Portfolio

Writing Credits

I cowrote, edited, codesigned, formatted, indexed, and produced both print and eBook versions of Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams & Managers with my coauthor, Lisette Sutherland, published in Europe by Collaboration Superpowers in 2018. It was published in a world edition by Wiley in June 2020. It’s available in paperback, eBook, and audio book. Akashi Shoten published a Japanese edition in Fall 2020, and Marabout published a French edition in 2022.

           

For more, check out my Work Together Anywhere WIX BOOK SITE.

Editorial Credits

I have edited and/or proofread book-length works by such notable authors as Wendell Berry, Shulamith Hareven, William Hjortsberg, Leonard Michaels, Pierre Michon, and Tova Reich, as well as short pieces by Paul Auster and Ishmael Reed.

To follow is a list of titles I worked on in one or more editorial or production capacities. (My Mercury House portfolio/catalogue describes the Mercury House books in this collection.)

Fiction

SHORT FICTION

• Leonard Michaels, A Girl with a Monkey: New & Selected Stories (Mercury House)
  ✸FINALIST: LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST FICTION TITLE OF 2000✸
  ✸FINALIST: 2000 BAY AREA BOOK REVIEWERS FICTION AWARD✸


• Hilton Obenzinger, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco (Mercury House)


• Meredith Sue Willis, In the Mountains of America (Mercury House)

NOVELS

• Meena Alexander, Manhattan Music (Mercury House)


• Philip Daughtry, Night Ride with Dahlia (Mercury House)


• Carol Emshwiller, Ledoyt (Mercury House)


• Carol Emshwiller, Leaping Man Hill (Mercury House)


• Jamie Fuller, The Diary of Emily Dickinson (Mercury House)


• Clarence Major, Dirty Bird Blues (Mercury House)


• Clarence Major, Reflex and Bone Structure (Mercury House)


• Charlotte Painter, Conjuring Tibet (Mercury House)


• Tova Reich, One Hundred Philistine Foreskins (Counterpoint)


• Danny Romero, Calle 10 (Mercury House)


• D. L. Wells, Totally Frobisher: A Mommio Novel (Archimage Press)


• Charles Wright ⁄ Introduction by Ishmael Reed, The Wig (Mercury House)

TRANSLATION

• Shulamith Hareven ⁄ Hillel Halkin, translator, Thirst: The Desert Trilogy (Mercury House)


• Pierre Michon ⁄ Wyatt Mason, translator, Masters & Servants (Mercury House)
  ✸FINALIST: 1997 FRENCH-AMERICAN TRANSLATION AWARD✸


• Pierre Michon ⁄ Wyatt Mason, translator, The Origin of the World (Mercury House)
  ✸WINNER: 2000 HEMINGWAY TRANSLATION GRANT✸


• J. Rodolfo Wilcock ⁄ Lawrence Venuti, translator, The Temple of Iconoclasts (Mercury House)

Nonfiction

SHORT PIECES: CHAPTERS, PERSONAL ESSAYS & THE LIKE

• Robert Borofsky, editor, Introduction to Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History (University of Hawai‘i Press)


• Sabine Frühstück, “‘And My Heart Screams’: Children & the War of Emotions,” from Child’s Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan, Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall, editors (University of California Press)


• Chelsea Yates, “Plainsong,” Reunion: The Dallas Review, September 2021


• Chelsea Yates, “Plots,” Her Stry, 25 August 2021

SHORT PIECES: ARTICLES, OP-EDS & THE LIKE

• Sabine Frühstück, guest editor, Queer Lives in Contemporary Japan, Asian Anthropology 19, no. 2 (June 2020): 77–159; including:
  
  S.P.F. Dale, “Same-sex marriage and the question of queerness – institutional performativity and marriage in Japan”;
  
  Michelle H.S. Ho, “Queer and normal: dansō (female-to-male crossdressing) lives and politics in contemporary Tokyo”;
  
  Adrienne Renee Johnson, “Josō or ‘gender free’? Playfully queer ‘lives’ in visual kei”; and
  
  Shu Min Yuen, “Unqueer queers – drinking parties and negotiations of cultural citizenship by female-to-male trans people in Japan.”


• Sabine Frühstück, “Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan,” 30 March 2022, fifteeneightyfour, the blog of Cambridge University Press.


