Christopher
Maclehose and I talked together to Georgina Godwin about the brand new
Mountain Leopard Press and the Earthspinner, his brilliant career
spanning Murakami, Umberto and Steig Larsson, how Rukun Advani helped
him choose the name for his press, how he discovered my first book in
2007 and went on to publish all the books I've written. The "impossibly
glamorous" Christopher (as Georgina describes him) is wonderful to
listen to, and while dogs feature a great deal in this conversation, so
does a motorbike. And the singer Marianne Faithfull. You can listen to the interview here.
Ten years of Anuradha Roy’s ‘An Atlas of Impossible Longing’: What the writer and publisher remember ‘For three years, it was an alternative, secret universe in which I lived, awake or asleep.’ On serendipity and the difficult road to getting published: Anuradha Roy, writer Read this in Scroll.in Christopher MacLehose and Anuradha Roy. Photograph by Rukun Advani An Atlas of Impossible Longing started in one of those “dummy books” – blank pages, hardbound – that binderies used to make to establish accurately the spine width of books that they would bind for a publisher. The publishing house was one my partner and I had recently set up. It had no capital but our savings, no office, and the only books as yet were dummies with blank pages. Because I still have that notebook, I know I wrote the first section of Atlas in pencil, in a non-stop scrawl that poured out without warning. It went on for a few pages and then came to a stop, after which the ...