Permeable Press
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Permeable Press was a San Francisco-based literary publishing company founded in 1990 by Brian Charles Clark. A "micropress" operating on less than U.S.$100,000 per year, Permeable published a number of trade paperback books, chapbooks, and the literary magazines Puck
, Shock Waves, Q-Zine, Naked Review, and Xerotic Ephemera in the early and mid-1990s. Clark sold Permeable Press to Cambrian Publications in 1997.
Puck (literary magazine)
Puck: The Unofficial Journal of the Irrepressible was published by San Francisco-based Permeable Press in the early and mid-1990s. Edited by Brian Charles Clark, Puck published numerous writers in the literary underground, including Hugh Fox, Michael Hemmingson, Lance Olsen, Mark Amerika, Freddie...
, Shock Waves, Q-Zine, Naked Review, and Xerotic Ephemera in the early and mid-1990s. Clark sold Permeable Press to Cambrian Publications in 1997.
List of Books Published
- Shaman by Hugh FoxHugh FoxHugh Bernard Fox Jr. was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders of the Pushcart Prize for literature...
(1993) - The Naughty Yard by Michael HemmingsonMichael HemmingsonMichael Hemmingson is a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, and screenwriter.-Publishing History:...
(1994) - Tonguing the Zeitgeist by Lance OlsenLance Olsen- Biography :Lance Olsen received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison , an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop , and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia...
(1994; finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award) - Cher Wolfe & Other Stories by Mary Leary (1994)
- Once by Hugh Fox (1995)
- The Final Dream & Other Fictions by Daniel Pearlman (1995)
- Some Girls by Sarah Hafner (1995)
- Reasons For Not Sleeping by Michelle Ben-Hur (1995)
- At The News of Your Death by Joshua BeckmanJoshua BeckmanJoshua Beckman is an American poet. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Take It, Shake, and Things Are Happening, which won the first annual Honickman-APR book award. He is also the author of two collaborations with New York–based poet Matthew Rohrer, including Nice Hat...
(1995) - A Beginner's Guide to Art Deconstruction by Norman Conquest (1995)
- Crack Hotel by Michael HemmingsonMichael HemmingsonMichael Hemmingson is a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, and screenwriter.-Publishing History:...
(1995) - Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (pen name of Stan Henry; 1996; finalist for the Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary AwardLambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
) - Stairway to the Sun by Hugh Fox (1996)
- The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut by David Memmott (1996)
- Objects Left Too Long In One Place by Catherine Scherer (1996)
- The Marquis de Sade's Elements of Style by Derek Pell (1996)
- Time Famine by Lance Olsen (1996)
- Toxic Shock Syndrome by Carolina Vegas Starr (1996)
- Flyscraper: Day of the Fly by Mark Romyn (1996)
- The Uncertainty Principle by Steven J. Frank (1997; winner of the Pocket Rocket Award for First Novel)
- Flying Saucers Over Hennepin by Peter Gelman (1997)
- Remote Control by Doug Henderson (1997)
- Minstrels by Michael HemmingsonMichael HemmingsonMichael Hemmingson is a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, and screenwriter.-Publishing History:...
(1997) - Manson Family Picnic by R. Downey (1997)
- Ciphers by Paul Di FilippoPaul Di FilippoPaul Di Filippo is an American science fiction writer. He has been published in Postscripts...
(1997; co-published with Cambrian Publications) - Scratch: Four Stories by Nikki Dillon (pen name of Lisa Dierbeck; 1997)
- Shock Waves contributors included Thom Metzger and Paul Di Filippo.