• Elizabeth Lombardo, “Is Perfectionism Bringing Down Your Business?” Success.com, 22 October 2014


• Elizabeth Lombardo, “5 Ways to Reframe Failure,” Success.com, 17 November 2014


• Or Porath, “Something to Crow About: Why Is the Japanese Football Team Logo a Three-Legged Crow?”Critical Asian Studies, 12 December 2022


• Rabbi Avi Weiss, “Ritual and Shoah Memory,” The Huffington Post.com, 2 May 2014


• Rabbi Avi Weiss, “My Diary: Being in Israel During Operation Protective Edge (Days 1–3),” The Times of Israel.com, 24 July 2014


• Rabbi Avi Weiss, “Auschwitz is a Sacred Place of Jewish Memory. It’s No Place for a Catholic Church.” The Washington Post.com, 28 January 2015


• Rabbi Avi Weiss, “Remembering the Carnage and Crises of the Crown Heights Riots,” Forward.com/Scribe, 2 November 2017.

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL

• Thomas Farber, The Face of the Deep (Mercury House)


• Andy Ferguson, Tracking Bodhidharma: A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture (Counterpoint)


• James D. Houston, In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey (Mercury House)


• David Kroodsma, The Bicycle Diaries: My 21,000-Mile Ride for the Climate (RFC Press)
  ✸FINALIST: 2015 ERIC HOFFER AWARD + MONTAIGNE MEDAL✸
  ✸FINALIST: 2014 FOREWORD REVIEWS’ INDIEFAB BOOK OF THE YEAR✸
  ✸RUNNER-UP: 2015 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL, GENERAL NONFICTION AWARD✸
  ✸SHELF UNBOUND NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014✸


• Katherine McNamara, Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Journey Into the Interior of Alaska (Mercury House)

ARTS & CULTURE

• Lynne Christy Anderson, Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens (University of California Press)


• Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship from Socrates to Fake News (Beacon Press)


• José Antonio Burciaga, In Few Words  ⁄ En Pocas Palabras: A Compendium of Latino Folk Wit and Wisdom (Mercury House)


• Hillary Eklund, Literature and Moral Economy in the Early Modern Atlantic: Elegant Sufficiencies (Ashgate Press)


• Ann Hamilton: Sense (Radius Books)


• Il Teatro alla Moda  ⁄ Theater in Fashion (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)


• Josh Kornbluth, Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues (Mercury House)
  ✸FINALIST: 1997 JAMES THURBER HUMOR PRIZE✸


• Kathryn Lofton, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (University of California Press)


• Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind (Radius Books)
  Artwork by Agnes Martin. Includes essays by Teju Cole, Bethany Hindmarsh, Bill Jacobson, Jennie C. Jones, James Sterling Pitt, Alison Rossiter, Jenn Shapland, Darcey Steinke, Martha Tuttle, and Susan York.


• Marcelyn McNeil: Works (Radius Books)
  Artwork by Marcelyn McNeil. Text by Hesse McGraw. Interview with Alison Hearst.


• David Meltzer, editor, Reading Jazz (Mercury House)


• David Meltzer, editor, Writing Jazz (Mercury House)


• Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams (Radius Books)
  Photographs, film and video stills by Shirin Neshat. Essay by Lucy Lippard. Introduction by Brandee Caoba.


• Phillip Prodger, E.O. Hoppé: The German Work, 1925–1938 (Steidl)


• Celia Rabinovitch, Duchamp’s Pipe: A Chess Romance—Marcel Duchamp & George Koltanowski (North Atlantic/Penguin Random House)
  ✸FINALIST: 2021 VINE AWARD IN CANADIAN JEWISH LITERATURE✸


• Wolf D. Storl ⁄ Christine Reindal-Storl, translator, A Curious History of Vegetables: Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes (North Atlantic Books/Penguin Random House)


• Terry Theise, Reading between the Wines (University of California Press)

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

• Allie Cashel, Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial (North Atlantic Books/Penguin Random House)


• Sean Colgan, The Book of Ted: Olympian, Coach, Mentor: Ted A. Nash (Colgan Foundation)


• Lucille Eichengreen, Rumkowski and the Orphans of Lodz (Mercury House)


• Rebecca Fromer, The House by the Sea: A Portrait of the Holocaust in Greece (Mercury House)


• Zosia Goldberg ⁄ Introduction by Paul Auster, Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust (Mercury House)


• William Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan (Counterpoint)


• Josh Kornbluth, Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues (Mercury House)
  ✸FINALIST: 1997 JAMES THURBER HUMOR PRIZE✸


• Anjali Kumar, Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In (Seal Press)


• Celia Rabinovitch, Duchamp’s Pipe: A Chess Romance—Marcel Duchamp & George Koltanowski (North Atlantic/Penguin Random House)
  ✸FINALIST: 2021 VINE AWARD IN CANADIAN JEWISH LITERATURE✸


• Suzy Soro, Celebrity sTalker (HumorOutcasts)


