Understanding The Publishing World
Michael Reynolds (Europa Editions) will be in conversation with Dan Simon (Seven Stories Press) about Simon’s debut novel, Ashland, and independent publishing in the “Book Publishing: Inside and Out” session at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 27 at Off Square Books.
Europa Editions, was launched in the U.S. and expanded to the U.K. in 2011, operating as Europa Editions UK from London. Reynolds, the executive publisher based in New York, discussed that milestone here.
Simon is the founder and editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press. He lives in New York and New Hampshire, and discusses his novel here.
Michael Reynolds is the executive publisher of Europa Editions. He is the recipient of the 2016 Golden Colophon Award for Superlative Achievement & Leadership in Independent Literary Publishing, given by the Community of Literary and Magazine Presses. Reynolds was a 2017 Epiphany Magazine honoree for publishing excellence, and in 2020 he was named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his significant contribution to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance. He has served on the jury for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators, and the foreign jury of the Strega Prize. He is a regular speaker at publishing conferences in America and internationally, a member of the Independent Publisher Caucus Steering Committee, and the founder of Books Across Borders. Prize-winning and bestselling authors Reynolds has worked with at Europa include Mieko Kawakami, Elena Ferrante, Amélie Nothomb, Alina Bronsky, Domenico Starnone, Anne Berest, Joseph O’Connor, K Patrick, and Robert Seethaler.
Dan Simon is the founder and editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press. Ashland is his debut novel. He lives in New York and New Hampshire. A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between permanence and transformation. The story takes place in Ashland, New Hampshire, a former mill town in the lakes region, and is told in six voices, among them Carolyn, a twenty-year-old writer at a turning point in her life; Gordon, who arrives in Ashland in the twilight of his years; Andy, a local boy; Geoff, Carolyn’s writing teacher at Plymouth State; and Edith, Gordon’s wife, who is inadvertently Carolyn’s spiritual guide and friend. Then there is Jennie, Carolyn’s aunt, who seems to offer her a model for how to live. But things aren’t always what they seem, and Carolyn must discover her own rules and make her own way. Ashland is a debut novel of great intensity, beautifully told in the voices of many vivid characters and, through them, in the voice of Ashland itself.
Michael Reynolds (Europa Editions) will be in conversation with Dan Simon (Seven Stories Press) about Simon’s debut novel, Ashland, and independent publishing in the “Book Publishing: Inside and Out” session at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 27 at Off Square Books.
Europa Editions, was launched in the U.S. and expanded to the U.K. in 2011, operating as Europa Editions UK from London. Reynolds, the executive publisher based in New York, discussed that milestone here.
Simon is the founder and editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press. He lives in New York and New Hampshire, and discusses his novel here.
Michael Reynolds is the executive publisher of Europa Editions. He is the recipient of the 2016 Golden Colophon Award for Superlative Achievement & Leadership in Independent Literary Publishing, given by the Community of Literary and Magazine Presses. Reynolds was a 2017 Epiphany Magazine honoree for publishing excellence, and in 2020 he was named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his significant contribution to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance. He has served on the jury for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators, and the foreign jury of the Strega Prize. He is a regular speaker at publishing conferences in America and internationally, a member of the Independent Publisher Caucus Steering Committee, and the founder of Books Across Borders. Prize-winning and bestselling authors Reynolds has worked with at Europa include Mieko Kawakami, Elena Ferrante, Amélie Nothomb, Alina Bronsky, Domenico Starnone, Anne Berest, Joseph O’Connor, K Patrick, and Robert Seethaler.
Dan Simon is the founder and editor-in-chief of Seven Stories Press. Ashland is his debut novel. He lives in New York and New Hampshire. A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between permanence and transformation. The story takes place in Ashland, New Hampshire, a former mill town in the lakes region, and is told in six voices, among them Carolyn, a twenty-year-old writer at a turning point in her life; Gordon, who arrives in Ashland in the twilight of his years; Andy, a local boy; Geoff, Carolyn’s writing teacher at Plymouth State; and Edith, Gordon’s wife, who is inadvertently Carolyn’s spiritual guide and friend. Then there is Jennie, Carolyn’s aunt, who seems to offer her a model for how to live. But things aren’t always what they seem, and Carolyn must discover her own rules and make her own way. Ashland is a debut novel of great intensity, beautifully told in the voices of many vivid characters and, through them, in the voice of Ashland itself.
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