2008
The Crumpled Press published three books in 2008 and hosted readings in Lexington, Virginia; Princeton, New Jersey; and New York City. Aaron Tugendhaft joined as Managing Editor.
On July 7, The Crumpled Press hosted a multi-author reading at the venerable Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. To wrap-up Independence Day celebrations, Christopher Moses read from his new 'Tis of Thee: Reflections on the Fourth of July.
Also reading were Crumpled Press founding-editor Jordan McIntyre, aid-worker J. Nealin Parker, and Iraq-veteran Derek McGee, pictured below.
On June 4, Derek McGee and award-winning journalist Chris Hedges read and discussed the war in Iraq at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. McGee is author of When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches from Fallujah, a hard-hitting memoir. Hedges' new book, Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, has recently been released by Nation Books.
On May 5, Anthony Grafton read from Codex in Crisis at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. A large audience assembled to celebrate the book's release and to discuss the future of books and publishing. Read a review of the event in Princeton's Town Topics.
Customers looked through the new book, which sported an engraved cover, laid papers, and a fold-out color plate of "The Burning of the Library at Alexandria," by the Italian painter Felice Giani.
On March 1, J. Nealin Parker and Derek McGee read from their new books before a full room at Books & Co. in Lexington, Virginia. Nealin, a Lexington native, is author of Take a Right at the Tank & Other Ways to Get Home, an adapted journal of her experience working to promote democracy and justice in post-war Liberia. Together they discussed "humanitarian" intervention overseas, the relationship between democracy and culture, and the personal dimensions of writing about war.
On February 1, McGee joined a panel on "Writing the War" at the annual meetings of the Association of Writers in New York. Meanwhile, "On Being Home," the final chapter from his When I Wished I Was Here is featured on The Sandbox, a military blog hosted by Slate.com, and appears in a new collection of U.S. soldiers' writing on Iraq and Afghanistan published by Andrews McMeel Universal. The complete text of Derek's book is now in its tenth printing and continues to be the best-seller from The Crumpled Press.
The Crumpled Press published three books in 2008 and hosted readings in Lexington, Virginia; Princeton, New Jersey; and New York City. Aaron Tugendhaft joined as Managing Editor.
On July 7, The Crumpled Press hosted a multi-author reading at the venerable Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. To wrap-up Independence Day celebrations, Christopher Moses read from his new 'Tis of Thee: Reflections on the Fourth of July.
Also reading were Crumpled Press founding-editor Jordan McIntyre, aid-worker J. Nealin Parker, and Iraq-veteran Derek McGee, pictured below.
On June 4, Derek McGee and award-winning journalist Chris Hedges read and discussed the war in Iraq at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. McGee is author of When I Wished I Was Here: Dispatches from Fallujah, a hard-hitting memoir. Hedges' new book, Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians, has recently been released by Nation Books.
On May 5, Anthony Grafton read from Codex in Crisis at Labyrinth Books in Princeton, New Jersey. A large audience assembled to celebrate the book's release and to discuss the future of books and publishing. Read a review of the event in Princeton's Town Topics.
Customers looked through the new book, which sported an engraved cover, laid papers, and a fold-out color plate of "The Burning of the Library at Alexandria," by the Italian painter Felice Giani.
On March 1, J. Nealin Parker and Derek McGee read from their new books before a full room at Books & Co. in Lexington, Virginia. Nealin, a Lexington native, is author of Take a Right at the Tank & Other Ways to Get Home, an adapted journal of her experience working to promote democracy and justice in post-war Liberia. Together they discussed "humanitarian" intervention overseas, the relationship between democracy and culture, and the personal dimensions of writing about war.
On February 1, McGee joined a panel on "Writing the War" at the annual meetings of the Association of Writers in New York. Meanwhile, "On Being Home," the final chapter from his When I Wished I Was Here is featured on The Sandbox, a military blog hosted by Slate.com, and appears in a new collection of U.S. soldiers' writing on Iraq and Afghanistan published by Andrews McMeel Universal. The complete text of Derek's book is now in its tenth printing and continues to be the best-seller from The Crumpled Press.