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Authors & Editors:
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| Wanda Phipps |
Author of the forthcoming Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. |
| CAConrad |
Author of the forthcoming Deviant Propulsions. |
| Hilton Obenzinger |
Author of the forthcoming A*Hole. |
| Robert Newman |
Author of the forthcoming The Fountain at the Center of the World. |
| Amanda Stern |
Author of The Long Haul. Readings, Happy Ending, ugly teen photos, more! |
| Hal Sirowitz |
Author of Before, During and After and the forthcoming Father Said. |
| Maggie Estep |
Author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot. |
| Eileen Myles |
Author of Cool for You. |
| David Ray |
Author of The Endless Search. |
| Daphne Gottlieb |
Author of Why Things Burn and Final Girl. Events! Info! LiveJournal! |
| Nick Mamatas |
Author of Northern Gothic. |
| Mike Doughty |
Author of Slanky. |
| Brian Gage |
Author of Snark, Inc. and The Amazing Snox Box. Also check out the official website of the Snark Corporation., and the official Snox site! |
| Daniel Nester |
Author of God Save My Queen. |
| Shanna Compton |
Associate publisher, LIT editrix, and ass-kicking Texan poetess! |
| Thomas Hopkins |
Who keeps this website looking fine. |
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Friends:
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| Summersault |
Looking to ramp up your online presence? Soft Skull Press recommends checking out
Summersault, a progressive, community-focused web development firm. They built our first website - let them build yours. |
| gwbush.com |
The satire perpetrated by Zach Exley, author of the forthcoming Trust the People. |
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Independent Media:
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F.A.I.R. |
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the gnat on the back of corporate media bias. |
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Corporate Motherfucker |
An e-zine that speaks to the workers of doldrum cubicle life, encouraging revolution by being yourself inside the corporate world--be a CORPORATE MOTHERFUCKER! |
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3AM Magazine |
3AM Magazine is an independent cultural publication with an international feel. Find short fiction, political satire, and music reviews in this alternative ezine. |
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DN! |
Amy Goodman's Democracy NOW! radio show. |
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Z. |
A truly independent political magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States. |
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Mother Jones |
Ass-kicking coverage of social justice, the environment, politics, and popular culture. |
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NYC IndyMedia Center |
A democratic forum. A great resource for unbiased news and information on activism. |
| Punk Planet |
New music! New ideas! |
| Michael Moore |
Roger and Me, TV Nation, Downsize This!, and beyond. |
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American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee |
News, as well as legal and educational information. |
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Independent Bookstores:
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PLEASE NOTE: This is in NO WAY a complete or exhaustive list of bookstores where Soft Skull Press titles are available—just a few very cool ones that we're fond of that have websites! We are distributed to the trade by PGW, and you should be able to get our titles wherever books are sold; for more information, please read our FAQ page.
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| Bluestockings |
New York's righteous and fabulous independent women's bookstore. Still in action! |
| St Mark's Bookshop |
Cultural theory, poetry, graphic design, small presses, and beyond! |
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Casco Bay Books |
Our best friends Down East! |
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Modern Times |
Our best friends in San Francisco! |
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Prairie Lights |
A word oasis in Iowa City. Famed for its author readings. |
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Midnight Special |
Specializing in social and political titles, on the wacked-out promenade in Santa Monica, CA.
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Quimby's |
Chigago bookstore that strives to carry "every cool - bizarre - strange - dope - queer - surreal - weird publication
ever written and published." |
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Avenue Victor Hugo |
Great used books in downtown Boston, with an eclectic mix and political bent. Say hi to Blue. |
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Powell's |
Portland, Oregon's City of Books, occupying an entire city block with an amazing selection. |
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Olsson's |
In the heart of Dupont Circle, in Washington, DC; eclectic, intelligent, hardcore politics and economics sections. |
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Internationalist Books |
A volunteer run collective, a not-for-profit bookstore, a progressive community center, and community owned cooperative in Chapel Hill, NC. |
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Independent Presses:
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2/13/61 |
DC-punk-spawned Henry Rollins, his music, his words, his publishing house. |
| AK Press |
Oakland-based, collectively organized, radical publishing and distribution of anarchism and the kickass underground. |
| Akashic Books |
Johnny Temple of
Girls Against Boys merges the literary with the political. |
| City Lights |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's press at the landmark bookstore of the same name. One of the greatest indies ever. |
| Fence Books |
Book-publishing arm of the NYC-based biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism. |
| Four Walls Eight Windows |
Since 1987, publishers of a library of progressive, investigative
nonfiction and edgy downtown lit. |
| Garrett County Press |
Harvey Wallbanger, New Orleans, and the pre-anti-ist ideal (hosts of the NOLA bookfair!). |
| Highwater Books |
Fellow Brooklynites! Comix from James Kochalka, Matt Madden, Megan Kelso, and more. |
| Howling Dog Press |
Click here for an excerpt from The Endless Search by David Ray, forthcoming from Soft Skull Press. |
| Manic D Press |
Fiction of punks, slackers, hippies, and lost souls. Non-fiction includes best-selling Underground Guides to LA and SF. |
| McSw. |
The Quarterly Concern, the frequentish web content, the Ben Greenman, the David Byrne, the Neal Pollack, The Believer, the &c. |
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Open City
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The literature of tomorrow today! |
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Route Online |
British publisher who, in their own words, "strives to unearth and promote words and voices the established presses wouldn't touch with your bargepole." |
| Soho Press |
The giant of the NYC indies. |
| Seven Stories |
Chomsky to Nader to Zinn. |
| TNI Books |
Stand Up, Ernie Baxter: You're Dead. |
| Verse Press |
Books from the good folks who bring you the eponymous poetry journal. |
| Verso |
The left-hand page. Books with a critical edge. |
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Vision Paperbacks |
The UK publisher of Fortunate Son. Independent publishers of controversial and accessible non-fiction. |
