As alluded to below and anticipated by many, Open Letter, the University of Rochester's new publishing house, has flung itself into the vast and unruly sea of publishing. May their books float! Here's an excerpt from the press release circulated on Friday:
In conjunction with its developing literary translation programs, the University of Rochester is launching Open Letter, a new publishing house dedicated to international literature.
Beginning in fall 2008, Open Letter will publish twelve works of international literature a year, focusing on modern classics and contemporary works of fiction.
"We are focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first century literature from around the world--cosmopolitan literature, books that stimulate and provoke readers, and which we hope will be read for generations to come," said director Chad W. Post, co-founder of Reading the World and former Associate Director of Dalkey Archive Press.
Post is joined at Open Letter by E.J. Van Lanen, former Assistant Editor at Ecco, and Nathan Furl, former Marketing and Production Director at Dalkey Archive Press.
[read the full release here]
These brave and admirable souls will oversee Three Percent, "a new website featuring an international lit blog, reviews of untranslated books, sample translation, and a calendar of grants and prizes for translation." Already they have some great reviews posted. Nobody's Home by Dubravka Ugresic will be Open Letter's first publication.
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