Not a Cult – serie

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of systemic biases toward sex workers and how sexuality is reflected in society. She often points her journalistic lens inward, providing us with personal, illustriously detailed stories of her life, her collaborators, and ow she has built a flourishing media haven in the face of a culture that is still learning how to handle public discourses on sex work.

The second title from Gabi Abrão, a collection of short stories and poems inspired by real-life currents that take the poet from digital, to earth, beyond, and back again.Practices in Apparition is an offering to ghosts and Gods and the vessels in which they long to be seen. Through communion with both the digital and the natural at great extremes, romances both enduring and tragically brief, theory and revelation; this collection of true stories leads readers on a hunt for the sacred, and often finds it.

Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado's life. It is a telling of the balance between love and perseverance. Tesoro is an unearthing of the sacred connections that make a person whole; the treasure we forever keep with us when we learn from those we love, when we mourn those we've lost, and what grows in between.

FINALIST OF THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE 2019 SAN DEIGO BOOK AWARDSAWARD-WINNING FINALIST IN THE POETRY CATEGORY OF 2019 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDSHow to Pull Apart the Earth is an homage to the intrinsic thread that weaves the culture of Mexico together with the United States, and the echo of colonization that works to erase it. Cordero skillfully exemplifies the complexity & beauty of growing up in a borderland, and the sacrifices paid for the dream.

A modern book of shadows, updated for a new era.Priestess is a concept visual art book meets witch’s grimoire, filled with antidotes, spells, mantras, prose, and original art intertwined within the pages by Artist and Psychic Medium, Marcella Kroll. A biography of a witch without being a memoir, this is a modern book of shadows updated for a new era.

LONG LISTED FOR THE 2021 POETRY BOOK AWARDThe second full-length title to award-winning poet and former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Rhiannon McGavin.If the word stanza means “room,” then this book is an orchard. Former Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems with scraps of the everyday, from dream diaries to postcards. She integrates the facts of daily life into lyric verse, switching out traditional forms easily as trying on new sweaters. Led by emotions “real as the mosaic air between screen and projector,” McGavin explores what it means to become your own calendar.

WINNER, THE JUAN FELIPE HERRERA BEST POETRY BOOK AWARD OF THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDSHermosa is the path to becoming one’s own home. A thread pulled when Salgado thinks about who she is and who she has been. Beyond the survival, grief, and fight, Hermosa lives in the small moments hidden beneath it all. A journey of firsts, of mistakes, of celebrations, of the love, the crush, the disaster, the rebuilding, and the never-ending cycle of growth.

In this debut collection, Isabella Preisz explores what it means to exist in simultaneity. Across these visceral poems, Preisz recreates moments of adolescence, sexual exploration, shame, and disassociation to examine what it means to occupy the body after violation. She fragments language to display healing as a conglomerate experience of past, present, and future remembrance. Catching language on the boundary of formation, she exposes the process of recovery as fluid as egg yolk — gooey, runny, and easily ruptured.

This book began as an answer to power. In the face of the undeniable, it became a reckoning. Of the lies that are lived to feel belonging. Of the lies that are told to hide shame. Of the lies that are believed to remain within illusions. Well Played is a warning to the present, a welcoming of the truth, and a poet working to earn a way beyond power.

Violet in Some Places is the life of a man enveloped in the raw, nurturing magic of matriarchs. If ever there was a guide toward masculine vulnerability, power through listening, a rosetta stone for empathy— it is here in the silky, poetic prose beautifully woven throughout this empowering collection from Cebo Campbell.

Inspired by Lanford Wilson’s play Talley’s Folly, Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events—one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her—as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.

A mentally challenged mother and her young son navigate their way through tumultuous waters to survive the ordained Gods of a city of angels. Envisioned as a social thriller, narrated by the protagonists of a ragtag world, where 'The Spirits' are real humans and humans are spirits fighting to survive. Saolomea, Saolomea! is the story of who these 'Spirits' are, - that one would call 'monsters', 'creatures' etc... but really are more like Gods; and how they handle a single mother working to outlive the reality of worlds in deadly competitions.

