Straight Arrow Press (Straight Arrow Publishing Co., Inc.) was a publishing company that published the periodical ''

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''. They operated a book publishing division in the 1970s in

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, which published authors such as

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Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 196 ...

(with company founder

Jann Wenner Jann Simon Wenner ( ; born January 7, 1946) is an American businessman who co-founded the popular culture magazine ''Rolling Stone'' with Ralph J. Gleason and is the former owner of '' Men's Journal'' magazine. He participated in the Free S ...

and Charles A. Reich), Hunter S. Thompson, William Bast, Roger L. Simon, and the

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Partial bibliography

*''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'',

, 1972 *''The Revolt of the Cockroach People'',

, 1973 *''Time Zone'', Sätty, 1973 (published in association with Robert Briggs), *''

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'', Bill Owens, 1973 *'' Hollywood Babylon'' (distributed by

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), 1975

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Jann Wenner starts ''Rolling Stone'' with "a mailing list and a corporate name (Straight Arrow Publishing)"''Chicago Tribune'' news article from 1985
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