Publication Studio Hudson

03/23/2023

How many books can I hold in one hand? Three.

03/20/2023

Happy Spring everyone! There's no better day to introduce this new publication "Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds" by interdisciplinary artist and educator Ellie Irons ( ). Please jump over to our webshop to read more about this amazing and unique manual (link in this pic and in bio too). This book includes four Riso-printed postcards as well. This first printing is not huge so get yours while you can! Particularly if you live anywhere in the vast Mohican land range and ESPECIALLY if you're near the shores of the Mahicantuck River aka Hudson River.

03/19/2023

Highlights from yesterday in Boston at book fair. Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge ( )was there to talk with people about her new publication LES ATTENTES • TABLE BOOK. First copies of Ellie Irons’ ( ) FERAL HUES were flying. Carl Skoggard’s recent translation of Bernhard’s OLD MASTERS: COMEDY created a stir. A Spanish/English manifesto by Silvio Lang published by debuted in the Commonwealth. Much more besides. And a wall full of amazing collages by Matthew Klane ( )were the perfect backdrop for this gallimaufry. Thanks to and all organizers of the fair!

03/17/2023

Satellite photos showing sediment pouring out into the Pacific from coastal rivers. And one from western Lake Erie.

I don’t know if this is “bad” or “good” or neither. Though I have read that the greening of California as a result of all the recent rain and snow could become tinder in the event of summer drought.

03/15/2023

Happy Publication Day to this book LES ATTENTES • TABLE BOOK ! An endless bilingual artist’s book in French and English mixing photography and interview in a patient meditation on . If God had a dentist, TABLE BOOK would be in the waiting room. By Quebec-born, Rochester-based artist and professor Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge. An edition of only 100 books! Get one today for a very fair price of $35 plus shipping. We await your call. 🪑📖🪴⏳

03/11/2023

LES ATTENTES • TABLE BOOK is a beautiful daylit meditation

03/10/2023

Pre-orders are now open for a new artist’s book by Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge!

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What is a waiting room? One chair, or two, or many. Or maybe only a piece of tape on the floor, to mark where the waiting begins. There, we are waiting for something. For a train to arrive, for a number to appear on a screen, for our name to be called, for a dear friend to meet us. We are suspending ourselves in time and in space.

Les attentes ⋅ Table Book is a bilingual French–English 438-page book-object printed and numbered in an edition of 100 copies. It contains texts and photographic images collected over a long period of time. To be read while waiting, to be placed on a side table, or on a shelf, by a chair, or perhaps near a potted plant. Created in the context of a long-term investigation on waiting rooms. This book has a companion 60-minute film titled Les échéances ⋅ As the hour turns blue that will be available to screen in the spring of 2023.

02/20/2023

Please go check out Dennis Cooper’s blog (link in bio) for a beautiful write-up about author Bo Huston and his novel THE DREAM LIFE, just republished as #13 in the Fellow Travelers Series from Publication Studio.

02/09/2023

02/07/2023

A copy from .s.paris on the left, a copy from here on the right. Originally made with the evanescent PS Vilnius in Lithuania, a land of hunger and fatigue.

01/22/2023

New from the Fellow Travelers Series! FTS 013 —THE DREAM LIFE by Bo Huston (with an afterword by Rebecca Brown).

Get your very own ink+paper copy or an ebook.

Three books by Bo Huston were published in the five years before his tragically early death in May, 1993, and a fourth was published soon after he passed, age thirty-three, a victim of AIDS. THE DREAM LIFE, his second novel, was, "Huston's best work...one of the most startling and powerful novels to appear in years," Michael Bronski wrote in 1992. The Fellow Travelers Series is honored to republish THE DREAM LIFE, posthumously claiming Bo as a fellow traveler, a status that he earned in life through his close friendship with Kevin Killian (an early FTS author) and the inspiration his books have given to the rest of us. Bo's friend and colleague, the writer Rebecca Brown, has written an afterword for this new edition.

