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Soft Skull Press

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"Thoughtful, critical, committed to expounding an openly manifold perspective toward all modern life, these and other releases by Soft Skull endorse a new, enlightened way of looking at society. Harsh politics and inspired fiction aside, in a nation that starves for real reality, Soft Skull Press has solidly grounded, daringly provocative food for the brain." —Willamette Week "One of the most visable and respected alternative houses in the US...like Grove Press in the 1950's and 1960's." —Quill & Quire (Canada)check out our website at www.softskull.com

My Interests

literature, grove press, alternative publishing houses, fiction, DIY, history, memoir, experimentation, biography, graphic novels, innovation, erotica, GBLT, queer-positive, politics, music, poetry, comix

I'd like to meet:

Authors, experimental fiction writers/readers, poets, artists, innovators, comickers, and anyone interested in provocative literature, art, and music

Movies:

Horns and Halos, Quality of Life

Books:

Some of our authors include: Lydia Millet, Bill Hicks, Michelle Embree, George Tabb, Mark Ames, Lisa Suckdog Carver, Maggie Estep, Wayne Koestenbaum, Claro, Genesis P-Orridge, Robert Newman, David Ohle, Ben Greenman, Sparrow, Tim Wise, Matthew SHarpe, Dennis Cooper, Hal Sirowitz, and Amanda Stern We have published: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, Manstealing for Fat Girls, America: A Prophecy, Going Postal, A*Hole, Document Zippo, Choir Boy, Please Feed Me, Going to Heaven, Half/Life, Northern Gothic, The Age of Sinatra, Surfing Armageddon, Animal Rights and Pornography, Deliver Me from Nowhere, We Are Iran: the Persian Blogs, That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Escape Velocity, Drugs Are Nice, Jokerman 8, Going Postal, White Like Me, The Literary Press and Magazine Directory 2005/06, Branwell: a Novel of the Bronte Brother, Heredity, The Fountain at the Centre of the World, The Haunted Hillbilly, Outline of my Lover, Burning Down the House, A Good War is Hard to Find, The Saddest Little Robot, The Haiku Year, How To Make a Living as a Poet, Scheherazade, Painful but Fabulous, Diary of an Emotional Idiot, What the Fuck: the Avant-Porn Anthology, Superworse, Superhip JoliPUnk, Arming America: the Origins of National Gun Culture, and much more .

Heroes:

Barney Rosset

My Blog

Awards Twofer: Quill & Lambda

Matthew Sharpe's JAMESTOWN is a Quills Finalist in General Fiction and Michael McColly's THE AFTER-DEATH ROOM wins (yes, wins!) the Lambda Literary Award for Spirituality.I know there was much slaggin...
Posted by Soft Skull Press on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:23:00 PST

Lisa Crystal Carver's ex-husband coming to America

A rather obscure headline for some of our readers, no doubt, but a very exciting one for a few, so it behooves us to spread the word:COSTES USA Tour 2007 "Les Petits Oiseaux Chient" or "Little Birds S...
Posted by Soft Skull Press on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:13:00 PST

Catastrophes, real and imagined...

Sorry for the light posting, occasioned by the fact that there is presently too much news, much too much news, and digesting it, and reacting to it, and adjusting to it has to be my primary responsibi...
Posted by Soft Skull Press on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:47:00 PST

All New Softskull Offerings

Cursed from BirthThe Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr.David OhleA portait of a wasted life, Cursed from Birth tells the harrowing story of the writer who referred to himself as the "son ...
Posted by Soft Skull Press on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:57:00 PST