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Why is publishing so white? North American and European publishing structures remain overwhelmingly and disproportionately white and are entirely anchored in a handful of corporate entities which get to decide whose stories proliferate in the world today. Color of Publishing is our three-part series focused on this crisis, and we have gathered perspectives from publishing professionals in the United States (Elizabeth Méndez Berry & Porsche Burke) and the United Kingdom (Margaret Busby & Ellah P. Wakatama). In the first episode, Radical Books Collective co-founders, Bhakti Shringarpure and Suchitra Vijayan start with a debrief of the 2022 PEN America report on publishing titled...

We're excited to launch our new podcast and web series called MEHFIL which explores a wide range of themes within South Asian culture Hosted by Dr. Amrita Ghosh, the first season features literature, film, cuisine, ghosts and translation.  Listen to all the episodes on our podcast, the BookRising! The Mehfil series is also available on our YouTube Channel! Watch here👇🏿 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstXMEF0r05bQb1vjBwhvCn02dmMX4vP

Our Translating Palestine program was livestreamed on October 21st, 2022. Here are the four recorded conversations:  1. Translators and critics Marcia Lynx Qualey, Sawad Hussain and Alice Yousef discuss the challenges of writing, editing, translating and publishing Palestinian literature.    2. Jehan Bseiso speaks with Maya Abu Al-Hayyat about her latest volume of poetry "You Can Be The Last Leaf" translated into the English by Fady Joudah (2022, Milkweed Press). 3. Meg Arenberg speaks to writer Sonia Nimr and translator Marcia Lynx Qualey about the translation, editing and publication of Thunderbird, Nimr's speculative fiction trilogy.   4. Suchitra Vijayan and Louis Allday celebrate the...

Our manifesto was published by Africa is a Country on June 26th, 2022. Read it here or on their website.  This is an unprecedented time for the world of books and publishing, with an extraordinary number of books being published worldwide. Not only was the panic that a digital revolution would spell the end of books pretty short-lived but people are actually buying more books than ever. It is hard to say whether this is due to greedy behemoths like Amazon or the proliferation of book-related content on online platforms, local reading groups, and celebrity book clubs. But the excitement...