Soft Skull Press defends its forthcoming English translation of French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand's risqué memoir.
CT Siberia by Nikolai Maslov, translated by Blake Ferris (Soft Skull Press, £12.99) It ain't pretty, this Siberian life.
'BRING THE NOISE: 20 YEARS OF WRITING ABOUT HIP ROCK AND HIP-HOP,' by Simon Reynolds, the English music critic (Soft Skull Press, $16.95).
Around the corner, in a dank basement on Suffolk Street, was Soft Skull Press, run by Sander Hicks, the front man for the hard-core punk band Subterfuge.
"I wasn't that surprised with him in 9/11 because he was always good in a crisis," said Mr. Polner, whose book, "America's Mayor: the Hidden History of Rudy Giuliani's New York" (Soft Skull Press), was published last year.
Tapper fondles his disgust at everyone involved in the story, reporting his own "New Year's resolution not to continue my grumpy rants on how soft the press was on Bush," only to break the resolution.
Guantánamo has just won the aptly named Three Percent prize for translated foreign fiction, thanks to the midwifery of Soft Skull Press, a small New York publishing house specialising in controversial subjects, and Tim Mohr, staff editor at Playboy magazine.
Edited by Robert Polner, a Newsday reporter, it's titled "America's Mayor" (Soft Skull Press, $15.95), the tribute bestowed on Mr. Giuliani after 9/11, and the cover portrait seems positively reverential.
On Sunday night he will be at Tonic to celebrate the release of a new book, "Painful but Fabulous: The Life and Art of Genesis P-Orridge" (Soft Skull Press).
American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman 292pp, Soft Skull Press, £9.99 "I'm often distracted from the things I must do," says the narrator of Lynne Tillman's exasperating yet strangely intriguing new novel.
