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Tara Jepsen

"Tara Jepsen's Like a Dog is outrageously funny and soul-scrapingly grim, in the tradition of our most intrepid, shameless, and shame-filled comedians and storytellers. It also announces a singular new voice in American fiction—one which is deeply alive, hard-hitting, and tender."—Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts

A skateboarder in her early thirties, Paloma is aimlessly winging it through life. She takes low-paying jobs, drinks neon-colored wine coolers in the park, and drives to the Central Valley to skate the empty swimming pools dotting the sun-blasted landscape.

Paloma struggles to have a relationship with her brother Peter, whose opiate addiction makes that nearly impossible. Her own delusions about the nature of addiction help to keep the threat of Peter's death by overdose at a comfortable enough distance, and as he slides into a dangerous spiral, Paloma tries out the world of stand-up comedy, happier than she's ever been.

Praise for Like a Dog:

“This book beat the crap out of me. I am bruised and laughing. Thank you Tara Jepsen, may I have another?”—Daniel Handler, author of All The Dirty Parts

"Tara Jepsen captures the absurd, animal humor of residing in a human female body on planet Earth like no other, and Like a Dog sets it loose within a hazy California underground of abandoned skate pools, weed farms and comedy open mics. Eccentric and insidery, taking on the bonds of family and addiction, the effort to find a life and the drive to end it, Like a Dog brims with hyper-conscious gems of hilarity and pathos."—Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave

"Tara Jepsen’s blunt eloquence takes us deep into the difficulty of our desires, where the things we most want—intimacy, realness, safety, guarantees—are the things we are the least likely to get. In the desolate hardscapes and nowheres of California, north and south, she reveals how closeness can still be alienating: a brutal fact of her stark realism that brings both laughter and tears."—Karen Tongson, author of Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

City Lights Publishers

City Lights/Sister Spit

Like a Dog

Chinaka Hodge

Long-Awaited first book by the popular poet and playwright. Chinaka Hodge has toured the U.S. both as a touring poet and as a hip-hop artist with her group the Getback. Her poems, editorials, interviews and prose have been featured in Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, Believer Magazine, PBS, NPR, CNN, C-Span, and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry.

Chinaka's plays Mirrors in Every Corner and Chasing Mehserle were very popular on their runs in the Bay Area and represented the search for justice of police killings in Oakland - a subject her poems touch on as well.

Chinaka has appeared twice on Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on HBO and was an associate producer on the related HBO show Brave New Voices, she was the star of Atmopshere's music video for the song "Kanye West," and has written articles for The Believer, McSweeney's "The Panorama," and San Francisco Magazine

Chinaka Hodge performing "Cousin" on Def Jam Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMH0VQ2IIc

"Barely Audible" on Def Jam Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I78VkopUQug

Music video for "Kanye West", a song by Atmosphere, Chinaka stars in the video as an actress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrDVPsVbVA

Music video for "Kill a Hipster" by Watsky, Chinaka raps and performs in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LTLuzkqpZc

Dated Emcees

Dia Felix

A new title in the City Lights/Sister Spit series, edited by Michelle Tea

Early endorsement from Janet Fitch

Fascinating, experimental stories drawn from the author's real childhood

Regional appeal in California, both North and South, centering around SF and suburban So Cal in the 90s

Nochita

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick has a dedicated and enthusiastic readership. A member of the popular literary group, Sister Spit, Lisick has performed before audiences nationwide. She is dynamic on the stage, and audiences respond strongly to her work.

In 2002, Lisick was awarded a grant from the California Arts Council, and she has been an integral and high-profile member of San Francisco's arts community since then.

Having been a columnist for SF Gate (the website of the San Francisco Chronicle), a contributor to public radio's This American Life, a spoken word performer, a sketch comedian, a musician, an independent film actor, and the curator of Porchlight, San Francisco's premier storytelling series, Lisick is very mediagenic and will be excited to publicize this book.

Her 2005 book, Everybody Into the Pool, was a New York Times Bestseller. None of the anecdotes in this book are that previous memoir.

Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames

Ali Liebegott

Ali Liebegott has won a dedicated and enthusiastic readership with her first book, including writer and reviewer Kevin Killian, who calls her "insanely talented," and compares her to Kerouac, Wojnarowicz and Anne Carson. 

Liebegott will be touring with the Sister Spit Roadshow, timed with the release of this book. She is a dynamic performer, and audiences respond strongly to her work. This will give us the opportunity to get press/interviews/feature stories in media and the queer/lit blogworld across the country.

Her first book, The Beautifully Worthless, won the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction.

She is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for Arts.

Cha-Ching!

• Michelle Tea's previous novel "Valencia" is currently being made into a movie by 21 directors, each directing a chapter with their own cast. 

• Her book "Rose of No Man's Land" is also being adapted into a feature film.

• Contributor Blake Nelson's novel "Girl" was made into a movie, as was "Paranoid Park," by Gus van Sant.

• Other previously published contributors include Beth Lisick ("Helping Me Help Myself"), Eileen Myles ("Inferno"), Ali Liebegott ("The Beautifully Worthless")

• Sister Spit is a wildly popular touring group of queer-centric, feminist, sex-positive performance-writers -- each year's tour presents a new mix of fresh young voices paired with popular veteran writers who perform their works to sell-out audiences. This "Best Of" anthology brings the energy of the tour to the page, and provides what the audiences have been craving, a compendium of the most outrageous and most well received works.

Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road

Formed in 1994 by poets Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson, Sister Spit began as a weekly, girls-only open mic in San Francisco, at the height of the spoken word boom of the '90s. Sister Spit was one of the most popular events for queer women and Bay Area poets of all genders to attend, featuring writers such as Mary Gaitskill, Eileen Myles and Beth Lisick, as well as hundreds of up-and-coming and emerging writers. By 1997, Sister Spit took their show on the road, staging their cabaret-style literary performance in bars, art galleries, LGBT community centers, theaters, bookstores, and even discos to perform before enthusiastic audiences everywhere. In 2007, Sister Spit relaunched after a briefly quiet couple of years, with Tea leading the roadshow on the Sister Spit: The Next Generation tours. Now, the genre busting radicals of Sister Spit are set up to be published: the City Lights/Sister Spit imprint, edited by Michelle Tea, will publish 2-3 titles per year.. Think Lynda Barry meets John Waters meets Lydia Lunch meets Jean Genet, darkly hilarious and hopelessly radical, over-sexed with a tendency toward costuming. Get yourself ready to read aloud, and at the top of your lungs.

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