Misplaced Pages

Wakefield Press (US)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
American publishing house (founded 2009) This article is about the US publisher. For the Australian publisher, see Wakefield Press (Australia).
Wakefield Press
Founded2009
FounderMarc Lowenthal and Judy Feldmann
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationCambridge, Massachusetts
DistributionDistributed Art Publishers
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewakefieldpress.com

Wakefield Press is an American independent publishing house based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The press specializes in publishing avant-garde literature in translation. Wakefield was founded in 2009 by Marc Lowenthal and Judy Feldmann. The aim of the company is to increase the availability in English of obscure and avant garde authors from the past who wrote in foreign languages.

Wakefield has been praised in the literary world for its promotion of provocative and unusual texts, as well as for its introductions to each text with detailed information relevant to the author's life, and background providing context for the nature of the author's work.

Wakefield publishes the SubVerse and the Imagining Science book series.

Notable authors

References

  1. "Publisher Homepage". Wakefield Press. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  2. "Interview with Editor Marc Lowenthal". Entropy. Entropy Magazine. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  3. ""Obscurer, Obscurer": Independent Publisher Wakefield Press on Translating Forgotten Classics". Bookwitty. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  4. Baran, Ian. "Must-Reads From Wakefield Press, Part 1". New York Public Library. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  5. ""Obscurer, Obscurer": Independent Publisher Wakefield Press on Translating Forgotten Classics". Bookwitty. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  6. Somers, Erin. "Laughs in Translation". Ploughshares Blog. Emerson College. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  7. Cheesman, Tara. "WOMEN IN TRANSLATION MONTH: MOVING FORWARD". Bookriot. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  8. se:Imagining science, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 December 2024.


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article about a United States publishing company is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: