stop-alienating-goal/good independent publishing houses

i need to stop writing alienating and sarcastic posts so often (i guess what i mean is: awp was fun when i went). this is a goal of mine for a while. in order to achieve that a little, i'm writing a post now about the independent book publishers that i like or that i would like to try to get a book with in some future. i am not including university presses in this list:

dzanc books: i have Roy Kesey's All Over from this press. i want to read more from this place.

featherproof books: the website design is good here and i feel like my own stuff could possibly 'fit' here. i have no way of substantiating this because i have not read a book from this place, but they do have 'free online' books which is really nice of them and nice for their readers. there are good titles here, like Boring Boring Boring Boring (their might be another Boring in there) and This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record. i have not read anything yet.

calamari press: this place is publishing Blake Butler's Ever. i've read a lot of Blake Butler's stuff online and i like it a lot. i'm going to order this book soon. i've heard about the press many times, but i don't remember right now what other authors are on it. probably many good ones.

melville house: i have read two books by tao lin (BED and EEEEE EEE EEEE), which are both books i liked a lot, and one by Stephen Dixon, called Meyer, which is good and feels like the interior design is better. they also do a thing where they take half-forgotten novellas and publish them as individual books. i like this novella idea a lot. i think novella's should be more 'popular,' considering our short 'attention spans.' i would read a 100 page novella any day over a five-hundred page novel.

milkweed editions: i have one called Montana, 1948 from them, but have not read it. it's a more traditional feeling press to me. i have read like the first twenty or so pages of Montana, 1948 and it almost reads like non-fiction. i don't know, emily liked the 'story' of it.

open city books: i have two books from them, one by Sam Lypsite called Venus Drive and another by Sam Braumbaugh called Goodbye, Goodness. the Sam Lypsite book of stories is fun, but i have not been able to get past the first twenty or so page of the other one.
coffee house press:

FC2: this is an 'experimental' press. i would never send my stuff to them, but i still like them a lot and respect what they're doing, even if i don't particularly agree with the aesthetic or whatever. i have several of Stephen Graham Jones books. i think i've mentioned Demon Theory on here before (that's through MacAdam Cage, another good press), but he writes all kinds of stuff. his sentences remind me of Pynchon and his 'images' or 'scenes' remind me a lot of Pynchon, too. but he does it in a more condensed way, which i appreciate. also, Brian Evenson's book of stories The Wavering Knife was very good from this press; it felt like updated and crazier and less-neat/contrived Poe.

Graywolf Press: i have a book of stories by Benjamin Percy called Refresh, Refresh. i think both Graywolf and FC2, while independent, are bigger than some of these other presses. that's just a feeling i have, not substantiated in any way. the Percy stories are good. i feel he is an updated Richard Ford, like Rock Springs got updated some, maybe. i also think his stories are almost too perfect, too neat, but again, that's a difference of taste, probably.