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Chip Smith provozuje nezávislé a ikonoklastické nakladatelství Nine-Banded Books se sídlem v Charlestonu v Západní Virginii. Dále je editorem Hoover Hog, dříve „zinu“, nyní blogu. (more…)
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Chip Smith provozuje nezávislé a ikonoklastické nakladatelství Nine-Banded Books se sídlem v Charlestonu v Západní Virginii. Dále je editorem Hoover Hog, dříve „zinu“, nyní blogu. (more…)
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Dear Friends and Fellow Publishers:
My name is Chip Smith and I’m the sole proprietor of a small press called Nine-Banded Books, or just 9BB. You probably haven’t heard of 9BB, and that’s fine by me. The books I publish aren’t for everyone. Some of them deal with prickly ideas that many people – perhaps you? – will find offensive. That’s nothing new. (more…)
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Back when I was still sorta young, when OJ’s glove was a point of popular water-cooler conversation and the World Wide Web was just a germ in a Petri dish, that’s when I spent my Saturdays at the local university library scouring databases for promising references, pulling journals from the stacks or from microfilm reels, (more…)
The conclusion of my interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books deals with anti-natalism, cosmic pessimism, H. P. Lovecraft, Hollister Kopp’s Gun Fag Manifesto, and other future 9BB publications.
Anti-natalism is the theme of two of your titles: Jim Crawford’s Confessions of an Antinatalist and the forthcoming title by Sarah Perry, Every Cradle is a Grave. What attracts you to anti-natalism? (more…)
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My interview with Chip Smith of Nine-Banded Books continues with a discussion on historical revisionism, particularly Holocaust revisionism, and the works of three of his authors, Bradley Smith, L. A. Rollins, and Samuel Crowell. (more…)
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Chip Smith runs Nine-Banded Books, an independent and iconoclastic publishing house based in Charleston, West Virginia. He is also the editor of his of The Hoover Hog, formerly a ‘zine, now a blog. (more…)