Heresy Press: A Revolution in Literary Publishing

Episode 63: While reviewing the first four novels published by the upstart Heresy Press, I comment on the attempt of the new independent house to take soft censorship and ideological curation out of the current publishing model while, most importantly, publishing literature of quality.

0:00 Director, Mission and Advisory Board
3:28 Deadpan by Richard Walter
7:21 The Hermit by Katerina Grishakova
12:11 Animal: Notes from a Labyrinth by Alan Fishbone
14:36 Unsettled States by Tom Casey
17:52 Untainted by Ideological Curation

Books / writers / presses mentioned, in order of appearance:
Heresy Press, Director Bernard Schweizer (https://heresy-press.com/)
Sherman Alexie, Meghan Daum, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard North Patterson, Steven Pinker, Junot Diaz, Carmen Maria Machado.
Nothing Sacred: Outspoken Voices in American Fiction, a collection of 12 short stories by various authors (Heresy Press, 2023)
Deadpan, Richard Walter (Heresy Press, 2023)
The Hermit, Katerina Grishakova (Heresy Press, 2023)
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe, 1987
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal: Notes from a Labyrinth, Alan Fishbone (Heresy Press, 2024)
John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson
Unsettled States, Tom Casey (Heresy Press, 2024)
Robert Stone, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Block (the Matthew Scudder series), John D. MacDonald
Autofocus Literary (https://www.autofocuslit.com/)
Hamilcar Publications (https://hamilcarpubs.com/)
CB Editions (https://www.cbeditions.com/books.html)

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