We want to be troubled and inspired by the work. If there is anything explicitly outside our aesthetic, it is work that does not trouble us. We also want to be challenged by the distinct and diverse aesthetics of the various editors working together in this collective press.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. —Rosa Luxemburg I do believe there might be ways in language to express the extreme, the fleeting, the fugitive states that…
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked by Curtis Smith Ig Publishing, 2016 184 pages – Ig / Amazon How does a “classic” book continue to ripple through our culture? This is…
I’ve never wanted to outwardly define Penny-Ante beyond the obvious: “Penny-Ante is a book publisher and an art-based project company.” It’s fairly simple. The press acts in earnest to develop projects we feel deserve an audience. I don’t think a further directive would do any service to the authors. All our authors are independent thinkers and unique personalities who speak boldly for their oeuvre; one of many reasons the press serves their efforts.
The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by Carl Phillips Graywolf Press, August 2014 136 pages – Graywolf / Amazon The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination by poet Carl…
Sylvère Lotringer started Semiotext(e) with a group of friends and grad students at Columbia University in 1974. It quickly evolved from a journal of semiotic theory to a popular magazine, juxtaposing high theory and underground culture, after the publication of the “Schizo-Culture” issue in 1978. The issue brought together artists and thinkers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Kathy Acker, John Cage, Michel Foucault, Jack Smith, William Burroughs, and Lee Breuer.
Twenty Poems That Could Save America by Tony Hoagland Graywolf Press, November 2014 256 pages – Graywolf / Amazon Tony Hoagland’s collection of essays on poetry, Twenty Poems That Could Save…
On one hand, these books are serious bizness and holy shit is it a lot of work. On the other, I enjoy a feeling like I’m getting away with something, publishing book about video games—as if some real adult is going to pop into my life and say, “Okay, Durham, fun’s over.” It hasn’t happened yet.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a two-time Novel Prize winner who developed a theory of radioactivity, discovered two elements, polonium and radium, and founded Curie institutes in Warsaw and Paris. She was…