Long ago … (are the mid-1980s considered “long ago”?) … well, back in the mid-1980s, we began our book publishing efforts with the collaborative and financial assistance of Kenneth Swezey, and agreed to name our emerging publishing company Amok Press as a way to help promote a mail order catalogue (the Amok Dispatch) and a [...]

From Latino.foxnews.com: “Juarez is returning to maps featuring attractions for visitors to the U.S.-Mexico border region around El Paso after two years of being excluded due to a wave of drug-related violence.” “‘Ciudad Juarez should never have been excluded from the tourist map of El Paso since it’s our main trade partner and we are all [...]

Will Amato, god bless him, provided crucial documents to the Feral House book, Lexicon Devil, about Darby Crash and the strange elemental days of LA punk rock. That material consisted of a yearbook to the bizarre, influential alternative program of West LA’s University High School called “IPS”, an odd Scientology/EST program that formatively influenced Germs performers [...]

The must-see Source Family documentary opened at IFC this week after a series of amazing events in New York including a night of Source Family home movies, an afternoon of meditation, white magick, and holistic food and numerous Q&A’s with Electricity and Isis Aquarian, original Source members. If you are in New York City, San [...]

We are not here in physical form on this planet very long. What do we do and what do we learn while occupying these bodies of ours? In the late ’60s and early ’70s particularly, fellow souls explored the WTF and What Is It?, and often attached themselves to a larger group of explorers for [...]

Why would Feral House publish such a book? You mean, the one written by that Iranian dude from Scottsdale, Arizona, land of rich asshats? Yeah dude, what’s up with all that? Are you asking about the guy who does TheDirty.com website? The one that insults women who fuck rich Saudis, get boob jobs and whose thighs [...]

The backlash has begun. The new Feral House book, Dying for the Truth, consists of new material as well as older but significant posts from the Mexican Drug War blog, Blog Del Narco. This blog is one of the most heavily trafficked in Mexico, and as a result seem to foment a great deal of resentment. Not [...]

A few months ago I received a phone call from a writer of various pop culture bestsellers. This man is so respected by the publishing industry that a major New York publisher has given him his own imprint. As it happened, this multi-billion dollar publishing company refused to print the famous writer’s new property, at [...]

Green Apple, Other Cinema, yes, San Francsco—here we come. Tonight—that is Friday March 29th at 7 pm—I’ll be speaking about the Process Media book co-written with Maja D’Aoust, The Secret Source, and also about Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Inflence In American Society, A Visual Guide (co-written by Craig Heimbichner) in a visually-enhanced presentation. Find further information on [...]