Is there enough discussion in US publishing about Arabic literature in translation? At a seminar in New York, the publishing audience was eager to know more.
Second Careers, or Why You Never Really Leave Publishing
By Chip Rossetti In the fall of 2004, I was an editor at a New York publishing house, acquiring serious narrative nonfiction and history. I had been working in trade publishing for nine years. I had also, in the wake of 9/11, been studying Arabic in the evenings, going to a teacher’s house in the outer boroughs once a week …
Melville House on How to Market Foreign Fiction by a Dead Author
By Chip Rossetti I want to thank Ed for letting me take a turn guest-editing Publishing Perspectives while he takes a well-deserved break — even if, in Ed’s case, it’s a working vacation. It’s been amazing to witness the growth of Publishing Perspectives in the last year-and-a-half: it’s hard to believe it was only at BEA 2009 that Ed first …
Introducing Your Guest Editors: Chip Rossetti and Chad Post
By Edward Nawotka I’m off for the next two weeks to take a course video journalism — I’ve discovered in the past 18 months of doing Publishing Perspectives that the Web is in large part a visual medium — but in my stead you’ll have the steady hands of my talented colleagues Chip Rossetti and Chad Post to guide you. You …