A friend called me the other day to tell me that a guy named Mark Dery insulted me in a book titled I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts. Yes, Mark Dery, the guy whose review of Apocalypse Culture for the LA Weekly in the early ’90s was more of a personal insult rather than a critique. And then in 2000 [...]

The Department of Justice served Apple and a few actual publishers with a suit on eBook price-fixing charges. Here’s the point of view from a small publisher: The “collusion” accusation mystifies us. We’ve always been at the short end of the deal, and told what to do by the big gorillas in the room, Amazon [...]

Among Feral House’s and Process Media’s wide-ranging array of titles are some conspiratorial books looking into the Oklahoma City Bombing and many other questionable aspects of the establishment line.  For The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, we were sued for libel by Oliver “Buck” Revell, the FBI’s Deputy Chief. We were prepared to raise [...]

Has it been a decade since Feral House signed up the Jamie Gillis / Peter Sotos collaboration, Pure Filth? Well, yes it has. Power of persuasion convinced me to do this project way back when. And why? Peter Sotos called it a “dogshit” book, and we’ve always wanted to publish dogshit books. It contains transcripts, images [...]

The pitch began in 2006 and levitated as the result of viral online videos, word of mouth through yoga classes, and appearances on Oprah. The dissatisfied were open to being sold on the idea of how they could become happy and procure all they ever wanted. The Secret, perhaps the hugest marketing phenomenon of modern [...]

As you know, many people believe that December 2012 is The End. The Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses haven’t bought into that date, so why should we? The  2012 catalogues for Feral House and Process Media prove that we are optimistic enough to believe that technology will not totally fail, and that people will [...]

Talk about coincidences. Here’s a few. After Feral House released Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., in 1992, many readers got quite excited. Practically nothing was actually known about Wood’s life; author Rudolph Grey spent more than a decade tracking down the amazing stories, and I helped Rudolph stitch them [...]