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Notes From the Underground: 77 Articles That Bring the Past to Life

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By Thorne Dreyer

ISBN: 978-1-304-79374-4

New Journalism Project Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Notes From the Underground: 77 Articles That Bring the Past to Life. Notes from the Underground is a collection of author Thorne Dreyer’s writing from 1966 to the present.  Earlier work is taken from the 60s and 70s underground press – The Rag in Austin, Liberation News Service, and Space City! in Houston. The articles demonstrate the power of participatory journalism. Dreyer’s later writing reflects on the cultural and political upheaval of earlier decades and sheds light on contemporary issues.

Thorne Dreyer is a director of the New Journalism Project.  He is also host and producer of Rag Radio, a syndicated program that originates on KOOP FM, a cooperatively run community radio station in Austin, Texas, and is editor of The Rag Blog, a progressive internet newsmagazine.  Dreyer was a pioneer of the underground press in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was a founding editor of The Rag in Austin and Space City! in Houston.  He was general manager of KPFT FM, Pacifica radio in Houston, operated a leading public relations business there, and worked with progressive political campaigns.

Dreyer’s parents were prominent Houston artist Margaret Webb Dreyer and writer Martin Dreyer, whose Dreyer Galleries was a gathering spot for artists and activists.  Dreyer was an editor of Celebrating The Rag (2016) and Exploring Space City! (2021), and author of Making Waves (2022).  

Sometimes a Great Emotion

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ISBN: 978-1-304-87137-0

By Charlotte Herzele

New Journalism Project is pleased to announce the publication of Sometimes a Great Emotion, a second collection of poetry by Austin writer Charlotte Herzele. It is the second collection of Herzele’s poetry under the NJP Publishing imprint. These poems reflect the author’s rich and varied journey through life with keen observation, heartfelt grief, humor, and joy.  You can find the professor, the belly dancer, the Tarot reader, the loving partner, and the joyful grandmother on these pages. Above all, Charlotte’s words reflect her zest for living. The book is available on Amazon.

“Charlotte’s keen ability to observe and commune with nature on her neighborhood walks provides the ingredients of powerful poetry.  Charlotte’s unique voice is on display in this collection as she opens a window to her life and invites her readers in.” — Alyce Guynn, author of Echoes of Mercy: Psalms from the Marrow Bone and Deal Me In (illustrated by Jesse Taylor).

“A kaleidoscope of colors and change, living and loss, laughter and tears.  Her writing soothes and swaddles us in soft colors, it shines hope and resolve, it is a declaration of willingness to continue, it is, indeed, magical.” — Kim Dallesandro, author of Dream Maker, The Seduction of Solitude, Trains, and Oklahoma, Steam.

Collected Art of Solidarity: Austin, Texas, 1974-89

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ISBN 978-1-4357-7113-0

Edited by Alice Embree and Carlos Lowry

New Journalism Project Publishing is proud to announce the publication of Collected Art of Solidarity: Austin, Texas, 1974-89. This 96-page book features color reproductions of posters and leaflets that highlight the diversity of activism in Austin, Texas in the 1970s.

Austin, Texas was a hotbed of progressive organizing in the 1970s.  Women, lesbians, and gays targeted sexism and homophobia and created new organizations and alternative institutions.  The Brown Berets organized against police violence, the Town Lake boat races, and gentrification of vibrant East Side neighborhoods.  The Austin Committee for Human Rights in Chile defended human rights in that country, exposed the horrors of the military dictatorship, and protested U.S. complicity with the Chilean coup.

The editors felt fortunate to have participated in much of this insurgency, as printers and designers of leaflets and posters.  Fly By Night Printing Collective, and its later incarnation, Red River Women’s Press, allowed us to spread messages of solidarity with printed material and colorful silk-screened posters that marked major events.  The union bug of Red River Women’s Press is visible on much of this work.  Other artists contributed their talents and are credited in the captions for this collection.

This is not a comprehensive collection of artwork.  It is gathered from material the editors have collected, leaflets and posters we had a hand in creating.  Some of this material has an archival home with the University of Texas Briscoe Center for American History.