Sator Press

NEWS & REVIEWS & EPHEMERA

kenbaumann — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:20:00 -0700

05/09/13: Christopher Higgs, author of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARVIN K. MOONEY, interviewed Harmony Korine over at the Paris Review.

05/07/13: Lodown Magazine profiled Eric Raymond in a beautiful 3 page spread. A peek:

05/03/13: Matt Debenham spoke with Eric Raymond for What Are You Reading?

04/12/13: Sator Press author Mark Leidner was mentioned (and praised) in the New York Times.

03/17/13: I’d like to offer United States military veterans all Sator Press titles for free. So if you’re a vet and you’d like some books, email your info to satorpress at gmail dot com.

03/12/13: CONFESSIONS FROM A DARK WOOD wasreviewed at The Collagist.

03/01/13: CONFESSIONS was reviewed by Curtis Dawkins—from prison—at BULL {Men’s Fiction}.

02/25/13: And reviewed at The Lit Pub, and in San Diego CityBeat.

02/10/13: Eric Raymond in conversation with Simon Jacobs at [PANK], and with Tobias Carroll at Vol 1. Brooklyn, and with Brad Listi for his podcast, Other People.

02/01/13: CONFESSIONS reviewed in comic form by Kevin Thomas for The Rumpus. And a conversation with Eric (and a reading) for SF Weekly.

01/25/13: CONFESSIONS reviewed at HTMLGiant, The L Magazine, and Publishers Weekly.

Confessions from a Dark Wood a novel by Eric Raymond You have...

kenbaumann — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:00:00 -0800

Confessions from a Dark Wood

a novel by Eric Raymond

You have received a business card. It invites you into the world of global capital brand management consultancy. You’ll meet Nick, a hapless pawn in the world of global capital brand management consulting. And his girlfriend Sadie Parish, the first domestic suicide bomber. And his boss, emperor of bullshit, Pontius J. LaBar. And PJ’s dreaded orangutan. Their story is a hilarious, heartbreaking, painfully smart satire that guides you through the high dollar swamps of modern industry.

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The world of Eric Raymond’s winning novel may be the ‘post-idea economy,’ but rest assured, the book is never post-smart, or post-funny. It’s a rollicking and inventive corporate (and cultural) satire — get in now at the ground floor, people.

-Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

In a world where cash has become language, Eric Raymond’s Confessions from a Dark Wood wastes no syllable in converting cultural mechanisms into a well-oiled, wise-cracking machine. Smart as Saunders, tight as Ellis, but banking waters of its own, after this one we’ll no longer ‘forget they built the Magic Kingdom on swamps.’

-Blake Butler, author of Nothing: A Portait of Insomnia and There Is No Year

The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover aphorisms by Mark...

kenbaumann — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:30:00 -0800

The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover

aphorisms by Mark Leidner

This book contains so much poetry and passion and deep thinking… I’ve been caught by single lines for hours. This book is sharp, funny, tragic, irreverent, wise. All beauty. It puts a fire in me. I invite you to enjoy that fire, too.

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It is refreshing and exhilarating to read a poet this sincere, this demanding and lucid in his aspirations toward art and his analyses of our time.

-Publishers Weekly

If I had to a select a celestial pilot to steer this sandwich shoppe called America into the sun, it’d be Lodewyk van Berquem of Brugge, Belgium, who invented diamond cutting. The co-pilot would be Mark Leidner. I am in love with him as a human.

-Blake Butler, author of Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia and There Is No Year

The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney a novel by Christopher...

kenbaumann — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:00:00 -0800

The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney

a novel by Christopher Higgs

Marvin K. Mooney, the enigmatic philosopher, has gone missing. Vanished. But we’re left with his work: wild, confessional, encyclopedic, destructive texts that call into question Marvin’s own identity. Who is Marvin K. Mooney? And what has Christopher Higgs done with him? Only you, as our reader, can find out.

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The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney seems to me unprecedented via form, making new ways of both telling a story and relaying information, but also doing so in a way that is, as David Foster Wallace so expressly begged for: fun.

-Blake Butler

The sheer greatness of Higgs’ novel calls the capacity of the word greatness into question.

-Dennis Cooper

Sator Press is a nonprofit publishing company that presents...

kenbaumann — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:12:00 -0800

Sator Press is a nonprofit publishing company that presents innovative & challenging literature. It is owned & operated by Ken Baumann, and currently hubs in Ken’s garage in Los Angeles, California.

