Yokohama Threeway

Co-op available Galleys available: by request, will print a short story from Yokohama Threeway to give out during BEA, open to suggestions National Print Campaign: Send advance copies to the following publications: Women's interest: Bitch, Bust, Ms. Magazine, make/shift, Glamour, Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, Nylon SF interest: SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, East Bay Express, 7x7, San Francisco Magazine NY interest: Village Voice, New York Magazine, The NY Press, Time Out NY, The L Magazine General interest: The Believer, Bookforum, Bomb, The Atlantic, The NY Times, NYTBR, LA Times, Entertainment Weekly, People Mag, The Oregonion, The Miami Herald, Harper's, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun, Minneapolis Str Tribune, Washington Post, Village Voice, Vanity Fair, AP, NY Mag, PaperMag Trades: Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal National TV & Radio Campaign: Send advance copies to the producers and hosts of the following programs/stations in cities where the author has lives, along with where Sister Spit has traveled, focusing on literary & women's programs: KQED Forum, KALW Your Call, KPFA Cover to Cover, WBEZ This American Life, NPR's All Things Considered Online & Social Media Campaign: Pitch interviews & reviews to: The Rumpus, The A.V. Club, Largehearted Boy, Identity Theory, New Yorker's Book Bench, Bookslut, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Wikipedia. The Awl, The Hairpin, Jezebel, Slate, Daily Beast's Book Bag, The Atlantic Wire, LARB, NYRB, xojane.com, Autostraddle, Ladygunn, the comedy podcast/blog Baby Geniuses, Flavorwire Promote on social media: Beth Lisick has over 4,666 Facebook fans & more than 850 followers on Twitter Radar Productions, which will also promote the book, has over 1850 Facebook fans City Lights has more than 16,700 followers & over 26,000 Twitter followers. General E-book Plan: e-book available, e-ISBN will be on all press materials, the City Lights website, and author's website General Tour Info: The author will be going on the Sister Spit Spring 2014 tour, a month-long nationwide tour Excerpts:We'll pitch to The Rumpus, Jezebel, The Hairpin, xojane.com, McSweeney's Promotion through author's website: www.bethlisick.com Blurbs forthcoming from: Vanessa Veselka, James Greer, Michael Ian Black, Julie Klausner, Kathleen Hanna, Adam Savage, Susie Bright, Joshua Mohr, Kate Zambreno, Laurie Weeks, Matthew Zapruder

Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, a collection of one woman's most humiliating moments, revealed with wit and gusto.Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of shame and humiliation that we'd rather forget than relive. Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn't usually find its way into a memoir. With her trademark humor and sly intelligence, writing in short flashes the way these episodes tend to pop up in memory, Lisick recounts her most embarrassing moments with gusto. From a trick she played on a neighbor thirty years ago to what she accidentally blurted out at last night's dinner party, she explores the bad judgments and free-floating regrets that keep her up at night, and the result is a daring, candid, and wickedly funny collection of embarrassment embraced, the triumph of humor and perspective over everyday mortification. Writer, performer, and independent film actress Beth Lisick is the author of the New York Times best-selling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool and the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself. Praise for Yokohama Threeway: "The ultimate joyride for those of us who enjoy cringe-worthy embarrassment, genuine pathos, and an overdosing amount of schadenfreude."--Michael Ian Black "This book is fucking great."--Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and The Julie Ruin "A strangely touching and engaging portrait of the artist as a young screwup."--Booklist "Yokohama Threeway blends the funny and the painful into an elixir more closely resembling cough medicine than soda pop--a little bitter, made up of strange ingredients, not real pretty, but necessary if you want to get better. In the end, you are happy you took it, even if it leaves a funky aftertaste."--World Literature Today "Speaking as someone who hates everything, I love this book."--James Greer, musician & author of The Failure "Hilarious, heartbreaking, compassionate, pitch perfect, utterly original." --Joyce Maynard, author of After Her and Labor Day "A laugh-out-loud series of short, revelatory confessions propelled by curiosity and an acute desire to experience the...