Insert Press

Insert Press produces innovative art & literature in Los Angeles, CA.

Founded in October 2005, Insert Press produces over twelve individual projects a year across various media. Publishing large format hardbound artist monographs, photography and print editions, hardbound and perfectbound books of contemporary literature, handmade chapbooks, magazines, ebooks, audiobooks, digital albums, and video projects. Insert Press also recently started The People, a podcast fe

aturing the voices and ideas of The People that make up the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, the west coast, and beyond. Insert Press endeavors to create dynamic conversations among the artistic disciplines and to support emerging artists and writers in the interest of contemporary arts and letters.

12/22/2025

This holiday season give the gift of Insert Press 🃏 Gift cards, tote bags, and of course books are available now at insert.press

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12/11/2025

Pablo Jofré’s alphabet begins with “Abyss” and travels through “Caravan,” “Jewel,” and “Narcolepsy” before arriving at “Xenophobia,” charting the Berlin-based Chilean poet’s obsessive exploration of the world around him through the lens of politics, relationships, and travel. Awarded the Gabriela Mistral Chilean National Literature Contest in its original Spanish, this bilingual edition, Abecedary, is supported by the Chilean government’s prestigious National Council of Arts and Culture Translation Support Grant.

“Surely the dream—and nightmare—of many Western writers since the birth of modernity has been to write and impose their own personal dictionary. Some attempt it sneakily; others, head on. Pablo Jofré writes head on and knows what confronts him: he must display his words, which belong forcefully to others too.” —Sergio Gaspar

“Pablo Jofré has already staked a claim on our language—plural, tribal—from which he takes the words that he will make his… the author has constructed a small verbal work, his puzzles of words that he has ordered alphabetically… Abecedary is not sloppy, piled words, but rather a finely knit weaving…” —Elvira Hernández .elvira.hernandez

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12/09/2025

L.A. Deck documents a multi-year project in which the artist Daniel Newman collected an entire deck of playing cards one-by-one over a period of time, on the streets and in the gutters of Los Angeles. L.A. Deck was exhibited in the show 52 PICKUP: Daniel Newman at General Projects, Los Angeles. Newman’s show opened on Leap Day, Saturday, February 29th, 2020 and ran until mid-March 2020 when the statewide “stay at home” order was issued in the state of California.

NYC Deck documents a multi-year project in which the artist Daniel Newman collected an entire deck of playing cards one-by-one over a period of time, on the streets and in the gutters of New York City.

Daniel Newman was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1978. He graduated from The Cooper Union in 2002 where he studied with Vito Acconci, Jonas Mekas, and Hans Haacke. His artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. His work takes many forms including drawing, collage, painting, audio, video, and printmaking. He is also a prolific bookmaker and has produced countless self-published zines. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Art Book of the Moment Award by Art Gallery of York University in Toronto, Canada.

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12/04/2025

Recasting the forensic and everyday language of the FBI’s descriptions of unidentified subjects, from suspects to criminals to corpses, UNSUB probes what it is to be “wanted.” It explores our desire to have and to hold in contempt those subjects that threaten a society of securitization. Investigating a culture of terrorism, paranoia, and surveillance by rendering a world divided into victims and perpetrators, UNSUB plays on the differences between catching a predator and being a catch. Through ghostly descriptions of live bodies, the book scrutinizes the vicissitudes of anonymity and subjectivity, indistinction and identity.
Cover image police sketch courtesy of Brian Joseph Davis.

Paperback, 52 pages
Dimensions: 5.5” x 8.5” x 0.125”
ISBN: 978-0-9911092-7-2
Cover price: $12

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12/02/2025

An asteroid, volcano, tsunami or alien army draws near and the camera cuts away to pan across groups of people looking towards catastrophe. Intermittently montaged amidst the progressing apocalypse, each clip lasts for a few seconds. All peoples in the world—that is the movies’ extras—look up and expect to die; this is all the movie demands its audience to know. These extras work partly like an index finger: they direct us to look at something. They proceed to tell us how to look [unblinkingly] and how to feel [scared, adrenaline-charged].

Greg Curtis pulled stills from such fifteen-or-so-year-old disaster movies. His/this book’s photographs slice still images out of these moving films, to focus on these extras, spectators-of-their-own-deaths. The camera rested on their faces for less than a second in the movies, but Greg’s still slices allow more sustained looks. Main characters embrace each other and their deaths (heroically), but extras run away from ground zero or stare upwards. Extras gaze at the cataclysm with their bodies angled upwards, like your own body when you watch a movie screen. As you look at these extras in the movies, your body echoes theirs in pose. Also you are grouped like them, each of you one of many other bodies.

Paperback, full color, 116 pages
ISBN: 978-1-947322-90-5
Cover Price: $40.00

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11/25/2025

The Semi-Tropic Spiritualist Guidebook brings together images, texts, excerpts of performance scripts, and printed ephemera from the Semi-Tropic Spiritualist’s previous exhibitions. The book is organized as both a record of the project’s Test Sites from 2012 to 2018, and as an idiosyncratic guidebook to California’s spiritual history and geography. This full-color book accompanied the 2018 exhibition “What Can The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists Do For You?” at General Projects and Outside Gallery.

