Divided Publishing

Last updated

Divided Publishing is a publisher and literary press founded in 2019 and located in Brussels and London. The press publishes poetry, philosophy and cultural analysis, legal studies, translations, and intergenre books.

Contents

History

Divided Publishing was founded in 2019. The press has published new work by acclaimed writers and thinkers such as Fanny Howe, [1] [2] [3] Joy James, and Jamieson Webster. [4] [5] [6] [7]

The White Review's Simryn Gill nominated Fanny Howe's Night Philosophy as Book of the Year. [8] In an interview with author Fiona Alison Duncan, Howe confirms that the book includes appropriated text lifted from the United Nations’ 1959 ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Child’, which you re-title ‘The Rights of the Child (UN) Known Only to Adults’ as well as quotes from G.K. Chesterton and Michel de Certeau. [9]

In 2021, the press published an English translation of Carla Lonzi's Self-Portrait. [10] The book was translated by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and included an afterword by Claire Fontaine and records her interactions with 14 artists in the 1960s. [11] The book was shortlisted for the ALTA Italian Prose in Translation Award in 2022. [12] The text was originally published in Italy in 1969. [13]

Fanny Howe's 2022 book, London-rose | Beauty Will Save the World, appeared in the author Dennis Cooper's blog under "5 books I read recently & loved." That same year, psychoanalyst and author Jamieson Webster published Disorganisation & Sex. [14]

In an interview with 032c magazine, when the writer and Semiotext(e) publisher Chris Kraus was asked who else in publishing continually impressed her, she praised Nightboat Books and Divided, "There’s also a new press in London called Divided Press that’s pursuing an interesting agenda of philosophy, literature, and activism." [15] [16]

At large, the press publishes artists in the in-between or outside conventional standards or institutional support. Their mission is to champion authors who, "cannot balance or resolve their contradictions, who struggle to make peace in the industry or genre or category or world in which they end up." [17]

Notable authors and books

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kathy Acker</span> American novelist and playwright (1947–1997)

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, William S. Burroughs, David Antin, Carolee Schneeman, Eleanor Antin, French critical theory, mysticism, and pornography, as well as classic literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harold Robbins</span> American author

Harold Robbins was an American author of popular novels. One of the best-selling writers of all time, he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.

The word cisgender describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not transgender. The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 as an antonym to transgender, and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about gender. The term has been and continues to be controversial and subject to critique.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Publishing</span> Process of production and dissemination of literature, music, or information

Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, comic books, newspapers, and magazines. With the advent of digital information systems, the scope has expanded to include digital publishing such as ebooks, digital magazines, websites, social media, music, and video game publishing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antonio Negri</span> Italian political philosopher (1933–2023)

Antonio Negri was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of Empire with Michael Hardt and his work on the philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Born in Padua, Italy, Negri became a professor of political philosophy at the University of Padua, where he taught state and constitutional theory. Negri founded the Potere Operaio group in 1969 and was a leading member of Autonomia Operaia, and published hugely influential books urging "revolutionary consciousness."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fanny Howe</span> American poet, novelist, and short story writer

Fanny Howe is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry such as One Crossed Out, Gone, and Second Childhood, the novels Nod, The Deep North, and Indivisible, and collected essays The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation. She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation. She is also the recipient of the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California In addition, her Selected Poems received the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the Most Outstanding Book of Poetry Published in 2000 from the Academy of American Poets and she was a finalist for the 2015 International Booker Prize She has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice. She is professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Howe</span> American poet (born 1937)

Susan Howe is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre. Many of Howe's books are layered with historical, mythical, and other references, often presented in an unorthodox format. Her work contains lyrical echoes of sound, and yet is not pinned down by a consistent metrical pattern or a conventional poetic rhyme scheme.

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. Existentialism is a philosophical and cultural movement which holds that the starting point of philosophical thinking must be the individual and the experiences of the individual, that moral thinking and scientific thinking together are not sufficient for understanding all of human existence, and, therefore, that a further set of categories, governed by the norm of authenticity, is necessary to understand human existence. This philosophy analyzes relationships between the individual and things, or other human beings, and how they limit or condition choice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michiko Kakutani</span> American critic, writer (b. 1955)

Michiko Kakutani is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New York Times from 1983 to 2017. In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.

