Straight Arrow Press (Straight Arrow Publishing Co., Inc.) was a publishing company that published the periodical ''
Rolling Stone''.
They operated a book publishing division in the 1970s in
San Francisco, which published authors such as
Oscar Zeta Acosta,
Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the ''Whole Earth Catalog''. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the auth ...
,
Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four bo ...
,
Bob Dylan,
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...
(with company founder
Jann Wenner
Jann Simon Wenner ( ; born January 7, 1946) is an American magazine magnate who is a co-founder of the popular culture magazine ''Rolling Stone'', and former owner of '' Men's Journal'' magazine. He participated in the Free Speech Movement while ...
and
Charles A. Reich
Charles Alan Reich ( ; May 20, 1928 – June 15, 2019) was an American academic and writer best known for writing the 1970 book, ''The Greening of America'', a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s. Excerpts of the book first appeared in ''Th ...
),
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement. He rose to prominence with the publication of '' Hell's Angels'' (1967), a book for which he s ...
,
William Bast,
Roger L. Simon, and the
Firesign Theatre.
Partial bibliography
*''Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo'',
Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1972
*''The Revolt of the Cockroach People'',
Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1973
*''Time Zone'',
Sätty, 1973 (published in association with
Robert Briggs),
*''
Suburbia'',
Bill Owens, 1973
*''
Hollywood Babylon'' (distributed by
Simon & Schuster), 1975
External links
Jann Wenner starts ''Rolling Stone'' with "a mailing list and a corporate name (Straight Arrow Publishing)"''Chicago Tribune'' news article from 1985
Magazine publishing companies of the United States
Book publishing companies based in San Francisco
Companies based in San Francisco
Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area
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