SHE CAN FIND HER WAY
Women Travelers at Their Best
Essays by independent women travelers
Edited by Ann Starr
Upper Hand Press,2017
Finalist in the Travel Essays category of the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest
In She Can Find Their Way: Women Travelers at Their Best, women from several generations tell true stories of their most memorable and challenging travel experiences. Read how they overcame adversity while traveling alone.
My own memoir/essay, Marry Me, in Volume 1 is more revealing than my family may have preferred … but over the years I think they have gotten used to my lack of discretion. It is the story of a romance gone wrong, in Italy and Greece, with pretty specific details. It was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
67 WAYS TO SAVE THE ANIMALS
By ANNA SEQUOIA
Harper Perennial, 1990
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“This book is packed with information and ideas to help people who want to do something for animals. Buy it. Read it. And then do your part to end the exploitation of sentient non-humans.”
– Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation
3 RELATIVELY SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP ANIMALS
1. Spay or neuter your dog or cat!
• An unspayed female cat and her progeny can produce 420,000 kittens within 7 years.
• One unspayed dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in 7 years.
• Only two out of every ten of those animals has a chance to find a home! The rest become strays or are killed in animal shelters (only 9 out of every 100 cats, and 14 out of every 100 dogs in shelters will ever find a home).
2. Please, if you are going to adopt a dog or cat, adopt from your local shelter or animal rescue organization.
3. Consider at least cutting down on your consumption of meat. Better still, don’t eat meat any more.
• “The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.” – Peter Singer
• Five billion animals suffer from birth to death on factory farms each year.
• 40% – 50% of the antibiotics used in this country each year are administered to factory-farmed animals. You and your family ingest the antibiotics with the meat.
• Production of a single pound of meat requires 2500 gallons of water. A pound of wheat can be produced with just 25 gallons.
FRENCH FOR MRS. KATZ
All the French a Jewish Mother Could Possibly Need
By ANNA SEQUOIA and LOUISE SAREZKY
Fawcett Columbine, 1994
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Okay, so she can be annoying…
But everything seems funnier when Mother (or Grand-mère) says it in French!
Click on the tiny illustrations to enlarge them. Illustrations by Paul Oxborough.
ADULT CHILDREN OF JEWISH PARENTS
The Last Recovery Program You’ll Ever Need
By ANNA SEQUOIA
Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1993
Order from AbeBooksThis is a recovery book for people who don’t have time for a 12-step program because they really should call Mom. If you are one of those mishuganas trying to get in touch with your inner child, becoming codependent no more, or renouncing drinking, eating, drugs, work or sex (it could happen…), buy this book. But buy it from abebooks.com. Don’t buy it from the publisher – they keep it around but haven’t sent me a royalty check in years.
THE OFFICIAL J.A.P. HANDBOOK
By ANNA SEQUOIA
New American Library, 1982
“MORE IS MORE” was the J.A.P. credo. From the baby’s bris to the Bar or Bat Mitzvah that marks the end of a pampered childhood and the start of the privileged teen years to the “royal” wedding, this book was an inside look at everything that (at the time) made a J.A.P. a J.A.P.
This humor book was reasonably controversial. It was also a national best seller. These days, if we wanted to make fun of screwed-up values we’d have to concentrate on all the Russian/Chinese/domestic American “one-percenters” who make the J.A.P.s in this book look like pikers.
For a recent, appreciative discussion of JAPs and this book, please click below:
VOX: Reconsidering the Jewish American Princess: How the JAP became America’s most complex Jewish stereotype.
by Jamie Lauren
Dec 5, 2018
CHUNKS
An Intimate Look at Some Very Available Men
By PATTY BROWN and ANNA SEQUOIA
M. Evans and Company, 1984
A parody of the then-current spate of books idealizing “hunks” in beefcake poses. Instead, this book featured more available types — men who looked like the guy next door, but who were still capable of saying things like, “I want a woman who is a real intellectual, not just bookish,” or “I don’t like any surprises when I get a woman into bed.”
THE OFFICIAL J.A.P. PAPER DOLL BOOK
By ANNA SEQUOIA and PATTY BROWN
New American Library, 1983
I understand why the Anti-Defamation League was sensitive about the depiction of Jews in this book. Not that what we were showing was not the truth (at least at that time). Would I do this book again? Given the uptick in anti-Semitism in this country and Europe, no. Is it worse than the depiction of Jews in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? I’m sitting here shaking my head; I don’t know. It was funny… — The thing is, I am still interested in writing about people with skewed values. That’s much of my material.
NO BAD MEN
Training Men the Lovehouse Way
By DR. BARBARA LOVEHOUSE as told to ANNA SEQUOIA and SARAH GALLICK
New American Library, 1984
A parody of the popular dog-training manual by the great Barbara Woodhouse, No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way.
BTW, this is the cover of the British edition of the book.
THE COMPLETE CATALOG OF MAIL-ORDER KITS
By ANNA SEQUOIA
Rawson, Wade Publishers, 1981
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Build your own log cabin, kayak, musical instruments, clock, “vintage” car, tent, “Shaker” furniture and more – at savings up to 50%.
Many of these ideas are still pretty exciting if you have the energy to do it.
BACKPACKING ON A BUDGET
By ANNA SEQUOIA and STEVEN SCHNEIDER
Penguin Handbook Original, 1979
The cost of backpacking and outdoor equipment more than quadrupled in the few years before my brother and I wrote this book. We evaluated a huge range of equipment (including, in my case, sleeping outside in the freezing cold in a sleeping bag that left me with frozen toes), then told readers how to buy what they really needed, things that would last — at savings of 20% to 50% off retail.
We may have been among the first people to talk about Gore-Tex, which was just transitioning from medical/surgical equipment to outdoor gear. Did we buy stock in the company? No. Not that smart…
THE CLIMBERS SOURCEBOOK
By ANNE SCHNEIDER/ANNA SEQUOIA and STEVEN SCHNEIDER
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1976
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The first comprehensive “where to” guide for the climbing community, covering everything from technical climbing schools and clubs, to information on rock- and ice-climbing areas. Includes a guide to the fascinating literature of mountaineering history/herstory and exploration. The book is still quite interesting.