What is The Invisible Man Press or Invisible Man Books?
Invisible Man Press Inc. is the company based in New York, and Invisible Man Books is the imprint. They were founded by Richard Crasta, who agreed with the man, woman, or person of indeterminate sex who said that freedom of the press belonged to the man/woman/person who owned one. Well, actually, he felt that to be able to write with maximum independence and to put forward minority and courageous viewpoints without self-censorship, it would at least help to publish the books you believed in–even if they sometimes happened to be your own books. www.richardcrasta.com places slightly more emphasis on one author, but for now, it also presents information about all the authors published by Invisible Man Books, whose philosophy is: Publishers for the Invisible Man: indeed, all invisible men, invisible women, and invisible viewpoints. Invisible Man is a metaphoric term, derived from Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, to refer to persons who are not recognized or heard or seen by society, a