In 2010, the press released its first novel, The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney by Christopher Higgs. In 2011, The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover, a collection of aphorisms by Mark Leidner. And in 2012, Confessions from a Dark Wood, the debut novel by Eric Raymond. The press also publishes No Colony, a literary journal edited by Blake Butler and Ken Baumann. All books are printed in the United States on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, and are offered for free to U.S. military veterans.

Sator Press titles are distributed by Amazon, Small Press Distribution, and select independent bookstores throughout the world. Want to support the press without buying books?

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Want to submit your book? Please send a pdf of the complete manuscript to satorpress at gmail dawt calm. No queries necessary. And send all snail mail to 10061 Riverside Dr, Ste 1026, Toluca Lake, CA 91602.

No Colony vol. 2 a paperback literary journal, featuring work...

kenbaumann — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:00:00 -0800

No Colony vol. 2

a paperback literary journal, featuring work by:

Isadora Bey, Kristina Born, Aaron Burch, Blake Butler, Luca Dipierro, Scott Garson, Rachel B. Glaser, Chris Higgs, Brandon Hobson, Edward Kim, Matt Kirkpatrick, Rauan Klassnik, Lee Klein, Darby Larson, Evan Lavender-Smith, Patrick Leonard, Eugene Lim, Sean Lovelace, Anthony Luebbert, Conor Madigan, Gene Morgan, Bryson Newhart, Christian Peet, Jennifer Pieroni, Kathryn Regina, Joanna Ruocco, Bradley Sands, Ken Sparling, William Walsh, Corey Zeller, and art by Michael Berryhill

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No Colony vol. 3 a paperback literary journal, featuring: CEOs...

kenbaumann — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

No Colony vol. 3

a paperback literary journal, featuring:

CEOs by Krammer Abrahams
Dead Dog Sleeps by Peter Markus
Pushcorpse by Shya Scanlon, Christian Ochoa, Brian Spears, David Erlewine, Christopher Higgs, Alan Horn, Jason Cook, Matt Kirkpatrick, Amy Letter, Gene Morgan, Vaughan Simons, David Peak, Brian Carr, Claire Kohne, Caleb Ross, Michael Jauchen, Alec Niedenthal, Christopher Heavener, Jac Jemc, Peter Rawlings, Joseph Goosey, Darby Larson, Nathan Tyree, Michael Inscoe, Roxane Gay, Jonny Kelly, Alan S. Carl, Aaron Gilbreath, Travis Kurowski, Caitlyn Dibble, Jackie Corley, J.A. Tyler, Andrew Borgstrom, Christopher Newgent, Phoebe North, Laurence Wilhelm Lillvik, Jonathan Keeperman, Christian Smith, Meredith Turits, Audri Sousa, Barry Graham, Matt Jasper, Danny Barron, Matthew Savoca, Josh Kleinberg, Robert Alan Wendeborn, David Naimon, Benjamin Spivey, Hassen Taiari, Christopher Stokes, Josh Maday, Bradley Billey, Christopher Deal, Elizabeth Ellen, Alexander Fletcher, Nik Korpon, Richard Thomas, Christopher J. Dwyer, Kellie Walsh, Kasey Carpenter, D. Hammer, Timmy Waldron, Angi Becker Stevens, Erin Flaherty, and Ryan Call
Paul Garrior in Jacques Riverrun’s “The Abyss is the Foundation of the Possible” by M Kitchell

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"Robert Bernstein, then president of Random House, I think, said of Grove … well, he was..."

kenbaumann — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

“Robert Bernstein, then president of Random House, I think, said of Grove … well, he was speaking of me. He said I was a maverick. Not in the mainstream. He was right.”

- Barney Rosset, publishing legend, and Sator Press’s guardian angel & exemplar

No Colony vol. 1 a paperback literary journal, featuring work...

kenbaumann — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:02:00 -0800

No Colony vol. 1

a paperback literary journal, featuring work by:

Nick Antosca, Daniel Bailey, Jesse Ball, Ken Baumann, Matt Bell, Ryan Call, Jimmy Chen, Kim Chinquee, Giancarlo DiTrapano, Brian Evenson, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Jac Jemc, Shane Jones, Sean Kilpatrick, Michael Kimball, Tao Lin, Robert Lopez, Josh Maday, Miranda Mellis, Sam Pink, Matthew Simmons, Justin Taylor, J. A. Tyler, Brandi Wells, Derek White, John Dermot Woods, Mike Young, and art by Julie Speed.

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