"Often on the edge of poverty, he lived on bread and water in a boarding house on Cross Street, where he wrote his paper, The Portland Pleasure Boat, every week on his knee, assailing the institutions of government, capitalism, slavery, prisons and organized religion.

This collection contains short stories that were published over several decades in the left-wing daily news-paper Morgn frayhayt [Morning Freedom] and other Yiddish-language outlets in mid-20th century New York.

Frayed Edge Press is a small independent press which publishes books that are a bit on the fringe. Literary Fiction and Poetry. Genre Fiction. Non-Fiction.

Sep 10, 2024 · Frayed Edge Press is proud to announce that Blessed Hands: Stories, by Frume Halpern and translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, has been named a finalist in two categories of the CIPA EVVY Awards: Women's Fiction and Spiritual/Religious Fiction.

Sep 24, 2024 · Get your hands on a copy of Frayed Edge Press' latest release: Blessed Hands: Stories by Frume Halpern, translated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. This collection of psychologically insightful and emotionally complex stories is now available, …

Frayed Edge Press is an independent press located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which specializes in publishing marginalized voices, forgotten history, overlooked literature in translation, and works that wrestle with important questions impacting contemporary society. We publish literary fiction and poetry, as well as non-fiction titles in ...

Translations from Frayed Edge Press The Flying African by Areg Azatyan; translated from the Armenian by Nazareth Seferian. In this episodic, surreal adventure, a young Armenia writer embarks on a trip to the continent of Africa, intending to spend one day in each of fifty-three African nations -- to meet people, hear their stories, and write ...

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Imprint: Frayed Edge Press. ISBN: 9781642510065 (pbk.) Physical description: 6X9; 126 p. "We had much rather be all alone in the right than with the whole world in the wrong.” So wrote Jeremiah Hacker in 1862.

Author: Richard Metz Imprint: Dark Meadow ISBN: 9781642510553 Physical description: 8x8; 48 p. (pbk.) A Premium Edition of this book is also available.. A Murder of Crows is the result of four years of drawing, painting, and writing. These poems and artworks are intended to be seen together, to create a deeper, more complex experience than either work separately.