Featured Publishers
March 2011 Featured Publisher:
Seagull Books
For 28 years, Seagull has been crafting books like works of art. It began as a small Indian publishing house specializing in serious books on art, theatre and cinema. It published plays by major Indian playwrights, monographs and essays by leading Indian artists, filmscripts from the best-known Indian and European filmmakers, along with serious academic books on culture, society, and the various arts.
Since 2005, Seagull Books, London, has ventured into newer fields of publishing, including series of English translations of fiction and non-fiction works by major European writers. Seagull Books is dedicated to crafting books that not only read wonderfully but also look beautiful. These books are to be picked up, felt in one's hands, read, and treasured.
All Seagull Books titles are 20% off through the month of March!
For more information, please visit their website.
February 2011 Featured Publisher:
Small Beer Press
Founded in 2000 by Kelly Link, author of the short story collection Pretty Monsters, Small Beer Press is dedicated to publishing unique new fiction from notable authors such as Ted Chiang, Kelley Eskridge, and Karen Jay Fowler, and Julia Holmes. All titles are printed on 100% recycled paper.
Click here for more information about Small Beer Press.
January 2011 Featured Publisher:
Madras Press
"Madras Press publishes individually bound short stories and novella-length booklets and distributes the proceeds to a growing list of charitable organizations chosen by our authors."
Click here for more information about Madras Press.
December 2010 Featured Publisher:
Unbridled Books
"Unbridled Books is a premier publisher of works of rich literary quality that appeal to a broad audience. We want to be able to continue our longtime discussion about what allows a novel to touch our hearts and our minds at once. And we want our readers, booksellers, and reviewers to trust that when they pick up an Unbridled book, we're inviting them to enjoy that rarest of pleasures, a good read."
Read more here.
November 2010 Featured Publisher:
Two Dollar Radio
In November we will be proud to showcase the books of Two Dollar Radio, a small press that champions itself on publishing bold and cutting-edge fiction.
From their website:
"Two Dollar Radio is a family-run outfit founded in 2005 with the mission to reaffirm the cultural and artistic spirit of the publishing industry. We aim to do this by presenting bold works of literary merit, each book, individually and collectively providing a sonic progression that we believe too loud to be ignored."
Read more here.
October 2010 Featured Publisher:
Europa Editions
Fantagraphics Books has been publishing the most terrific, mind-blowing underground comics since 1976 from their home base right here in Seattle. Many of the artists they have published have gone on to gain world renown, such as R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, the Hernandez brothers, Dan Clowes, Jason, Joe Sacco, Chris Ware, and Jessica Abel. We are proud to exhibit the work of their extremely talented and illustrious artists as part of this month's featured publisher. For more info, check out their website.
September 2010 Featured Publisher:
Europa Editions
Since 2005, New York-based Europa Editions has concentrated its efforts on bringing fresh European literary talents to America. Employing the industry's best translators and European standards of crisp cover designs, Europa specializes in publishing literary fiction and crime noir, narrative non-fiction, memoir, and children's illustrated fiction. We are happy to showcase their beautifully designed and enlightening books. Find out more here.
August 2010 Featured Publisher:
Penguin
We've chosen Penguin as our featured publisher for August in honor of their long history of beautiful book design. The Penguin Classics, with their instantly recognizable black covers, showcase classic paintings and photography, bridging the gap between the visual and literary arts. And that's just the tip of the Penguin iceberg. In a new title, Penguin 75, book designers and authors talk about the process behind the covers of favorite titles. A good read and a fascinating subject.
Learn the link between Teddy Roosevelt, Lolita and Make Way for Ducklings at the histoy of Penguin publishing page.
