Iris Smith Fischer's book Mabou Mines: Making Avant-Garde Theatre in the 1970s appeared in March 2011 from the University of Michigan Press. This is the first book on the pathbreaking theatre company founded by JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, and David Warrilow in 1970. Like much avant-garde performance of the 1970s, Mabou Mines' early pieces were seldom recorded or documented, a missing history that this book sets out to capture. A paperback edition of the book is planned for Fall 2012.