Permeable Press
{{Short description|San Francisco-based literary publishing company}}
Permeable Press was a San Francisco-based literary publishing company founded in 1990 by Brian Charles Clark.{{Cite book |last=Dustbooks |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twNlAAAAMAAJ |title=Directory of Small Press - Magazine Editors and Publishers |date=September 1997 |publisher=Dustbooks |isbn=978-0-916685-62-1 |pages=50 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJPgAAAAMAAJ |title=Small Press Review |date=1996 |publisher=Dustbooks |volume=28 |pages=1–6 |language=en}} A "micropress" operating on less than U.S.$100,000 per year, Permeable published a number of trade paperback books, chapbooks, and the literary magazines Puck, Shock Waves, Q-Zine, Naked Review, and Xerotic Ephemera in the early and mid-1990s. Clark sold Permeable Press to Cambrian Publications in 1997.
List of books published
- Shaman by Hugh Fox (1993)
- The Naughty Yard by Michael Hemmingson (1994) {{ISBN|1-882633-02-4}} reprinted in The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (Carroll & Graf, 1996) {{ISBN|0-7867-0373-3}}
- Tonguing the Zeitgeist by Lance Olsen (1994; finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award) {{ISBN|1-882633-04-0}}
- Cher Wolfe & Other Stories by Mary Leary (1994)
- Once by Hugh Fox (1995)
- The Final Dream & Other Fictions by Daniel Pearlman (1995)
- Some Girls by Sarah Hafner (1995)
- Reasons For Not Sleeping by Michelle Ben-Hur (1995)
- At The News of Your Death by Joshua Beckman (1995)
- A Beginner's Guide to Art Deconstruction by Norman Conquest (1995)
- Crack Hotel by Michael Hemmingson (1995)
- Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (pen name of Stan Henry; 1996; finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)
- Stairway to the Sun by Hugh Fox (1996)
- The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut by David Memmott (1996)
- Objects Left Too Long In One Place by Catherine Scherer (1996)
- The Marquis de Sade's Elements of Style by Derek Pell (1996)
- Time Famine by Lance Olsen (1996)
- Toxic Shock Syndrome by Carolina Vegas Starr (1996)
- Flyscraper: Day of the Fly by Mark Romyn (1996)
- The Uncertainty Principle by Steven J. Frank (1997; winner of the Pocket Rocket Award for First Novel)
- Flying Saucers Over Hennepin by Peter Gelman (1997)
- Remote Control by Doug Henderson (1997)
- Minstrels by Michael Hemmingson (1997)
- Manson Family Picnic by R. Downey (1997)
- Ciphers by Paul Di Filippo (1997; co-published with Cambrian Publications)
- Scratch: Four Stories by Nikki Dillon (pen name of Lisa Dierbeck; 1997)
- Shock Waves contributors included Thom Metzger and Paul Di Filippo.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209034356/http://www.briancharlesclark.com/permeable-press.htm Permeable Press: Undocumented History of an Indie Press]
Category:Small press publishing companies