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I receive currently this letter. Today, please pay attention to the column "calls for submissions" that I extract from the integral letter to quote ahead with a link... L. CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Levantine Cultural Center in Los Angeles, http://www.levantinecenter.org/ the editor seeks contributions of creative nonfiction (essay, travel, first-person narrative), short stories, poetry, one-act plays, art and photography for Iconoclasts and Visionaries, a Levantine anthology. Maximum word length for nonfiction, short stories and one-act plays is 3,000 words. Poetry, submit a maximum of three poems of any length. Art/photography, submit up to five images in low-res jpg format for previewing. All manuscripts submitted by September 30, 2006 will be considered. Unpublished submissions are preferred, but previously published work will be considered. Contributors will receive three copies of the book upon publication and an honorarium. Submit manuscripts and visual work to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via snail mail to Levantine Center, 8424A Santa Monica Blvd., N. 789, West Hollywood CA 90069. //////////////////////////////////////////// CL Newsletter | A Book for SF, Maureen Webb on Security, & 3 New Books on Mexico CITY LIGHTS NEWSLETTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS FROM CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS http://www.citylights.com or see us at http://www.myspace.com/citylightsbooks September 6, 2006 * ONE CITY ONE BOOK: SAN FRANCISCO READS * INTERVIEW WITH MAUREEN WEBB, AUTHOR OF ³ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY² * EVENTS AT THE BOOKSTORE * EVENTS AROUND TOWN * 3 INDIE PRESSES, 3 NEW BOOKS, 2 MEXICANS, 1 REVOLUTION * CINDY SHEEHAN'S CAMP CASEY MOVES FROM TEXAS TO D.C. * RECOMMENDED READS * BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS * NEWS ABOUT CITY LIGHTS BOOKS * CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ONE CITY ONE BOOK: SAN FRANCISCO READS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What if all San Franciscans read the same book at the same time? City Lights is proud to co-sponsor the San Francisco Public Library¹s citywide book club, One City One Book: San Francisco Reads. This year, the selection is The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. Set in Mexico in the decades before the 1910 revolution, The Hummingbird's Daughter tells the story of Teresita, a young girl coming to terms with her destiny as a healer who will grow into a revolution-inspiring Mexican "Joan of Arc." This engaging book is a recent winner of the 2006 Kiriyama Prize for fiction and was selected as one of 2005's best books by the San Francisco Chronicle. Make The Hummingbird's Daughter your book club's next selection or join one of the many book discussions and special author events taking place at libraries and bookstores this fall. Visit http://sfpl.org/news/ocob/onecity.htm for more information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERVIEW WITH MAUREEN WEBB, AUTHOR OF ³ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY² ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maureen Webb is a human rights lawyer and activist. She has spoken extensively on post-September 11 security and human rights issues, most recently testifying before the House and Senate Committees reviewing the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act. In 2001, Webb was a Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University in New York. She is also the Coordinator for Security and Human Rights issues for Lawyers¹ Rights Watch Canada. In November, City Lights will publish her new book, Illusions of Security. Q: In the West, we¹ve had the 9-11 attacks, the Madrid bombing, the London bombings and the recent plot which almost blew up 10 planes with hundreds of people on them -- as well as other planned attacks, like those in Canada, which have been averted. Are you saying authorities don¹t need better surveillance powers? Haven¹t they been doing a good job recently with the new powers they have? A: They don¹t need many of the new powers they¹ve been given and they don¹t need the kind of globalized, mass surveillance programs that I write about in the book. Success in the recent alleged plot in the U.K. appears to have been made through good old ordinary police work . . . . Read more of this interview at http://citylights.com/pub/inter.webb.html Read more about Webb¹s new book from City Lights, Illusions of Security, at http://citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#4766 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EVENTS AT THE BOOKSTORE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, September 13th, 7 pm Ben Fountain reads from his new release Brief Encounters With Che Guevara (Stories), published by Ecco Press. This event is produced in conjunction with American Zoetrope Magazine. Editor Michael Ray will introduce Ben Fountain. Thursday, September 14th, 7 pm Ben Ehrenreich reads from The Suitors, published by Counterpoint Press. Joe Loya, author of The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell, will introduce. Thursday, September 21st, 7 pm Celebrate the release of South of the Pumphouse by Les Claypool and Artificial Light by James Greer, both published by Akashic Books Saturday, September 23rd, 11:30 am A Children¹s Book Party for A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, written by Amy Lee-Tai & illustrated by Felicia Hoshino, published by Children¹s Book Press Wednesday, September 27th, 7 pm Stuart Ewen discussing Typecasting, published by 7 Stories Press Thursday, September 28th, 6:30 pm Book release party for ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction - Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, published by Omnidawn Press. Reading from their work will be: Charlie Anders, Rikki Ducornet, Laura Moriarty, Rudy Rucker, Stephen Shugart, Mark Wallace & William Luvaas MCs: Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan Remember, you can always sign up for weekly City Lights events reminder emails at http://visitor.constantcontact.com/optin.jsp?m=1011225418336&ea= For more information on these and future events, see http://www.citylights.com/events.