![]() ![]() However, I know numerous writers (none well, but many a little bit-and certainly many I admire!) who have some kind of association with Catapult. ![]() I don’t have any writer acquaintances or friends who are climate change denialists, or who believe that vast sums of untaxed money in the hands of the very few is preferable to, say, functioning public schools. When I read that poem now, I think, well, what’s a Kennedy, anyway? is Myles a Kennedy? But I keep thinking about how Soft Skull re-released Myles’s novel Cool for You in 2017, just after it was acquired by Catapult. You know that Eileen Myles poem where they pretend to be a Kennedy? I’ve loved that poem for a long time for how tonally odd it is-its weird joy. But if the business-speak of these books’ titles is any indication, this just another way of communicating with, and as, money.) He is the author of two books, Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful Companies and The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company. (Hilary, you did alert me to one opportunity to encounter Koch language: in Charles’s literary output. It’s so canny to be a patron of the arts, because you trick the artists into giving you their language. They communicate, and create change, through money. I’ve never heard or read anything from the mouth of either Charles or the recently deceased David. Maybe the way to approach them is to ask, what is Elizabeth Koch doing with that money? Is an operation like Catapult out of sync with the Koch brothers’ activity in public life? Elizabeth isn’t the only Koch who is a “patron of the arts.” Robber barons are always patrons of the arts, like those opioid-hocking Sacklers!Īnother thing I’m thinking is, the Kochs do not communicate with language. They could say, money is money, and it’s what you do with it that matters. Today I opened the Catapult site to find a lead article headlined “When It Comes to Climate Change, Grief Is More Useful Than Empty Nostalgia.” What does it mean that the publication of this website, this article, was funded by Koch money-fossil fuel money, climate change denial money, climate science suppression money, war profiteering money? I guess people could say, well, Elizabeth Koch is not Charles Koch ( though “she professes to be very much her father’s daughter”). Elsewhere she describes herself as “apolitical.” She says, “Politics can be so divisive.” In an essay in the LARB her father appears just as “a science geek,” unnamed. If she has thoughts about it, she doesn’t share them on her website, nor in a letter on the Catapult site written in her role as co-founder and CEO. We can only assume this press is made of Koch Industries money.Įlizabeth Koch has not, to my knowledge, addressed this fact publicly. As Poets & Writers notes, Koch “provided the seed funding for the company, which is operating on a budget in the high six figures.” A big budget for an indie press-which surely helped it gain quick prominence, its books receiving major reviews and prize recognition right away. Catapult was funded and co-founded by Elizabeth Koch, daughter of billionaire Charles Koch. It was founded in 2015, and in 2016 it merged with Counterpoint Press, including the Soft Skull imprint, which “effectively brought Counterpoint and Soft Skull under… auspices,” as Publishers Weekly put it. ![]() HP: The independent literary press Catapult publishes books and an online magazine, offers creative writing workshops, and hosts an online community forum.
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