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A clip of Clare Cooper Marcus sharing what makes her hopeful has received a remarkable 985 views on Youtube Shorts! It was truly an honor to have Clare in our 20th Anniversary gatherings, and we're excited that more people can now hear her wisdom. Her memoir Groundbreaking, which spans nearly nine decades, comes out this spring.
Weekly clips from our 20th Anniversary Author Roundtable have been posted across our social media channels, including Alice Rothchild left, speaking about integrative medicine, and ones from Aviva Rahmani, Muriel Fox, Joyce Milambiling, Glenna Lang, and Annie Lanzillotto.
Tune in for more throughout the month on our social media!
Video shorts produced by Karin Novelia.
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Judy Karofsky at the District 11 Book Club
Wed, December 10, 7:00–8:30pm CT
Sequoya Library, 4340 Tokay Blvd, Madison, WI
Led by Alderperson Bill Tishler, the District 11 Book Club will be hosting Judy Karofsky to discuss her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice. A limited number of book copies will be available at the "Ask Here" library desk on a first-come, first-served basis.
As an introduction to this talk, we recommend listening to Bill Tishler interview Judy Karofksy on the Madison BookBeat radio archives HERE.
More about the event HERE.
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Karofsky to address Lechayim luncheon
Mon, December 22, 11:00am–1:30pm CT
Beth Israel Center, 1406 Mound Street, Madison, WI
Sponsored by Madison Jewish Social Services, Judy Karofsky will discuss DisElderly Conduct as part of their luncheon series of enrichment programs.
More about the event HERE.
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Keith Knight at Howard Zinn Book Festival
Sunday, December 7, 12:30–2:00pm PT
Room 106, Mission Campus, City College of San Francisco, CA
Cartoonist Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, will be a speaking at a panel entitled "Cartooning for the Cause: A History of Bad Cartoonists Making Good Trouble" alongside fellow cartoonist Fred Nolan, to touch on "the history of cartoonists speaking truth to power."
More about the panel HERE. More about the Book Fair HERE.
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Keith Knight to speak at Artists' Television Access
Monday, December 8, 7:30pm PT
992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
Using a combination of "multi-media art, comix and comedic storytelling," Keith Knight will talk about the "past of ATA, 90s San Francisco and the Bay Area Zine Ware and Comix scene."
Tickets can be purchased at the venue. More about the event HERE.
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Judy Karofsky op-ed in Isthmus newspaper!
Karofsky's op-ed addresses the oncoming wave of aging baby boomers and how the assisted living industry is unprepared to care for them. It's in the December 2025 issue of Isthmus, in Madison, Wisconsin, newsstands today!
An online version of the article HERE.
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DisElderly Conduct review in CounterPunch
Judy Karofsky's book, DisElderly Conduct, is hailed as a "riveting read" by Seth Sandronsky for CounterPunch.
Read the full review HERE.
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Creative Instigation reviewed in the
Journal of Urban Affairs
Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement by Fern Tiger, was recently reviewed by Christina da Silva who calls it "a valuable reminder that community engagement is not merely an administrative chore, but a transformative opportunity to co-create the future."
Free access to the full review HERE.
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Somatic Psychotherapy Today magazine is pleased to announce their upcoming review by Steph McIsaac, PhD, a Senior Writing Consultant in the Writing Center at The CUNY Graduate Center, and an independent scholar in Medical Anthropology, of Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule, by Sonya Pritzker and mroe than fifty collaborators. Be sure to check out their next issue (January 2026).
According to Rae Johnson, PhD, Living Toward Justice is "a powerful and inspiring testament to what it means to weave embodied social justice into the fabric of daily life. A must-read for anyone committed to building a more just, connected, and hopeful world.”
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Lucy Lippard Exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Vladem Contemporary
Through August 9, 2026
New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary
“Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind" is a new exhibition highlighting the career of writer, activist, and curator, Lucy Lippard, who has been a revolutionary force in the international art world for over sixty years. Her autobiography, Stuff: Instead of a Memoir is published by New Village.
