Melinda Culea has created a new form of mystery novel. Wondago tells the story of a teenage girl who must draw images that come to her mind after an accident has left her with little memory. Each drawing is accompanied by a page of writing that she hopes will unravel the mystery of the disappearance of a woman who lives in the town of Wondago.

Wondago: An Illustrated Mystery Novel

Comics & Graphic Novels

Culea, Melinda

Graphic Novels

Griffith Moon Publishing

In collaboration with The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), The Potato Eaters is a contemporary reflection on the works of Rebecca Campbell’s 2016 exhibition. Campbell’s new series of work examines aspects of family and cultural history, memory, documentation and nostalgia. The title is taken from Vincent van Gogh’s 1885 masterpiece that portrays Dutch peasants gathered at a meager meal. As in van Gogh’s celebrated work that addresses themes of noble human existence and connection to the land, Campbell references her family history and relatives who lived in Idaho during the early and mid-twentieth century.
102 pages; 22 photographs; 26 paintings

Rebecca Campbell: The Potato Eaters

Arts & Photography

UC Berkeley Arts + Design: Inaugural Showcase 2016 gathers outstanding creative work by UC Berkeley undergraduate students with stunning texts and images on nearly every page. From the visual arts to film to the performing arts, from the literary arts to architectural and industrial design, the UC Berkeley Arts + Design: Inaugural Showcase 2016 features the achievements of top students in their respective fields. These works demonstrate the discipline of particular art forms—painting, theater, poetry—as well as the vibrant ‘mash-up’ of cross-disciplinary experiment. Described in the voices of the students who made them, the collection exemplifies and advances the innovation and creativity of UC Berkeley.
Table of Contents
Recalling Confronting Reimagining Reassembling Transforming Sheltering
Author/Editor (and then also student names)
Shannon Jackson, Editor Eunice Ahn Andrea Almario Nicholas Alvarado Jessica Andrich Tara Baghdassarian Heather Brown Victoria Cabello Carlo Casalme Eduardo Chaidez Wenqin Chen Ethan Chiou Jocelyn Chiou Brian Choi Chrissy Curl Christine Dierk Bianca Doerschlag Sara Emsaki Andrew Frankel Maggie George Cristina Ghirardo Russell Gray Michelle Handoyo David Alejandro Hernandez Taj Hittenberger Kyle Hotchkiss Jodie Howard Jiachen Hu Shana Hu Akshay Jagadeesh Lina Jemili Russell Jiang Liza Karimova Harneet Kaur Laine Dermer Kendall Behnaz Khalegi Zackary Alexander Kiebach Kevin Kim Lana Lam Mark Lam Claire Lee Yanrong Li Joy Lin Jasper Louie Suraiya Luecke Ivette Martinez Summer Mason Evan McCurdy Christine Nguyen Michelle Nguyen Charlotte Nugent Dennis Orason Trisha Peck Mallory Penney Sam Peurach Reaa Puri Andrew Rahman Akhila Raju Zeferino Rincon Chocquida R. Robins Jessie Salas Ramón de Santiago Eldon Schoop Julia Schroeder Sara Sharp Jessica Slaght Julia Solano Alexandra Nicole Solis-Sison Donovan Souza Brian Villa Siqi Wang Nicole White Aaron Yuan Walter Zarnowitz Parmida Ziaei

UC Berkeley Arts + Design Showcase: Issue 01 2016

Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway

In this touching and often hilarious theatrical memoir, Ron Fassler tells the stories of how over a four-year span, between the ages of 12-16, he saw 200 Broadway plays and musicals for as little as $1.50 a ticket—and all from UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS.
 Such landmarks as Company, 1776, The Great White Hope, Hair, Follies and Pippin are but a small sampling of the original productions Fassler saw, funded entirely from the money earned as a Long Island paper boy. His eyewitness account to some of the greatest shows and stars of the 1960s and 70s (with visits backstage to a number of them), is furthered by conversing over the past four years with 100 men and women who were part of this remarkable time. Threading his own stories with theirs, the book features memories and insights from the likes of Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Bette Midler, Sheldon Harnick, James Earl Jones, Austin Pendleton, Ken Howard, Hal Linden, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander and Mike Nichols among many others.
 With a half-century of theatregoing behind him, and dozens of credits over a long career as an actor and writer, Ron Fassler invites us to revisit the plays that impacted him as a young teenager and future artist. Included are indepth studies of the lives and careers of some of Broadway’s finest actors: Julie Harris, Joseph Maher, Maureen Stapleton and John McMartin—all brought to life in vivid detail and sharp observation.
 UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS: A HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF BROADWAY is a first-of-its-kind hybrid that mixes the personal and the professional; a delightful and intimate portrait of a time in the theatre that once was … and will never be again.

