Shack Simple Press LLC

11/22/2025

Chile competition/cook-off and pie-sale at Neale Park on behalf of Tiny Home Village - a not for profit here in Bryan/College Station building a village of "tiny homes" to house the homeless. Come on by between 4 pm and 6 om today and grab some chile (Fr. Cassian's famous Terence Hill Chile - with beans - or Bud Spenser Chile - all meat), or buy a pie for a worthy cause.

11/22/2025

A worthy cause. Ten dollars really can make a difference. Please donate.

10/11/2022

Every once in a while, here at Shack Simple Press LLC we come across a book that we really, really wish that we'd been the first to publish. This is one of those. It is a truly beautiful book. Purchase a copy with our blessing. Indeed, if you click through from here, we'll even get a commission.

Here's a description:

"Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of U.S. Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of a cancer with known environmental risk factors, Savage traces concentric rings of connection--between our bodies, one another, our communities, and our ecosystem. She explores the porous boundary between self and environment, and the ambiguous yet growing body of evidence linking toxins to disease. Equal parts mourning poem and manifesto for environmental justice, Groundglass reminds us that no living thing exists on its own."

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10/10/2022

Today's Shack Simple Press blog entry.

Our by-line here at Shack Simple Press is "responsible for every word." That's easy to say, but it can be hard to do. With respect to our most recent, and soon to be published book, Land is a Big Deal, over 200 customers had already purchased the book on a pre-order status by last Monday, and the de...

10/08/2022

Yesterday, the printing proofs for Shack Simple Press's second book, Lars Doucet's _Land is a Big Deal_ were approved, and printing has begun, just in time to meet our October 15th deadline. It's a good thing, too. Half of our first print run is already sold as pre-publication purchases.

Check it out for yourself:

The conflicts of the last century have trained us to see capital and labor as two fundamentally opposed camps–if we want to stimulate growth and economic progress, it means squeezing workers, and if we want to take care of workers it means accepting higher taxes, more barriers to starting and runn...

09/22/2022

Check out the new look for our website. Now we're really shack simple!

Shack Simple Press, LLC. - Responsible for every word. We are a brand-new indie publisher of poetry, essays, short stories, novellas and novels that reflect an interest in all that is local, communitarian, simple, frugal, beautiful, ethical and ecologically sound.

09/22/2022

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09/22/2022

Check out our online bookstore at www.shacksimplepress.com
Lars Doucet's exciting new book _Land is a Big Deal_ is now available for pre-order in advance of its release on October 15, 2022, in three formats (paperback, epublication, and audiobook), and Olympia Sibley's book of verse, _Zoom and the Neanderthal Girl_ is being offered at 20% off in advance of a second printing. Or buy a copy of the new limited quantity case-bound and signed library edition while there are still a couple of them left.

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Shack Simple Press, LLC. - Responsible for every word. We are a brand-new indie publisher of poetry, essays, short stories, novellas and novels that reflect an interest in all that is local, communitarian, simple, frugal, beautiful, ethical and ecologically sound.

04/04/2022

We are busy editing a new book by Lars Doucet, who, as the economist Noah Smith recently opined, "Has thought more deeply about land taxes than anyone I've ever met...and I've met just about everyone." Be looking for further updates on a publishing date. We are hoping to get the book out in May.

Poetry, economics...who knows what will be next?

Here's the cover:

12/15/2021

A new blog entry about celebrating - quietly - the birth of a new book!

The books arrived late in the evening, and it was raining, but they were well packaged, and survived their journey from the printers in Akron, Ohio, to College Station, Texas (and yes, our books are "Made in the USA.") A flurry of activity ensued as the twenty-five or so books that had been pre-orde...