Permeable Press

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Permeable Press was a San Francisco-based literary publishing company founded in 1990 by . 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 in 1997.

List of books published[]

• Shaman by Hugh Fox (1993)
• The Naughty Yard by Michael Hemmingson (1994) ISBN 1-882633-02-4 reprinted in The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (Carroll & Graf, 1996) ISBN 0-7867-0373-3
• Tonguing the Zeitgeist by Lance Olsen (1994; finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award) ISBN 1-882633-04-0
• 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 (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 (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.

External links[]

• Permeable Press: Undocumented History of an Indie Press