Arcade Publishing imprint: 222 books
Barney
Grove Press and Barney Rosset: America’s Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
An “illuminating, insightful“ biography of the man many regard as “the most important American book publisher of the twentieth century” (Kirkus Reviews).
An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from...
James Joyce
Portrait of a Dubliner—A Graphic Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**“**Zapico gives a thorough and masterful pictorial retelling of Joyce’s life . . . A graphic novel that goes far toward illuminating the enigmatic author” (Foreword Reviews).
Winner of Spain’s National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic...
Death by Publication
A Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière: An “ingenious” and darkly comic novel of love, obsession, and revenge set among the literary elite (The New York Times Book Review).
Sir Edward Destry, the head of a distinguished London publishing house, and French novelist Nicolas Fabry...
It Might Have Been What He Said
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
“A thrilling, compelling novel about the gravitational pull of love and money . . . This is a story that takes up where The Great Gatsby left off” (Susan Cheever).
Isabel could remember the precise moment she tried killing her husband. Strangely enough, she couldn’t recall why. Thus begins...
The Accidental Feminist
The Life of One Woman through War, Motherhood, and International Photojournalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Explore the world through the eyes of a female photojournalist in this “always absorbing” memoir—includes photos! (Publishers Weekly)
The story of a survivor, an explorer, and a truly independent spirit, Toby Molenaar’s extraordinary life is an inspiring tale to be savored. Orphaned in...
The Unknown Henry Miller
A Seeker in Big Sur
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
**“**A must read for those who thought they knew—and those who know nothing—about the shocking Tropic of Cancer genius who pushed the censorial envelope” (Myra MacPherson, award-winning author of Long Time Passing).
Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century...
My Love Affair with Modern Art
Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A memoir of the twentieth-century art world, from the famed Art Institute of Chicago curator, critic, and historian.
Katharine Kuh made it her personal mission to bring modern art to the people of America. In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, she opened Chicago’s first commercial...
by Robert Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A rollicking road trip with the legendary author and humorist.
On July 14, 1895, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, fifty-nine years old and deeply in debt, boarded a night train to Cleveland, launching a performance tour designed to alleviate his financial woes, and, more importantly, resuscitate his...
Hitler's Last Secretary
A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A firsthand account of Adolf Hitler from the woman who worked at his side, stayed with him in the bunker, and was featured in the film Downfall.
In 1942 Germany, Gertraud “Traudl” Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime....
In the Slender Margin
The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“Each of the wonderfully specific tales in this book feels like an antidote to the familiar Hallmark clichés about death and loss” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a...
James Baldwin
The FBI File
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The FBI’s secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art...
Apprenticed to Venus
My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The memoir of a woman who was mentored by the author of Delta of Venus is a “unique insider’s portrait of a complex, pivotal figure in women’s liberation” (Kirkus Reviews).
In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to the West Village apartment of the notorious writer...
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
“The story behind one of the world’s most popular books . . . Many will enjoy learning about Saint-Exupéry and his life” (Kirkus Reviews).
The Little Prince is revered around the world and one of the bestselling books of all time—two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages....
The Candy Men
The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
**This unbelievable, “thoroughly enjoyable” story of the book that shocked censors and (of course) went on to worldwide notoriety (The New York Times).
In the early fall of 1958, the already-notorious Olympia Press in Paris published a novel entitled Candy—an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely...