Volume 1 of Voices Series Names Finalist for Two National Book Awards
Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1, volume 1 of Ken Wachsberger's internationally recognized Voices from the Underground Series, has been named a finalist in two 2012 national book awards: the Eric Hoffer Award and the Montaigne Medal.
- (1888PressRelease) July 02, 2012 -
According to the Hoffer Award's mission statement, the award was founded to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit. The commercial environment for today's writers has all but crushed the circulation of ideas. It seems strange that in the Information Age, many books are blocked from wider circulation, and powerful writing is barred from publication or buried alive on the Internet. Furthermore, many of the top literary prizes will not even consider independent books or previously unpublished prose, choosing instead to become the marketing arms of large presses.
The "Hoffer" honors mainly unpublished prose from small, academic, micro, and independent presses. Michigan State University Press published the Voices from the Underground Series. Books are judged by independent panels. Insider Histories, Part 1's award was in the Culture category.
Insider Histories, Part 1 also was a finalist for the Montaigne Medal, for most thought-provoking book. The Montaigne Medal is sponsored by the Hoffer Award.
The Voices from the Underground Series is a four-volume collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam era as told by key people on each of the papers. The underground press was the independent, antiwar press of the Vietnam era that reported the news that the corporate papers suppressed about what our government was doing in Vietnam.
Stories in the series represent the gay, lesbian, feminist, Black, Puerto Rican, Native American, military, prisoners' rights, socialist, new age, rank-and-file, Southern consciousness, psychedelic, and other independent antiwar voices of the era as never before told. Wachsberger's history of the Lansing, Michigan-area underground press is one of the stories in volume 1 along with Muhammad Speaks, off our backs, Akwesesne Notes, Space City!, Fag Rag, Liberation News Service, Freedom of the Press, the Guardian, Great Speckled Bird, and others. Forewords are by Markos Moulitsas, Abe Peck, and William Kunstler.
Wachsberger is a long-time writer, editor, underground press historian, and political activist.
More information about the Voices from the Underground Series, including testimonials, the entire four-volume table of contents, and ordering details about all four volumes, may be found at the Voices from the Underground website.
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