Andrew Hsiao will work on a book, a group biography or cultural history of a multicultural cohort of radical artists and intellectuals who met and began making art in Depression-era New York City. A number of these artists first crossed paths in Greenwich Village’s John Reed Club, a Communist Party-adjacent arts group, and brought revolutionary ideas into pop culture (through fashion, comics, tabloids, movies, and pulp fiction, among other media).

Andrew Hsiao is a cultural activist and consulting editor for Haymarket Books. He was the US publisher of Verso Books and executive editor of The New Press, and he has edited and supervised publication of more than one hundred books of politics, history, cultural criticism, essays, photography, graphic novels, and fiction. He has been a print journalist and a radio producer, and he co-founded or served on the board of a number of organizations, including the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Center for Cultural Power, and NYC Books Through Bars. He is the author of The Verso Book of Dissent and a deck of playing cards, “Regime Change Begins at Home.”