About

Its C. Author holds no official position, claims no affiliation, and signs no open letters. The Authors are one of the most distinguished families of The Margins—a township renowned for its diaspora, and for producing more heartbreaks than fortunes. Its wishes to honor the family trade but lacks the charm to court bankers and the pliancy to please politicians.

Speckled Jim Press is an independent, non-commercial publisher devoted to serious nonsense and unserious truths. It operates under the auspices of Carrier Pigeon Publishers—expert couriers since 1564.

Our first release, The Professor, is a sixteenth-century parody of a twenty-first-century phenomenon: the tenured mind. It is published without license, imprimatur, or apology.

We are currently accepting submissions for our new project, The Chronicles of Lower Education—an exhaustive account of the institutions, slogans, and figures that turned learning into a lifestyle brand. We do not, however, intend to review the submissions or to publish them.

Nulla fides vipris nigris — No faith in black adders.