San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
X Films True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker By Alex Cox Soft Skull Press; 304 pages; $17.95 paperback At the climax of "Searchers 2.0," the 2007 film by offbeat director Alex Cox, two heroes - both dumpy, middle-aged ex-child actors - face off against...
Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison2008 by Soft Skull Press 344 pages978-1593761967 $14.95 I think Mr. Evison plays a little trick on his readers with the title of his book. All About Lulu is really all about William, William Miller...
Feministing (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
I'm a big fan of Soft Skull press, which is sort of a haven for the kind of creative stuff that the mainstream publishing industry is notoriously scared of--graphic novels, photojournalism, queer lit, youth political analysis. Check them out, if...
Booksquare (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
We bring you this lovely quote from Richard Nash of Soft Skull Press. He addresses a topic near and dear to our hearts: I was relieved to learn I wasn’t crazy, that the unorthodox cover worked, but once that relief wore off, I started to realize that far more reader interactions like that are necessary, that [...]
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Dick Wimmer, The Wildly Irish Sextet (Soft Skull Press). Following the elemental Seamus Boyne (Irish Wine: The Trilogy) into the genius painter's old age, Wimmer cuts his creation no senior citizen slack. Boyne is wilder, more famous and more self-centered...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
All About Lulu By Jonathan Evison Soft Skull Press; 340 pages; $14.95 paperback Do all coming-of-age tales in postwar America spill from Holden Caulfield's red hunting hat? The opening line of Jonathan Evison's first novel pays its respects: "First, I'm going...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
This is fun—a spirited debate on the future the of the book, complete with one brave soul, Richard Nash at Soft Skull Press, telling of "the recent acquisition of my company by Luddites who will never read this comment." Hence "I’m temporarily all talk and no action." The Luds are apparently from Winton, Shoemaker [...]
The BN Village (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Letter to Certain White Women Who Are Threatening to Withhold Support from Obama in November by White Male Author.....Tim Wise...... 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 Your Whiteness is Showing By TIM WISE This...
Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Just got the combined catalog for Counterpoint, Sierra Books & Soft Skull Press last week. Sierra Club didn't have much this time but there were several titles in the other two imprints that appealed to me. Here are the standouts: Race to the Polar Sea by Ken McGoogan. BOOYAH! A polar history title! This one is about none other than Elisha Kent Kane one of the most famous northern explorers of all...
Blood & Treasure (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
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...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
If you like your plagues depicted more stylishly than does Michael Crichton, you might check out The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle, a freebie from the ad-supported Wowio service. I’ve just run across it, but the start makes me want to read on: “Victims of the Pisstown parasite were thought of as dead, but not enough [...]
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
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 Club in the East...
Chasing Ray (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
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 and it sounds great),...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 15/03/2008
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) | 02/03/2008
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 [...]
