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Introduction to the Blog Posts
After one year of working on the Small Press Database, we asked ourselves the following questions: What has it been like so far trying to capture the broad and diverse world of small presses? What challenges have you encountered, and what difficult decisions have you had to make? How do you (or how can’t you) archive the unarchivable? What follows are our own personal answers to those questions.

  • Oceanic Community and the Small Press Database

    Oceanic Community and the Small Press Database

    DENNIS SWEENEY How do you pick up the ocean? How do you swim in a pail? Water always lives in a state of questioning the walls that hold it. When we put water in a pail it takes the shape of the pail, but it’s back to being to only water as soon as the…

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  • Books & Standardizing & Databases

    Books & Standardizing & Databases

    SARAH WU There is a process in standardization that is oddly satisfying & mechanical. As part CS bro, I find myself working with standardization a lot—the pruning of the spreadsheet, the cutting of excess detail—and it is interesting how hours and hours go into cleaning data. …

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  • The Small Press Zine: An Attempt to Archive the Unarchivable

    The Small Press Zine: An Attempt to Archive the Unarchivable

    SARA ATTIA It is, indeed, a representation and example of the robust DIY nature of the small press. Ergo… Why not show my love for the small press through a sincere philosophical experiment?…

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  • ANTI-RIGIDITY and BOXING: Disconnected Thoughts

    ANTI-RIGIDITY and BOXING: Disconnected Thoughts

    STEVEN HUANG I didn’t really understand what small presses were before this project. Now it feels as if I’ve been made privy to a different world: something which seems to stand in opposition to fixedness in literature. …

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  • The World of Small Presses as Gateway Portals

    The World of Small Presses as Gateway Portals

    NEVIAH WALDRON Trying to archive the unarchivable, doing all the categorizing, and navigating this world of small presses has been really fascinating to me….

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  • Our Resources

    We believe in our list of small presses because it is curated, tagged, and searchable, which makes it easy to find the presses you are most interested in. But we also appreciate the many other resources on the internet that direct people to small presses, as well as the brick and mortar establishments associated with…

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