2Leaf Press is pleased to announce its distribution deal with ODILO, a startup aiming to modernize brick-and-mortar libraries with digital lending services and inventory tech. Based in Spain and the U.S., ODILO says its new funds will be used to “accelerate expansion” in Latin America and the U.S. This three-year-old company has more than 5 […]
2Leaf Press’s books are now available on Scribd, an ebook subscription service, joining the ranks of over 1,000 publishers, which include HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Workman, Lonely Planet, Perseus Book Group and Wiley. Readers can either purchase books outright, or sign up and pay a monthly fee to access […]
2Leaf Press is pleased to announce the release of its eBooks (yeah!). Yes, it has been a long-time coming but we’ve finally arrived. All of our books (with the exception of RIVERS OF WOMEN and PUERTO RICAN FOLKTALES, which are available in print), have been converted to eBooks, and are available for sale at Amazon-Kindle, […]
2Leaf Press is ecstatic that we have finally gotten all of our print editions available for sale as eBooks. It’s been a long road, but we hope our readers will reap the benefits of our beautifully formatted eBooks! Having said that, I thought it was important to discuss the issue of converting our poetry books to […]
Clarissa Oon | THE STRAITS TIMES Haruki Murakami has been a companion to a writer from singlehood to motherhood In my 20s and reeling from a break-up, I read everything best-selling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami had written, drowning myself in his prose the way others might in bottles of whisky. I have never been a […]
Lauren Sapala | BLOG For many years it was my dream to be a famous writer. Like, a REALLY famous writer. My idol was Jack Kerouac, and while that was partly because I loved the beauty of his writing (and still do) it was also because of the recognition he achieved. Never mind the fact […]
Tim Parks | THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Let’s reread Nabokov on rereading. On first approach to a novel, Nabokov claimed, we are overwhelmed with too much information and fatigued by the effort of scanning the lines. Only later, on successive encounters with the text, will we begin to see and appreciate it as […]
Ezra E. Fitz is a translator and novelist. His translations of contemporary Latin American literature by Alberto Fuguet and Eloy Urroz have been praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Believer, among other publications. His work has appeared in The Boston Review, Harper’s Magazine, and Words Without Borders, […]
All across Argentina’s capital, lodged between the steakhouses, ice cream shops and pizzerias, is an abundance of something that is becoming scarce in many nations: bookstores. From hole-in-the-wall joints with used copies of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel de Cervantes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to elegant buildings with the latest children’s books in several […]
The IAAS has made a deal with YBP Library Services to distribute 2Leaf Press print books to academic libraries in the US and abroad. Founded in 1971 as Yankee Book Peddler, for more than 40 years, YBP’s guiding and unwavering principles have been to build close relationships with academic libraries and consortia while providing the […]
Ana Rossetti is one of the most notable voices in contemporary Spanish literature. She began her literary career in the late seventies, soon after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975. With her first prize-winning poetry collection published in 1980, she became prominent among the many women poets who used the lifting of censorship to produce […]
Writer says move is re-invention of ‘Spider-Man for kids of colour, for adults of colour and everybody else. There’s been a female Thor and a black Captain America, and now an even bigger star of the comic-book universe is set to embrace diversity as mixed-race teenager Miles Morales prepares to don the mask of Spider-Man. […]
For Father’s Day, MPR News delves into six famous literary fathers Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Kingsley Amis, Stephen King, Evelyn Waugh and Roald Dahl, and how these father and child author pairs have turned out some great literature — and some bitter family tell-alls as well. >>READ MORE
Black Poets Speak Out are videos from African American poets creating a conversation about police brutality against people of color.
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Some people enjoy writing for the sake of it whilst others want to develop and improve. If you fall into the latter category then read this.
Amanda Nelson of BOOKRIOT challenges the status quo by not only asking, but delves into why we must write and read DIVERSELY.