{"id":4058,"date":"2018-08-26T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2018-08-26T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T20:38:06","slug":"indie-publishing-with-hat-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2018\/08\/indie-publishing-with-hat-beard.html","title":{"rendered":"Indie Publishing With Hat &#038; Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>ONE of the things I&#8217;m most interested is how non-corporate, non-mainstream culture can survive after the 2008 crash. My conversations with J.C. Gabel &#8212; the intense, passionate publisher of a small LA press called Hat &amp; Beard &#8212; give us all a glimpse of both the challenges to independent culture merchants as well as the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Hat &amp; Beard is about to take a step forward with more output, a new way of doing business, and a new cultural space which will help showcase its books and its artists. The quality of their books is very high; I&#8217;m especially looking forward to a new one, just now going to press, about the short career of the band The Velvet Underground, which accompanies an exhibit that moves in a few weeks<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Velvet_Underground_1968_by_Billy_Name-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Velvet_Underground_1968_by_Billy_Name-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a> from Paris to New York.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, my LA Times story on the press is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/la-ca-jc-hat-and-beard-20180823-story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] ONE of the things I&#8217;m most interested is how non-corporate, non-mainstream culture can survive after the 2008 crash. My conversations with J.C. Gabel &#8212; the intense, passionate publisher of a small LA press called Hat &amp; Beard &#8212; give us all a glimpse of both the challenges to independent culture merchants as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39,40,34,30,29],"tags":[933],"class_list":{"0":"post-4058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-indie","9":"category-literary","10":"category-los-angeles","11":"category-west-coast","12":"tag-j-c-gabel","13":"entry","14":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}