Brooklyn Indie Adds Mark Crispin Miller Series

By Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 9/17/2007 9:00:00 AM

Ig Publishing, a Brooklyn indie press specializing in lefty politics and literary fiction, is launching the MCM Series, a new line of books that will be acquired and edited by noted media and political critic Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University.

Ig publisher Robert Lasner said Miller’s first acquisition is Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy 2000–2008, an anthology on election fraud, coming in 2008. Miller has written introductions for Ig reprints of classic titles(Propaganda by Edward Bernays and The Hidden Persuaders by Vance L. Packard) and is also the author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for Election Reform, published this summer by Basic Books. “Election fraud is his issue,” said Lasner, adding that Miller will acquire one to two books a year for the series.

Miller said the first acquisition will include essays by notable election reform researchers, “essays that I’ve recommended on my own blog.” Loser Take All will include essays by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and such election reform bloggers as Brad Freeman (bradblog.com) and Beverly Harris (blackboxbvoting.com). “These essays aren’t partisan speculation,” said Miller. “They’re careful analyses of election results, including actual ballots. Grass roots researchers interested in real election reform have kept this issue alive, and Ig is the perfect publishing vehicle for this book.”

This year also marks Ig Publishing’s fifth anniversary, and Lasner said the house has published 40 books since its launch. In November Ig is publishing Sandrine’s Letter to Tomorrow, a first novel by Dedra Johnson. Lasner said he plans 10 books in 2008, among them The Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin New York by Kat Long, “a chronicle of the battle between liberal and conservative forces in a city that has always been in the lead on sexual liberation.”