2007
The Crumpled Press published two new books, each in its own way exploring the complicated situations created by the projection of American power abroad: Derek McGee's When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches from Fallujah, a first-hand account of the war in Iraq, and J. Nealin Parker's Take a Right at the Tank & Other Ways to Get Home, an illustrated photo-journal of the author's experience promoting democracy in post-war Liberia. Both books sold well and served as the focal point for readings and discussion at the local level.
On February 17, Derek McGee, a veteran and Rhinebeck native, read and discussed the war before a full house at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck, New York.
McGee then joined Crumpled Press editor Jordan Kenneth McIntyre on March 9 to read at the Pinetree Lodge in New York City.
On March 10, J. Nealin Parker gave a moving reading and signed copies of her new book in a cosy upstairs room at The Cranbury Bookworm in Cranbury, New Jersey.
Nicholas Jahr's fictional 911, first published by The Crumpled Press in 2005, was reviewed in Xerography Debt, a Baltimore-based zine. Follow the link to a pdf of Issue #21, page 32.
The Crumpled Press also received its first full-length feature: "Publisher is a Hands-On Group," wrote Lacey Korevec in the March 9 edition of The Cranbury Press.
The Crumpled Press published two new books, each in its own way exploring the complicated situations created by the projection of American power abroad: Derek McGee's When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches from Fallujah, a first-hand account of the war in Iraq, and J. Nealin Parker's Take a Right at the Tank & Other Ways to Get Home, an illustrated photo-journal of the author's experience promoting democracy in post-war Liberia. Both books sold well and served as the focal point for readings and discussion at the local level.
On February 17, Derek McGee, a veteran and Rhinebeck native, read and discussed the war before a full house at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck, New York.
McGee then joined Crumpled Press editor Jordan Kenneth McIntyre on March 9 to read at the Pinetree Lodge in New York City.
On March 10, J. Nealin Parker gave a moving reading and signed copies of her new book in a cosy upstairs room at The Cranbury Bookworm in Cranbury, New Jersey.
Nicholas Jahr's fictional 911, first published by The Crumpled Press in 2005, was reviewed in Xerography Debt, a Baltimore-based zine. Follow the link to a pdf of Issue #21, page 32.
The Crumpled Press also received its first full-length feature: "Publisher is a Hands-On Group," wrote Lacey Korevec in the March 9 edition of The Cranbury Press.