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From Complicty to Contempt listed on Amazon's "Hot New Releases" page.
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Official Publication of Tim Gatto's From Complicty to Contempt. Read Oliver's Press Release .
SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
Dandelion Salad's Rocket Kirchner gives caution—and support—to Tim Gatto. See Kirchner's review
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
Steven White adds his voice in praise of From Complicity to Contempt. Have a look at what he says
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA consults Tim Gatto of Oliver Press! See it here, in Obama's Suggestion Box.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
More laudatory words for Tim Gatto as Peter Chamberlin reviews From Complicity to Contempt. Read it here.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Eric Larsen, founder of The Oliver Press, writes on the importance of honest publishing in an era of falsehood, untruth, and deceit: The Literary Life, Part 2 .
a trio of major books from
BARBARA MOR
ADAM ENGEL
and
ERIC LARSEN
by
BARBARA MOR
by
ADAM ENGEL
(CLICK COVER IMAGE TO READ FURTHER)
108 pages, $12.95, ISBN 978-0-9819891-7-4
by
ERIC LARSEN
(CLICK COVER IMAGE TO READ FURTHER)
258 pages, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-9819891-0-5
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REVIEW OF YORICK
Official Publication of Alan Salant's profound, touching, and hilarious Ablong.
Broccoli for breakfast is not recommended unless it puts you in touch with central truths about human nature. And in this comic-serious masterpiece, that's exactly what it does for Professor Wilson Ablong, rudely irreverent Nobel laureate and medical hero. Yet Ablong remains a lost and isolated soul—until a young man seeking a mentor turns the professor's world upside-down. Then the same mind that drew from mythology, math, literature, and philosophy to cure major diseases begins scouring its own contents to heal itself.
In creating Wilson Ablong, Alan Salant has created a character who fills up this wonderful short novel not only with things that will give you more laughter than you've had since reading Lucky Jim, but with something else immeasurably valuable but increasingly foreign to American fiction—ideas. Names of famous thinkers fall on Salant's pages—Einstein, Proust, Levi-Strauss, Gödel, Heisenberg—as gently as raindrops and just as naturally. After all, troubled as he is by his own deep and particular sorrow (you'll find out all about it), Ablong is also a genius who thinks as instinctively as he breathes.
Ask for the book in stores anywhere, or buy it HERE.
Official Publication of Adam Engel's volume of fiercely-written and impassioned politico-cultural essays, I Hope My Corpse Gives You the Plague: My Life in the Bush Era of Ghosts.
These essays were written mainly between 2002 and 2005 and were published on some of the nation's most visible and significant political web sites, including Counterpunch.org; Countercurrents.org; Dissident Voice.org; Online Journal.com; Strike-the-Root.com; LewRockwell.com; PressAction.com, and others.
In the book, Engel writes this Acknowledgement:
I wish to express my gratitude for the innovation and courage of the editors Jeffrey St. Claire of Counterpunch; Bev Conover of Online Journal; Sunil Sharma, Kim Peterson, and Joshua Frank of Dissident Voice; Rob of Strike-the-Root; Lew Rockwell of Lew Rockwell.com; The Editors at Countercurrents.org; and Mark Hand of Press Action for publishing not only these essays, but thousands like them each year, giving voice to hundreds of authors who would otherwise never see print, being ignored by the "Official Media."
Day after day, week after week, year after year, these sites and others like them offer venues for writers, scholars, journalists and activists to speak truth to Power. It's true that Power couldn't give a damn. But many people crushed by that same power find ideas on these web sites worth living and dying for.
That Engel's essays are now gathered between covers, available for reading in the continuity that fully reveals their scope, aim, intensity, passion, power, humanity, and insight—this is something readers will be extraordinarily grateful for.
Phil Rockstroh, writer, observer, and online essayist, said this about Corpse:
Like Walt Whitman, Adam Engel merges his own body with the body of America-but instead of a Body Electric finds himself inside the hulking, putrefying corpse of a shambling zombie. Every bit as fearless as he is funny, Engel tears a rotting arm from the monster and beats his own laughing corpse with it. This is a brave, harrowing collection, a movable autopsy, a Book Of The Dead for a dying empire.
Read "Mystical Visions and Cosmic Vibrations," a review by Mark Hand of PressAction.com
And follow that one up with "Taking on THE MAN," a review by Kim Petersen from Dissident Voice
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Click HERE FOR A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TIM GATTO AND ERIC LARSEN
on Liberal Pro Radio: Talking about The Oliver Arts & Open Press and the Perilous State of the Nation and World
Click HERE TOO SEE A TELEVISION INTERVIEW with author Tim Gatto on the subject of his hilarious and big-hearted novel of a young man putting in military service in the Korea of forty years ago: Kimchee Days,Or, Stoned-Cold Warriors.
Buy the novel by going HERE.
Read more about Tim and the novel by going HERE AGAIN.
Official Publication of Gregory Marszal's volume of piercing and vital poetry, I Am Not Dead.
A cautionary note to you—yes, you, you with this book in your hands, reading these words: If your ideas about poetry are in any way "frail," "gentle," "sweet-scented," or "meek," it's recommended strongly that you not open, buy, or read this book, Gregory Marszal's I Am Not Dead.
Why the admonition? Well, it's not because Marszal's poetry is difficult (it isn't). It's not because it lacks beauty (it's filled with beauty). And it's not because it fails to be evocative, lyric, inventive, unusual, and surprising (it never fails in those ways).
No. It's because Marszal's poetry is written, solely and only, out of and about the truth. And so, you ask? The truth about what? Well, let's put it this way: Marszal concerns himself solely and only with the truth about our existence—and as if that's not bad enough, after that he concerns himself solely with the truth of our being alive within that existence.
Caveat emptor. Only those of you looking for the real thing buy this great book.
THE NEW YORK POST FEATURES
THE OLIVER ARTS & OPEN PRESS.
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"Publishing is not doing the job or telling the truth," Oliver's editor says. "Books aren't being produced about the crucially important political topics that face the nation."
CLICK HERE TO READ THE MAY 17th ARTICLE, BY LINLEY TABER OF THE NEW YORK POST, ON OLIVER AND ITS PUBLISHER AND FOUNDER
Official Publication of Timothy V. Gatto's Kimchee Days, or, Stoned-Cold Warriors: A Novel.Take a look at Oliver's publication-announcement for this time-tripping and great-hearted novel by the writer who is also one of America's most important and outspoken political writers.
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Official Publication of A. Stephen Engel's Topiary: A Novel. Read the raves that have come in for this extraordinary piece of fiction by one of America's most gifted contemporary prose artists.
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Literary Criticism:
Official Publication of Eric Larsen's Homer for Real: A Reading of the Iliad.
The first in a series called Great Literary Works for Regular People: A Course of Readings Inspired by a Life in the Classroom.
Read Oliver's Press Release here
OCTOBER 11, 2009