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Permeable Press

San Francisco-based literary publishing company

San Francisco-based literary publishing company

Permeable Press was a San Francisco-based literary publishing company founded in 1990 by Brian Charles Clark. A "micropress" operating on less than U.S.$100,000 per year, Permeable published a number of trade paperback books, chapbooks, and the literary magazines Puck, Shock Waves, Q-Zine, Naked Review, and Xerotic Ephemera in the early and mid-1990s. Clark sold Permeable Press to Cambrian Publications in 1997.

List of books published

  • Shaman by Hugh Fox (1993)
  • The Naughty Yard by Michael Hemmingson (1994) reprinted in The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (Carroll & Graf, 1996)
  • Tonguing the Zeitgeist by Lance Olsen (1994; finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award)
  • Cher Wolfe & Other Stories by Mary Leary (1994)
  • Once by Hugh Fox (1995)
  • The Final Dream & Other Fictions by Daniel Pearlman (1995)
  • Some Girls by Sarah Hafner (1995)
  • Reasons For Not Sleeping by Michelle Ben-Hur (1995)
  • At The News of Your Death by Joshua Beckman (1995)
  • A Beginner's Guide to Art Deconstruction by Norman Conquest (1995)
  • Crack Hotel by Michael Hemmingson (1995)
  • Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (pen name of Stan Henry; 1996; finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)
  • Stairway to the Sun by Hugh Fox (1996)
  • The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut by David Memmott (1996)
  • Objects Left Too Long In One Place by Catherine Scherer (1996)
  • The Marquis de Sade's Elements of Style by Derek Pell (1996)
  • Time Famine by Lance Olsen (1996)
  • Toxic Shock Syndrome by Carolina Vegas Starr (1996)
  • Flyscraper: Day of the Fly by Mark Romyn (1996)
  • The Uncertainty Principle by Steven J. Frank (1997; winner of the Pocket Rocket Award for First Novel)
  • Flying Saucers Over Hennepin by Peter Gelman (1997)
  • Remote Control by Doug Henderson (1997)
  • Minstrels by Michael Hemmingson (1997)
  • Manson Family Picnic by R. Downey (1997)
  • Ciphers by Paul Di Filippo (1997; co-published with Cambrian Publications)
  • Scratch: Four Stories by Nikki Dillon (pen name of Lisa Dierbeck; 1997)
  • Shock Waves contributors included Thom Metzger and Paul Di Filippo.

References

References

  1. Dustbooks. (September 1997). "Directory of Small Press - Magazine Editors and Publishers". Dustbooks.
  2. (1996). "Small Press Review". Dustbooks.
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