The Oliver Arts & Open Press exists because, in the view of its founders, publishing in the United States, generally, has lost its conscience, courage, intellect, and, one might even say, its mind. The publishing "industry," as it's called, very likely didn't say farewell to those attributes in the same order as they're listed here, but the fact is inescapable that these four virtues have in fact been lost in very nearly equal degrees of completeness. And their loss—in all American institutions but certainly far from least in publishing—has resulted in and continues to result in massive cultural, social, and intellectual degradation and loss.

In another spirit, and to the fullest extent of its ability, Oliver aims to do good over harm, and to do it by publishing the best and most meaningful work it can—in many cases work rejected or ignored by mainstream publishing, an entity, the "mainstream," that Oliver sees as being made up of the conglomerates, the few remaining presses of a certain financial independence, the academic presses, and even the so-called small presses, which generally simply imitate their bigger brothers.

Unlike other publishers and presses in the nation, Oliver refuses to be limited by prefabricated or fossilized notions of "familiarity," "accessibility," or "propriety" in matters of genre, subject, attitude, or agenda. That's partly why it's called The Oliver Arts and Open Press.

As for material that Oliver will accept for publication under its imprint, the editors look for and will seek to publish only work they consider to be of the highest excellence, merit, interest, truth, and authenticity. Those will be the sole criteria for selection.

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