Laughlin’s own poetry has been published in a number of books, including Phantoms and Country Roads. So Laughlin sought career advice from the poet, who suggested he finish college and become a publisher.Ĭonsequently Laughlin began New Directions with his own money from his father (a Pittsburgh steelmaker), “publishing quality works with little regard to their chances for commercial success,” according to the Poetry Foundation. He began with the first annual anthology of experimental writing, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, followed by plays, novels, and poetry collections. Pound gave him private tutoring lessons but after reading Laughlin’s poems for months, he “ruled them hopeless,” Laughlin recalled. When on leave from Harvard in Europe, Laughlin studied with Gertrude Stein in France and then ran into Ezra Pound in Italy.
Before entering Harvard, Laughlin had studied at the Choate School with Dudley Fitts. James Laughlin (1914–1997) founded New Directions in 1936 as a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore working out of his aunt’s cottage in Connecticut. Her translated books include several by Dubravka Ugrešić and Ivo Žanić. She has written a number of books on the languages, literature, history, and cities of the Balkans. Another novel, Leica Format, is also available in English.Ĭelia Hawkesworth, who translated Belladonna into English from Croatian, is senior lecturer emerita in Serbian and Croatian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College, London. Daša Drndićĭrndić’s books include the novel Sonnenschein, published originally in Croatian in 2007 and translated into a number of languages-including the English Trieste in 2014.
She has been Laureat of the Independent Foreign Fiction Reader’s Prize and 2012 Writer in Residence at Association KROKODIL in Belgrade. She wrote and produced radio plays in the drama department of Radio Belgrade, and has also worked in publishing and taught in Canada. Born in Zagreb, she obtained a master’s degree in theater and communications from Southern Illinois University under the Fulbright Program, and was a visiting scholar at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. 400pp., $19.95, paperback ISBN: 9780811227216, e-book ISBN: 9780811227223.Ĭroatian novelist, playwright, literary critic, and translator Daša Drndić is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Rijeka, where she earned her PhD on the subject of photofeminism.
New York: New Directions, October 31, 2017. A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishersīy Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Lanie Tankard
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