Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski October 6, 2022

Rebel Satori Press is proud to launch a new imprint, The Library of Homosexual Congress, curated by Tom Cardamone and Sven Davisson, dedicated to preserving and promoting provocative works of gay literature, with a focus on the AIDS crisis. Our inaugural title, Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski, edited by Philip Clark and Michael Bronski, will be published on World AIDS Day, December 1st 2022. Invisible History marks the return of a singular gay…

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Rebel Satori At 20 September 17, 2022

We are proud to announce that this month we mark our twentieth anniversary! Twenty years ago, the first issue of ASHÉ! Journal appeared. The cover featured artwork by the late Raul Canizares. The issue featured writing by Trebor Healey, Farrell R. Davisson, Jim Provenzano, Mogg Morgan, Ruth Moore, Sven Davisson, and Vivek Anand. In 2007, we published our first full length book. Queer Mojo imprint launched in 2008; Queer Space curated by Joseph Campbell in 2020; Arabi…

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Acquisition Announcement: Body of Power by Eron Mazza August 6, 2022

Rebel Satori is excited to announcement we have acquired world print and digital rights to Eron Mazza’s Body of Power. Mazza (They/Them) is a 14 year magical practitioner. They are host of the popular podcast, “The Witching hour with Eron Mazza”, and an activist who currently resides In Saint Louis, Missouri. They are passionate about people living in the power of their identities and loving and acknowledging every aspect of themselves. Eron advocates for body positivity, plant…

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Acquisition Announcement: Performer Non Grata by Brian Alessandro July 13, 2022

Rebel Satori press is excited to announce the acquisition of Performer Non Grata by Brian Alessandro. Risk Bonaventura, a successful but insecure investment banker, moves his family from New York to Madrid to buy his way into bullfighting (a brutal childhood dream meant to edify his ego) only to be struck by conscience mid-fight and left seriously injured by the bull. What follows is a threesome with his professor wife, Lorna, (based in part on…

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Acquisition Announcement: EZIZWENI by Thabo Clive Mathonsi July 11, 2022

Rebel Satori is delighted to announce that we’ve acquired EZIZWENI: Untold Stories Of An Ancient African Civilization by Zimbabwe author Thabo Clive Mathonsi, a unique and powerful retelling of Africa’s history. It all begins with the medieval age of Africa most glorious clans and empire’s! The world at this point is not bound by boundaries nor continental separations and in the mist of it all, rules Menelick, a Bhanda Emperor. His territories and power stretch…

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Acquisition Announcement: LIMERENCE by Octavio R. González July 9, 2022

Rebel Satori is excited to welcome a new member to the RSP family: we have acquired Octavio R. González’s first full-length poetry collection, entitled Limerence. González is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. He teaches courses on American queer literature and culture, British and American modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the twentieth-century novel. González is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow. His lit crit monograph, Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of…

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Fever Spores Press Round Up July 4, 2022

Interview Magazine GAYNRD Suffolk County News Queens Public Library Culture Connection Long Island Advance “Anyone with a love of literature and especially literary criticism will gobble this book up.” —Mariana Dominguez

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Rebel Satori Publisher On WROTE Podcast June 28, 2022

Vance and Baz welcome Sven Davisson of Rebel Satori Press as the guest on Season 7, Episode 25 – Rebel Satori + Our Review of Queer as Folk! Sven Davisson introduces us to Rebel Satori Press and its imprints: Queer Mojo, Queer Space, Arabi Manor, and The Library of Homosexual Congress. We then discuss their most recent release, Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs. Then Baz and Vance review Peacock’s Queer as…

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Cultural Connection Features Fever Spores Editors June 25, 2022

In celebration of Pride Month, Queens Public Library‘s Culture Connection presented a discussion with the editors of the anthology Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs. Editors Brian Alessandro and Tom Cardamone will share their efforts to bring the legendary Beat writer into the gay literary canon. They will also talk about their interviews with David Cronenberg, Tony Kushner, and Fran Lebowitz, who recounted their experiences with and analyses of Burroughs. This program…

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Re-Queering William S. Burroughs June 14, 2022

It’s an exciting day! The debut in the world of a project that has been really amazing to work on. When Brian Alessandro and Tom Cardamone approached me with the concept for a queer Burroughs anthology last year, I said “OF COURSE!” I can’t think of much that would be more in my wheelhouse than this. Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though…