Interview: Soft Skull Press
Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull (left)
Soft Skull’s FAQ informs that this indie press began as a guerilla operation out of Kinko’s when founder Sander Hicks was an employee there in 1992. Hicks has parted since, but with Richard Nash serving as the publisher beginning 2001, it has been printing over 40 titles a year. Its titles span a range of genres, including fiction, poetry, politics, translations, art and erotica. To give the readers a sample of the work it’s been putting out, here are some of the books that were published this year: Lynn Tillman’s American Genius: a Comedy, Kevin Powell’s Someday We’ll All Be Free, Jonathan Becker’s Bush and Putin as Leaders, Nikolai Maslov’s Sibera, David Griffith’s A Good War Is Hard to Find, Marck Swartz’s H2O, and Martin Millar’s The Good Fairies of New York.
Interview after the jump