• Cami Ostman & Susan Tive, editors, Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religion (Seal Press)
  ✸WASHINGTON POST: TOP 50 NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2013✸


• Leon Whiteson, The Garden Story (Mercury House)


• Rabbi Avi Weiss, Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist (Toby Press)


• Emma Woolf, An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia (Soft Skull Press)

BUSINESS / CAREERS / TECH

• Ben Armstrong, Catching Up to Crypto: Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy (Wiley)


• Allyson Downey, Here’s the Plan. Your Practical, Tactical Guide to Advancing Your Career Through Pregnancy and Parenting (Seal Press)


• Meredith Fineman, Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion (Portfolio/Penguin Random House)


• Kathryn Finney, Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You’re Not a Rich White Guy (Portfolio/Penguin Random House)


• Errol L. Pierre with Jim Jermanok, The Way Up: Climbing the Corporate Mountain as a Professional of Color (Wiley)


• Amy Sample Ward and Afua Bruce, The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Create an Equitable World (Wiley)


• Brian Spisak, Computational Leadership Science (Wiley)


• Lisette Sutherland and Kirsten Janene-Nelson, Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely—Successfully—for Individuals, Teams & Managers (Collaboration Superpowers, 2018; Wiley, 2020)
  
  
  
  
• Aytekin Tank, Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff (Wiley)


• Robb Wilson with Josh Tyson, Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley)

CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship from Socrates to Fake News (Beacon Press)


• Allie Cashel, Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial (North Atlantic Books/Penguin Random House)


• Allyson Downey, Here’s the Plan. Your Practical, Tactical Guide to Advancing Your Career Through Pregnancy and Parenting (Seal Press)


• Hamid Dabashi, The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West (University of California Press)


• Dina Gachman, Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime (Seal Press)


• Jeanette Hurt, Drink Like a Woman: Shake. Stir. Conquer. Repeat. (Seal Press)


• David Kroodsma, The Bicycle Diaries: My 21,000-Mile Ride for the Climate (RFC Press)
  ✸FINALIST: 2015 ERIC HOFFER AWARD + MONTAIGNE MEDAL✸
  ✸FINALIST: 2014 FOREWORD REVIEWS’ INDIEFAB BOOK OF THE YEAR✸
  ✸RUNNER-UP: 2015 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL, GENERAL NONFICTION AWARD✸
  ✸SHELF UNBOUND NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014✸


• Peter Laufer, Wireless Etiquette: A Guide to the Changing World of Instant Communication (Omnipoint Communications)


• Courtney E. Martin, The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream (Seal Press)


• Pamela Olson, Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland (Seal Press)


• Charles Shaw, Exile Nation: Prisons, Politics, Drugs, and Spirituality in America (Soft Skull Press)

EDUCATION

• Kass Minor, Teaching Fiercely: Spreading Joy and Justice in Our Schools (Jossey-Bass)


• LaNesha Tabb and Naomi O’Brien, Extra Credit! 8 Ways to Turn Your Education Expertise into Passion Projects and Extra Income (Jossey-Bass)

ESSAY COLLECTIONS

• Wendell Berry, It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays (Counterpoint)


• Alfred Arteaga, House with the Blue Bed (Mercury House)
  ✸WINNER: 1998 PEN OAKLAND JOSEPHINE MILES AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN LITERATURE✸


• Henriette Mantel, editor, No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood (Seal Press)


• Suzy Soro, Celebrity sTalker (HumorOutcasts)


• Cami Ostman & Susan Tive, editors, Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religion (Seal Press)
  ✸WASHINGTON POST: TOP 50 NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2013✸

GENDER & SEXUALITY

• Sabine Frühstück, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press)


• Sabine Frühstück, guest editor, “Introduction: Queer Lives in Contemporary Japan, ” Asian Anthropology 19, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 77-85.


• S.P.F. Dale, “Same-Sex Marriage and the Question of Queerness: Institutional Performativity and Marriage in Japan,” Asian Anthropology 19, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 143-159.


• Michelle H. S. Ho, “Queer and Normal: Dansō (Female-to-Male Cross-Dressing) Lives and Politics in Contemporary Tokyo,” Asian Anthropology 19, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 102-118.


• Adrienne Renee Johnson, “Josō or ‘gender free’? Playfully queer ‘lives’ in visual kei,” Asian Anthropology 19, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 119-142.


• Shu Min Yuen, “Unqueer queers—drinking parties and negotiations of cultural citizenship by female-to-male trans people in Japan,” Asian Anthropology 19, no. 2 (Spring 2020): 86-101.


