Author: Martin Millar
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: poet, lux
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1593762313
ISBN-13: 9781593762315

There is something about Lux. He’s a thief and a liar; he is selfish and self-absorbed and hopelessly vain. But while he looks like Lana Turner and romances like a true Casanova, Lux is actually more like a bumbling, oblivious Mary Tyler Moore. Amid shouting mobs, police shields, and the hurled bricks of the ’80s Brixton riots, Lux is searching for Pearl—the love of his life. Her home has been burned down by a stray petrol bomb, and she’s searching for sanctuary along with her friend Nicky. Nicky is traumatized after having killed her computer—her best friend—and is herself being f

Author: Josh MacPhee
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: pirates, stencil
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2004-07-13
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1932360158
ISBN-13: 9781932360158

Stencil Pirates is the first comprehensive book dedicated to stencil street art. Included are artist profiles, an in-depth history of stencil graffiti, its political context, and how stencils fit into the larger pantheon of street expression. Also here are a detailed "how-to" manual with designing, cutting, and painting tips from the artists, as well as 20 perforated cardstock stencil templates for readers who can’t wait to hit the streets.

Author: Tim Wise
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: son, privileged, race, reflections
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933368993
ISBN-13: 9781933368993

Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits those who are "white like him" — whether or not they’re actively racist. Using stories instead of stale statistics, Wise weaves a compelling narrative that assesses the magnitude of racial privilege and is at once readable and scholarly, analytical yet accessible.

Author: Jennifer L. Knox
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: poems, gringo
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1932360980
ISBN-13: 9781932360981

Borrowing its title from an Ennio Morricone ditty in the spaghetti western Gunfight at Red Sands, Jennifer L. Knox’s A Gringo Like Me contains poems at once raucous and sexy, tender and high. In favorites such as "Hot Ass Poem," "Cruising for Prostitutes," and "Chicken Bucket," Knox’s speakers appear ornery, hickish, undereducated, misogynist, or worse, but each quirky character manages to elucidate a truth we’re better off knowing, even if we’d rather forget it. At other times, Knox’s lyrical "I" is downright pretty; in poems like "A Common American Name" and "Fr

Author: David Ohle
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: shortlit, skull, soft, sinatra
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-07-22
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1932360328
ISBN-13: 9781932360325

The Age of Sinatra is the long-awaited sequel to the 1972 sci-fi cult classic Motorman. Part political allegory, part science-fiction dystopia, the world David Ohle creates is disturbing, humorous, and oddly compelling. The novel catches up with the luckless protagonist Moldenke, after the most recent "Forgetting." Moldenke finds himself in possession only of his name and the bare facts of his former life while he cruises on the Titanic through an alternate reality where elective deformation is a fashion trend and grasshoppers are the main course. His travel mates are Ophelia Balls, an artist;

Author: Michael Muhammad Knight
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: halen, van, osama
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1593762429
ISBN-13: 9781593762421

Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi’ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. They demand that Hollywood depict Muslims in a positive light—“just one movie where we’re not these two-dimensional al Qaeda stereotypes.” But Damon’s concerned they’re playing into that same terrorist paradigm, thereby furthering the neoconservative perception of Islam.Meanwhile, Ayyub embarks on a mission to rid the taqwacore scene of a Muslim pop-punk band called Shah 79. Along the way, he makes himself invisible, escapes punk-eat

Author: Richard Melo
Publisher: Soft Skull Pre
Keywords: jokerman
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1932360344
ISBN-13: 9781932360349

Jokerman 8 is a posse of forest radicals based out of San Francisco State University that engages in a series of demonstrations and stunts to protest environmental destruction: they sink whaling ships in Iceland and stage a "tree-in" in southern Oregon, then party to let off steam. Along the way, numerous subplots merge the past (1960s) with the present (1990s): a young man tries to escape the draft, and yippies succeed in levitating the Pentagon. Challenging and irreverent, the text moves at a breakneck pace, stopping just long enough to question how the world got the way it is and how it mig