Divided Publishing
Divided Publishing is a publisher and literary press founded in 2019 and located in Brussels and London. The press publishes poetry, philosophy and cultural analysis, legal studies, translations, and intergenre books.
History
[edit]Divided Publishing was founded in 2019. The press has published new work by acclaimed writers and thinkers such as Fanny Howe,[1][2][3] Joy James, and Jamieson Webster.[4][5][6][7]
The White Review's Simryn Gill nominated Fanny Howe's Night Philosophy as Book of the Year.[8] In an interview with author Fiona Alison Duncan, Howe confirms that the book includes appropriated text lifted from the United Nations’ 1959 ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Child’, which you re-title ‘The Rights of the Child (UN) Known Only to Adults’ as well as quotes from G.K. Chesterton and Michel de Certeau.[9]
In 2021, the press published an English translation of Carla Lonzi's Self-Portrait.[10] The book was translated by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and included an afterword by Claire Fontaine and records her interactions with 14 artists in the 1960s.[11] The book was shortlisted for the ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Award in 2022.[12] The text was originally published in Italy in 1969.[13]
Fanny Howe's 2022 book, London-rose | Beauty Will Save the World, appeared in the author Dennis Cooper's blog under "5 books I read recently & loved." That same year, psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster published Disorganisation & Sex.[14]
In an interview with 032c magazine, when the writer and Semiotext(e) publisher Chris Kraus was asked who else in publishing continually impressed her, she praised Nightboat Books and Divided, "There’s also a new press in London called Divided Press that’s pursuing an interesting agenda of philosophy, literature, and activism."[15][16]
At large, the press publishes artists in the in-between or outside conventional standards or institutional support. Their mission is to champion authors who, "cannot balance or resolve their contradictions, who struggle to make peace in the industry or genre or category or world in which they end up."[17]
Notable authors and books
[edit]- Aurelia Guo - World of Interiors[18]
- Fanny Howe - London-rose | Beauty Will Save the World
- Fanny Howe - 'Night Philosophy'
- Joy James - In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
- Carla Lonzi - Self-portrait trans. Allison Grimaldi Donahue
- Georgia Sagri - Stage of Recovery[19]
- Jamieson Webster - Disorganisation & Sex[14]
References
[edit]- ^ Vigier, Janique (17 February 2020). "Spiral-Walking". Book Forum. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Staff, Harriet (11 February 2023). "Bookforum Talks to Fanny Howe About Night Philosophy". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Kraus, Chris (10 July 2020). "Wandering and wondering: Fanny Howe's philosophy of childhood". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Webster, Jamieson (28 October 2022). "Disorganisation & Sex". Spike Art Magazine. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Webster, Jamieson. "Disorganization & Sex". Parapraxis. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Arterian, Diana (17 November 2022). "The Annotated Nightstand: What Anna Moschovakis is Reading Now and Next". Literary Hub. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ LARB Radio Hour (2 December 2022). "Jamieson Webster's 'Disorganisation and Sex'". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ "Books of the Year". The White Review. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Duncan, Fiona Alison (October 2020). "Interview with Fanny Howe". The White Review. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Lonzi, Carla; Grimaldi Donahue, Allison (13 March 2020). "A Sense of Exclusion: An Excerpt from Carla Lonzi's 'Autoritratto (Self-Portrait)'". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Merjian, Ara H. (23 December 2021). "Carla Lonzi's Self-Effacing 'Self-Portrait'". Frieze. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ rcldaum (7 September 2022). "Announcing the 2022 ALTA Book Awards Shortlists". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Latimer, Quinn. "Self-portrait". 4columns.org. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ a b Millar, Isabel (29 November 2022). "Book Review Essay: "Disorganisation and Sex" by Jamieson Webster". European Journal of Psychoanalysis. 9 (2). ISSN 2284-1059. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ Val, Wes Del (23 December 2020). "IYKYK: An Interview with Chris Kraus and Hedi El Kholti, Editors of SEMIOTEXT(E)". 032c. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ "Divided Publishing 2022 — catalogue and forthcoming". perfmts.net. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ "Divided Publishing". Divided Publishing. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ^ "5 Questions with Aurelia Guo". Liminal. 17 June 2022.
- ^ Blakey, Kiera (July–August 2021). "Georgia Sagri: Stage of Recovery". Artists’ Books. Art Monthly. No. 448.