Biographies & Memoirs

Fassler, Ron

Arts & Literature

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"Daniel Maidman: Nudes" presents highlights from the life drawing work of Daniel Maidman between 2014 and 2016. Regarded as one of the foremost masters of figure drawing in America, Maidman has spent several decades grappling with the challenges and opportunities of drawing from life. The resulting body of work – deft, ripe depictions of the human body in all its shapes and actions – has developed an avid following amongst artists and admirers alike. "Daniel Maidman: Nudes" celebrates Maidman’s drawing oeuvre, selecting 80 recent to provide an in-depth look at his powerful vision of the beauty and pathos of the human condition. Including an interview with the artist by painter Andrew Sendor, and forwards by Vincent Desiderio and Max Ritvo.

Daniel Maidman, Nudes

When we think about the biggest milestones and roadblocks in our lives, we also remember the food we cooked and/or ate while getting through them. Because we’re human. And pretty much always hungry. This book will be the literary equivalent of a heart-to heart over a warm slice of coffee cake. A bunch of kick-ass women writers, illustrators, and photographers share their deepest struggles, their silliest moments, their deepest revelations, and, of course, their favorite recipes. 
Contributors: Davis Alexander Kim Allen-Niesen K. Bidus Valerie Breiman Liane Kupferberg Carter Kimberly Brooks May-lee Chai Liza Donnelly Becky Hartman Edwards Kate Fuglei Leslie Greenberger Barbara Horowitz Wendy Kout Leah Krinsky Nina Laden Cathy Ladman Annie LaZebnik Lisa Grace Lednicer Bernadette Luckett Amy Wang Manning Merrill Markoe Nell Minow Carolyn Omine Asmita Paranjape Claudia Reilly April Salazar Laurie Sandell Alice Scovell Nell Scovell Susan Senator Jeb Sharp Laura Shumaker Marcie Smolin Caissie St. Onge Sarah Thyre Ellen Twaddell Norma Safford Vela Lunaea Weatherstone Michele Willens Maiya Williams Anna Winger Claire LaZebnik Claire is the author of five novels for adults and five YA novels, including Epic Fail and Things I Should Have Known. With Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel, she co-authored the non-fiction books Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Self Magazine, among other publications, and contributed a monologue to the anthology play Motherhood Out Loud. Please check out her website at www.clairelazebnik.com or follow her on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Claire prior work Non-fiction: Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum (both co-authored with Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel) Also the revised and updated version of Overcoming Autism (All Viking/Penguin) Fiction (most recent to oldest: Things I Should Have Known (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Wrong About the Guy (Harper Teen) The Last Best Kiss (Harper Teen) The Trouble with Flirting (Harper Teen) Epic Fail (Harper Teen) Families and Other Non-Returnable Gifts (Grand Central) If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now (Grand Central) The Smart One and the Pretty One (Grand Central) Knitting Under the Influence (Grand Central) Same As It Never Was (St. Martin’s) Also contributed to the anthologies Wedding Cake for Breakfast, American Girls about Town, and Modern Love
Ann Brown Ann Brown writes about family life on her blog, in newspapers and in online magazines, including Real Mom Daily, and The Next Family. She has a You Tube parenting show - The Motherload-Not Your Mother’s Parenting Advice, and her essays have been heard on Public Radio International. You can find Ann at www.drstrangemom.com, or follow her at Dr. Strangemom on Facebook.
Online Magazine: Parenting column, “The Next Family” Magazine “Voices From The Burbs” column, “The Next Family” Magazine Parenting column, “Read Mom Daily” magazine

SisterWriterEaters

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

These Violent Delights

At Windemere School for Girls, one of America's elite private schools, Dr. Gregory Copeland is the beloved chair of the English Department. A married father with a penchant for romantic poetry--and impressionable teenage girls--he operates in plain sight for years, until one of his former students goes public with allegations of inappropriate conduct. With the help of an investigative journalist, and two additional Windemere alumnae who had relationships with Copeland as students, the unlikely quartet unites to take him down. Set in modern-day Los Angeles, These Violent Delights is a literary exploration of the unyielding pressures and vulnerabilities that so many women and girls experience, and analyzes the ways in which our institutions and families fail to protect or defend us. A suspenseful and nuanced story told from multiple points of view, the novel examines themes of sexuality, trauma, revenge, and the American myth of liberty and justice for all.

