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What Is Nervous System Capitalism™?
An economy runs on more than labour. It runs on people’s capacity to override their own limits — and treats that capacity as free. Nervous System Capitalism™ names what is actually being spent, why it appears on nobody’s books, and why recovery sold back to you does not settle the account.
Read the essay →The most valuable thing many people give their work is not their labour. It is their willingness to stay switched on after the labour is finished.
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Every essay from the Desk
On Caribbean writing, inheritance, the archive, and the business of publishing it.
Caribbean fiction & the literature
- Caribbean Fiction Is Not Magical Realism
- Language, Power, and Accent in Caribbean Fiction
- The Literary Caribbean Novel vs. Diaspora Fiction
- Caribbean Ghost Stories Are Not Horror
- The Jamaican and Caribbean Literary Greats
- Black Women Writers of the Caribbean
- Writing From the Diaspora, Without Apology
- Jamaica Is Not a Mood Board
The archive, the land, the record
- Why Do Jamaicans Have Scottish Surnames?
- How to Trace Jamaican Ancestry
- How to Read the 1834 Slave Compensation Records
- Oral History vs. the Archive
- Swift River: Jamaican Flood History and the Ghost Novel
- Ritual Is Not Superstition
- Colonial Education and Caribbean Identity
- The Afro-Turks of Istanbul
- Angelo Soliman in Vienna
- I Learn Her Silence
Publishing, and how it works
- Why Caribbean Stories Get Edited Into Oblivion
- Publishing Standards and Good Writing
- Why I Started Maroon House Press
Crime fiction and the institution
Desire, the body, and the erotic
- What Is Literary Erotica?
- Desire, Power, and the Supernatural in Paranormal Erotica
- Why Jamaican Erotica Is Often Misread or Erased
- Why Women’s Fiction Carries the Most Honest Erotic Writing
Press & Media
Maroon House Press is an independent publisher of Caribbean and diaspora storytelling, founded and published by Nikki Woods. Twenty-five titles in print across eleven authors and seven genres.
Review copies
We provide digital review copies to reviewers, booksellers, librarians and media. Tell us the outlet and the title you want and we will send it.
Interviews
Nikki Woods is available for interview on independent publishing, Caribbean and diaspora literature, Jamaican folklore in fiction, and the nervous system work behind Nervous System Capitalism™. She spent two decades in syndicated radio, including the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Assets
High-resolution cover images, author photographs and the press logo are available on request. Please credit Maroon House Press.
Contact
Email thehouse@maroonhousepress.com. We answer press inquiries faster than anything else in the inbox.
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