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RH relaunches Hogarth Press
11.04.11 | Graeme Neill
The spirit of Virginia and Leonard Woolf's literary imprint the Hogarth Press will be revived on both sides of the Atlantic after Random House announced the launch of a new fiction imprint.
Hogarth will launch in summer 2012 and will focus on "contemporary, character rich" publishing. It will publish between eight and 10 books a year in the United States. The UK wing of the imprint will publish a smaller number of titles each year, with the list comprising exclusively of titles published by its US sister.
Molly Stern, senior vice-president and publisher at Crown will lead the imprint in the US. Clara Farmer, Chatto & Windus publishing director will head it up this side of the Atlantic.
Among the lead titles in both territories is I Am Forbidden by Anouk Markovits, originally acquired by Crown's Lindsay Sagnette from Scott Moyers of the Wylie Agency, and The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, bought by Chatto's Hardie from Arabella Stein on behalf of Nicole Aragi. I am Forbidden is a three-generation saga set in the secretive Hasidic Satmar sect. The Watch is set in modern-day Kandahar, following an Afghan woman who is demanding the return of her brother's body from a US military base.
Farmer said: "This dynamic new venture marks the timely revival of the Hogarth name for a new generation, and for a transatlantic audience.
"The original Hogarth Press has been a treasured and vital part of Chatto's identity for 65 years, and its books remain distinct from the new list, which will also be housed within Chatto & Windus."
The Woolfs founded Hogarth Press in 1917 and early publications included T S Eliot's The Waste Land. It was acquired by Chatto in 1946.
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Perhaps the most landmark publication of the Hogarth Press was the monumental 24 volume Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. As far as I can tell, one can't obtain a newly printed version of these historic volumes that truly changed the way in which the world views humanity. Will the Hogarth Press resume printing these volumes?
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I seem to remember some very nice purple jacketed books released in the 1980s under this imprint in a similar exercise. That ran out of steam too. While they are on the subject, may we have Counterblasts back as well?
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Are there any plans to reissue Christopher Hitchens? To judge by the prices his books are fetching on second-hand sites, there's a commercial reason.
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