Former Seven Stories editor Jill Schoolman has started her own not-for-profit publisher called Archipelago Books. The Manhattan-based press (which is not affiliated with the literary Web site of the same name) will concentrate mostly on translations and books originally published in other countries.
Consortium Book Sales and Distribution will distribute the list beginning this fall. To finance the company, Schoolman is relying mostly on grants, and she has already secured funding from the French Ministry of Culture as well as from some individual donors. "We just wanted to create a publishing house that would be open to and encourage translations," Schoolman said. Among those on the press's advisory board are Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon and political novelist Neil Gordon.
AB's first list will include Croatian Miljenko Jergovic's Sarajevo Marlboro and Rilke's Auguste Rodin.
