Archipelago Books

Archipelago Books is one of those rare publishers who produce excellent books at reasonable prices for readers ready to go beyond the ordinary. I especially appreciate the publication of books about and by Africans. The two-volume set titled Imagine Africa are brilliant compilations of essays, poetry, fiction, and photographs. Get on this bandwagon.

Smells mostly pass through our lives without specific design or purpose, of course, as the backdrop for everything we remember or eventually forget, for every ethereal or tangible moment that breaks up the meaninglessness days, the days of pointless dissemination, time evaporating endlessly; a smell can enrich a moment—like a form does for a poem—and provide context for memory to exist; smells are the nails we use to build our fragile receptacle into which we overfill these memories—the smoke from a campfire absorbed and diffused by pines on a starry night in the forest, the stale potpourri on the nightstand of a bed-and-breakfast, a grandfather’s aftershave as he leans over to hug you, a favorite bench amid the lilacs and irises in the Bronx Botanical Gardens—but also, for those us who ca

Ordered a series (Knausgaard) from archipelago that was difficult to find. The team was super responsive, helped with an order mix-up and made sure I got delivery to Canada on time. 5/5!!

Hello I am a writer. I have a novel ready to be published. You print?

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