At the head of Editions Gallmeister Oliver Gallmeister (Vintage Nature Writing and Black) and Philippe Beyvin (Americana collection) were kind enough to answer my little questionnaire to present their very beautiful home and I thank them.
Bartleby: When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?
Oliver: The publishing house was founded in 2005, our first book came out in 2006. So we prepare to celebrate our five years!
Philip: Regarding the name, well, Oliver chose the easy way. Laziness, therefore, for Gallmeister is his name. I only joined in 2009. A little too late, otherwise we could give the house a name smarter ...
Why was this house?
Oliver: Because a number of books that we read in English were not available in French and we find that unfortunate. In short, even if it's a cliché to say this out of passion ...
Philip: ... and also because a publisher is a pretty nice job and that as we had never worked "in publishing" no other home do we have hired.
What is your editorial?
Oliver: Our house is devoted exclusively to contemporary American literature, with two areas of focus: firstly, the literature open spaces, which is quite my field, and secondly, the literature of the cons-culture, which is Philip.
Can you tell us about your catalog?
Oliver: Our catalog includes a small forty titles we publish a little less than a dozen titles per year. This pace allows us to take the time to carefully select what we publish and our translators to work again with each of our texts.
Philip: This year, we also have our collection of pocket, totem, in which we take part of our background, but also titles that we would have liked to discover who been by others but with time have disappeared from bookstores. It is a way of saying that the literature to which we believe is not a perishable commodity.
Oliver: In collections Nature Writing and Black , we publish books that highlight the great American. Examples of narratives as solitary Desert of Edward Abbey is a Bible for me and a true advocate for the preservation of wilderness. I'm also becoming more novels, often black, where the impressive nature, violent unpredictable and often becomes a protagonist of the story (as Island Sukkwan in the novel David Vann or mountains on the novel by Ron Carlson due out in January). We also publish novels that are set in the western territories as the thrillers of Craig Johnson happening in the heart of Wyoming.
Philip Americana Collection For I selected authors and works that auscultate and jostle America and question all of its great myths. Some of these writers began to write in the years 1960 / 1970, a period particularly emblematic of this challenge, as Tom Robbins (which we are arch-fan and bought all the work) or Stephen Wright (with Meditations in Green , a spellbinding novel about the Vietnam War). In the same vein, I am also interested in young writers like Mark Sundden , Greg Oleari or Tony Vigoretto you can discover in 2011.
What's your news?
Philippe: Fall began with one of our favorite authors, Tom Robbins , and his first novel ever translated in France, A strange attraction , published in the United States in 1971. A novel in which the power of Robbins is already here: there are metaphorical writing, the profusion of characters and history, and already the spirit of its motto - "Joy cons at all." This novel is a dive in the sixties, a whimsical romance between entertainment apocalyptic thriller and metaphysics.
Oliver: We also publish a new translation of the famous classic of Edward Abbey, another of our authors headlights, Desert Solitaire. The first book we published in 2006 was The Gang the wrench, which was published in 1975 in the United States. But before this novel protest and crazy, Abbey had already published Desert Solitaire in 1968, a book that had the effect of a bomb and quickly established himself as one of the finest pieces of Nature Writing . This book is the account given Abbey two seasons he spent as a park ranger in Arches, Utah. It is a poetic narrative, philosophical, provocative, rebellious, outrageous, funny, caustic ... that deeply cons-influenced American culture and we are very proud to offer a sublime translation of Jacques Mailhos .
Philip: That said, our news editors is rather replay, re-editing, re-re-rereading (etc) novels Ron Carlson , signal and Greg Oleari, Totally Killer to be published in the first quarter of 2011 and you tell us the news ...
Bartleby: When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?
Oliver: The publishing house was founded in 2005, our first book came out in 2006. So we prepare to celebrate our five years!
Philip: Regarding the name, well, Oliver chose the easy way. Laziness, therefore, for Gallmeister is his name. I only joined in 2009. A little too late, otherwise we could give the house a name smarter ...
Why was this house?
Oliver: Because a number of books that we read in English were not available in French and we find that unfortunate. In short, even if it's a cliché to say this out of passion ...
Philip: ... and also because a publisher is a pretty nice job and that as we had never worked "in publishing" no other home do we have hired.
What is your editorial?
Oliver: Our house is devoted exclusively to contemporary American literature, with two areas of focus: firstly, the literature open spaces, which is quite my field, and secondly, the literature of the cons-culture, which is Philip.
Can you tell us about your catalog?
Oliver: Our catalog includes a small forty titles we publish a little less than a dozen titles per year. This pace allows us to take the time to carefully select what we publish and our translators to work again with each of our texts.
Philip: This year, we also have our collection of pocket, totem, in which we take part of our background, but also titles that we would have liked to discover who been by others but with time have disappeared from bookstores. It is a way of saying that the literature to which we believe is not a perishable commodity.
Oliver: In collections Nature Writing and Black , we publish books that highlight the great American. Examples of narratives as solitary Desert of Edward Abbey is a Bible for me and a true advocate for the preservation of wilderness. I'm also becoming more novels, often black, where the impressive nature, violent unpredictable and often becomes a protagonist of the story (as Island Sukkwan in the novel David Vann or mountains on the novel by Ron Carlson due out in January). We also publish novels that are set in the western territories as the thrillers of Craig Johnson happening in the heart of Wyoming.
Philip Americana Collection For I selected authors and works that auscultate and jostle America and question all of its great myths. Some of these writers began to write in the years 1960 / 1970, a period particularly emblematic of this challenge, as Tom Robbins (which we are arch-fan and bought all the work) or Stephen Wright (with Meditations in Green , a spellbinding novel about the Vietnam War). In the same vein, I am also interested in young writers like Mark Sundden , Greg Oleari or Tony Vigoretto you can discover in 2011.
What's your news?
Philippe: Fall began with one of our favorite authors, Tom Robbins , and his first novel ever translated in France, A strange attraction , published in the United States in 1971. A novel in which the power of Robbins is already here: there are metaphorical writing, the profusion of characters and history, and already the spirit of its motto - "Joy cons at all." This novel is a dive in the sixties, a whimsical romance between entertainment apocalyptic thriller and metaphysics.
Oliver: We also publish a new translation of the famous classic of Edward Abbey, another of our authors headlights, Desert Solitaire. The first book we published in 2006 was The Gang the wrench, which was published in 1975 in the United States. But before this novel protest and crazy, Abbey had already published Desert Solitaire in 1968, a book that had the effect of a bomb and quickly established himself as one of the finest pieces of Nature Writing . This book is the account given Abbey two seasons he spent as a park ranger in Arches, Utah. It is a poetic narrative, philosophical, provocative, rebellious, outrageous, funny, caustic ... that deeply cons-influenced American culture and we are very proud to offer a sublime translation of Jacques Mailhos .
Philip: That said, our news editors is rather replay, re-editing, re-re-rereading (etc) novels Ron Carlson , signal and Greg Oleari, Totally Killer to be published in the first quarter of 2011 and you tell us the news ...
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