Disasterama!

***LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST*** A compelling memoir of social life in the queer underground of San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles at a time when the manic frivolity of gay rights and bohemian creativity collided with the deadly reality of plague.DISASTERAMA: Adventures in the Queer Und...

Exoneree diaries

An in depth and personal look into the lives of four people wrongfully imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit.

Four white horses and a brass band

A harrowing tale of a teen-age opium addict traveling from town to town selling useless tonics while dodging the law and escaping from her Svengali-like “husband”. A timeless true story!

Jim christy: a vagabond life

Jim Christy’s life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, an...

Mdc al schvitz

A captivating memoir detailing the good times as an iconic punk rock drummer and hard time served as a convict in San Quentin

People wasn't made to burn

The long-buried story of a Chicagoan's struggle for justice after four of his children perished in a tragic fire.

Portland confidential

Portland's biggest dirty little secret: The untold story behind the Great Portland Vice Scandal of 1956-57.

Prison life writing

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprisi...

Son of the old west

An epic narrative of the Old West told through the vivid, outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie SiringoNo figure in the Old West lived or shaped its history more fully than Charlie Siringo, as Nathan Ward reveals in his colorful portrait of this epic era and one of its primar...

Thai stick

Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of tr...

The last yakuza

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, true crime story by the author of Tokyo Vice. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese, living in small-town Japan. He has two talents: playing guitar and picking fights. When his dream of be...

You can't win

This underground sensation, with heretofore unpublished material by the author, will be released as a movie in 2013.

You can't win