Regent Press is an independent press offering an eclectic mix of titles in a variety of subjects and genres — poetry, fiction, essays, biography, memoir, mythology, history, dance, photography, and visual art, both of an academic and popular nature. Regent Press was started by Mark Weiman in 1978, shortly after he arrived in California from Philadelphia and Manhattan where he had worked in his family’s rare book and scholarly publishing business. The press was initially established and is still located in Berkeley, which in many ways is its defining characteristic.
The Blue Note
The Blue Note was originally published in French as Ode Baroque & Litanie Tonique: Érotisme Informatique. Beginning where 50 Shades of Gray ends, it is an indiscreet book about a discreet subject. It is a love and sex story that takes place both in the virtual world and in the real world. The computer screen is the mediating interface, the “door of perception,” through which our heroine and hero speak of love and, step by step, achieve sexual union. They discover and exploit the intense eroticism provided by the anonymity of electronics, a phenomenon of current technology that is causing a total upheaval in the way the sexes meet and merge.