posted 08-08-2001 08:42 PM            

Soft Skull needs your help! You know our books. We publish authors
that speak truth to the controlling forces of our society, that
highlight humanity and the importance of resistance. The world has
paid us some attention for this. We won the Firecracker Best
Independent Press Award in 2000. We've been in the Washington Post
and the New York Times. We've had two best sellers. Hell, we've even
been on 60 Minutes. We recognize that these are not the truly
important things, only measurements of our accomplishments. The truly
amazing things happen when no one one's looking, when people are
exposed to new ideas and those ideas go off like flashbulbs in their
brain.

The books Soft Skull Press has published over the past eleven years
have had positive effects on people's lives. Now we are facing the
very frightening possibility of going under in the next two or three
months. We are one more voice against the dominant power structure of
our society. And we are in danger of becoming silent.

There are ways you can help us out. We're working on planning
fundraisers in New York. Plan a fundraiser for us in your town. Throw
a party. Get your band to play. Get some poets to read. Show films no
one has seen before. Spread the word. In exchange for your trouble
we'll give you Soft Skull shirts, books, and a lifetime discount on
merch you order from us. We'll help you out in whatever way we can.

This is serious. We need your help. We wouldn't be asking if we didn't.

Reply to [email protected] (not [email protected]) or call
Mon, Wed, Fri at 212-673-2502.

Thanks and take care,

Tennessee
--

``Dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier.''

-George W. Bush, 7.26.01

Sander Hicks
CEO
Soft Skull Press, Inc.
98 Suffolk Street #3A
New York City
NY 10002-3366

FAX: 212 673 0787
VOX: 212 673 2502 http://www.softskull.com