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EVENTS AROUND TOWN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SAN FRANCISCO ZINE FEST San Francisco Zine Fest will be taking place Sept. 9th + 10th, 2006 After a short spell of uncertainty, the SFZF is back at CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, in the Mission). This year's show promises to be a lot of fun, with workshops, film and animation screenings, and of course dozens of local artists with everything from zines and mini-comics to hand-made apparel and prints. As always, admission will be free! Visit http://www.sfzinefest.com for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LARRY KEENAN AT MICAELA GALLERY September 6 through September 30, 2006 Artist¹s Reception: Thursday, September 7, 2006, 4.30-8 pm Larry Keenan is a world-renowned photographer and is considered a true "Beat." Keenan's images are very powerful and extremely recognizable. His photographs have graced hundreds of publications and he has shown his work at The National Portrait Gallery, The Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center, and The Smithsonian Institution. The photo here is a selection from his Counter-Culture Gallery. It is one in a series of photos Keenan took in 1969 in Los Altos Hills California called Generation Gap. This is just one of many of Keenan¹s captivating and historical photographs on exhibition at Micaela Gallery - 333 Hayes St. San Francisco, California USA from September 9, 2006 through September 30, 2006. For further information see http://www.micaela.com Micaela Gallery 333 Hayes Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94102 See more of Larry's Prints at http://citylights.com/CLeph.html#prints ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BITCH MAGAZINE 10TH ANNIVERSARY GALA & AUCTION Join Bitch for an evening of splendor as we host our 10th Anniversary Gala & Auction! Local author and humorist Kirk Read hosts. Mingle with Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Julia Serano, and Michelle Tea. And of course, bid on fantastic items! September 8, 6pm-8pm The Women's Building 3543 18th St (between Guerrero and Valencia) $15 advance tickets, $25 at the door ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 INDIE PRESSES, 3 NEW BOOKS, 2 MEXICANS, 1 REVOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A radical & surreal collaboration The Uncomfortable Dead uniting Paco I Taibo¹s noir imagination with Marcos¹s one-world vision in a groundbreaking new novel. A reissue of a Paco I. Taibo II classic The Shadow of the Shadow exploring issues of American imperialism and Mexican corruption. A collection of texts by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros The Other Campaign articulating a vision for ³change from below.² THE UNCOMFORTABLE DEAD by Paco I Taibo II & Subcomandante Marcos ³This isn¹t your ordinary left-wing noir satire cowritten by Mexico¹s most famous crime novelist and the world¹s best-known revolutionary leaderit¹s a singular event in world literature.² Neal Pollack Available in September from Akashic Books ISBN: 1933354070, Paperback, 268pp, $15.95, www.akashicbooks.com THE SHADOW OF THE SHADOW by Paco I Taibo II ³This glorious novel reads as if James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett had collaborated with Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a version of The Three Musketeers set in 1920¹s, post-revolutionary Mexico City.² Publishers Weekly Available in October from Cinco Puntos Press. ISBN: 1933693002, Paperback, 240pp, $13.95, www.cincopuntos.com THE OTHER CAMPAIGN by Subcomandante Marcos ³Marcos is the voice for many voices. His words, fashioned from humor and poetry, reveal the deep roots and abundant branches of the Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas . . . that is transforming Mexico and is helping to change the world.² Eduardo Galeano Available now from City Lights Books ISBN: 0872864774, Paperback, 120pp, $8.95, www.citylights.com See more articles on Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas at: http://citylights.com/pub/marcos.html Read about Subcommandante Marcos¹ recent City Lights/ Open Media book, The Other Campaign, at: http://citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#4774 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CINDY SHEEHAN'S CAMP CASEY TO MOVE FROM TEXAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On September 5, 2006, Cindy Sheehan will move her camp from Crawford Texas to the nation's capital, and expand it into a weeks-long demonstration against the war, for justice here at home, for environmental sanity, and for accountability from the White House and Congress. Events will include panel discussions with well-known speakers (Howard Zinn, Ann Wright, Marcus Raskin, Barbara Olshansky, Michael Avery, Lennox Yearwood, Elizabeth de la Vega, Ray McGovern, and many others), workshops, concerts, training sessions, films and performances, hands-on creative arts projects, lobbying training, nonviolence training, and other activities. The organizers' intention is to provide every American who is fed up with our current government a place to come and get involved in a movement