Literature & Fiction

Namkung, Victoria

United States

In the fall of 2017, four poets, Brandon Constantine, Richard Ferguson, Luivette Resto and Marie Marandola, gathered for a closing reception of the works of Los Angeles-based Artist Kimberly Brooks on the occasion of her exhibition "Brazen." Curated and edited by Keith Martin, each poem was read by the poet in front of the painting that inspired it.
Kimberly Brooks American Painter Kimberly Brooks integrates figuration and abstraction to explore a variety of subjects dealing with history, memory and identity. For exhibition information www.kimberlybrooks.com
Brendan Constantine Brendan Constantine's work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, FIELD, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly, and Ninth Letter, among other journals. His most recent collection is 'Dementia, My Darling (2016 Red Hen Press). He has received grants and commissions from the Getty Museum, James Irvine Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently teaches poetry at the Windward School and regularly offers classes to hospitals, foster homes, veterans, and the elderly.
Rich Ferguson Pushcart-nominated poet Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Wanda Coleman, Moby, and other esteemed artists. He is a featured performer in the film What About Me? His poetry has been widely published, and his spoken word videos have appeared in international film festivals. His poetry collection 8th &amp; Agony is out on Punk Hostage Press. His debut novel, New Jersey Me, is available through Rare Bird Books.
Marie Marandola Marie Marandola is a badass feminist poet who received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is an editor for the literary press Meow Meow Pow Pow, and the former poetry editor of Lumina Journal. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Fairy Tale Review, Lunch Ticket, and Dressing Room Poetry Journal, amongst others, and her poem "Poet Groupie" won the Academy of American Poets University Prize for Sarah Lawrence College in 2016. She now lives in San Diego, where she remains in the habit of picking up fallen bits of trees and giving them to people.
Luivette Resto Luivette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. Her two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tia Chucha Press. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has served as a contributing poetry editor for Kweli Journal. Some of her latest work can be read in Entropy Magazine, Coiled Serpent anthology, Altadena Anthology 2015 &amp; 2016, and an anthology of Afro-Latino poetry titled ¡Manteca! published by Arte Público Press. Currently, she lives in the Los Angeles area with her three children.
Keith Martin Keith Martin is a community organizer and long time supporter of the LA literary community. He served on the Los Angeles poet laureate selection committee. He was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to the LA County Metropolitan Transit Authority Citizens Advisory Council. He serves on the Clinica Romero executive executive board as fundraising chair and homeless patient advocate. He is the Chairperson of the Golden State Bonsai Federation committee at the Huntington Library and Gardens bonsai pavillion. He volunteers as a Crossing Angel for CicLAvia and also at Beyond Baroque literary center in Venice.

Brazen: A Painting & Poetry Collection

Painting

Central Park Love Song is both an intimate portrait and meticulous research of America's first great public park and the most visited site in New York City. Beginning with the narrator and his dog wandering the battered but still beautiful park in the late 1970s, readers learn why the park is so large on an island so small, why it grows in the center of Manhattan, and what has been lost to the needs of an ever-changing city. These and other stories weave through the narrative as the reader and narrator discover every cave and cranny of the park's 843 acres and later see the park in new ways with his children, much as he did with his dog three decades before. In a creative blend of fact and imagination that includes excerpts from novels, poems, essays and songs about Central Park, we visit the park during its construction, the raucous zoo hoax of 1876, and stroll with "Miss Manhattan" -Audrey Munson, model for three statues in the park and a dozen more throughout the city. We're at Jimmy Walker's glamorous Casino and the bleak Hooverville nearby, slip through a fence on summer nights to swim in the reservoir--Lake Manhattan to those who love it--and experience the wondrous gift given the park and surrounding city by the legendary hawk Pale Male; finally, we watch the Central Park Conservancy's miraculous revival of the park over the last twenty years. The book concludes at an imaginary lunch with the narrator, his young daughter, Frederick Law Olmsted and others at work on the map of "The Greensward Plan" that eventually became Central Park.
[Stephen Wolf's] Central Park Love Song: Wandering Beneath the Heaventrees is an eloquent, evocative ode that encompasses New York history, past and contemporary protagonists, geography and botany so gracefully that reading his book is like, well, a walk in the park. - SAM ROBERTS, The New York Times

Central Park Love Song: Wandering Beneath the Heaventrees

Wolf, Stephen

Memoirs

"No editorializing takes place here. There is no fluff. Yet the two men leap from artist to artwork, from observations about narrative structure to biology to the manifestation of surfaces. It is humorous, deadly serious, and very encouraging to witness; the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses can coexist. This conversation demonstrates the joy of an intellectual and poetic exchange between two artists who share a knowledge of the deep concerns of art making in all its myriad forms." - Excerpt from review by Matt Ballou, in NeotericArt
Legendary American painter Vincent Desiderio is known for large, complex paintings which embrace both classical representation and the intellectual history of modernism and postmodernism. Among artists, he is also well-known for his fierce engagement with the ideas and methods that animate the history of visual art.
On the occasion of his 2018 solo show Theseus at Marlborough Gallery in New York, Desiderio sat down at his studio in Sleepy Hollow with artist and author Daniel Maidman to talk art. Over the course of a long sunny afternoon, Desiderio shared his insights on painting as a physical act, as a philosophical pursuit, and as a spiritual journey. This book presents that conversation, alongside the paintings made for the show.

Theseus: Vincent Desiderio on Art

History & Criticism

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