Adam Parfrey

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Adam Parfrey (born 1957) is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centers on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge.

Life

He was born in New York the son of actor Woodrow Parfrey (his mother, Rosa Ellovich, was Jewish, his father was not). He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1962. Upon graduating from Santa Monica High School, the young Parfrey enrolled at UCLA before transferring to UC, Santa Cruz where he studied theater and history without graduating. While at UCLA, he wrote for the student newspaper, the "Daily Bruin", and later became co-Editor.

He collaborated on George Petros' "Exit" magazine.

Following a stint at the tabloid newspaper "Idea Magazine", Parfrey returned to New York. In 1989 he started Feral House with $5,000.

He now lives in Port Townsend, Washington, where he is married to Jodi Wille, with whom he co-publishes Process Media.

Works

* "Apocalypse Culture" edited by Adam Parfrey (Amok Press, 1988, ISBN 0-941693-02-3)
* "Rants and Incendiary Tracts" edited by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey (Amok Press, 1988, ISBN 0-941693-03-1)
* "The Manson File" compiled by Parfrey, credited to Nikolas Schreck (Amok Press, 1988, ISBN 0-941693-04-X)
* "Apocalypse Culture: Revised and Expanded" edited by Adam Parfrey (Amok Press, 1990, ISBN 0-922915-05-9)
* "Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr." by Rudolph Grey, edited by Parfrey (Feral House, 1994, ISBN 0-922915-24-5)
* "Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind" by Adam Parfrey (Feral House, 1995, ISBN 0-922915-22-9
* "End Is Near!: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia" by Stephen Jay Gould, Roger Manley, Adam Parfrey, Dalai Lama, foreword by Rebecca Hoffberger (Dilettante Press, 1998, paperback ISBN 0-9664272-7-0, 1999, hardcover ISBN 0-9664272-6-2)
* "Muerte!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture" by Harvey Stafford, edited by Adam Parfrey, illustrated by J. G. Posada, photographs by the ¡Alarma! Staff (Feral House, 2000, ISBN 0-922915-59-8)
* "Apocalypse Culture II" edited by Adam Parfrey (Feral House, 2000, ISBN 0-922915-57-1)
* "Extreme Islam: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism" edited by Adam Parfrey, introduction by Tamim Ansary (Feral House, 2002, ISBN 0-922915-78-4)
* "Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs" by Brendan Mullen, Adam Parfrey, and Don Bolles (Feral House, 2002, ISBN 0-922915-70-9)
* "It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines - the Postwar Pulps" edited by Adam Parfrey, material by Josh Alan Friedman, Mort Kunstler, David Saunders, Bill Devine (Feral House, 2003, ISBN 0-922915-81-4)
* "War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General" by Smedley D. Butler, with introduction by Adam Parfrey (reprinted in 2003 by Feral House, ISBN 0-922915-86-5)
* "Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes, and Trade Secrets: The Classic Do-It-Yourself Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry" by Harry Bennett, Adam Parfrey (Feral House, 2003, ISBN 0-922915-95-4)
* "SIN-A-RAMA: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties" by Britany A. Daley, Adam Parfrey and Lydia Lunch (Feral House, 2004, ISBN 1-932595-05-8)

Recordings

* "S.W.A.T. - Deep Inside a Cop's Mind: The Soundtrack For The Next Police State] " (Audio CD, 1994, Label: Amphetamine Reptile Records)
* "A Sordid Evening of Sonic Sorrows" (Audio CD, 1997, Man's Ruin Records MR-066)He has also collaborated with Boyd Rice on his album Hatesville!

Film

* Parfrey had a part in Crispin Glover's "What Is It?".

External links

* [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id283/pg1/ adam parfrey] at Disinformation, bio sketch with quite a few links.
* [http://feralhouse.com/ Feral House's website]
* [http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/adam_parfrey.htm Adam Parfrey bio]
* [http://plazaofthemind.blogspot.com/2007/02/plaza-of-mind-interview-with-adam.html Interview] with Adam Parfrey at Plaza of the Mind
* [http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/10/05/is-the-net-good-for-writers/ "Is the Internet Good for Writers?"]