The Sigh Swoon Daily Journal is made to be lived with—its soft leather cover bends and folds, a satin ribbon keeps your place among gilded pages. Inside: 365 daily prompts and a full twelve-month calendar, open and undated, so you can begin anywhere, anytime. Luminous, endless, inviting. Life is composed of moments that make us both Sigh and Swoon. Sighs carry us through the average day-to-day maintenance of living. Sighs may also greet us in moments of decline or defeat, offering a path to acceptance. Swoons, on the other hand, are special visitors—transcendent, fated events, winks, and gifts scattered throughout our daily transit. Swoons can be found in subtle hints of bliss, but also in grand sweeping motions, euphoric, energizing spells that mushroom-cloud into the heart and head and aura. A Swoon can dissolve every Sigh you've ever felt, even if only for a moment. Equally, a Sigh can make you forget every Swoon. Use this journal to document the Sighs and Swoons that share a day, a week, a moment, an era.For every Sigh, find a Swoon. Side by side, you may find that together they create a story, a poem, a balance, a reminder.

The debut novel from online sensation Chloé Happe, a vital story of personal reconciliation from the grips of internet addiction. Desolation E-Girl sweeps readers into the self-imposed exile and unfolding spiritual quest of a chronically online e-girl, rescued from the placeless depths of the internet’s white noise and delivered into the enchanted satori mesas of New Mexico's high desert.This is her journey to reconstruct the self from first principles. Reconsidering everything she once believed, she reevaluates what she is living for, the things she serves, and what it means to be human.

"The most elegant of all art critic cowboys” —Spike Art MagazineColor beams at us from the everyday, but within each of the ten million shades are hidden our best and worst stories. Colors is a collection of lush short stories about the many different shades that make up our lives. Berardini guides us through a spectrum of vignettes, weaving inspiration from Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Bowie’s Sound and Vision, arriving at color’s fundamental intersection with who we are and how we live.

In Closer Baby Closer the ancient phenomenon of love sits alongside a billionaire’s online pillow talk while a cam girl watches from her bedroom tomb. In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy with a lens that burns as often as it illuminates. Moths, ex-lovers, Jeff Bezos, and other supernatural creatures flit through the pages as Brown charts her own cartographies through London and the world wide web seething in everybody’s pocket. These poems pinch and pull through the smallest moments, like someone trying to zoom in on a smartphone photo, or someone in the thrall of a bad, bad habit.

Landsmoder, by the Salvadoran poet, historian, and performance artist Elena Salamanca, is a searing, and sometimes grotesque, exploration of the intersections between nationalism, dogma, patriarchy, and violence. Originally read aloud from the oldest standing monument in San Salvador’s centro histórico, the performance poems in Landsmoder retool the laudatory pomp of patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth as a mask for erasure, cruelty, and neglect at the hands of the state. This unflinching collection, whose title comes from a Norwegian word that Salamanca translates as “madre de la patria” — or “mother of the nation/homeland/fatherland”— is a work of feminist grief, rage, and irony populated with churning wombs, bloodied flags, and ratteboned she-wolves. Appearing now in a bilingual edition nearly a decade after it was first performed, Landsmoder remains an urgent subversion, loud as ever, both on and off the page.

When Aneesha returns to Chicago for the summer, all she wants to do is write and carouse with friends. Maybe rekindle things with her old flame, Whitney, who has a serious new job and relationship. Aneesha weaves through dance parties, dive bars, and all-night Mexican joints on her bike, but keeping old friends is complicated in this charming debut novel from Kamala Puligandla.

From Rufio to Zuko is a personal examination of the upbringing, culture, and work of Dante Basco. Basco ruminates on the formative power of his Filipino-American heritage, his family, the dynamics that evolved throughout his career, and his experiences behind playing a couple of America's most popular characters.