I'm the publisher of these titles and this site. I like making books, and spend my free time doing so, because the book is a functional form that works. These books give occasion to diverse writers with things to say, and the skill to say things well. The process of making them creates, as a nice byproduct, certain measures of satisfaction for me and the authors. And a byproduct of that byproduct is the desire to do more—everyone, hopefully, spurred onward in their own writing and reading by the cycle.

I like to think that my prime audience is a mix of readers who write, and writers who read. Anyone who falls anywhere along that line will find something to like in these books. And hopefully, here on this Web.

I'd like to connect my writers with their readers and to make something of that occasion, showcasing best bits of both. In time, this site will become more interactive, and I'll use it to Web-pub new writers working toward that first or next book—new writers in the sense of those striving to make it new, crafting language into form with new meanings and images.

Guy Davenport once said that the complexity of writing is exceeded only by that of reading—I think what he actually said was, the process of reading is more interesting, finally, than that of writing. I'm not sure how to cleanly divide the two, because writers read as they write, and readers write/rewrite as they read. In other words, it's all the same cloud, which is not to say something drifting across the sky (though that, too) but also, the cloud as network designers use it—to symbolize the whole shebang among and between the network of networks we now occupy, which occupies us. I'm interested in the weather between the Web cloud and printed pages, and hope you'll join me in exploring those boundaries.