So many thank you’s to Atlanta’s Creative Loafing (and Wyatt Williams) for writing this feature on VouchedATL for their Arts Issue, released today! It’s a honor to be coupled with so many phenomenal arts efforts in Atlanta.
Here’s an excerpt where we discuss Matt Bell’s How They Were Found, among other things:
The small-press books that Straub sells don’t have big marketing departments running promotions in newspapers or buying prominent placement in retailers like Barnes & Noble. In fact, you might be hard-pressed to find a copy of them anywhere else in town. Prior to starting Vouched, Straub read Matt Bell’s How They Were Found, a collection of short stories published on an imprint of Midwest nonprofit publisher Dzanc Books. “I love that book, and it was frustrating going to bookstores and not being able to find it really anywhere in the city,” she says.
As the cost of publishing a small run of books has declined, independent publishers have taken a cue from the DIY ethos that emerged from punk and indie rock record labels a few decades ago. They’re publishing work by adventurous young authors writing unabashedly contemporary work often deemed too risky or unusual by big publishing houses.
Read the rest of the article at Creative Loafing’s site, along with articles about what’s going on with the arts in Atlanta (so many awesome things!).
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well, ive got a book i wrote about atlanta back in the 90′s thats very much to the point on how the scene really really was!
and im still alive, im not sick, and i was one of the creators of the original rave scene back then.
ive been wanting to see if it can be published, and mayhaps you can help.
jab154@hotmail.com is my email address.
and im glad you are doing this with the books.