Pseudo Press

Pseudo Press inhabits a weird space between bookbindery, publishing studio, and vanity project. The vanity is Lauria Joan, a bookmaker based in Berlin. With a focus on the archival, the ancient, and the apocryphal, Pseudo Press has been alliterating since 2020.

Pseudo Press publications are playful critiques, making "pseudo|books”: narratives and texts that do not fit strict literary forms, but are nonetheless dressed up into a book-shape. We work with riso printing and traditional bookbinding methods to design books that blend artisan and DIY aesthetics.

Lauria Joan, The Pseudo Newsletter, Pseudo Press, 2025 © Lauria Joan

The Pseudo Newsletter is a monthly newsletter with bookmaking tips, small press book reviews, studio updates and rambling thoughts on books & literature. It is emailed out monthly to a email-list of subscribers, then printed in zine format for snail mailers.

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Erin Honeycutt, The Holy Girl, Pseudo Press, 2025 © Erin Honeycutt

Erin Honeycutt’s ekphrastic readingwatchingwriting of Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa. With footnotes ♱ from “Diana’s Tree” by Alejandra Pizarnik.

«The novelization of films is often reserved for Hollywood blockbusters, ghostwritten and dismissed as literature. This novelette, inspired by Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña Santa (2004), reflects on the complex ties between adolescence’s sexual and spiritual awakenings, the ambiguous meanings of images, words, and gestures, and the elusive concept of “a calling.” The air hums with ambient sounds—whispers, buzzing insects, distant noises—rhyming like an intimate and uneasy connection among the characters’ complexities.»

No. 2 in our series of ekphrastic film novelettes, a spiritual following from 2023’s Ticket of No Return

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Wretched Subjects republishes Otto Neugebauer’s 1951 essay, “On the Study of Wretched Subjects” with new backmatter commentary by Lauria Joan. A classic apologia for those of us obsessed with the ancient, the forgotten, the wretched magicks & omens of history. A5 folded zine, riso printed with Purple and Metallic Gold ink. Poster on the reverse.

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