for change. Daily schedules of events, a volunteer system, and a rooms and rides board are on the website http://www.campdemocracy.org Camp Democracy will be located between the National Mall, Constitution Avenue, 14th Street, and 15th Street on September 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12 21st, and on the National Mall between 3rd Street and 7th Street on September 9, 10, and 11th. While September 9 through 11 will include a wide variety of events, other days will focus largely on single themes, including: Opening Day 9/5, Organizing the Progressive Agenda 9/6, Immigrants' Rights 9/7, Labor Speaks Out 9/8, Gandhi Day 9/11, Verdict on Bush's Crimes 9/13, Electoral Reform 9/15, Peace 9/16, Accountability and Impeachment 9/17, Lobbying Training 9/18, Lobbying 9/19, Women for Peace 9/20. A detailed schedule is available at http://campdemocracy.org/schedule Read more about Sheehan¹s new book from City Lights/ Open Media, Dear President Bush, at http://citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#4545 See more articles by and about Cindy Sheehan at http://citylights.com/pub/sheehan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECOMMENDED READS FROM THE CITY LIGHTS STAFF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINTER'S BONE by Daniel Woodrell Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended family. On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who takes care of her two younger brothers, as well as her mother, learns that her father has skipped bail. This book is the story of Ree¹s quest to bring her father back, alive or dead. Hardcover $22.99 ISBN: 031605755X Little, Brown & Co. Picked by Lara ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WAITING TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF BLACK POWER IN AMERICA by Peniel E. Joseph A history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. Peniel E. Joseph traces the history of the men and women of the movement, many of them famous or infamous, others forgotten. Hardcover $27.50 ISBN: 0805075399 Henry Holt & Co. Picked by Paul Read more about these titles and see more recommended reads at http://www.citylights.com/CLREREZ.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CITY LIGHTS TOP 10 PAPERBACKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton & Co.) 2. EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL by Beth Lisick (HarperCollins) 3. INDECISION by Benjamin Kunkel (Random House) 4. EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton Mifflin) 5. HELLO I¹M SPECIAL: HOW INDIVIDUALITY BECAME THE NEW CONFORMITY by Hal Niedzviecki (City Lights) 6. DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH by Cindy Sheehan (City Lights) 7. PIRATES IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS by Gideon Defoe (Knopf) 8. THANK YOU FOR SMOKING by Christopher Buckley (Modern Library) 9. VERONICA by Mary Gaitskill (Knopf) 10. HISTORY LESSONS: HOW TEXTBOOKS AROUND THE WORLD PORTRAY U.S. HISTORY by Dana Lindaman & Kyle Ward (New Press) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP 10 HARDCOVERS 1. A GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY IN 6 HOURS by Witold Gombrowicz (Yale University Press) 2. MISQUOTING JESUS: THE STORY BEHIND WHO CHANGED THE BIBLE AND WHY by Bart Ehrman (Harper Collins) 3. THE BOOK OF LONGING by Leonard Cohen (HarperCollins) 4. RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYLOPEDIA VOL II by Danzig Baldaev (Distributed Art Press) 5. FAILED STATES by Noam Chomsky (Henry Holt) 6. 2012: THE RETURN OF QUETZACOATL by Daniel Pinchbeck (Penguin Putnam) 7. THE OMNIVORE¹S DILEMMA: A NATURAL HISTORY IN FOUR MEALS by Michael Pollan (Penguin) 8. ARMED MADHOUSE by Greg Palast (Penguin) 9. A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD by E.H. Gombrich (Yale University Press) 10. TIME WAS SOFT THERE: A PARIS SOJOURN AT SHAKESPEARE & CO. by Jeremy Mercer (St. Martin¹s Press) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS ABOUT CITY LIGHTS BOOKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forthcoming! HOWL ON TRIAL: THE BATTLE FOR FREE EXPRESSION Edited by Bill Morgan Available November 2006 ISBN 0-87286-479-0 Paperback, 224 pp $14.95 | Howl's 50th Anniversary $10.47 http://citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#4790 The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly 1,000,000 copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing, and defending the landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works. The collection includes: * The complete ³The Howl Letters² correspondence between Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, John Hollander, Richard Eberhart, Louis Ginsberg, and others with first-person insight into Ginsberg¹s thinking and the significance of the poems to the author and his contemporaries. * Ferlinghetti¹s account of hearing ³Howl² read at the Six Gallery, of editing the book, and of his court battle to defend its publication. * A timeline of censorship in the U.S. that places the Howl case in the broader historical context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works. * Newspaper reportage, magazine essays, cartoons, photographs, and letters to the editor that illuminate the cultural climate of the mid-1950s, when sexual expression in print was suppressed. * Excerpts from the trial transcript that show the brilliant criminal lawyer Jake Ehrlich in action. * ACLU Defense Counsel Albert Bendich¹s reflections on the Howl case, and his thoughts about challenges to Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. *A look at how the fight against censorship continues today in new forms. Bill Morgan is the author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg, The Beat Generation in San Francisco and The Beat Generation in New York. Nancy J. Peters is Publisher of City Lights Books. