51 dates. 50 weeks. One life-changing adventure.

Part psychedelic road-trip travelogue, part “Overheard-in-Graceland,” part mystic-religious devotional, Conrad’s prose-poetic novel puts a compound prism to the Elvis mystique to form a vibrant and fractured portrait of fandom, one adoring fanatic at a time.

A memoir examining the AIDS epidemic from a global, spiritual, and physical perspective, and the shifting territory where those perspectives meet, by a journalist and Yoga teacher living with AIDS.

Ripping critically into all sides of this nation's deepening spiritual divide, Robert Jensen stitches together a new theology of religious tradition, contemporary philosophy, and progressive politics.

The long awaited collection from the writer Robert Christgau called, "one of the funniest men in Manhattan."


Now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

THE book to read when you can't sleep.

The beautifully rendered and breathtakingly intimate self-portrait of a celebrated icon of gay Parisian life.

An intergenerational, multi-racial anthology edited by two gang members turned cultural workers, The Bandana Republic seeks to showcase the creative impulse that, along with violence, has always been a part of membership in urban gangs.

“These poems map the tangled terrain . . . of the American family—its complex relationships, its twisted fears, its desperate dreams. They’re short and concise, but they can be sad, disturbing, and funny all at once: the emotional debris of an entire dysfunctional life packed into each one.”

With its journalistic approach to Islams intersection with race, gender, and Americanization, "Blue-Eyed Devil" offers a brutally honest but ultimately compassionate look at the marginalized underground of Islamic America.

A funny, poignant memoir from a Bosnian ex-pat about assuming the uncomfortable identity of refugee

A portrait of a wasted life, Cursed from Birth tells the harrowing story of the writer who referred to himself as the "son of NAKED LUNCH"

Always funny, frequently cringe-inducing, and often touching collection that is certain to connect with the millions of American men and women that work or have at one time or another worked in retail.

An antidote to "Daily Affirmations," from John S. Hall, lead singer of the cult 90's band King Missile ("Detachable Penis," "Jesus Was Way Cool")

An unconventional, post-modern memoir about Midwestern childhood during the late Cold War and the personal and cultural legacy of the TV movie The Day After

"Clearly the definitive book on [New York post-punk underground film]"—Library Journal

What's it like to work in a mortuary? Nothing like you’d expect.

Ever wonder how roller derby began? What the hell is going on during a bout? Whether you’re woman enough to don a pair of skates? Now you’ll know.

The memoir of cultural icon Lisa Carver, the leading light of the generation that wanted to break every rule.

Now available! A memoir written with rare candor and even rarer unsentimentality by award winning author David Ray. "David Ray's work has always been radiant even though personal tragedy has suffused it."

New York Times-bestselling author David Shields analyzes how confession is a crucial aspect of contemporary American culture, from Oprah to academia, in this contemporary classic of creative non-fiction.

If Eddie Haskell had lived next door to Slayer instead of the Cleavers, he might have ended up like The Locust’s Justin Pearson.

The first book to ever seriously explore the culture of video and online games.

Now available! "Author Daniel Nester is a transcendent trickster, a Gogol of Rock 'n' Roll. This book is not, like so much contemporary fiction, merely a realistic snapshot of life, but an ambitious effort to find in music the rhythms of life itself."

An exploration of the man - Gene Robinson, the world's first openly gay bishop - who many believe will be the catalyst for the breaking apart of the Episcopal Church.

Haiku is the most apt poetic form for our times.The impressions collected in this little book speak about our lives in a code of language we can understand and feel, quickly and deeply.


Haiku is the most apt poetic form for our times. What a clever group of people to notice the fact. The impressions collected in this little book speak about our lives in a code of language we can understand and feel, quickly and deeply.

By turns tragic and funny, religious and heartbreaking, angry and surprisingly familiar, Half/Life represents the altogether diverse memories and reflections of a handful of Half-Jews, among them Thisbe Nissen, Katharine Weber, Jennifer Traig, Jeff Sharlett, and Joyce Maynard.

"An eye-opening, occasionally astonishing, brutally honest and frequently funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe."

The latest work of idiosyncratic criticism from NBCC finalist and literary provocateur Wayne Koestenbaum: a reflection on the phenomenology of hotels, and a novel about Liberace and Lana Turner...Zizek meets Sedaris! Click herefor an excerpt, courtesy of our fine friend at OPEN CITY magazine!

How to Be Inappropriate tells of a young man’s effort to cut a swathe through a city inclined to completely ignore his existence.

