Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Thanks to the fine fellows at Soft Skull press I have a free copy of the War Nerd book, a compliation of his eXile columns and an essential companion for every armchair General Butt Naked. I’m also in the process...
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
*Tim Wise is the author of: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (Routledge: 2005). He can be reached at: timjwise@msn.com* March 18, 2008 Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
... May 2007 publication, and tried again, this time for July 2008,” writes Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull Press . And to pull out more stops, this preview eBook.” Related: Amazon page for the new Ohle book. Also see PW writeup , concluding: “Ohle’s creation of a vivid world, both familiar and foreign, dark and slyly humorous, makes the book a grim delight.” ( Via book critic...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
The anti-capitalist capitalist. Photo: Newscom Sander Hicks is a former book publisher (he ran Soft Skull Press), a proselytizer for the 9/11 conspiracy-theory movement, and proprietor of a politicized coffee shop/bookstore called Vox Pop in Flatbush that he dreams of building into a national chain rivaling Starbucks. With his second location set to open (inside the Bowery Poetry...
Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
I just received a copy of the Counterpoint Spring 08 catalog which included titles from Counterpoint, Sierra Club Books and Soft Skull Press. While I was happy to see all the titles offered here (and especially Sierra Club - I really need to track down a copy of Birding Babylon . I just read about it again in Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
Here’s the part where the straight, white (American) male reviews the collection of mostly gay but sometimes other ethnic and racial minority comics. Let's see what happens. Juicy Mother is an aught five anthology from Soft Skull press featuring work by a bunch of folks I’ve quite honestly never heard of, mixed in with stuff [...]
machine project (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
We’re excited to tell you our friends Janet Sarbanes and Maggie Nelson will be reading selections from their new books at Machine Project this Saturday, March 8th at 8pm. Maggie’s book from Soft Skull Press is called “Something Bright, Then Holes”; Janet's is “Army of One” from Otis Books; neither of them know about the finale [...]
Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
The second in our “Cult of Crime” series (Part 1: Foxy Knoxy and the case of the honorary Missing White Woman ) Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion by Mark Ames Soft Skull Press, 2005 360 pages, $15.95 In April 2007, when a Virginia Tech student killed 32, it was one of the worst ever, to coin a phrase, “social shootings.” Earlier, in February, five were killed in a Salt...
Kevin Smokler (Free subscription) | 11/11/2007
... West, which is meeting at The Canyons Resort through today. Side Note: The Trib mistakenly called Soft Skull Press an "online publisher." They publish regular ole' paper books. I brought them up as examples of innovators marketers in the publishing space.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
... and Daniel Burton-Rose, of "Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches From A Global Movement," Soft Skull Press, 2003. Added To The Calendar On Monday Oct 29th, 2007 11:23 AM
The Village Voice (Free subscription) | 10/16/2007
Something Bright, Then HolesBy Maggie Nelson Soft Skull Press, 80 pp., $15.95 by Alexander Nazaryanby James Ledbetterby Alexis Soloskiby YHVHby Ken Switzerby Isabelle Mills-Tannenbaum and Rebecca SmeyneSavage Love by Dan SavageRockie Weekly Horoscope by Rockieby Kirk NielsenPucker Up by Tristan Taormino"Most Popular" tools brought to you by: Following the publication of her first...
Booksquare (Free subscription) | 09/24/2007
... (though, in all honesty, these days, the review thing is more myth than reality.). Richard Nash of Soft Skull Press started me thinking when he broke down the numbers between releasing a new-to-the-world author in hardcover versus trade paperback: That's why you're seeing fewer and fewer hardcover debuts. There is virtually no existing audience for that writer. So a great review...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 09/18/2007
... Wood ) Wet Asphalt recommends Douglas A. Martin's Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother : Soft Skull Press is currently experiencing a financial crisis. As a result, they're offering their entire catalog at 40% off . If you'd like to take advantage of this, may I recommend Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother by Douglas A. Martin ? Full disclosure: Martin was my writing...
The Mumpsimus (Free subscription) | 09/17/2007
... and A Public Space is one such magazine. Gavin Grant and Jed Berry manfully manned the Small Beer Press table. Tempest and I had discussed the fact that there haven't been any good, physical literary fights recently -- plenty of internet flamewars and such, but nobody actually punching somebody out -- and so we tried to convince Gavin that he should start such a fight, perhaps at the upcoming...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/16/2007
Parke started out studying acting, then spent time in the music industry, including 13 years as Prince's personal art department. Now, working with writer Jonathon Scott Fuqua, he is close to wrapping his third graphic novel, the story of a teen whose special ability helps her fit right in with a traveling sideshow. Coming in the spring from Soft Skull Press, Medusa's Daughter...
