TIL the Koch family oligarchy owns the publishing rights to Sierra Club books, Wendell Berry, and Noam Chomsky, among many many others.

Elizabeth is the co-founder and CEO of the literary organization Catapult, which is the umbrella organization for Black Balloon Publishing, Soft Skull Press, and Counterpoint. It’s a publishing enterprise which includes titles by Noam Chomsky, Lynne Tillman, Wendell Berry, Red Pine’s translations of the sutras, and the entire run of Sierra Club Books, among many others. The wider organization hosts online classes such as “Decolonizing Poetry,” and publishes essays about the exclusion of trans voices in audiobooks.

I think his current stuff is being published by Penguin, what of his work have Catapult published?

They claim to publish him here, through their imprint Soft Skull Press: https://catapult.co/pages/counterpoint-press-to-merge-with-catapult

Soft Skull Press has published its cutting-edge mix of contemporary fiction and nonfiction for over twenty years. Focus ranges from fiction, short stories, graphic novels, and plays to memoir, politics, current affairs, and countercultural titles. Notable authors include Tim Wise, Scarlett Thomas, Joshua Mohr, John Jodzio, Tara Ison, Michael Muhammad Knight, Andrea Portes, Kim Addonzio, Lydia Cacho, Alain Mabanckou, Richard Hell, and playwright Rajiv Joseph. Key backlist authors include Noam Chomsky, Maggie Nelson, Lydia Millet, and Douglas Rushkoff.

There isn't anything in the spring catalog: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0965/2494/files/S22_Catalog.pdf?v=1631737364

And searching Catapults website finds nothing published by Chomsky, only three name drops in blog/story posts, all kinda sneering: https://catapult.co/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=chomsky

The mic is passed to a white man. He is wearing a #BlackLivesMatter T-shirt, and he keeps smoothing its invisible creases as he introduces himself. You couldn’t help but notice how he was on his phone throughout your reading, and only started paying attention when the professor mentioned Noam Chomsky.

Googling returns a Penguin page with one title attributed to soft skull/catapult: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/4878/noam-chomsky/ - How the World Works published in 2011.

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