Soft Skull Press
| Parent company | Counterpoint LLC |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Founder | Sander Hicks |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Berkeley, California |
| Distribution | Publishers Group West |
| Key people |
Charlie Winton, CEO Jack Shoemaker, Vice President, Laura Mazer, Executive Editor |
| Nonfiction topics | Alternative culture, LGBTQ literature |
| Imprints | Red Rattle Books |
| Official website | www.softskull.com |
Soft Skull Press is an independent book publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009, and Denise Oswald from 2009 to 2010.[1] In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, who closed Soft Skull's New York operation in 2010.[2] Soft Skull continues to function as an imprint of Counterpoint in Berkeley, California, where Laura Mazer is in charge of the imprint. It is distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West.
Authors
- Mark Ames
- Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
- Jennifer Barbee
- Michael A. Bellesiles
- Paul Berman
- Sanjiv Bhattacharya
- Lisa Carver
- Alex Cohen
- Dennis Cooper
- Mike Doughty
- Mike Edison
- Michelle Embree
- Maggie Estep
- Seth Fried
- Brian Gage
- Daphne Gottlieb
- James Hatfield
- Sander Hicks
- Peter Brown Hoffmeister
- K.Thor Jensen
- Michael Muhammad Knight
- Nick Mamatas
- Douglas A. Martin
- Martin Millar
- Lydia Millet
- Daniel Nester
- Genesis P-Orridge
- Wanda Phipps
- Nate Powell
- Robert Rosen
- Matthue Roth
- Douglas Rushkoff
- Jack Sargeant
- Amanda Stern
- Matt Stewart
- Timothy Taylor
- Lynne Tillman
- Seth Tobocman
- Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio
- Rebecca Walker
- Heth and Jed Weinstein
- Jillian Weise
- William Upski Wimsatt
- Tim Wise
Awards
In 2004, Soft Skull won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender/GenderQueer with Charlie Anders' book Choir Boy. Several other Soft Skull book were nominated for 2004 Lambdas, including That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation ("Anthologies/Nonfiction"), The Haunted Hillbilly ("Gay Men's Fiction"), Skels ("Lesbian Fiction"), Juicy Mother ("Humor"), Manstealing for Fat Girls ("Debut Lesbian Fiction") and Deliver Me from Nowhere ("Transgender/GenderQueer"), among others.[3]
In 2005, publisher Nash was the recipient of the Miriam Bass Award for Creativity in Independent Publishing.[4]
In 2007, Michael McColly's The After-Death Room won the 2007 Lambda Award for Spirituality.[5] The same year, Matthew Sharpe's Jameston was nominated for a 2007 Quill Award for Fiction (losing to Cormac McCarthy's The Road),[5] Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction writing[6] and Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho was on the 2007 Believer Book Award shortlist.[7]
During Denise Oswald's tenure as editorial director, Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys received a cover review in The New York Times, and two titles were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (by Lydia Millet) and drama (by Rajiv Joseph).
References
- ↑ http://www.observer.com/2009/books/denise-oswald-leaps-stolid-fsg-right-soft-skull
- ↑ http://www.observer.com/2010/media/indie-publisher-soft-skull-press-closes-its-doors-new-york
- ↑ 2004 Lambda Literary Awards
- ↑ AAP Press Center
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Soft Skull Press Release about 2007 Awards
- ↑ Arthur C Clarke Awards 2007 Shortlist Announced
- ↑ THE 2007 BELIEVER BOOK AWARDS
External links
- Official site
- Interview with Publisher Richard Nash at 3:AM Magazine
- It's Got to Have Balls: Denise Oswald on Soft Skull's Future