• Debby Herbenick, The Coregasm Workout: The Revolutionary Method for Better Sex Through Exercise (Seal Press)


• Or Porath, “The Flower of Dharma Nature: Sexual Consecration and Amalgamation in Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara)

HEALTH & WELLNESS

• Allie Cashel, Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial (North Atlantic Books/Penguin Random House)


• Debby Herbenick, The Coregasm Workout: The Revolutionary Method for Better Sex Through Exercise (Seal Press)


• Mandy Ingber, Yogalosophy for Inner Strength: 12 Weeks to Heal the Heart and Embrace Joy (Seal Press)


• Dr. Kathryn Schmitz with Gabriel Miller, Moving Through Cancer: An Exercise and Strength-Training Program for the Fight of Your Life (Chronicle Prism)


• Andrzej Szczeklik/Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator, Kore: On Sickness, the Sick, and the Search for the Soul of Medicine (Counterpoint)

HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY

• Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral, And Then They Were Gone: Children of Peoples Temple, San Francisco to Jonestown
  ✸WINNER: 2019 LIBRARY LAUREATES, FRIENDS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY✸
  ✸SILVER WINNER: 2019 NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD✸
  ✸FINALIST: 2018 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD (GENERAL NONFICTION)✸
  ✸WINNER: 2019 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS & AUTHORS BOOK AWARD (GENERAL NONFICTION)✸


• Eric Berkowitz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship from Socrates to Fake News (Beacon Press)


• Robert Borofsky, editor, Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History (University of Hawai‘i Press)


• John Briscoe, Crush: The Triumph of California Wine (University of Nevada Press)
  ✸WINNER: 2020 BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA OSCAR LEWIS AWARD (WESTERN HISTORY)✸
  ✸FINALIST: CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOOK AWARD✸
  ✸FINALIST: 2018 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD (GENERAL NONFICTION)✸
  ✸WINNER: 2019 TOP SHELF BEST BOOKS AWARD (HISTORY)✸
  


• Hamid Dabashi, The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West (University of California Press)


• Candace Falk, editor, “Democracy Disarmed (1917-1919),” volume 4 of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years (1890-1919) (forthcoming, Stanford University Press)


• Sabine Frühstück, Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (University of California Press)


• Sabine Frühstück, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press)


• Richard Herr and António Costa Pinto, editors, The Portuguese Republic at One Hundred (Portuguese Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley)


• Jennifer Scheper Hughes, The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (New York University Press)
  ✸NAMED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE BOOKS ON RELIGION FOR 2021 BY PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY✸


• Matthew King, In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasianist Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press)


• Michael Kowalewski, editor, Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration (Heyday Books)


• Amanda J. Lucia, White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals (University of California Press)


• Mary-Kathryn Moore with Dalene Bickel, Bald Head Island: The Early Years, 2022.


• Or Porath, “The Flower of Dharma Nature: Sexual Consecration and Amalgamation in Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (doctoral dissertation)


• Saral Sarkar/Graciela Calderón, translator, The Crises of Capitalism: A Different Study of Political Economy (Counterpoint)


• Julie Scelfo, The Women Who Made New York (Seal Press)


• Wolf D. Storl ⁄ Christine Reindal-Storl, translator, A Curious History of Vegetables: Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes (North Atlantic Books/Penguin Random House)


• Rabbi Avi Weiss, Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist (Toby Press)


• Stanley Wolpert, India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation? (University of California Press)

HUMOR

• Dawn Dais, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Toddlers (Seal Press)


• Dina Gachman, Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime (Seal Press)


• John Lithgow, The Confederacy of Dumptys: Portraits of American Scoundrels in Verse (Chronicle Prism, forthcoming)


• Josh Kornbluth, Red Diaper Baby: Three Comic Monologues (Mercury House)
  ✸FINALIST: 1997 JAMES THURBER HUMOR PRIZE✸


• Henriette Mantel, editor, No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood (Seal Press)


• Suzy Soro, Celebrity sTalker (HumorOutcasts)

NATURE & ENVIRONMENT

• Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, GreenDeen: What Islam Teaches about Protecting the Planet (Berrett-Koehler)


• David Kroodsma, The Bicycle Diaries: My 21,000-Mile Ride for the Climate (RFC Press)
  ✸FINALIST: 2015 ERIC HOFFER AWARD + MONTAIGNE MEDAL✸
  ✸FINALIST: 2014 FOREWORD REVIEWS’ INDIEFAB BOOK OF THE YEAR✸
  ✸RUNNER-UP: 2015 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL, GENERAL NONFICTION AWARD✸
  ✸SHELF UNBOUND NOTABLE BOOK OF 2014✸


