Blast Books

Blast Books
StatusActive
Founded1989 (1989)
FoundersLaura Lindgren and Ken Swezey
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York, New York
DistributionPublishers Group West
Publication typesNon-fiction books
Nonfiction topicsCulture, social history, medical history, landscape, language, photography
Official websiteblastbooks.com

Blast Books is a New York-based book publisher[1] whose catalog consists of non-fiction books which focus on cultural and historical subjects, often of an obscure or unusual nature. Many of their publications include archival illustrations and photography.

Blast has published titles by Michael Lesy, Thomas Bernhard, Gretchen Worden, Teller, John Strausbaugh, John Harley Warner,[2] Drew Friedman, Suehiro Maruo, Hideshi Hino, James Edmonson,[3] Ken Smith, Arne Svenson, Steve Young, and others.