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May 30, 2009

BookExpo America

Craig O'Hara talked about the political philosophy of PM Press. He mentioned the speculative fiction book The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson; the parody The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson; and the nonfiction book How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization by Derrick Jensen. Documentaries on .. Read More
Craig O'Hara talked about the political philosophy of PM Press. He mentioned the speculative fiction book The Lucky Strike by Kim Stanley Robinson; the parody The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson; and the nonfiction book How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization by Derrick Jensen. Documentaries on DVD included The Angola Three: Torture in Our Own Backyard by Hans Bennett. Their releases on CD include lectures with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. He was interviewed at BookExpo America 2009 in the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, apparently on Saturday, May 30, 2009.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:09 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE AT BOOK EXPO AMERICA IN NEW YORK CITY. I AM WITH CRAIG O'HARA.
00:00:18 Unidentified Speaker GOOD TO SEE YOU. PM PRESS IS A SMALL GROUP OF PUBLISHERS. WE DO DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEDIA. DVDS AND...
00:00:45 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS YOUR FIRST YEAR. A LOT OF BOOKS COMING OUT. SCIENCE FICTION RIDERS.
00:00:55 Unidentified Speaker SURE. WHAT'S NEW TEST. FICTION. AGAIN, BECAUSE WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US, IDEAS BEHIND WHAT WE DO....
00:01:45 Unidentified Speaker WHAT ARE THE TWO BOOKS WE ARE STARTING OUT WITH?
00:01:49 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS ONE. THE LUCKY STRIKE. SORT OF AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. DEFINITELY...
00:02:38 Unidentified Speaker SO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF POLITICALLY LEFTIST PUBLISHER?
00:02:42 Unidentified Speaker I AM UNCOMFORTABLE WITH USING THE TERMS LEFTIST. I THINK THEY CARRY A BIT TOO MUCH BAGGAGE ALONG WITH...
00:02:57 Unidentified Speaker WITH OTHER BOOKS TO YOU HAVE COMING OUT?
00:02:59 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE BEEN WORKING A LOT WITH AN AUTHOR NAMED DERRICK JENSEN WHO IS VERY WELL KNOWN FOR HIS NONFICTION....
00:04:24 Unidentified Speaker PRIMARILY A BOOK PUBLISHER. YOU ALSO DABBLE IN OTHER MEDIA. YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT YOUR DVD IS?
00:04:35 Unidentified Speaker WELL, WE HAVE DVDS AND CDS. THE DVDS WE HAVE DONE OUR OF DOCUMENTARY IS. WE HAVE COVERED EVERYTHING...
00:05:16 Unidentified Speaker IN REGARDS TO FORMAT. OUTSIDE OF THE BIDIS AND CDS, IN REGARDS TO THE BOOK YOU ARE PUTTING OUT, PRINTING...
00:05:29 Unidentified Speaker WELL, WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE IN THIS MATTER. WE, OF COURSE, ARE EXPORTING EVERYTHING AS E BOOKS AND...
00:06:03 Unidentified Speaker THE CO-FOUNDER. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO START A PUBLISHING VENTURE THESE DAYS?
00:06:12 Unidentified Speaker THE SIMPLE ANSWER, AN UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNT OF DEDICATION AND THE ABILITY TO WORK 20 HOURS STRAIGHT....

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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