• Ken Lamberton, Wilderness & Razor Wire: A Naturalist’s Observations from Prison (Mercury House)
  ✸WINNER: 2002 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING✸


• Priscilla Stuckey, Kissed by a Fox and Other Stories of Friendship in Nature (Counterpoint)
  ✸WINNER: 2013 WILLA AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION✸
  ✸WINNER: 2013 NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD IN ANIMALS/NATURE✸
  ✸WINNER: 2012 FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR SILVER AWARD FOR NATURE✸
  


• K. D. Moore and M. P. Nelson, editors, Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (Trinity University Press)


• Geoffrey C. Saign, Green Essentials: What You Need to Know About the Environment (Mercury House)

PSYCHOLOGY & PERSONAL GROWTH

• Mitch R. Abblett, Helping Your Angry Teen: How to Reduce Anger and Build Connection Using Mindfulness and Positive Psychology (New Harbinger Publications)


• Edward M. Adams & Ed Frauenheim, Reinventing Masculinity: The Liberating Power of Compassion and Connection (Berrett-Koehler/Penguin Random House)


• John Hope Bryant, Up from Nothing: The Untold Story of How We (All) Succeed (Berrett-Koehler/Penguin Random House)


• Meredith Fineman, Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion (Portfolio/Penguin Random House)


• Kathryn Finney, Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy (Portfolio/Penguin Random House)


• Emily V. Gordon, Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero (Seal Press)


• Debby Herbenick, The Coregasm Workout: The Revolutionary Method for Better Sex Through Exercise (Seal Press)


• Mandy Ingber, Yogalosophy for Inner Strength: 12 Weeks to Heal the Heart and Embrace Joy (Seal Press)


• Jessi Kneeland, Body Neutral: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues (Penguin Life)


• Elizabeth Lombardo, Better Than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love (Seal Press)


• Shasta Nelson, Frientimacy: Creating the Deep and Lasting Friendships We All Want … and Need (Seal Press)

RELIGIOUS STUDIES/SPIRITUALITY

• Hamid Dabashi, The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West (University of California Press)


• Hamid Dabashi, An Iranian Childhood: Rethinking History and Memory (Cambridge University Press)


• Hamid Dabashi, The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype (Stanford University Press)


• Jennifer Scheper Hughes, The Church of the Dead: The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas (New York University Press)
  ✸NAMED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE BOOKS ON RELIGION FOR 2021 BY PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY✸


• Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Jennifer Scheper Hughes, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion (Routledge)


• Matthew King, In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasianist Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms (Columbia University Press)


• Anjali Kumar, Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In (Seal Press)


• Lao-tzu ⁄ Red Pine, translator, Taoteching (Mercury House)
  ✸FINALIST: 1997 PEN CENTER WEST AWARD FOR TRANSLATION✸


• Lao-tzu ⁄ Red Pine, translator, The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit (Mercury House)


• Amanda J. Lucia, White Utopias: The Religious Exoticism of Transformational Festivals (University of California Press)


• Cami Ostman & Susan Tive, editors, Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religion (Seal Press)
  ✸WASHINGTON POST: TOP 50 NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2013✸


• Priscilla Stuckey, Kissed by a Fox and Other Stories of Friendship in Nature (Counterpoint)
  ✸WINNER: 2013 WILLA AWARD IN CREATIVE NONFICTION✸
  ✸WINNER: 2013 NAUTILUS SILVER AWARD IN ANIMALS/NATURE✸
  ✸WINNER: 2012 FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR SILVER AWARD FOR NATURE✸
  


• Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Why Do Religious Forms Matter? Reflections on Materialism, Toleration, and Public Reason(Palgrave Pivot/Macmillan)


• Douglas Thorpe, editor, Work and the Life of the Spirit (Mercury House)

Editing Samples

Before & After Samples

• FENDI Text Panel
• MARRAS Text Panel

Both part of the fashion exhibit Teatro alla Moda: Theatre in Fashion at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 14 October 2011–18 March 2012, Beverly Hills, California.

Excerpts from Award-Winning Books

• The Bicycle Diaries: My 21,000-Mile Ride for the Climate by David Kroodsma (RFC Press)


• Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland by Pamela Olson (Seal Press)


• One Hundred Philistine Foreskins by Tova Reich (Counterpoint)

Each link below is a one-chapter PDF:

• Running Through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg, with an introduction by Paul Auster (NEA Heritage & Preservation Series, Mercury House)


• Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist’s Observations from Prison by Ken Lamberton (Mercury House)


• The Origin of the World by Pierre Michon, translated by Wyatt Mason (Mercury House)