Historical Background Scope and Content Container List ... ADMINISTRATIVE AND PRODUCTION FILES The Register of
Sun and Moon Press Archive
MSS 0224 Mandeville Special Collections Library
Geisel Library
University of California, San Diego Extent: 108.20 linear feet (165 archives boxes, 42 records cartons boxes, and 2 oversize folders) Abstract Historical Background In the late 1970s, Sun and Moon published chapbooks by Bernstein, diPalma, and David Antin. By 1982 the small publishing house had come into its own with the publication of Djuna Barnes' Smoke and Other Early Stories, Russell Banks' The Relation of My Imprisonment, and an important anthology of contemporary American fiction with selections written by Walter Abish, Steve Katz, Leslie Scalapino, and Gilbert Sorrentino, to mention just a few. Messerli, a writer in his own right, resigned his post as assistant professor of English at Temple University in 1983 to devote himself fulltime to the press, which moved during the mid-1980s to its present Los Angeles location on Wilshire Boulevard in the Gertrude Stein Plaza. To date, Sun and Moon has published more than 125 major works of drama, fiction and poetry and has distributed another 400. Sun and Moon Press was awarded the prestigious Carey-Thomas Award for Creative Publishing in 1987 and has been awarded a number of National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. | |
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