The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists Symbology Divination System is a tool to help you access your own deepest questions and reveal internal truths. Using the tools that we have made available for anyone who whats to join us, we have developed a method of exploring your own innermost self through learning more about how our Symbols relate to your own life.

Semi-Tropic Spiritualists began in 2012 as an ongoing series of performance works, objects and illustrated texts by Los Angeles-based artists Astri Swendsrud and Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg . Their works explore the history of spiritual belief and metaphysical practice in Los Angeles through the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, an organization that created a campsite meeting place outside the city limits of Los Angeles in 1905. Spiritualism has described itself as a science, a philosophy and a religion. The artists are interested in this system as a model for examining ideas of faith and skepticism, belief and charlatanism, as well as for the development of a space dedicated to investigation and the search for knowledge.

The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists have exhibited their installations and performance works at Richard Telles Fine Art , Klowden Mann , The Vincent Price Museum , and Chime & Co. in Los Angeles; Shangri-La, Joshua Tree, CA; and Llano del Rio, CA among other locations. Their work will also be part of the upcoming exhibition Totenpass at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, in October 2018. Both artists received their MFAs from CalArts in 2008.

Paperback, full color, 126 pages
ISBN: 978-1-947322-93-6
Cover price: $45.00

11/18/2025

Today, we’re revisiting a collaboration with : Silkscreen is Easy!

With a foreword by JW Buchanan, an interview with Chris Jalufka , and an afterword by John Foster , this full-color monograph accompanied the exhibition “Silkscreen Is Easy!!!” at Insert Press General Projects in 2021.

Paperback, full color, 114 pages
ISBN: 978-1-947322-08-0
Cover price: $42.00

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11/13/2025

And finally, our last PARROT – Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation by Mathew Timmons

Normal photographs are made by using the ordinary light reflected from objects to burn patterns into photosensitive chemicals on a piece of film, and then enlarging and reversing that negative image, burning it into a piece of photosensitive paper, and chemically ‘fixing’ it. It is an explicit, or explicate representation; with differing degrees of accuracy, you can match up one square inch of the picture with a corresponding area of the object depicted, in a one-to-one isomorphism.
Large sensational photographs made their first appearance, with the topics of s*x, violence, accidents and scandal as their major themes.
More beautiful than fabulous pictures.
You shall not make any images of me.

Saddle-stitched chapbook, 24 pages
Matte finish, opaque cream, 70 # text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125” x 9.375” x 0.125”
ISSN: 2169-3811-23

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11/11/2025

In our final week of PARROT revisitations (!!!) we’re looking at Erotic in Czech Republic by Ara Shirinyan

My name is Magda
and I live in Praga.
rate is 250 Euro
I can come to your hotel
and keep you company.
If you are interested
I look for a
generous person.
for a night. I do massage
and other things you ask me
*
Looking for a Guy
who can take me Home
- 23 (prague)
Im fresh single and just
looking for a spontaneous guy
I love to
hear from you !

11/06/2025

Today, we’re looking at PARROT 21 – Pre-symbolic by Brian Ang.

Onset of mechanical reproduction transformation. Haphazard administrative visible imagined incorporated morphology aesthetics. Metaphysical greasepaint. Generations of science theory nature pleasure process time space age. Prose forms postures. Stratification. Emphasizing this word and this sentence in history.

Saddle-Stitched chapbook, 20 pages
Matte finish, opaque cream, 70 # text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125” x 9.375” x 0.125”
ISSN: 2169-3811-21

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11/04/2025

This week, we’re revising PARROT 20 – The Missing Link by Jen Hofer

question question
maximum maximum
error question miles
absorbent question will
power power question
factor wave circuit
question question
phase rating power
power question source
source voltage question
factor impress impress
question shall i listen
am i near may i stop
listening shall i listen

Saddle-stitched chapbook, full color, 20 pages
Matte finish, opaque cream, 70 # text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125” x 9.375” x 0.125”
ISSN: 2169-3811-20

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10/31/2025

Today, we’re looking at PARROT 19, Break Bloom Burn by Maximus Kim

There is Xiao Mei. In three words: new age hippie. Picture a bleached blonde waif, a self-described hacker by night - slash - computer programmer by day, in her late twenties; a New School dropout desperate to act out her role as the anorexic Über-Feminist (vis-à-vis Simone Weil’s pale indignant visage) - and change the world for the becoming resurrection of a higher and more perfect Communism. Her naivete was only matched by her fragile faith in the homeostatic healing properties of Gaia.

Saddle-stitched chapbook, 20 pages
Matte finish, opaque cream, 70 # text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125” x 9.375” x 0.125”
ISSN: 2169-3811-19

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