Goodman's work more often than not expresses the ethos of the city. It rings loud with a common and shared humanity: self, family, love, birth and death, violence and fear. Goodman's drawings reveal the foundations of his personal aethetic: the interplay between observation, memory and imagination.

"Goodman can be seen as an art-world version of the novelist Philip Roth, a painterly professor of desire, love, guilt and irony"

- Ken Johnson, Art in America

The winner of the first-ever PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Non-fiction in 1989, sold out in the original editions in both hardcover and paperback. A collection of lyrical travel essays written on the backroads of the Great Plains.

"Magpie Rising haunts by ordinary means, surely the most difficult thing a writer can attempt, and surely a test for the highest level of the writer's art."

- Jim Harrison.

Like a modern day Hopper, Kapp formally transcribes the New York City landscape and poeticises the everyday aspects of urban life. Buildings, cars, bridges, intersections, are appropriated for their linear qualities so the paintings can be seen simultaneously as abstractions and as affectionate representations of the buzzing metropolis.

"Mr Kapp's angular compositions, decisive gestures and painterly energy reflect the harsh kinetic beauty of the city itself."

- New York Times

Short stories and memoirs told in the usual unforgettably shocking manner previously seen in Little Men (also published by Hard Press). These tales from the seamier side of life draw the reader into a nihilistic world that smacks of Bukowski's, but with a brash eroticism and a cheerful cynicism that is unmistakably Kevin Killian's.

"Kevin Killian writes like a bent angel who wants to inflict pleasure and delection. His confections dissolve into sensation on the tongue"

- Robert Gluck

Recapturing The Nude is a unique creative endeavor which will include a variety of disparate elements. The various parts of the book illuminate the world he inhabits and inform the work. This monograph will include:

• A verbal collaboration between Chuck Close and Jan Frank exploring the similarity of their working methods and aesthetic
• A short story by the late beat writer Jack Micheline
• Color plates of selected Jan Frank paintings which reveal the importance of drawing to the artist's work

New poetry by Frank Lima.

"Frank Lima is a traditionalist; he likes to wrestle with God. He also fights with angels, poets and priests, and he often wins. As a teenager he wrote the most poignant poetry of the street. In his new work he draws the daily crucifixions for everyone. He is turbulent against every bad dogma, every false infinity. His iconoclastic boxing with the sacred makes him all the less profane. Frank O'Hara's true heir, he keeps up that poet's love of extraordinary liberty."

- David Shapiro

Beautiful meditative photographs of the human body in dreamlike natural settings. Nudes emerge from irridescent pools of water creating a transcendental eroticism. The line between landscape and figure is surrealistically blurred so that one imitates the other. A partially submerged leg or torso resembles a riverbank; a rock looks like a human form; water becomes desert sand and a body the dunes.

This is the first monograph to appear on the artist, whose austerely sensual, post minimalist paintings and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in North America and Europe.

"Beautiful, but so understated that the beauty could be missed. they have a freshness, a silken peculiarity that requires time to see. For those who do, the rewards are ample."

- Lily Wei, Art in America