Open Letter is the brainchild of Chad W. Post, formerly of Dalkey Archive (who will be discussed later this month), and it is designed to publish one title of literary translated writing per month, and it all begins this September with Dubravka Ugresic's Nobody's Home, a collection of essays translated from the Croation by Ellen Elias-Bursa.
Their first catalogue, running from September 2008 through February 2009 looks fantastic - with essays and short stories and novels and from the Croatian, the French, the Iclandic, the Portuguese, the Lithuanian, and the Norwegian. The covers all look amazing and give the press an early look, an aesthetic that says, that's an Open Letter title.
Beyond all of this, Open Letter is responsible for Three Percent, the fantastic blog of literary translation which should be a daily read for you. Hell, start off with it this month, Reading the World month, and just see if you're not hooked on it by July 1.
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