05/26/2022

Peter Lamborn Wilson died this past weekend. PS Hudson was lucky to make three publications with Peter. And I remember fondly his gentle humor and his modesty and at the same time the way his writing and sometimes his presence provoked me. I think he was a superb poet and essayist and I encourage you to read him. To call his erudition eclectic and unorthodox would be an understatement. Many knew him better than I did and many know his work better than I do but I am grateful for the experience I had reading and talking to him towards the end of his life. In particular for the visits with him in Woodstock and later Saugerties surrounded by his books and then at a diner across from the street from the apartment building he lived in; and at a memorable event we held in December of 2014 to celebrate the launch of his collection of poems “Eclogues,” made with Christin Ripley. He read from them to a packed audience on Main Street in Catskill and we were accompanied by the live music of a harpist, who concluded with a gorgeous rendition of O’Carolan’s “Farewell.” I can still hear it. RIP Peter.

Peter pictures here in 2014 with friend Shiv Mirabito

12/14/2021

Here's a roundup of some of the wonderful writing about Nate Lippens' new novel MY DEAD BOOK from Publication Studio, and conversations with the author.

There's still time to order your very own copy of MY DEAD BOOK before the studio powers down for the holidays! Order by this Friday December 17!

The White Review ; Dennis Cooper's blog; Heavy Feather Review ; Southwest Review ; Bomb ; and SELFF**K; and Cultured Vultures

12/01/2021

Available today, Dec. 1 in our web shop: Carl Skoggard’s superb translation of Robert Walser’s JACOB VON GUNTEN

“A high-wire literary performance treading the border between writing and speaking, dreaming and waking, by the visionary Swiss novelist Robert Walser (1878-1956). His Jakob von Gunten: Ein Tagebuch first appeared in 1909—that is, about the same time as Sigmund Freud’s discovery of dream analysis and a soon-to-be-world-famous talking cure. The protagonist of Walser’ novel, scion of a bourgeois family, chooses to abandon his prospects, along with his parents and his provincial home town, by enrolling himself in a “school for servants” in the heart of Berlin. Claiming to despise the life of the mind even as he faithfully records his own quicksilver musings, Jakob will end by enacting a truly bizarre Oedipal drama with the help of the school head, one Herr Benjamenta, and the Fräulein, his mysterious and alluring sister. Fairy-tale, absurdist word-play, romantic melodrama, disquieting social and psychological reportage—all these interact in young Jakob’s diary, presented here in a fresh and bracing translation by Carl Skoggard.”

11/29/2021

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Kate Zambreno interviewed Nate Lippens (MY DEAD BOOK [FTS 012]) for (LINK IN BIO)

Nate’s novel debuted this months and you can get a copy of your own on our webshop!

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11/22/2021

Repost from !

“ I talked about MY DEAD BOOK with the great , author of FOREVER at SELFF**K (link in Nate’s bio)

11/09/2021

Today we release the 11th and 12th books in the Fellow Travelers Seeies!

Jack Paradise's GREENHOUSE (a novella) in plain and artist's editions [FTS011] and Nate Lippens's MY DEAD BOOK (a novel), available for sale now! [LINK IN BIO]

11/08/2021

📣 One of two excellent new works of fiction in the Fellow Travelers Series launching tomorrow—in a limited Artist’s edition! (Link to buy in bio)

The debut of filmmaker and writer Jack Paradise is a pastoral tale of town and country and a domestic portrait in the tradition of James Schuyler. An artist and his husband raising their ten year-old son set up house on a quiet island near the city.

This limited Artist's Edition of the book designed by the author is printed on fine Mohawk paper with a Risograph printed cover and colored endsheets.

“Greenhouse” is the 11th book in the Fellow Travelers Series.

10/21/2021

Having some fun with all these different editions of Walser’s “Jakob von Gunten.” In slot 8 is the latest and our most favorite, Carl Skoggard’s new translation! Come be dazzled by it tomorrow night in Hudson…

FREE TSL EVENT THIS FRI - Carl Skoggard reads from his new translation of Robert Walser’s JAKOB VON GUNTEN

FRI 10/22 at 7PM at TSL, 434 Columbia St.

Event also being streamed on Zoom and Insta Live. Please see web link in bio for details. Proof of vaccination & masks required please.

