Putting a Friendly Face on a Dead Model: What Ark Press Taught Us the Hard Way

The quiet dismissal of popular author David John Butler from Ark Press landed with a thud because it confirmed what many in the counterculture sensed but hoped would not be true: The project was never built to last. Instead, it imitated an industry that has been failing in slow motion for decades.

Butler handled the news with class. No theatrics or publi…