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Lily Yeh and “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated”
Through January 18, 2026
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington DC
An exhibition at The Smithsonian Archives of American Art highlights artist and New Village Press author Lily Yeh’s work on prison art projects with artist Emanuel Martinez. Featuring letters, photographs, exhibition flyers, and other primary source documents from the artists’ personal collections, the exhibition spotlights Yeh and Martinez’s work for The Emmanuel Project and the Graterford Prison Project.
More about the exhibition HERE.
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We are thrilled to announce that New Village Press will be awarded a 2026 grant by the New York State Council on the Arts! We are extremely grateful to have the state's support to continue our work of building vibrant, socially just communities through our books, including
Spring 2026 titles presented below!
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Letters That Breathe Fire
El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn
by Margaret Randall
Foreword by Harris Feinsod
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Margaret Randall coedited one of the most important independent literary magazines of the 1960s, El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn. A favorite section of each bilingual quarterly issue was the Cartas/ Letters whose many contributors included Thomas Merton, Ernesto Cardenal, Julio Cortázar, Denise Levertov, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Raquel Jodorowsky, Clayton Eshleman, and Cecilia Vicuña, who wrote about their lives and communities, ideas and aspirations. Randall has selected the most provocative of these letters and provided commentary and context as well as translation for those that had been written in Spanish.
384 pages, fully indexed. Coming in February!
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My Deepest Desire
by Tamiki Hara
Illustrated by Sandy Walker,
Translated by Liza Dalby
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My Deepest Desire is Tamiki Hara’s final work, published posthumously after his tragic suicide in 1951. A short yet grippingly moving meditation on the desire to live a different, fuller life, free from pain, isolation, and the intrusively haunting experience of tragedy, it is a demonstration of how dreams, memories, and traumatic despair intertwine inside a person’s psyche.
Hara was a Japanese poet who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, but was profoundly affected by it. All royalties from the book will be donated to the Western States Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest organization founded in 1982 for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
In English and Japanese
40 pages, 16 b/w images, 7" x 10"
Coming in April!
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Groundbreaking
My Unmapped Path as an Academic, Mother, and Gardener
by Clare Cooper Marcus
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Groundbreaking is a sweeping autobiographical memoir that spans nearly nine decades of personal history. Moving from a wartime childhood in England through her academic career in the United States, the book weaves together stories of resilience, intellectual discovery, and the healing power of nature. The narrative alternates between richly detailed life episodes-growing up as an evacuee during WWII, becoming a pioneering woman in academia, raising a family as a single mother.
Ultimately, Groundbreaking is a meditation on survival and thriving—on how land, gardens, and memory shape a life. It is as much a personal journey as it is a testimony to the enduring human need for grounding in place and nature.
400 pages, 40 b/w images, 6" x 9"
Coming in May!
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Art Against Brutality
Community and Collaborative Art Projects with Survivors of Political Violence
by Claudia Bernardi
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Art Against Brutality brings a much-needed contribution to the field of community arts and the burgeoning field of social practice art, as well as adding to post-conflict literature, dealing with the aftermath of state terror in Latin America (El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Argentina, México) and with native people in the United States. It outlines truly collaborative approaches, based on ideas from the community participants, rather than shaped by the facilitating artist. Often the form of the art project is a mural, in which the participants decide on the theme and storyline. These collaborative, community-based art projects engage children, youth, and adults to converse and to find a common thread of intention. Often this thread is rooted in shared historical memory; it emerges from personal and communal stories, from people’s expectations, fears, and tenacity to continue living despite the carnage, losses, and displacement they have suffered.
352 pages, 24 color images, 6" x 9"
Coming in June!
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Stories from Alternate ROOTS
It'll Take Some Tellin'
Co-edited by Yvette Angelique and Kathie deNobriga
with Ashley Minner Jones, Ron Ragin and MK Wegmann
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A chronicle of the origins and journey of Alternate ROOTS, a southern US, nonprofit arts organization that began in 1976. More than 50 contributors bring together interviews, poems, illustrations and essays, both personal and analytical. The diverse stories touch on a wide range of lessons, philosophies, and issues, and its themes include the transformative power of community arts, democratic leadership, racial and gender equity. This work that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Alternate ROOTS also highlights lessons in navigating organizational and generational change.
416 pages, 130 b/w images, 6" x 9"
Coming in July!
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