From Leah Bartos of the Santa Cruz Sentinel:

He's not exactly a saintly do-gooder or holy messiah. Nor is he easily lumped into the "punk legend-turned-small press publisher turned VH1 commentator" category.

Henry Rollins just wants to do the right thing.

"It's not like some kind of Mother Teresa thing or some guy blowing his horn very loudly. It's just, what else would you want to do in this country? You take part in the great experiment of America," Rollins said. "It's your country, these are your people and this is your time. To not weigh in on all of that, what good are you?"

From Yael Korman of the Brooklyn Rail,

Brenda Iijima, publisher, poet, and artist, runs the independent publishing house Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This year PPAYYL has produced two chapbooks, Julie Patton’s Notes For Some (Nominally) Awake and Jennifer Firestone’s Waves.

Ugly Duckling Presse began as a college ‘zine in 1993 and evolved into its present form as a nonprofit art and publishing collective in 2000. Publications include the full-length book Nets by Jen Bervin and chapbooks by Kostas Anagnopoulos and Micah Ballard.

Brent Baldwin interview Matthew Sharpe in Style Weekly. Style spoke with the author and Wesleyan University writing instructor by phone about his experimental new work, Jamestown, which has been lumped in with recent “endtimes” books by the likes of Cormac McCarthy (“The Road”) and Chris Adrian (“The Children’s Hospital”), as well as postmodern writers such as George Saunders.

Jamestown retells the founding of Jamestown with historical characters and events, but set it in a post-annihilation world where resources are scarce and some dirty, brawling settlers from Manhattan — at war with Brooklyn — drive a heavily armed bus to Virginia to look for oil. Sounds daunting, but that’s what New York novelist Matthew Sharpe has done with his lauded new book, “Jamestown,” from Soft Skull Press.

Kay Green's stories have been appearing in literary magazines and journals and for nearly two decades. Fifteen of the short stories appear in Jung's People (2004), her first collection of short stories, while others have been featured in anthologies that include The Elastic Book of Numbers (2005).

Her poetry has been published in literary journals such as acumen, Iota, Envoi and Orbis.

In addition to writing, Green has edited anthologies that include Digitally Organic: An Earlyworks Press Poetry Anthology (2007); Porkies: Pigtales of the Unexpected (2006); Survival Guides: An Earlyworks Press Fiction Anthology (2006); Routemasters and Mushrooms: An Earlyworks Press Poetry Anthology (2006); and The Sleepless Sands: Earlyworks Press High Fantasy Challenge (2006).

In a recent interview, Kay Green spoke about her writing with Ambrose Musiyiwa.

Your first collection of short stories, Jung’s People, was published by Elastic Press in 2004. How did this happen?

Fantasy and mythology are my favourite areas of operation. When Jung’s People was proposed, I had published several pieces for Trevor Denyer’s Legend -- a magazine of Arthurian and traditional fantasy. Andrew Hook had the splendid idea of looking for writers who were beginning to make a name for themselves in a particular area in small press writing and giving them a first chance at assembling a book of their own. It was a great opportunity for me.

Since then, as well as the launch of my own book, I’ve attended three other Elastic Press launches -- two of anthologies I had work in and one for Nick Jackson’s Visits to the Flea Circus. (I would have attended more but for some reason the train service always do engineering works when I decide to go to London.) I love them because they are full of small press people -- the individualists, the ones with the ideas you won’t see in the top 100 fastsellers.

For me, one of the stars of the Elastic Press stable is Gary Couzens who first attracted my attention with his story "Eggshells" which he calmly writes from the point of view of a pregnant woman -- and it works. A rare skill in a man, that. I think his anthology, Second Contact is still available at Elastic Press.

If you believe the naysayers, there's no market for horror and there's a limited market for short story anthologies.

Why then would a new publisher launch with two dark fiction anthologies — Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2006 edition and Book of Shadows Volume One? Articulate spoke to Brimstone Press co-founder Shane Jiraiya Cummings to find out. WA-based Cummings and co-founder Angela Challis are no strangers to publishing and the Australian dark fiction scene.