 From SanderHicks.comSander Hicks started Vox Pop / Drench Kiss Media Corporation in 2003. Vox Pop is New York City's only union-shop, fair-trade coffeehouse/bookstore. Vox Pop recently published Hicks' new book, The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers & The Cover-up. Hicks is a playwright, journalist, songwriter and activist. He founded Soft Skull Press, Inc. in 1996. He was lead singer in White Collar Crime from 1996 to 2003. He lives in Brooklyn with Holley Anderson, his wife, and their son, Coleman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Softskull.com Soft Skull Press:  Sander Hicks founded Soft Skull Press in 1992 as a guerrilla publishing operation run under-the-table at the Kinko's where he was employed. The first book with the name Soft Skull on it was Hicks's first novel, Foam.With partner Susan Mitchell, Soft Skull Press took off, publishing Hicks's Kinko's play Cash Cow, the novel Angelus Novus by Morgan Meis, Lee Ranaldo's Road Movies, an art book from Spencer Tunick, and poetry from indie musicians Todd Colby, Cynthia Nelson, and John S. Hall. Soft Skull Press went above-board in 1996 and became incorporated in New York State, with the business mentorship of Stuart Bagwell, then Managing Partner, Kinko's of Manhattan. The company continued to grow; in 1998 the press published The Haiku Year, Sparrow 's Republican Like Me, Intermission by Nuyorican Champion Tracie Morris, and Lee Ranaldo's JRNLS 80s.  The company gained national attention, both positive and negative, when Hicks acquired the Bush biography Fortunate Son, [by Jim Hatfield] recently dropped by St. Martin's, in the fall of 1999.The story of the book is too complex to recount in this space, but we strongly recommend the critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary Horns and Halos, which covers the book's saga from its republishing to Bush's installation in the White House by a 5 to 4 vote in the Supreme Court to Hatfield's tragic suicide in the summer of 2001. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  "Imagine Henry Rollins meets the young Bob Woodward--a clean-cut, hard-as-nails punk with the reporting chops to take on an empire. Hicks is out to do nothing less than expose the planet's most insidious nexus: the jihadists, bankers, mercenaries, drug dealers, and so-called leaders who are currently pantomiming their way through a charade they've dubbed the "war on terror".--Anthony Lappé | Editor, Guerrilla News Network [GNN.tv]; Co-Author, True Lies From the foreword of The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-blowers & The Cover-up by Sander Hicks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more on Sander Hicks, Soft Skull Press, and Vox Pop visit: http://www.sanderhicks.com http://www.voxpopnet.net http://www.softskull.com |