It's almost here

A project that began earlier this year now bears fruit: slim, rectangular fruit.

New Liberal Arts, a Snarkmarket/Revelator Press collaboration, is 80 pages long, with 21 pitches for new liberal arts from some of the smartest minds we could find. The pitches range from attention economics to video literacy. You are gonna love what you find in this book.

New Liberal Arts goes on sale tomorrow at 9 a.m. PST at Snarkmarket.com, so be sure to check in early—there are only 200 copies. Each one is $8.99. After those 200 copies are sold, Revelator will post the PDF, so when you buy a book, you’re also buying a little slice of free for everybody.

But bear in mind: New Liberal Arts has a secret—one that can only be unlocked out there in the world of atoms and new-book-smell, not here in the world of pixels and PDFs.

For now, click here for a preview: "Micropolitics" by Matt Thompson.

The New Liberal Arts: Call for Contributors

Snarkmarket.com and Revelator are proud to announce a new collaboration: The New Liberal Arts, to be published as both an electronic and printed (that's right, printed!) chapbook, and we're looking for contributors.



The time is ripe to expand and invigorate our notion of the liberal arts. Is design a liberal art now? How about photography? Food? Personal branding?

We don’t want to generate a canonical list, but rather a laundry list. We want pitches for new liberal arts that are smart, provocative, insightful, surprising, and/or funny.

Together, they’ll read a little like the course catalog for some amazing new school. (The College of Snarks and Letters? Our endowment is untouched by the financial crisis!)

So now we’d like to ask for your help.

Visit The New Liberal Arts at Snarkmarket.com to get involved, and don't delay. We're looking to have a rough list of contributors by Monday, February 9.

Up next

We've been quiet for a while, but we've been busy, and over the next several weeks, you'll finally get a chance to see what we've been working on.

As I write, we're putting the finishing touches on Letters to My Sister, a powerful set of poems from Angela Vasquez-Giroux. We're also knee-deep in The Bridge and the River, a collection of poems from Timothy Carmody. Finally, we have third project in the works, which is a bit of a stretch for us, but we're really excited about it. I don't want to say too much and ruin the surpise.

So that's what we're working on, but we'd also like to know what you'd like to read. What should we be looking for? More stories? More scripts? Poems, poems, and more poems? If you have ideas or requests, please let us know.

What comes next?

We hope that you've been enjoying our first e-chapbook, Line Jester and Other Stories. We have some more cool projects in the works, including Between the Water and the Air, a play by Andrew Hungerford which made its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the summer of 2005, and a few surprises involving some poetry either just before or just after the holidays.

We're also working on some special content for the blog, including author interviews, suggestions for further reading, and commentaries from Revelator editors and anyone else we can get interested. (Hey, it's good enough for DVD, so it's good enough for us.)

Between the Water and the Air will be posted by the end of October, and we'll have at least one more e-chapbook before we take a bit of a break in December. Not to worry. We'll come back with a bang at the beginning of January.