Independence Day 2011: Independent Publishers We Love For Their Spirit (PHOTOS)

Despite the difficult publishing climate especially for the big houses, there are still publishers that are thriving and marching to the beat of their own drummers. Here is a roundup of some of our favorite independent and/or small publishing houses. There are so many great ones, though -- please use the "Add a Slide" button below to add your favorite independent publisher to the list if we missed it!

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Melville House Publishing in Brooklyn, NY was born out of the excellent book blog MobyLives. Look out for their beautifully designed Contemporary Art of the Novella series which features authors from around the world.

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Melville House Publishing in Brooklyn, NY was born out of the excellent book blog MobyLives. Look out for their beautifully designed Contemporary Art of the Novella series which features authors from around the world.

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[cb nunez]

11:12 AM on 07/06/2010

This is cool, but did you really have to make it a gallery? You don't need to pump up page views that badly, do you?

[Taurus]

10:00 PM on 07/05/2010

Let's talk about favorite books these presses have published. Melville House recently brought out Hans Fallada's "Every man Dies Alone," a white-hot story about German resistance in WW II Berlin published right after the war. Truly amazing.

[Susan Schneider]

05:23 PM on 07/05/2010

You could add David R. Godine, Inc. who has been publishing quality editions since 1970 (his early editions were fine letterpress) and in 2002 added the Black Sparrow Press backlist and new imprint Black Sparrow Books. Also, Copper Canyon Press, a publisher of poetry, that has more recently published W.S. Merwin and Ted Kooser, both US poet laureates, is also a wonderful press.

[POODLE1]

04:52 PM on 07/05/2010

Um Softskull? Overlook? Europa? This list is pretty pathetic.

[laucarlson]

03:59 PM on 07/05/2010

Chicago Review Press

[Diann Blakely]

11:00 AM on 07/09/2010

Yes, especially the Lawrence Hill and A Cappella imprints--hooray for Yuval Taylor! And DaCapo: though usually known for their excellent music titles, they are branching out with first-rate novels like Kim Powers's CAPOTE IN KANSAS--coincidentally, or not so coincidentally, see the related article I read here about "reclusive writers." An enormously powerful book that I suspect--and I say this as an Alabama native--gets the story EXACTLY right, and with multidinous resonances and layers within its pages; and, speaking of Alabama, their reprint of Dennis Covington's phenomenal--I use the word quite literally--SALVATION ON SAND MOUNTAIN.

[lupa402]

11:59 AM on 07/05/2010

Might I add, Feral House: a non-fiction house that has been considered an important investigative resource, though often times subversive voice, for over 20 years.

[kelseyswindler]

11:53 AM on 07/05/2010

This is such an inspiring read for book-lovers, great to see small independent presses pushing the envelope on creativity. Orange Frazer Custom Books is another great one, located here in my hometown of Wilmington, OH. Check out their beautiful stop motion video to see what I mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhIdhc9q8q0

[Diann Blakely]

11:35 AM on 07/09/2010

Yes, for this reason if no other: I fear deeply that university presses will soon be a thing of the past.  If there's anything the Gulf oil disaster has shown, it is that corporations own our government, and thus they own our universities too. The latter are cutting back and cutting back and trying to force journals online and actual presses to close.  In my region, LSU is perilously near to shutting down altogether. With Georgia, particularly regarding its National Poetry Series and Cave Canem titles--unless I'm wrong about Texas, and I may well be--these two are the only Southern presses that even publish poetry. (See Ted Genoways' superlative blog on this subject at VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW.) The future of serious literature, serious music, serious bookstores in this country lies with the independents, and everyone with a concern in any of these should feel morally obliged to support them, and as frequently and wholeheartedly as possible.

[Diann Blakely]

06:16 AM on 07/12/2010

Two bright spots, nevertheless, are in my immediate ken as still shining: Carnegie-Mellon, which will publish Rachel Richardson's COPPERHEAD, poems from which I've seen in ANTIOCH, where I worked as asst. poetry editor for a dozen years; SHENANDOAH, and several other mainstream journals. Additionally, many poets would be bereft were it not for their reprint series, Stephen Dobyn's BLACK DOG, RED DOG and Denis Johnson's THE INCOGNITO LOUNGE two of the prize titles there. And the University of California Press, which published Brian Teare's excellent new book, SIGHT MAP, in the past year or so. Teare's book, with Molly Bendall's and Lisa Russ Spaar's most recent titles, was included in a multi-part series for SWAMPLAND.COM called "Notes on the State of [Southern] Poetry," to which I invite any and all to join/subscribe via Facebook; further reviews, recommendations, and mini-fits, such as the ones I've had here, are in the "Notes" section of my FB pages, and they may be subscribed to as well. Instructions are on my "Profile" page, thanks to Mr. J.J. Rassler. "The Notes on the State of [Southern] Poetry" and my own "Notes" are open and available to any person who cares to read them; one need not be a FB member to do so.

I plan to emend and post the entire series of aforementioned mini-fits soon; until then, I am profoundly grateful to Mr. Shivani for the opportunity and resource he has provided for us all.

[TrotskyMemo]

11:06 AM on 07/05/2010

Good to see they're able to stay afloat. There are also many independent bookstores in big and small cities that are helping literature remain an important part of society. Now more important than ever, it seems, as we get closer to submitting the Leiberman "internet kill-switch" to the hands of White House occupants.