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5 unusual facts about PM Press


PM Press

PM also published previously unpublished work on politics from Trinidadian revolutionary thinker CLR James, works by the London stencil artist Banksy, healthy cooking from Bitch Magazine founder Lisa Jervis; Arena, a journal of anarchist arts and culture edited by Stuart Christie; and a new imprint with DC’s Busboys & Poets.

The Outspoken Authors imprint of pocketbooks feature fiction writers with conversations on their work, politics, writing, and engagement—science fiction Terry Bisson, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson and Elanor Arnason were among the authors featured; crime writer Gary Phillips was the only non-SF author to have an Outspoken Authors title.

PM Press was started in late 2007 by AK Press founder Ramsey Kanaan and several other members of AK Press, including Craig O'Hara.

2010 saw an edition of Peter Marshall’s history of anarchism, Demanding the Impossible, a radical new examination of the politics of pirates by Gabriel Kuhn, the first English-language edition of writings by German agitator and theorist Gustav Landauer, and Tunnel People by photojournalist Teun Voeten, as well as From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader and anthologies of works by Paul Goodman.

Vivir la Utopia

Jose Peirats (2011,2012): "The CNT in the Spanish Revolution", vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, PM Press, Oakland.


Tomoyuki Hoshino

His short story "Chino" has been translated into English by Lucy Fraser, and is now part of his short story collection "We, the Children of Cats" (2012), otherwise translated by Brian Bergstrom, and his novel Lonely Hearts Killer has been translated into English by Adrienne Hurley and is published by PM Press.


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