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Beau Friedlander
Beau Friedlander is an American writer, publisher, and media consultant. He was the founder of Context Books, an award-winning small press, an editor-in-chief at Air America (radio network), Air America and garnered notoriety as a provocateur for progressive causes. First published in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, most notably in the May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Poetry edited by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (under the name E.B. Friedlander), Friedlander's writing has appeared in many publications, including ''Harper's Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', ''Time (magazine), Time'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Lapham's Quarterly'', and the ''Huffington Post'', where he is a regular contributor. Friedlander is co-host of the Webby-nominated podcast ''What the Hack with Adam K. Levin, Adam Levin''. Education Beau Friedlander received a B.A. in Literature and Languages from Bennington College, a M.A. in English Romanticism from Oxford University a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Context Books
Context Books was an American independent publishing house founded by Beau Friedlander that featured often controversial and critically acclaimed titles from authors such as Derrick Jensen, Daniel Quinn, David Means, and William Rivers Pitt which operated from 1998 to 2004. Founding Context Books originated as Context Media, through which Friedlander provided publishing and packaging services for a variety of clients with the idea in mind of raising enough capital to begin publishing titles that would have had difficulty finding interest from mainstream publishers. "I hated big publishing's complete and utter disregard for authors," Friedlander said of the impetus. "...I want to publish the revolution." Truth Vs. Lies and the United States Vs. Theodore John Kaczynski Context Books first gained national notice with the decision to attempt to publish the memoirs of Theodore Kaczynski, who had written them from imprisonment in a Colorado Penitentiary. The memoir, entitled 'Truth Vs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |