FourCats Press is an independent micro-publisher based in Seattle. We publish real books—the kind you can hold in your hand and whose corners you can turn down—using POD and traditional technologies.
Our areas of interest include LGBTQ+ & working-class fiction & non-fiction, fiction by women, translations (especially from Italian), and books about Italy, photography, and paleontology.
On a June evening in 1964, in the mythical town of Pennswalk, Pennsylvania, 14-year-old Leanne Hughs meets 31-year-old Philip Roth at a backyard luau. Though her parents are often too busy to respond immediately to the fast-moving events of America in the mid-20th century, Leanne, the All-American Girl, always has her finger on the pulse. Roth is immediately drawn to the precocious teen. Leanne is likewise smitten with the handsome author of Goodbye, Columbus. Roth becomes her mentor, and she becomes his muse as they navigate the rupture of America during the years between 1964 and 1974. A new novel by Nancy Bagshaw-Reasoner.
Even as they blur distinctions between fiction and memoir, the daring, challenging stories in What We Lost in the Fire stretch and expand notions of queer lives—and of queer fiction writing. A dark, occasionally lacerating humor and a well-honed sense of existential absurdity run throughout this richly varied collection of twenty-one short stories. Ricketts’ characters are messy. They’re nobody’s role models. This daring writing honors the distance traveled and the scars earned along the way, and the novella-length title story evokes the nearly indescribable zeitgeist of queer life in “the City” during the plague years. These are not “feel good” stories; they’re “feel human” stories.
How To Read A Photograph
A concise introduction to understanding what gives a photograph its power to move us and to make us think. Lavishly illustrated with more than 115 gorgeous color and black-and-white photographs, How to Read a Photograph is ideal for students of photography, for art lovers, for photographers, and for anyone in search of a brief guide to photographic composition.
Twenty Cigarettes in Nasiriyah: A Memoir
November 2003: A suicide attack on the Italian military base in Nasiriyah, Iraq, leaves 28 dead and scores wounded. A young, brash filmmaker is among the injured. In this true account, he reflects upon the circumstances that took him to Nasiriyah, the contradictions of the Italian military presence in Iraq, and his country’s response to the “Nasiryah Massacre.”
Fossil News Books
See the latest titles in the Fossil News Books series. We’re also the only authorized seller of back issues of Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology. Entertainment & information for avocational fossil collectors, paraprofessional paleontologists, and citizen scientists and students of all ages. Since 1995. Ordering and other info is on our site!
Cher Upon A Midnight Clear
How do adults know when something is for boys and when it’s for girls? Who tells them so? Where do they learn it? For eight-year-old Luca, it’s a mystery, but if he can’t convince his parents to give him the white ice skates he has his heart set on, Christmas is going to be ruined. Who does a child turn to when he can’t even count on Santa Claus?
The Heterosexual & Homosexual Identities: The Normalization of Sexual Relationships
More than 200 years of research and theory into the nature of sexual identity have failed to produce an unambiguous, universally adopted conceptual or operational definition of sexual orientation. This book is a sweeping critique of research and writing on sexual identity and the “normalization” of sexual relationships—from the 19th-century to the end of the 20th.
Paleocene
The first volume of this beautifully illustrated comic series by Mike Keesey. Available in Italian only. | Sessantasei milioni di anni fa il mondo finì. Un asteroide con un diametro di più di dieci chilometri si schiantò contro la Penisola dello Yucatán. Tutte le forme di vita presenti nelle immediate vicinanze furono annientate in un batter d’occhio. Fu l’inizio dell’Epoca Paleocenica.
Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers
An anthology of work by twenty writers who speak meaningfully—in short fiction, memoir, performance pieces, and prose poems—about queers in and from the working class. Blue, Too is also a sourcebook for working-class and queer studies and contains “A Blue Study: The Reader’s, Writer’s, and Scholar’s Guide” and “Reading Blue,” an extensive annotated bibliography that represents the first-ever attempt to create an exhaustive listing of materials related to queers and class.
The Book of Singloids
A comic strip about nerdiness, friendship, sex, love … and other maladies of the human condition. A defiant call for “Nerd Pride”!
I Said What I Said: Intemperate Observations about Politics, Pop Culture, AIDS, Art, Sex, the Expat Life in Italy, the Craft of Writing, and the Great Awokening
Forthcoming in 2024! Forty years of essays, journals, reviews, travel, activism, reportage, and “Queer Collectanea” from the author of What We Lost in the Fire.
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