Iggy Scam’s On the Lower Frequencies is at once a manual, memoir, and history of creative resistance in a world awash with poverty and war. Whether handing out fake Starbucks coupons or dreaming of a future with more public art and punk holidays, Scam gives the reader inspiration for living defiantly.

SOFT SKULL PRESS| 978-1-93336-898-6 | Trade Paper | $14.95

This large-hearted narrative of a friendly, perceptive American at the mercy of strange landscapes finds writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycling to the lowest point on six continents in a series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.”

“[H]is descriptions of desert landscapes can be extraordinary."
—New York Times Book Review

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS | 978-1-57805-141-0 | Trade Paper | $16.95

A tragicomic and all-too-revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell about it.

“Cathartic and entertaining, these essays will rivet and delight, regardless of which side of the counter you stand on.” —Simon Doonan, author of Eccentric Glamour and creative director at Barneys New York

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-93336-890-0 | Trade Paper | $12.95

Is Tintin literature? asks Tom McCarthy in this slyly brilliant study of one of the greatest comics of the 20th century. McCarthy’s irresistibly clever, tightly constructed tour de force of literary theory shows how the themes Tintin generates are the very same that have fueled and troubled writers from the classical era to the present day.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-405-6 | Trade Paper | $15.95

Biographer and historian Ken McGoogan brings to life Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, a heroic figure famous in his day as America’s greatest explorer. In heart-pounding detail, McGoogan draws on documents never before seen to tell the story of Kane’s dramatic expedition to the top of the world.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-440-7 | Cloth | $28.00

One of the central relationships in the Beat scene was the long-lasting friendship of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Bill Morgan, Ginsberg’s biographer, has selected the most significant of the 850 letters the two exchanged between 1956 and 1991. This correspondence paints the biographical and poetic portraits of two of America’s most important — and most fascinating — poets.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-444-5 | Cloth | $28.00

Lost in the Supermarket — yes, named for the 1979 hit by The Clash—is a creative compendium of recipes that reclaims the kitchen for the hip crowd. At once a meditation on the connection between food and music and a great culinary resource, this cookbook is full of the favorite recipes of some of indie rock’s elite, including Animal Collective, Black Dice, Sunset Rubdown, and Country Teasers.

SOFT SKULL PRESS | 978-1-59376-203-2 | Trade Paper | | $17.95