Summer 2008
Hot off the press: an updated, second edition of Anthony Grafton's Codex in Crisis is now available for pre-order. Building on his essay in the New Yorker magazine, Grafton explores the transformation of reading, writing, and information-storage in the digital age. The first edition was reviewed by Julie Melby on the blog of the Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection, and by Caleb Crain as part of his "End-of-the-Book Reading List" at Steamboats Are Ruining Everything.
Also new is 'Tis of Thee: Reflections on the Fourth of July, by Christopher Moses. This handsome chapbook offers a powerful meditation on love of country in a country that can be difficult to love. Published in an edition of 200 copies hand-bound in Patriot Blue.
This spring keep your eyes out for Increments: Drawings, 1970-1995, a stunning retrospective of drawings by the New York artist Regina Granne.
Recent Events
On July 7, The Crumpled Press hosted a multi-author reading at the venerable Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. To wrap-up Independence Day celebrations, Christopher Moses read from his new 'Tis of Thee: Reflections on the Fourth of July.
Also reading were Crumpled Press founding-editor Jordan McIntyre, aid-worker J. Nealin Parker, and Iraq-veteran Derek McGee, pictured below.
On June 4, Derek McGee and award-winning journalist Chris Hedges read and discussed the war in Iraq at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. McGee is author of When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches from Fallujah, a hard-hitting memoir. Hedges' new book, Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, has recently been released by Nation Books.
On May 5, Anthony Grafton read from Codex in Crisis at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. A large audience assembled to celebrate the book's release and to discuss the future of books and publishing. Read a review of the event in Princeton's Town Topics.
Customers looked through the new book, which sported an engraved cover, laid papers, and a fold-out color plate of "The Burning of the Library at Alexandria," by the Italian painter Felice Giani.
On March 1, J. Nealin Parker and Derek McGee read from their new books before a full room at Books & Co. in Lexington, Virginia. Nealin, a Lexington native, is author of Take a Right at the Tank & Other Ways to Get Home, an adapted journal of her experience working to promote democracy and justice in post-war Liberia. Together they discussed "humanitarian" intervention overseas, the relationship between democracy and culture, and the personal dimensions of writing about war.
On February 1, McGee joined a panel on "Writing the War" at the annual meetings of the Association of Writers in New York. Meanwhile, "On Being Home," the final chapter from his When I Wished I Was Here is featured on The Sandbox, a military blog hosted by Slate.com, and appears in a new collection of U.S. soldiers' writing on Iraq and Afghanistan published by Andrews McMeel Universal. The complete text of Derek's book is now in its tenth printing and continues to be the best-seller from The Crumpled Press.
Crumpled Press books are now available in Europe. Take a look at new vendors in Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Brussles, Paris, and Madrid.
Hot off the press: an updated, second edition of Anthony Grafton's Codex in Crisis is now available for pre-order. Building on his essay in the New Yorker magazine, Grafton explores the transformation of reading, writing, and information-storage in the digital age. The first edition was reviewed by Julie Melby on the blog of the Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection, and by Caleb Crain as part of his "End-of-the-Book Reading List" at Steamboats Are Ruining Everything.
Also new is 'Tis of Thee: Reflections on the Fourth of July, by Christopher Moses. This handsome chapbook offers a powerful meditation on love of country in a country that can be difficult to love. Published in an edition of 200 copies hand-bound in Patriot Blue.
This spring keep your eyes out for Increments: Drawings, 1970-1995, a stunning retrospective of drawings by the New York artist Regina Granne.
Recent Events
On July 7, The Crumpled Press hosted a multi-author reading at the venerable Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. To wrap-up Independence Day celebrations, Christopher Moses read from his new 'Tis of Thee: Reflections on the Fourth of July.
Also reading were Crumpled Press founding-editor Jordan McIntyre, aid-worker J. Nealin Parker, and Iraq-veteran Derek McGee, pictured below.
On June 4, Derek McGee and award-winning journalist Chris Hedges read and discussed the war in Iraq at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. McGee is author of When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches from Fallujah, a hard-hitting memoir. Hedges' new book, Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, has recently been released by Nation Books.
On May 5, Anthony Grafton read from Codex in Crisis at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. A large audience assembled to celebrate the book's release and to discuss the future of books and publishing. Read a review of the event in Princeton's Town Topics.
Customers looked through the new book, which sported an engraved cover, laid papers, and a fold-out color plate of "The Burning of the Library at Alexandria," by the Italian painter Felice Giani.
On March 1, J. Nealin Parker and Derek McGee read from their new books before a full room at Books & Co. in Lexington, Virginia. Nealin, a Lexington native, is author of Take a Right at the Tank & Other Ways to Get Home, an adapted journal of her experience working to promote democracy and justice in post-war Liberia. Together they discussed "humanitarian" intervention overseas, the relationship between democracy and culture, and the personal dimensions of writing about war.
On February 1, McGee joined a panel on "Writing the War" at the annual meetings of the Association of Writers in New York. Meanwhile, "On Being Home," the final chapter from his When I Wished I Was Here is featured on The Sandbox, a military blog hosted by Slate.com, and appears in a new collection of U.S. soldiers' writing on Iraq and Afghanistan published by Andrews McMeel Universal. The complete text of Derek's book is now in its tenth printing and continues to be the best-seller from The Crumpled Press.
Crumpled Press books are now available in Europe. Take a look at new vendors in Amsterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Brussles, Paris, and Madrid.