A behind-the-scenes look at one of the biggest, weirdest bands of the nineties—and at one of the few woman musicians to make it in metal

The leading voice of American Muslim punk sorts through a lifetime of zealotry, disillusionment, and clashing identity in search of balance and resolution.

A journey into the vanished world of the groundbreaking television show “New Wave Theater” and the brilliant and tragic story behind it.

Fear and Loathing in Mecca

Live Nude Elf is a funny, witty, irreverent, brave, and sometimes tragic portrait of The Reverend Jen Miller, The Patron Saint of the Uncool, and the challenges embedded in devoting one's personal and professional life to art.

An inspird and inspiring truth teller, dangerous and brave and scary all at once.

Offers a provocative but proven transformative message - *fairness* creates the foundation for real couple partnership.

Do you have a toddler seat strapped in the back of the tour van? Do you write poetry while the baby naps? Have you discovered that becoming a mother has changed not only your daily life but the content of your creative work? Mamaphonic is an anthology about mothering and the creative process. The book includes confessions and conversations about the true, exhilarating, entertaining, and difficult aspects of remaining creative while raising kids. It’s a smart, sexy, alternately funny and heartbreaking look at balancing art and motherhood, told in the artists’ own words.

The incandescent fictionalized biography of the Woolf's monkey MITZ hailed by Alice Sebold in an Amazon.com reader review as an "inventive, intelligent, thoroughly researched and alive creation."

A graphic novel based on the modeling adventures of the pint-sized underdog Isobella Jade in her quest to become a model.

A trilogy of letters to Americans of all backgrounds

Now available! "[Fly] is both a poison reality injection and its gleeful antidote."

“George Tabb is the Professor of Punk” — Joey Ramone

For the past fifteen years, George Tabb, a famous and at times infamous punk rocker, has been writing a first-person column for Maximum Rock n' Roll and for the New York Press. Lead singer of the cult punk band Furious George and viewed by many as the David Sedaris of punk, Tabb has received thousands of pieces of fan mail each year since the column began, from all over the world—many asking “When is the book coming out?” Finally, the book they're waiting for is here. Now available for pre-order on Amazon!

In 1988, at the age of twenty, Soha Béchara attempted to assassinate General Lahad, chief of militia in charge of Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon. Immediately apprehended, interrogated, and tortured for weeks, she spent ten years in prison, without trial. After an intense Lebanese, European, and even Israeli campaign in her favor, she was released in 1998. This is her story.

A stunning autobiographical graphic novel by a self-taught Siberian artist that documents the author's grim, vodka-soaked life--from an adolesence under Breshnev to military service with the Red Army in Mongolia--yet a life periodically illuminated by moments of grace and beauty.

The Solitary Vice will make you rethink your own relation to reading. Brottman is wonderful at reminding us what a very complicated act—of fantasy, recompense, adventurism, and (sometimes) perversity—reading a book can be.

Called "the David Sedaris of Punk," by Resonance Magazine, George Tabb picks up where his last acclaimed memoir left off, crafting a humor and pathos filled teenage tale of growing up, losing one's virginity and overcoming abuse. Also, the the first ever streaming video trailer for a Soft Skull book...

A lushly illustrated series of interviews between iconic indie film auteur Hal Hartley and film historian and educator, Kenneth Kaleta.

This exhaustive critical history/biography of the Bunnymen covers the band from its inception in 1978 up to the present day; Crocodiles, Camo, Crystal Days, covers tours, comebacks--it's all in there. Also of note is an in-depth look at Liverpool's punk scene, which revolved around the legendary Eric's club.

The hilarious and poignant story of a young man who set out to save a company and a way of life...and got mugged by the realities of global capitalism.


Now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

A vivid, raw and ribald book, Watching the Door is an account of coming of age in 1970s Belfast that offers a unique look into the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, never once losing its passion, wit and irony even in the face of the most horrific circumstances.

A memoir of radicalism from the author of the critically-acclaimed Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II.

An expose by one who knows the industry so intimately he was one of its most successful executives, and an account of the guerrilla warfare one person fought when a multinational corporation sought to destroy him.

An anthology of personal narratives by Hip Hop/Gen-X women exploring the complexities of motherhood and womanhood, especially among working class women, women of color, single mothers, and gay mothers.

"A serious history with just the right amount of dirt."—Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

The definitive history of slam culture told through the lens of the New York city scene.

A guide to getting the best out of a writing workshop from the Chair of the Columbia University creative writing department.

Cutting-edge filmmaker Alex Cox tells us how it was and how it will be: a manifesto on the future of film, and guidance for the directors of tomorrow.