Soft Skull Press

...about animals, human and otherwise. November 15, 2009 Lydia Millet's first collection of short fiction, "Love in Infant Monkeys" (Soft Skull: 178 pp., $13.95 paper), is a superb book. Featuring 10 stories -- all of which revolve in some...

In this article: Noam Chomsky, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Komodo dragon, God, and Soft Skull

...can follow - and even participate in - the industry's conversations as they take place in real-time. Who: Indie publisher, formerly of Soft Skull Press who is launching an innovative new social publishing startup called Cursor. Why: Nash...

In this article: Twitter and Wired magazine

Lee Ranaldo, the other inventive, dissonant guitar player in Sonic Youth, is also an author, having published tour diaries with Soft Skull Press and other works with independent publishing houses. Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library books...

In this article: Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth, Post Punk, Los Angeles Times, No Wave, Raymond Pettibon, Kim Gordon, Dave Markey, and Lee Ranaldo

...both former LADD skaters. Barbee and Cohen are currently writing a book titled DOWN AND DERBY: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO ROLLER DERBY (Soft Skull Press: 2010) which documents the sport's history in all its do-it-yourself glory. Adolfi and...

In this article: Whip It, Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, and Kristen Wiig

...the winners of this year's Washington State Book Awards are as follows: "All About Lulu" by Jonathan Evison, of Bainbridge Island (Soft Skull Press) "A Map of the Night" by David Wagoner, of Edmonds (University of Illinois Press) "Dark...

In this article: Washington, David Wagoner, Doubleday, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

...on Twitter this summer - the first time a full-length literary novel has been so published, he says - has signed a book deal with Soft Skull Press, reports Publishers Marketplace. In Stewart's words, the novel "tells the story of a San...

In this article: The Lost Symbol, The French Revolution, Amazon.com, San Francisco, Terry Gross, and Twitter

...who was born here. Enough throat clearing! Here are the winners: Fiction: "All About Lulu" by Jonathan Evison of Bainbridge Island (Soft Skull Press). A novel about obsessive love, sibling relations and bodybuilding, in which the...

In this article: Seattle, David Wagoner, Washington, Poetry, University of Washington, Doubleday, Robert Falcon Scott, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

...me when I was 2 years old. " Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys. Edited by David Henry Sterry and R. J. Martin Jr. 333 Pages. Soft Skull Press. Paper, $15.95. But other stories are simply-and strangely-touching, like Kirk Read's, a...

In this article: Mark McKinnon, Meghan McCain, NRC Handelsblad, and Columbia University

..., Jack Sargeant, K. Thor Jensen, Lynne Tillman, Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio and Tim Wise. In December 2005, Richard Eoin Nash, on behalf of Soft Skull Press, was the recipient of the Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing.

In this article: Lambda Literary Award, Lydia Millet, Arthur C Clarke Award, Quill Award, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Brian Gage, K. Thor Jensen, and Counterpoint LLC

...Oswald heard of an opportunity that promised to restore everything. Richard Nash, longtime editorial director of the mighty indie publisher Soft Skull Press, had abruptly resigned, leaving the head of Soft Skull's parent company, Counterpoint...

In this article: Counterpoint LLC, The New York Observer, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux