pivotal moments in her life and on world events.
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
By: Alice Rothchild
A remarkable autobiography—written entirely in free verse—of Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine.
The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life
By Muriel Fox
A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women’s movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man built mainly from her own hundreds of letters, clippings, notes, and photographs that she archived in her “Feminism Files.”
I Opened the Gate Laughing: An Inner Journey — 20th Anniversary Edition
By Mayumi Oda
A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance I Opened the Gate Laughing is the story of one woman’s journey to creative freedom through gardening and the teachings of Zen. I Opened the Gate Laughing is a resource for anyone seeking a slower pace, a sacred space, and a garden path.
Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World’s Smallest Death Cafe
By Mark Dowie
The story of an old man learns how to die from a younger woman facing death, this book is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable. It is a rare lesson offered by a poet who somehow taught herself, and then the author, how to let go.
Luck
By Margaret Randall
Illustrations by Barbara Byers
Luck is a collection of essays that combines scholarly research with personal experience, producing texts both intimate and illuminating. Always attentive to the world around her and the one within, Randall has brought us her most relevant and powerful essays to date.
Stuff: Instead of a Memoir is a short, abundantly illustrated autobiography of the American art writer, activist, and curator Lucy R. Lippard. Describing tchotchkes, photographs, and art in her unpretentious New Mexico home, the author informally narrates key events and relationships in her 86-year-long, highly creative life.
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind
They lived the dream of Manifest Destiny; their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer.
We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons
By Diane Rothbard Margolis, Foreword by David Bollier
We Built a Village is both a memoir and a sociological analysis that describes the process of planning and building an early cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the mid 1990s, setting in motion a counterpoint between the physical spaces and the social configurations that would guide their lives together.
Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea
By Aviva Rahmani, Foreword by Lucy Lippard
Divining Chaos provides a personal memoir of eco-artist Aviva Rahmani, offering her Trigger-Point theory thesis and unparalleled exclusivity to the moments in her life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Rahmani shares intimate decisions that shaped her life’s work.
Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers (Revised edition)
First published in 1984, Risking a Somersault in the Air is a collection of interviews with fourteen of Nicaragua’s most important writers-revolutionaries. Filling in the gaps with new photographs and updates on the writers in the time since the original edition, the book looks at the sacrifices, conflicts, and solutions of the creative artists of Nicaragua’s revolution. Randall shows how Nicaragua, like its poetry, is an expression of great love, imagination, and liberation.
Artists in My Life
By Margaret Randall
Forewords by Mary Gabriel and Ed McCaughan
Artists in My Life is a collection of intimate and conversational accounts of the visual artists that have impacted the renowned poet-activist Margaret Randall on her own journey as an artist. Each story offers insight into the artist’s life and work, and analyses the impact it had on Randall’s own work and its impact on the larger art community. The work strives to answer bigger questions about visual art as a whole and its lasting political influence on the world stage.
My Life in 100 Objects
My Life in 100 Objects is a personal reflection on the events and moments that shaped the life and work of one extraordinary woman. With a masterful, poetic voice, Margaret Randall uses talismanic objects and photographs as launching points for her nonlinear narrative. Interwoven throughout are her most precious relationships, her growth as an artist, and her brave, revolutionary spirit.
Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe
By Ann Snitow
Foreword by Susan Faludi
Visitors tells the story of the well-known professor and feminist activist Ann Snitow’s adventures as an organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With wit and empathy, Snitow captures change as it unfolds and presents extraordinary insight into the origins and development of an internationalist feminism that is still evolving today.
A Man of the Theater: Survival as an Artist in Iran
A Man of the Theater tells the personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iranian history in the 20th century.
In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers
A personal portrait of 46 activists, artists, radicals, and thinkers who raised issues of justice, the environment, feminism, and colonialism
Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth
By Alfredo Cardona Peña
Translated by Alvaro Cardona-Hine
A year of weekly interviews (1949–1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Rivera’s iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time.
Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power
By Ernest Thompson and Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Introduction by Coleman A. Young
Foreword by Dominic T. Moulden
Afterword by Molly Rose Kaufman
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race
Carl Anthony interweaves urban history, racial justice, and cosmology with personal experiences as an architect/planner, environmentalist, and Black American. By connecting the struggles for social and racial justice to the universe, it creates a new story for our time.
Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970–1992
By Sabra Moore
Forewords by Lucy R. Lippard and Margaret Randall
An account of the women’s art movement in New York City from 1970 to 1992 and how these women created politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions.