Soft Skull Press imprint: 196 books
by Les Plesko
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
No Stopping Train is the magnum opus and final novel of the late writer Les Plesko, a powerful, swirling novel of memory and violence set during the Hungarian Revolution.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt following World War II that spread quickly across the...
Mighty, Mighty
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Mighty, Mighty is a modern day fable set in a crumbling metropolis riddled with urban poverty and violence. Dirty apartments, tattoo parlors, food kitchens these are the markers of home for the struggling young adults around Chicago. Stefy is an artist at Ghost Town, the local tattoo shop, trying...
The Ministry of Thin
How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
We’re obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we’ll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the...
Loudermilk
Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
“Hilarious . . . A riotous success. Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely funny portrait of an egomaniac and his nebbish best friend.” —The Washington Post**
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by Brett Fletcher Lauer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Your wife is having an affair with my husband. It has caused some trouble in my marriage and I thought you should know.One phone call in December 2005 begins the compelling, unpredictable story of Fake Missed Connections. A child of divorce with an already fragile sense of trust, Lauer unravels at the...
In the Course of Human Events
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Clyde Twitty could use a break, a helping hand. He’s a young man lost in his finances, in his family and stuck deep within the fast-settling muck of a dwindling rural Missouri town that has, in every way, given up hope. The hand that reaches down, pulls him up, and leads him forward is that...
Crashing the Party
An American Reporter in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
From exchange student to foreign correspondent, this “smart, thrilling memoirist” chronicles 18 years of living through China’s turbulent change (Publishers Weekly).
In 1983, Scott Savitt is one of the first American exchange students allowed to study in Bejing. For him, it’s not just an...
Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs
Portraits from a Musical Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The former Uncle Tupelo and current Son Volt musician presents snapshots of the people and places he encountered during his decades-long touring career.
In this collection of beautifully crafted autobiographical vignettes, Jay Farrar visits the places he’s journeyed to during his more than...
People Like Us
Misrepresenting the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
A war correspondent’s bestselling, “commanding . . . eye-opening account” of five years on the Middle East frontlines (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In 1998, Joris Luyendijk was stationed just outside of Cairo. It wasn’t for his journalism skills. It was because he was fluent...
Hope for Film
From the Frontline of the Independent Cinema Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“A relentlessly useful insider’s guide to independent film” by the producer of The Ice Storm, Happiness, and The Laramie Project (Kirkus Reviews).
In this “must-read” (Cultural Weekly) tell-all, one of the industry’s most passionate producers captures the rebellious punk spirit...
Filthy Talk for Troubled Times
And Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
A collection of early work and new short pieces from “the bad boy of American theater” (Time).
Neil LaBute burst onto the American theater scene in 1989 with his controversial debut Filthy Talk for Troubled Times. Set in a barroom in Anytown, USA, and populated by a series of everymen (and...
A Theory of Small Earthquakes
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
“A family’s world is irrevocably rocked when an old female lover from Mom’s past reappears” in this “sexy, audacious, politically charged” novel (Vanity Fair).
Eager to escape her damaging past, Alison Rose is drawn to Zoe, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability and...
In the Mountains of Madness
The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
“A fascinating journey . . . The secret of Lovecraft revealed a page at a time. A must read for all true fans of horror.” —Jonny Coffin, owner of Coffin Case
In the Mountains of Madness interweaves the biography of the legendary writer with an exploration of Lovecraft as a phenomenon....
The Last of the Live Nude Girls
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
A “eye-opening, gritty, and compelling” memoir by one of New York City’s last Times Square peep show girls (The Paris Review Online).
In 2006, Gotham City Video was among the last of its kind where, breathing in a cocktail of Pine-Sol and Windex, a man paid $40 to watch a girl strip naked...