She created the Drag Queen Story Hour. Now she’s launching L.A.’s newest publisher
LA TimesWriter and editor Michelle Tea’s latest effort to bring new voices into the world is a fledgling press called Dopamine. El Kholti, 56, is the co-editor of Semiotext, the 50-year-old indie publisher of such iconoclasts as William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Andrea Dworkin — and, in 1998, Tea’s first novel, “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America.” Tea’s new press, Dopamine, which will release its first book next May, will be published through Semiotext, but it will be as independent as a small arm of a small press can be. “Let’s talk about ‘Sluts,’” El Kholti says to Tea, referring to the anthology that will be Dopamine’s first title. Tea, left, published her first novel, “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America,” with El Kohlti’s Semiotext publishing house. So, with ‘Days Running,’ I decided to leave my Park Avenue agency, skip the big publishing houses, and try my luck with a small press.” Ruff has self-published several other books; only his anthology of queer African American fiction, “Go the Way Your Blood Beats,” was picked up by a mainstream publisher.
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