Dilettante Press is a now defunct independent book publisher, co-founded by

Jodi Wille Jodi Wille is an American film director, curator, and book publisher known for her work exploring American subcultures. Filmmaking and Photography Wille directed and produced ''The Source Family'' (2013), her first feature-length documentary, with ...

, Nick Rubenstein, and Steven Nalepa in 1998, joined soon after by partner Hedi El Kholti. Dilettante was a publishing house dedicated to "challeng ngtraditional notions of art and culture," focusing its efforts on featuring visionary, outsider, vernacular art in books. Dilettante only published three titles, but "their impact was considerable." Dilettante’s first book, ''The End Is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia'', won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book. Their subsequent titles included: ''Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana.'' By Ernie Wolfe, III and ''Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan'' by Gary Lee Boas, selected by Artforum Magazine as "Best of 2000". Jodi Wille went on to co-found

Process Media Process Media is an independent publishing house started in 2005 in Los Angeles by Adam Parfrey of Feral House and Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press, and headquartered in Port Townsend. Awards Independent Publisher Book Awards * 2006 Best Hist ...

in 2005 with husband

Adam Parfrey Adam Parfrey (April 12, 1957 – May 10, 2018) was an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centered on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge. A 2010 ''Se ...

Feral House Feral House is an American book publisher founded in 1989 by Adam Parfrey and based in Port Townsend, Washington. Early history The company's first book was '' The Satanic Witch'' (1989; originally published in 1971 by Dodd, Mead & Company) by A ...

now distributes the Dilettante titles. Hedi El Kholti is currently managing editor and partner of

Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) is an independent publisher of critical theory, fiction, philosophy, art criticism, activist texts and non-fiction. History Founded in 1974, ''Semiotext(e)'' began as a journal that emerged from a semiotics reading group led by Sylv ...

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External links

Dilettante Press
(via the Internet Archive

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, actual website is domain parked)
Process Media
Book publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1995