Haymarket Books

Haymarket Books was founded in 2001 by Anthony Arnove, Ahmed Shawki and Julie Fain, all of whom had previously worked at the International Socialist Review.[3][4] Its first title was The Struggle for Palestine, a collection of essays by pro-Palestinian activists including Edward Said.[3][4] Haymarket aims, in Fain's words, "to be a socialist workplace in a capitalist world".[4]

The name of the publishing house refers to the 1886 Haymarket affair, in which an explosion and ensuing gunfire at a labor demonstration in Chicago resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians.[3][4] Eight anarchists uninvolved in the bombing were subsequently convicted of conspiracy, of whom seven were sentenced to death.

Haymarket was cited by Publishers Weekly on their list of fast-growing independent publishers in 2017[5] and 2018.[6] As of 2019, Haymarket publishes 40 to 50 books each season.[4]

Notable Haymarket authors include Michael Bennett, Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Eve Ewing, Naomi Klein,[7] Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Solnit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Howard Zinn, and Dave Zirin. In 2005 Haymarket published the sportswriter Dave Zirin's What’s My Name, Fool?, a collection of essays on the relationship between sports and politics.[3] In 2018 Haymarket published José Olivarez's poetry collection Citizen Illegal, which won the Chicago Review of Books award for best poetry and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.[4]

Haymarket is known for publishing "provocative books from the left end of the political spectrum."[3]

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