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Other Excellent Literary Sites:

Hotel St. George Press
"Hotel St. George Press is committed to producing books resistant to the predictable trends of genre, style and structure endemic to corporate publishing. We create bound narrative objects--unique, slender, palpable, playful--that wed the formal novelty of children's books to the content of sophisticated mature fiction."

Seven Stories Press
One of New York's best independent book publishers.

Four Walls Eight Windows
Another fine independent publisher from New York.

Soft Skull Press
Boerum Hill's vanguard publishers and punk agitators.

2.13.61
Excellent publishing house run by punk legend Henry Rollins.

Loudmouth Collective
Publishers of "(chap)books by some of the bright and underrated talents within the margins of the writing world. "

Ludlow Press
"The new home of cutting-edge literature"

Small Press Distribution
Nurturing a cultural environment in which the literary arts are valued and sustained.

Arsenal Pulp Press
Arsenal's list consists of unsentimental, alternative narratives that subvert or cross genres.

Independent Press Association
"The antidote to monopolymedia."

Old School Books
An edgy and extreme chapter of black literary history.

Vision Paperbacks
Independent UK publishers of controversial non-fiction

Quimby's
Great Chicago bookstore and national mail order.

Black Sparrow Press
America's best avant-garde poetry, prose & literary criticism.

S.S.O. Press
Olympia, WA-based publishers of poetry and more.

The American Book Congress Electric Journal
Bringing the reading to vitality, and the vitality to reading.

The Official Website of Bronx Biannual: The Literary Journal of Urbane Urban Literature

Croaking Marley
Jamaican sensation Marlon James, live and direct from cyberspace.

Politics:

The Nation
The best weekly left-wing political journal in the country. National & international politics, arts, culture.

Pop+Politics
Farai Chideya's groundbreaking website challenging ignorance and closed minds in politics and popular culture.

Los Angeles Free Press
The true alternative to corporate controlled media.

Punk Planet
Underground music and radical politics.

Music, Film, + Art links:

Boxers and Ballerinas, a groundbreaking new film exploring the Cuban diaspora, from Havana to Miami.

La Lutta New Media Collective
Community based group of creative activists providing new media technical assistance and production development including documentaries, digital video and multimedia in the areas of social justice and independent art/activism.

Girls Against Boys
Noise merchants.

Jade Tree Records
The finest in Delaware's long, illustrious history of independent rock.