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Also... ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY: GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD By Maureen Webb Available November 2006 ISBN 0-87286-476-6 Paperback, 304 pp $16.95 $11.87 http://citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#4766 * Did you know that your government is watching you? * That it buys personal data from private contractors and foreign governments? * That it collects this information to ³predict² whether you might be a terrorist? * That if you are singled out, no one may be able to help you? In light of the recent terrorist threats at U.K and U.S. airports, this book is a timely and provocative read about what governments should and should not be doing to protect us from further terrorist attacks. It is a crucial look at a little-examined aspect of the U.S.-led ³war on terror² the move toward the use of mass, globalized surveillance and a ³preemptive² model of security, and its effects on democratic values and human rights around the world. ³Maureen Webb pulls all the pieces together special rendition, no fly lists, biometric surveillance, warrant-less wire taps, torture to create a harrowing picture of post 9-11 state repression. This valuable guide makes clear how dramatically civil liberties have been attacked in recent years.² Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The Soft Cage, and Lockdown America Maureen Webb is a Canadian human rights lawyer and activist. She was a litigator for some of the first constitutional cases heard under Canada¹s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including the landmark freedom of association case, Lavigne and a case challenging the powers of Canada¹s newly instituted spy agency, CSIS. As Legal Counsel to the Canadian Association of University Teachers, a member of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, she also sits as Co-Chair of ICLMG. She is also the Coordinator for Security and Human Rights issues for Lawyers¹ Rights Watch Canada. She has spoken extensively on post September 11 security and human rights issues, most recently testifying before the House and Senate Committees reviewing the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act. In 2001, she was a Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University in New York, where she graduated suma cum laude. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Levantine Cultural Center in Los Angeles, the editor seeks contributions of creative nonfiction (essay, travel, first-person narrative), short stories, poetry, one-act plays, art and photography for Iconoclasts and Visionaries, a Levantine anthology. Maximum word length for nonfiction, short stories and one-act plays is 3,000 words. Poetry, submit a maximum of three poems of any length. Art/photography, submit up to five images in low-res jpg format for previewing. All manuscripts submitted by September 30, 2006 will be considered. Unpublished submissions are preferred, but previously published work will be considered. Contributors will receive three copies of the book upon publication and an honorarium. Submit manuscripts and visual work to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via snail mail to Levantine Center, 8424A Santa Monica Blvd., N. 789, West Hollywood CA 90069. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blithe House Quarterly, the leading journal of lesbian and gay literary fiction, is pleased to open submissions for its Spring 2007 issue. For guidelines on submission, please visit the site at http://www.blithe.com/. Stories must be previously unpublished, fictional (as opposed to memoir), and usually 1500-7500 words in length. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Green Candy Press seeks well-written, sexy, funny, scary, creative first person essay/erotic memoirs and stories about the convergence of books and sexuality in the lives of gay men. Submissions should be between 6-25 typed, double-spaced manuscript pages and available as Microsoft word documents. These should be original works not previously anthologized in book format, but may have appeared in print in magazines or on the Web. Contributors whose pieces are accepted for publication will be paid $100 upon acceptance of the complete ms by the publisher for nonexclusive anthology rights, and will receive 2 copies of the finished book. Send to: Green Candy Press, 601 Van Ness Avenue, E3-918, San Francisco, CA 94102, attn. Kevin Bentley. Or query e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more info, go to http://www.greencandypress.com/submitbook.html Also Green Candy Press seeks beautifully written, provocative, honest, emotionally revealing and insightful, funny, sad, bitter, and joyful memoirs of growing up as or maintaining adult ties between gay men who are also siblings. Submissions should be original and not previously published in book format. Submissions should be between 6-25 typed, double-spaced manuscript pages and available as Microsoft Word documents. For more info go to http://greencandypress.com/submitbrother.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER and PROMISE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The City Lights e-newsletter is a free service to our esteemed customers, comrades and critics. If you're receiving this e-mail, it's because you or someone you know has sent your address to us here. Constructive suggestions, comments and concerns are always welcome. We will NOT trade your address, sell your address, or in any way make your address available to anyone else, EVER. 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