Author Spotlight: Søren Lindqvist on the Living Legacy of Small Presses

For over a decade, Søren Lindqvist has cataloged the letters, type specimens, and subscription ledgers of independent Scandinavian publishing houses. His new book, The Republic of Typesetters, restores the compositors and printers themselves to the center of literary history.

“We often speak of literary movements as if books materialized out of pure conversation in cafés,” Lindqvist notes. “In reality, every avant-garde quarterly depended on someone who knew how to justify a line of lead type at midnight.”