Get it straight from the horse’s mouth
17 March 2010
NY Times Notable Book of the Year, and Melville House translation.
Dennis Johnson, co-publisher at Melville House, tells all in this interview with Biblioklept’s Ed Turner. Johnson answers the ‘klep’ts questions about some of the thornier issues in publishing — such as, How to publish translated books, and how to make them work. Where do publishers get their ideas for books? And how is it that people still love to read the classics? And, oh yeah: Did you ever steal a book?