Chad Post Q & A

       At Sampsonia Way Caitlyn Christensen has a Q & A with Open Letter and Three Percent-man Chad W. Post -- a good overview of those two fine institutions, with lots of interesting titbits.
       And some depressing ones:

Here's a perspective for you: an average translation from a non-Big Five press (or even from a big press, because with the exception of Murakami, books don't sell very well), will sell about 1,000 copies.

       I am, however, a bit disappointed that Chad says:

We don't want to publish the Estonian Jonathan Franzen.

       You know what he means -- but come on, who else is going to publish this poor guy (or gal), whoever s/he is ? Dalkey Archive and Open Letter pretty much have the translated-from-Estonian market cornered, and if there's a Franzen there, we want to see his/her work too !