Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!

Introduction by Lynne Margulies
Foreword by Bob Zmuda

In 1979, Andy Kaufman tauntingly challenged the women of America to wrestle him live on television. The torrent of hand-written letters and personal photographs he received from would-be contenders assembles into an astonishing, unfiltered view into the late-70s female psyche.

Depression 2.0

Creative Strategies for Tough Economic Times

Cletus Nelson

Depression 2.0 is a practical, empowering, hands-on guide to persevering and even thriving in the event of an economic crisis. Placing particular emphasis on self-sufficiency, community-building, and personal resilience, this timely, informative book offers a hopeful way forward in a time of great uncertainty. Bankruptcy, barter, and survival investing are just a few of the important topics explored.

The End Is Near!

Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia

by Roger Manley

An award-winning, classic volume of apocalyptic and utopian visionary art, with artist biographies and essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Reverend Howard Finster, Adam Parfrey, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Eye Mind

The Saga of Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

Paul Drummond
Foreword by Julian Cope

The trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released the first “psychedelic” rock album in America, transforming culture throughout the 1960s and beyond. The Elevators followed their own spiritual cosmic agenda — to change society by finding a new path to enlightenment. Their battles with repressive authorities are legendary.

Frezno

by Tony Stamolis

This central California teenage wasteland—with an ethnically diverse population of Basques, Hispanics, African-Americans, Vietnamese, and Armenians—is home to lowriders, empty buildings, dope drops, and one of the highest violent-crime rates in the country. It is also the birthplace of photographer Tony Stamolis, who spent six years chronicling his strange hometown. The result: a disturbing, humorous, and poignant insider’s view of a post-suburban American badlands.

Getting Out

Your Guide to Leaving America

by Mark Ehrman

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Getting Out walks you through the world of the expat: the reasons, the rules, the resources, the tricks of the trade, along with compelling stories and expertise from expatriate Americans on every continent.

Go Ask Ogre

Letters from a Deathrock Cutter

By Jolene Siana

Teenage hell has never been captured with such intense honesty as these actual letters sent in the late ’80s from a desperate girl to the singer of her favorite band.

“Pure, Lucid and Engaging.”
— Los Angeles Times

Guitar Army

Rock and Revolution with The MC5 and the White Panther Party

By John Sinclair
With introduction by Michael Simmons

Guitar Army is the incendiary book that proclaimed “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution.” This 35th anniversary edition of Guitar Army includes two dozen previously unpublished period photographs, recent writings from John Sinclair, and an introduction from Michael Simmons. A bonus CD contains rare recordings of MC5 and other Detroit-area revolutionary bands, Allen Ginsberg, Black Panther Bobby Seale on the White Panthers, and original White Panther Party meetings.

Master of the Mysteries

The Life of Manly Palmer Hall

By Louis Sahagun

Manly P. Hall’s prolific writings revealed to thousands how wisdom could be found in the myths and symbols of the ancient Western teachings. The dramatic story of his life and death provides a panorama of twentieth century mysticism.

Moondog

The Viking of Sixth Avenue

The Authorized Biography by Robert Scotto
Preface by Philip Glass

*WINNER 2008 Independent Publishers Book Award* Here is one of the most improbable lives of the 20th century: a blind and homeless man who became a famous eccentric in New York, and who rose to prominence as an internationally respected music presence. Moondog’s compositional style inspired the work of his former roommate, Philip Glass, who provides the preface. BONUS CD includes compilation of Moondog records spanning five decades, containing a dozen previously unreleased Moondog recordings, including performances with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Stefan Lakatos and Paul Jordan.

Available October 2007

The Nero Prediction

A Novel

By Humphry Knipe

“An imaginative, ingenious story about a time when astrology exceeded every religion in power and influence.”
— Michael Grant, author of Nero: Emperor in Revolt (American Heritage Press)

News Junkie

By Jason Leopold

Permanent Midnight meets All the Presidents’ Men. A devastating confessional exposé of mainstream journalism.

“Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot.”
— Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Permanent Midnight

A Memoir

By Jerry Stahl

Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his harrowing ascent back into the light.

Preparedness Now!

An Emergency Survival Guide
Expanded and Revised Edition

By Aton Edwards

View the Preparedness Now! website

PREPAREDNESS NOW! is the first comprehensive planning and action guide for urbanites and suburbanites who want to live more self-sufficiently and learn how best to provide for themselves and their loved ones in the face of any emergency or disaster. “Aton’s work is tremendously important. What we need to do for the next round is to get ourselves prepared.” — Chuck D., author, musician, and host of “On the Real”

Pure Country

The Leon Kagarise Archives, 1961-1971

Foreword by Robert Gordon
Text by Eddie Dean

Throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, many of country music’s biggest stars played their favorite shows on the small backwoods stages of rural America’s outdoor music parks. These intimate, $1-a-carload picnic concerts might have been forgotten if it hadn’t been for the documenting eye of music lover Leon Kagarise, whose candid photographs of the musicians and their fans provide the only surviving window into this long-vanished world. Available Now

The Secret Source

Edited by Maja D’Aoust and Adam Parfrey

The Secret Source reveals the occult doctrines and the modern equivalents that gave birth to “The Law of Attraction” and inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret. If you recognized the power behind “The Law of Attraction” but felt ambivalent about The Secret’s materially-driven approach, you will appreciate this deeper understanding and examination of the Law’s true nature.

Sex Machines

Photographs and Interviews

By Timothy Archibald

Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews unveils an astonishing American subculture and the homespun inventors and users who propel it.

Starstruck

Photographs From A Fan

by Gary Lee Boas

The spectacular photographic archives of one of the most obsessively devoted fans of our time.

“Remarkable…compulsively absorbing…”
— Ken Johnson, The New York Times

The Source

The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWha 13, and The Source Family

Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian
Introduction by Erik Davis

*WINNER 2008 Independent Publishers Book Award* *LA TIMES BESTSELLER!* It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Christie, Frank Zappa and others at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in a mansion in Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos through the channeled wisdom of their charismatic leader, Father Yod. Father was an outlandish figure who had 14 “spiritual wives,” drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted the rock band Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time.

Urban Homestead

Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living
in the Heart of the City

By Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen

The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.