Our publisher, Ilan Stavans, and Executive Editor, Joshua Ellison, recently sat down with Stephanie Bastek of the brilliant new podcast from The American Scholar, "Smarty Pants," for a rousing conversation about independent publishing and international literature. They discussed how the working with translations can be "like kissing through a piece of cloth," what it was like for Ilan as a Mexican immigrant to encounter mainstream US publishing, how making, buying, and reading literary books is "a countercultural act," and what it was like to have President Barack Obama as our secret marketing and publicity agent.
Give it a listen! https://theamericanscholar.org/high-art-and-low-chairs/#.WA9uFuErJE6