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ERIC LARSEN, FOUNDER & PUBLISHER
ADAM ENGEL, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
"The Nation's Last Truly Independent Press" | |
IN SUPPORT OF THE "OCCUPY WALL STREET" MOVEMENT, OLIVER ARTS & OPEN
PRESS DONATES BOOKS | |
On September 24th, the start of the second week of the extraordinary protest movement to "Occupy Wall Street" that's headquartered in Zuccotti Park, at Broadway and Liberty Street in downtown Manhattan, staff members of The Oliver Arts & Open Press joined the protesters not only to show their support of the movement but to donate books to the protesters' small but expanding library at the park's edge.
Oliver donated copies of:
THE BLUE RENTAL by Barbara Mor
CELLA FANTASTIK by Adam Engel
THE SKULL OF YORICK by Eric Larsen
ABLONG by Alan Salant
I HOPE MY CORPSE GIVES YOU THE PLAGUE by Adam Engel
FROM COMPLICITY TO CONTEMPT by Tim Gatto
A NATION GONE BLIND by Eric Larsen
KIMCHEE DAYS by Tim Gatto
TOPIARY by Adam Engel
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HOMER FOR REAL by Eric Larsen
Conscientiously and with high hope, The Oliver Arts & Open Press staff members looked for representatives of other presses who might also have come to Zuccotti Park for the purpose of donating books to the movement. Alas, however, none were to be seen. No representatives were visible from Doubleday; Dutton; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Houghton-Mifflin, Knopf; Little, Brown; Pantheon; Putnam; Random House; Simon & Schuster; St. Martin's, etc., etc., etc., etc. . .
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AUTHOR OF THE SKULL OF YORICK IS INTERVIEWED ON RADIO WBAI |
On September 26th, Geoff Brady of Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City interviewed Eric Larsen on the subject of his book, The Skull of Yorick: The Emptiness of American Thinking at a Time of Grave Peril--Studies in the Cover-Up of 9/11. Following Brady's show--"In Other News"--listeners were invited to call in. Most were simpatico and appreciative, although one most irascible sort charged Larsen with "being CIA."
"I concluded a long time ago that American literature is dead," Larsen remarked, "and it is dead because American thought-feeling is dead." What is "thought-feeling"? It is being able to see and perceive what's true, doing so by and for yourself, using both intellect and emotions. If you believe that lies are truth, then you can't possibly possess thought-feeling, since by definition you are accepting that which is false for that which is true. And without thought-feeling, said Larsen, "you can't have art. It will die."
America, he argues, is committing emotional, cultural, and political suicide by allowing lies, among them the toweringly great lie of 9/11, to replace reality. And "the corpo-milito-governmento powers, visible for example in [Dwight Garner of the New York Time's] writing, are doing and will do everything it/they possibly can to keep thought-feeling dead--to keep everything that has to do with individual conscience, consciousness, and perception in America as completely dead as dead can be kept."
Does that sound like a CIA-guy to you?
Get your copy of the book by CLICKING HERE.
To listen to the complete interview with Geoff Brady, along with the call-ins, CLICK HERE.
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AVAILABLE AT LAST:
ALEN SILVA'S AFGHANISTAN: A WINDOW ON THE TRAGEDGY |
AFTER PRODUCTION DELAYS, ALEN SILVA'S PHOTOGRAPHIC AFGHANISTAN: A WINDOW ON THE TRAGEDY, IS NOW AVAILABLE. READ MORE ABOUT THIS NOTABLE BOOK AND
BUY YOUR COPY HERE.
Thirty-seven-year-old Basque-born Alen Silva is a photographer for newspapers in his native Basque Country, Spain. Beyond doing that work, he has also, over the past fourteen years, travelled widely throughout Latin America and Asia. In fact, he is now planning a return to Asia to make a documentary film about the Afghan refugee camps near Peshawar in Pakistan.
Twice, Silva travelled across a desperately war-torn Afghanistan, going into areas where few foreigners would even think of daring to venture. As a result, Silva brings us this extraordinary book, with its soul-searing photographs of a devastated land. Through Silva's unblinking and often very beautiful images, the viewer can see-among the ruins of Kabul and of the Bamiyan Buddhas, in the wreckage of Soviet tanks, in the sad ruin of Afghan society itself-that the hope for peace still lights the weary faces of the Afghan people, a people who readily welcomed Silva to their homeland.
Well-known actor, writer, and dedicated activist Mike Farrell writes:
"Alen Silva's window on the tragedy of Afghanistan is a wondrous demonstration of the value art can bring to life. His work vividly depicts the history, the haunting beauty, the glory and the horror of Afghanistan. This book rips at the conscience while it begs for a future for this ravaged land."
CLICK HERE TO BUY AFGHANISTAN: A WINDOW ON THE TRAGEDY |
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COMING IN MERE DAYS
FROM
THE OLIVER ARTS & OPEN PRESS |
AUTUMN LAMP IN RAIN, poetry by Han Glassman (Yoo Han Pil)
LISTENING TO THE THUNDER, poetry by Helen Tzagoloff
THE EXPEDITION SETS OUT, poetry by Alan Salant
DANCE WITHOUT STEPS, prose narrative by Paul Bendix
OFF THE TRAIL, poetry by Douglas Valentine
THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY, a novel by Eric Larsen
AND MORE. . .
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IN THE MEANWHILE. . .
A NOTE:
Working without assets, endowment, or reserves, The Oliver Arts & Open Press aims to publish works of high merit and significance that are ignored or suppressed by mainstream publishing. If you care about this cause and are able or would like to help with it, we at Oliver would be enormously grateful, as would the authors whose work we seek to celebrate and make known.
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