Print Library
American Veterans and Service Members Survival Guide
"Unless and until the government significantly improves its treatment of veterans... they will have to keep looking to one another for help, as they always have. This veterans' guide looks like a powerful updating of that old tradition."
—New York Times Editorial, Dec. 18, 2008
New this Spring!
Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
By Petra Fellow Leonard Zeskind.
"Zeskind shows how one of America's greatest strengths—its diversity—is in danger of being sapped by modern racism... his book is essential to our understanding and response."
—John Shattuck
"This book is…essential to our understanding of the racist far right... and an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to understand how the margins of political life effect the American mainstream."
James Ridgeway
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
By Petra Fellow Darby Penney and Peter Stastny. Photographs by Lisa Rinzler.
"As we have yet to provide a full measure of support and treatment to men and women diagnosed with mental illnesses, (this book) offers a sobering reminder of past tragic errors, lest, in our search for new therapies we lose sight of what should matter most: our sense of common humanity."
—Drew Days, III, Professor of Law, Yale Law School, former Solicitor General in the Clinton Administration, and Assistant Attorney General for Human Rights in the Carter Administration
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor
Edited by Tara Herivel and Petra Fellow Paul Wright.
"An extraordinary collection of essays by some of our most astute observers of the American prison system... This volume makes clear the connection between prisons and poverty, the class nature of the justice system... A treasury of information and a profound examination of imprisonment in America."
—Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples History of the United States
From Kingsbridge to Canarsie
Through writing, interviews, and photography, neighborhood writers create portraits of New York City then edit the stories with the neighborhoods to ensure authenticity. With eight distinct voices, this book vibrantly paints a picture of young women coming of age in New York City.
Publications from the New York Writers Coalition, the largest community-based creative writing program in the country, directed by Petra Fellow Aaron Zimmerman, are also available.