Allow us to re-introduce ourselves.

This week, the Chicago Reader published a feature on Haymarket Books, highlighting our recent growth and the unique contribution we’re making as a radical, non-profit, author-centric press, with a direct connection to you, our vibrant community of readers.

Here’s how it begins:

“It is that experience of reading a book which can most politicize and most radicalize people," says Anthony Arnove, a founding editor and editorial board member of Haymarket Books, Chicago's foremost progressive publisher. Founded in 2001, Haymarket has grown in tandem with the rising popularity of political organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America. Haymarket's editors have bet on a hunger for leftist classics, Howard Zinn-inspired people's histories, politically engaged poetry and children's books, and on new work from marginalized voices, and they've had notable success with a number of titles, Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, Naomi Klein's No Is Not Enough, and Eve Ewing's Electric Arches among them. In everything from its staffing to its book acquisitions strategy, Haymarket has quite intentionally set out to do business differently in a competitive industry where profit margins, especially for small publishers, are usually thin.”

We hope you’ll read and share this piece with others who will appreciate the work we’re doing. We couldn’t do it without you. Thank you!
 

In Solidarity,
The Team at Haymarket Books