Aug 23, 2024
Favorite small presses?
shitehead1 year ago
Semiotext Time Spiral Press Raw Dog (even though they pretend to be closed while still taking submissions from their clique)
If you like horror I've read Chiroptera and Grimscribe presses pretty religiously the last few years and been super happy with them
I'll post 2 photobook publishers, they are all small enough compared to big pubs: shashasha, japanese photobook distributor / press https://www.shashasha.co/en Loose joints, incredible stuff https://loosejoints.biz/
This has been addressed tangentially on two or three different posts, but I figured many with some to share haven't responded since the titles don't reflect what the discussion evolved into.
Asterism—Collection of presses. Several are great. 11:11 Press—Consistently good. Action Books—Hit-or-miss. Alternating Current Press—Best Small Fictions is pretty good. Rest is mostly misses. Anvil Press—A Feed Dog Book is good. The rest not. Vancouver. Apogee Press—Poetry. Lives up to the name. BlazeVOX Burning Deck—Closed but was great Calamari—Consistently exceptional. Circumference—Consistently good. Never great. Contra Mundum—Consistently great. Ellipsis Press—Quite good. Inside the Castle—Consistently good. Kelsey Street Press—*Her WIP* would be a good fit. Metatron—Mean to read them. Perugia Press—Good. Publishes one contest winner per year. Spiral Editions—Diary of A String blew me away. Haven’t tried any other poets yet. Ugly Duckling Presse—Brilliant more often than most. Good or great otherwise. Atlas—Great avant-garde republishings. Coach House Books—Consistently Excellent Corona/Samizdat Press—Slovenian American expats. Rick bricks. Almost always brilliant. Dead Ink Books—Consistently Great. FC2 Galley Beggar—Largely ephemeral, occasionally eternal. Giramondo Grove Atlantic Isolarii—Subscription plan. All good or great. New Directions The Journal of Experimental Fiction—Consistently amazing. Milkweed—Consistently good. Penned in the Margins—Consistently great. Six Gallery Press—Consistently good Raw Dog Screaming Press—Edgy and experimental, a winning combo. Salò Press—Hipster-punks. Tough Poets Press—Reprints of forgotten works. Largely great books. English translations Archipelago Books—Good, broad selection. Several exceptional works. Charco Press—Latin America. No clue on translation quality, only that the originals are generally great. Dalkey Fitzcarraldo Open Letter—University of Rochester’s translations. Translations are good. Peirene—Phenomenal European works. Pushkin Press Tilted Axis Press—Translator of The Vegetarian coasting off success. Asian lit. Translations are fine. Transit Books—Consistently exceptional. Local business (Oakland).
All of these I or my GF have read at least three books from. No comment means we didn't have one on our doc (we've memorized details of most of these) and I think it's mainstream enough for me to not add one now.
hieratichead1 year ago
This is great thanks
someone like this so I can find this thread again later pls 💜