Publishing Without Borders

Posted on September 11th, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy

Here’s a riveting interview with Richard Nash, formerly of Soft Skull Press, by Matt Runkle in the Boston Review. While I don’t sign off on everything Nash says about the future of publishing, he’s clearly onto something in the remarks below. I believe there’s some tradeoff between physical sales and giving material away on the [...]

Filed under: Books

9/11: Goading Us Into War

Posted on September 11th, 2011 by Daniel McCarthy

Ten years ago I was a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and had only begun to write semi-professionally. On the Tuesday of the 9/11 attacks, I had woken up early to study for a quiz that morning and saw on the Drudge Report that some nitwit had flown his light plane into [...]

Filed under: War, World