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest.

CARL SKOGGARD is a writer who lives with his partner, Joe Holtzman, in a converted cow slaughterhouse outside Hudson, NY. He has translated eight books so far, including the first English-language versions of Walter Benjamin’s 73 sonnets and two brilliant novels by Siegfried Kracauer, Ginster and Georg.

The book tells the story of a seventeen-year-old runaway from an old family who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute, run by the domineering Herr Benjamenta and his beautiful but ailing sister, is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room. The students though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. Jakob, an irrepressibly subversive presence, keeps a journal in which he records his quirky impressions of the school as well as his own quickly changing enthusiasms and uncertainties, deliberations and dreams. And in the end, as the Institute itself dissolves around him like a dream, he steps out boldly to explore still-unimagined worlds.

10/15/2021

Mark you calendar for 7:00 next Friday evening (Oct 22) in Hudson, where Carl Skoggard will read several passages from his wonderful new translation of Robert Walser's novel "Jacob von Gunten." This is the first time the book has been brought into American English and it's Carl's first public reading of the work. At Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia St.

For those who can’t join in person, keep your eye on this channel for a forthcoming Zoom link.

“A high-wire literary performance treading the border between writing and speaking, dreaming and waking, by the visionary Swiss novelist Robert Walser (1878-1956). “Jakob von Gunten: Ein Tagebuch” first appeared in 1909—that is, about the same time as Sigmund Freud’s discovery of dream analysis and a soon-to-be-world-famous talking cure. Walser’s protagonist, the scion of a bourgeois family, chooses to abandon his prospects, along with his parents and his provincial home town, by enrolling himself in a “school for servants” in the heart of Berlin. Claiming to despise the life of the mind even as he faithfully records his own quicksilver musings, Jakob will end by enacting a truly perverse Oedipal drama with the help of the school head, one Herr Benjamenta, and the Fräulein, his mysterious and alluring sister. Fairy-tale, absurdist word-play, romantic melodrama, disquieting social and psychological reportage—all these interact in young Jakob’s diary, presented here in a fresh and bracing translation by Carl Skoggard.”

09/14/2021

Reposting from

—Two in 2021—

Please welcome two new Fellow Travelers, coming in November:

GREENHOUSE (a novella)
by Jack Paradise (FTS011)

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MY DEAD BOOK (a novel)
by Nate Lippens (FTS012)

Watch this space for details!
[advance review copies will be available soon— DM us here]

08/02/2021

Another reader has been brought into the “fold”

05/26/2021

Some people I know in places I’ve been

03/20/2021

Spring is here! ☘️ And so is a zine that took all winter to make. It’s an ode to libraries and an apologia for their enduring value. Over the last year, of course, many libraries have been closed or restricted to visitors in various ways, but they still serve needs for research, gathering, serendipitous wandering, civic participation, olfactory experience, and much more (Rule #3: Libraries are Adaptable to Changing Times).

Then again, not all libraries are huge buildings with scheduled hours (Rule #10: Libraries are Everywhere).

“Libraries Matter” is written by friend of PS Timothy Young (Curator, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University) aka and is a companion to his 2015 zine "10 Reasons Books Matter. Like its predecessor, it is designed by Elana Schlenker aka for Risograph on archival quality paper. Each copy, when folded and glued, mimics the form of a miniature book and fits inside a custom-stamped library card pocket!

You can order a copy pre-finished or as an unfinished DIY sheet that takes about five minutes to make yourself (instructions included). This new zine is also available here paired with "10 Reasons Books Matter."

A Spanish-language version of the "Books Matter" zine is available through Maquina de Aplausos aka

This makes a great gift so buy a few! Jump from here straight to the web shop or find the link in our bio!

02/24/2021

Introducing: Artists in Residence

A collection of 50 submissions from artists around the world who were all asked to respond to a simple prompt: what is an artwork or performance we can all do at home while sheltering in place?

Artist in Residence is available for purchase now as a limited-edition printed workbook and as a downloadable PDF. 100% of proceeds raised from the sale of this book will be donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund.

