writers we publish in the non-fiction will include mike farrell, robert scheer, ron kovacic and other sort of cultural heros of the left. >> you are not only the publisher of the founder of akashic books. how did you get into books and when did you decide to start a publishing house? >> i sort of stumbled into book publishing. it was never anything i intended to do. in my previous life i was a rock-and-roll musician and spent most of the mightiest war in the world with my band putting out albums doing all of the thing rock and rollers do and when i finally arrived at the f-ing rock and rollers do best, making money after i made some money i published a book basically as an experiment, and i found that i really enjoyed publishing the book. it was quite successful. i published the second book, and was a hobby, and after publishing three or four books i had the publishing dog and i started transitioning away from rock and roll and into book publishing and there was no looking back. >> the publisher is based in brooklyn brooklyn book festival. t want to tell about that? >> dad, the brookl

and we're working with activist mike farrell who is best known of the role on the b.j.oneycutt mash one of the great tv shows of all time. and this is a road -- it's a road book, a road memoir, a travel memoir and we're putting him back on the road and we're keeping him busy. >> how long have you been publishing books? >> we've been publishing since 1997. we publish literary fiction is the heart and soul of the company. we publish -- we have a sort of outsider sensibility, though, some of our books are quite popular. but our books are often sort of provocative in one way or the other and we do a little bit nonfiction as well, political nonfiction and writers that mike farrell, john kovack and other cultural heroes of the left. >> you're not only the publisher but you're the founder. how did you get into books and why did you decide to start a publishing house? >> i sort of stumbled into book publishing. it was never anything i tended to do. in my previous life i was a rock 'n roll musician and i spent most of the 1990s touring the world with my band, putting out albums,

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