Dec 24, 2022
Here is Part ll of my conversation with
Michael Torosian featuring his soon to be released
memoir/bibliography Lumiere Press: Printer Savant and Other
Stories (listen to Part l
here).
This episode gets to the essence of
Michael's book writing/publishing practice: the interview. We
discuss a list of guidelines Michael...
Dec 19, 2022
Michael Torosian has
spent his life taking photographs, interviewing great
photographers, and making fine press photography books. He's in the
process of making another entitled Lumiere Press, Printer
Savant and Other Stories to commemorate the establishment of
the Lumiere Press Archive at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book...
Dec 10, 2022
John Metcalf is angry that after working
in Canada as a "storyteller, editor, novelist, essayist, and
critic" for more than fifty years his books still only sell about
500 copies each. Regardless of this, he's made a significant
contribution to Canadian literature through his editing, teaching,
critiquing, compiling of...
Nov 30, 2022
In an email I received several months ago, the owners of the iconic Washington, D.C. based independent bookstore Politics & Prose wrote that Mark LaFramboise, their chief book buyer, had died. “Mark was the best book buyer any independent bookstore could hope for,” Brad Graham and Lissa Muscatine said in their note....
Nov 22, 2022
Tom Devlin is a key figure in the world of graphic novels. His career mimics the evolution of the genre. As founder of Highwater Books, a publishing house he set up in the early 2000s, he treated alternative comics audiences in North America to their first book-length exposure to future star cartoonist/authors John...