Celebrate the Holidays with 2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List

[trx_title type="3" position="top"]Celebrate the Holidays with 2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List[/trx_title] Happy Holidays! We’re offering a 40% discount on select books from 2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List (see below), available exclusively at University of Chicago Press. As an avid reader, I know you’re always looking for something new. And since the [...]

2Leaf Press’ Diverse Reading List by Diverse Authors of Our Times

[trx_title type="3" position="top"]2Leaf Press’ Diverse Reading List by Diverse Authors of Our Times[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press, a black and brown female-led nonprofit press founded in 2012, challenges the status quo by publishing books on diversity and social justice. As protests against racial injustice and police brutality have spread across the U.S. and beyond after the killings [...]

Author Carolyn L. Baker Shares Her Story in AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE

[trx_title type="4" position="top"]AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE Available June 15[/trx_title][trx_title type="4" font_size="32px" position="top"]Author Carolyn L. Baker Shares Her Story About AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE[/trx_title] What happens when you discover at 62-years-old you didn’t know anything about Emmett Till? If you are Carolyn L. Baker, you look deep within yourself and begin writing about your life as an unintentional [...]

2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List

[trx_title type="3" position="top"] 2Leaf Press’ Top 12 Diversity Reading List[/trx_title] 2Leaf Press, a black/brown female-led nonprofit press has challenged the status quo since 2012 by publishing books on diversity and social justice by a diverse group of writers.  Rather than publish books that use the anti-racist approach of "teaching/preaching" with a dogmatic approach with seminar-like [...]

2Leaf Press Publishes eBook, AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE

[trx_title position="top"]2Leaf Press Publishes eBook, AN UNINTENTIONAL ACCOMPLICE[/trx_title] Carolyn L. Baker grew up in Southern California during segregation and came of age in the counter-cultural climate of the 1960s. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett Till, sparking an investigation of her own position as [...]

What the Coronavirus Means for 2Leaf Press

[trx_title font_size="32pt"]What the Coronavirus Means for 2Leaf Press[/trx_title] The coronavirus pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to our lives. But what has not changed during this challenging time is my belief in the power of books to entertain and inform, and 2Leaf Press’ dedication to its many constituencies—poets, authors, students, professors, teachers, libraries, vendors, readers and [...]

DRM or DRM-Free? That is the question.

[trx_title type="3" align="left" font_size="20pt"]Have you ever heard of a burglar getting caught breaking into a house to steal books?  We should be so lucky, that the crime of stealing books is, well, on the books.[/trx_title] Well, that’s pretty much what the issue of DRM (Digital Rights Management) is all about. It’s a technical protection mechanism [...]

2Leaf Press eBooks Available for Sale

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, […]

From the Publisher: Converting Poetry to eBooks

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 […]

Featured Excerpt: The Morning Side of the Hill

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, […]

2Leaf Press Titles Now Available Through YBP Library Services

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 […]

Digital vs. Print: The Book Battle Rages On

KATHY MIZERA | BOOKSHOP BLOG | DECEMBER 2014 As the holiday shopping season swings into full force, it’s interesting to watch people buying books. Many a wish list has everything from the latest by Stephen King to an Amazon Gift Card (an actual card or via email) to a new e-reader device. Yet the battle […]

2Leaf Press Now Offering Digital Review Copies!

It’s been a long time coming, but 2Leaf Press is finally pleased to announce 2LP Previews/Reviews, where reviewers can download Digital Review Copies. Besides the fact it’s pretty cool and geeky of us to be able to offer downloads to reviewers directly from our website, the main reason we’re offering Digital Review Copies because it’s […]