Sludge Review: by an indie publisher. For indie publishers and readers alike.

This first episode offers up a review of Gerald Marchewka's Straight from the Heavens: Li Bai's Poetry in Retrospect in the first segment and in the second, in our first bit of "Shop Talk," Mick Talks a little about the history of "vanity" or "subsidy" press and how that bleeds over into modern indie publishing. 

The article he references in Segment 2 is:

“The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions”. Timothy Laquintano

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0016.104?view=text;rgn=main

What do we mean by indie publishing? There's a ton of it going on, lots of great stuff being published, and it's still really difficult to find, let alone find anyone who will review them outside of an Amazon blurb. There's a lot to discuss. Let's get started.