![]() ![]() The plan was to do something that could be sustained long term, and was both big enough to make a dent of some kind in the publishing world yet small enough that we could really devote ourselves to doing our best with each book, from making it a beautiful object to getting it reviewed as widely as possible. ![]() I was experiencing a cultural loneliness, I guess, which spilled over into other aspects of my life. The decision to start the press came out of a lot of different factors, among them, in no particular order: my sense that there weren’t enough presses dedicated to publishing non-commercial fiction my frustration with the incredibly misogynistic things I would sometimes here otherwise intelligent men say about books written by women a move to the Midwest after grad school and the birth of my son. I founded Dorothy in 2009, with help from my husband Martin Riker, and our first two books came out in the fall 2010. Could you briefly describe the history of Dorothy, a publishing project? ![]()
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