Hervé Guibert was a French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. He was a close friend of Michel Foucault.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carla Emery</span> American writer and encyclopedist

Carlotta Louise Harshbarger Emery DeLong was an American writer and encyclopedist. She is best known for authoring the Encyclopedia of Country Living.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Kraus (American writer)</span> American writer and filmmaker

Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. Her work includes the novels I Love Dick, Aliens and Anorexia, and Torpor, which form a loose trilogy that navigates between autobiography, fiction, philosophy, and art criticism, and a sequence of novels dealing with American underclass experience that began with Summer of Hate. Her approach to writing has been described as ‘performance art within the medium of writing’ and ‘a bright map of presence’. Her work has drawn controversy through its equalisation of high and low culture, mixing critical theory with colloquial language and graphic representations of sex. Her books often blend intellectual, political, and sexual concerns with wit, oscillating between esoteric referencing and parody. She has written extensively in the fields of art and cultural criticism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sylvère Lotringer</span> French literary critic (1938–2021)

Sylvère Lotringer was a French-born literary critic and cultural theorist. Initially based in New York City, he later lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico. He is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements as founder of the journal Semiotext(e) and for his interpretations of theory in a 21st-century context. He is regarded as an influential interpreter of Jean Baudrillard's theories, among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Honoré Fabri</span> French theologian

Honoré Fabri was a French Jesuit theologian, also known as Coningius. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dennis Morris (photographer)</span> British photographer

Dennis Morris is a British photographer, best known for his images of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Better than sex cake</span> Type of cake

Better than sex cake is a cake baked using yellow cake mix, with a juicy pineapple center, covered with layers of vanilla pudding and sweetened whipped cream, and sprinkled with coconut flakes. A variant using chocolate cake mix, caramel topping, and crumbled toffee is known by similar names such as better than Robert Redford cake.

David Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, activist and former sex worker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New adult fiction</span> Fiction with protagonists aged 18–29

New adult (NA) fiction is a developing genre of fiction with protagonists in the 18–29 age bracket. St. Martin's Press first coined the term in 2009, when they held a special call for "fiction similar to young adult fiction (YA) that can be published and marketed as adult—a sort of an 'older YA' or 'new adult'". New adult fiction tends to focus on issues such as leaving home, developing sexuality, and negotiating education and career choices. The genre has gained popularity rapidly over the last few years, particularly through books by self-published bestselling authors such as Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cora Carmack, Colleen Hoover, Anna Todd, and Jamie McGuire.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carla Lonzi</span> Italian art critic and feminist (1931–1982)

Carla Lonzi was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile, an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.

Autotheory is a literary tradition involving the combination of the narrative forms of autobiography, memoir, and critical theory. Works of autotheory involve a first-person account of an author’s life blended with research investigations. Works of autotheory might bring in broader questions in philosophy, literary theory, social structures, science and culture to interpret the politics and history within personal experiences.

References

  1. ↑ Vigier, Janique (17 February 2020). "Spiral-Walking". Book Forum. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Staff, Harriet (11 February 2023). "Bookforum Talks to Fanny Howe About Night Philosophy". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Kraus, Chris (10 July 2020). "Wandering and wondering: Fanny Howe's philosophy of childhood". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Webster, Jamieson (28 October 2022). "Disorganisation & Sex". Spike Art Magazine. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Webster, Jamieson. "Disorganization & Sex". Parapraxis. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Arterian, Diana (17 November 2022). "The Annotated Nightstand: What Anna Moschovakis is Reading Now and Next". Literary Hub. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  7. ↑ LARB Radio Hour (2 December 2022). "Jamieson Webster's 'Disorganisation and Sex'". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Books of the Year". The White Review. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  9. ↑ Duncan, Fiona Alison (October 2020). "Interview with Fanny Howe". The White Review. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  10. ↑ Lonzi, Carla; Grimaldi Donahue, Allison (13 March 2020). "A Sense of Exclusion: An Excerpt from Carla Lonzi's 'Autoritratto (Self-Portrait)'". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  11. ↑ Merjian, Ara H. (23 December 2021). "Carla Lonzi's Self-Effacing 'Self-Portrait'". Frieze. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  12. ↑ rcldaum (7 September 2022). "Announcing the 2022 ALTA Book Awards Shortlists". ALTA Blog. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  13. ↑ Latimer, Quinn. "Self-portrait". 4columns.org. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  14. 1 2 Millar, Isabel (29 November 2022). "Book Review Essay: "Disorganisation and Sex" by Jamieson Webster". European Journal of Psychoanalysis. 9 (2). ISSN   2284-1059 . Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  15. ↑ Val, Wes Del (23 December 2020). "IYKYK: An Interview with Chris Kraus and Hedi El Kholti, Editors of SEMIOTEXT(E)". 032c. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  16. ↑ "Divided Publishing 2022 — catalogue and forthcoming". perfmts.net. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  17. ↑ "Divided Publishing". Divided Publishing. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  18. ↑ "5 Questions with Aurelia Guo". Liminal. 17 June 2022.
  19. ↑ Blakey, Kiera (July–August 2021). "Georgia Sagri: Stage of Recovery". Artists’ Books. Art Monthly. No. 448.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.