Book design by Elana Schlenker and letterpress by Ready Mix Design.

02/22/2021

It’s been quite a while since I made a copy of but it’s still really nice. Japanese stab binding conceived by Christin Ripley and her marbled paper for the cover as well.

02/12/2021

In 2016, PS published Carl Skoggard's translation of the Weimar novel "Georg" by Siegfried Kracauer, and next year NYRB Classics will publish Carl's translation of Kracauer's WWI story "Ginster." Both books are grimly funny, cinematic social novels by an author best known to readers for his foundational work on film ("From Hi**er to Caligari"), modernity, and popular culture ("The Mass Ornament"). Kracauer only wrote two novels, both brought into English for the first time in Carl's brilliant translations. So now is a good time to share his as-yet unpublished essay on the pair, "Kracauer's Novels: An Introdution." It's not available in print yet, but you can read it online at Issuu appended to the beginning of "Georg": https://issuu.com/home/published/georg_with_essay

01/13/2021

A special edition of Ronald Palmer’s FTS series novel “Prick Queasy” with Riso blue printed covers on Crane’s Lettra.

01/12/2021

One thing poetry has going for it is the refusal to be only what it appears at first. Presenting (the first minute of) another poem by Minneapolis-based Brad Liening, read by him from his 2020 collection “Deep State Come Shining.” If you follow the link here you can get a copy made just for you for $12 + shipping, and find out what surprising gifts these poems offer.

12/31/2020

This is it. The last POD order of 2020 from PS Hudson (#491). 🎆 COPIA/KOPIE is the result of Dolores Dorantes’ residency at Poetry International 2018, published in collaboration with Publication Studio Rotterdam. Dorantes’ poetry constructs and deconstructs, remembers and forgets, putting into words the cruelty, pain and violence of the country she fled, yet also challenging those words. COPIA/KOPIE is a double bound bilingual publication, with Dorantes’ poetry published in both Dutch and Spanish within this book.

12/22/2020

In this original essay, American anarchist author and poet Peter Lamborn Wilson posits the history of religious blending (or "syncretism") of three normatively quite different 18th-century traditions: the spiritualism of native Mohawk peoples of modern-day New York State, Freemasonry, and Anglicanism. A thoroughly engrossing and provocative study of the possibilities contained in this under-appreciated chapter in early American history. Risograph printed with several color illustrations and handsewn in an edition of 100.

12/15/2020

I spent the last few days doing a deep clean on my beloved fluorescent orange drum, after finding that it was totally bone dry from neglect. A bottle of WD-40 , denatured alcohol, Zep heavy duty citrus cleaner and a borrowed power washer later, I’m am now able to print this guy Orange.

12/08/2020

A weird duotone Riso print of a nearby sacred well, unfortunately the metallic gold drum needs a cleaning that I’m too impatient to deal with so it’s patchy, but I still like how it captures the original saturated postcard photograph

12/01/2020

A splash of orchid

12/01/2020

Publication Studio Hudson updated their phone number.

Publication Studio Hudson updated their phone number.

12/01/2020

Publication Studio Hudson updated their address.

Publication Studio Hudson updated their address.

12/01/2020

Some notebooks with nice Mohawk paper in them made with marbled leftovers made by

11/25/2020

Something is being worked upon

10/12/2020

Today we release a new booklet in translation. “Drawing a Mountain” by Spanish artist Laura F. Gibellini is based on a show held at Espositivo, Madrid, in September 2019. It is part of an ongoing project about the making-visible of that which has no stable form: in this case the weather, light, time and the extreme conditions of a particular Mountain, Sulphur, in Banff, Canada.

For the publication the artist asked several people to reflect on mountains, art, time and the weather. Contributors include Antonia Santolaya, Alfredo Puente, Oriol Fontdevila, Elena Rosauro, Irene Cantero, Lola Martínez and Dioni Serrano.

Included with each copy is a special edition Risograph print of an original drawing by Gibellini, available on bright yellow or bright pink paper. Bounce off these images to shoot over to the we shop and get your own copy!

10/11/2020

Sunday in the studio, by the numbers