''Puck: The Unofficial Journal of the Irrepressible'' is a literary magazine that was published by

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

-based Permeable Press in the early and mid-1990s.

History and profile

''Puck'' was founded by Brian Charles Clark in 1984. Edited by Clark under the auspices of his imprint, Permeable Press, the magazine published numerous writers in the literary underground, including

Hugh Fox Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders (with Ralph Ellison, Anaïs Nin, Paul Bowles, Joyce Carol Oates, Buckminster Fuller and others) of the Pu ...

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Lance Olsen Lance Olsen (born October 14, 1956) is an American writer known for his experimental, lyrical, fragmentary, cross-genre narratives that question the limits of historical knowledge. Biography Lance Olsen was born in New Jersey. He received a ...

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, Freddie Baer, Susan Birkeland, Eurudice, Adrienne Greenheart, Mary Leary, Doug Rice, Morgan Songi, Tolek, Larry Tomoyasu, Jasmine Sailing and Martin Wayne. In 1997 Permeable Press sold the magazine to Cambrian Publications.

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History and profile

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