Your Business is an independent literary publisher. Eleven titles a year, sewn boards, smyth-bound, set in metal type at a small shop in Hudson, and shipped from a brownstone in Carroll Gardens.
A first novel from Lagos, a reissued essay collection from 1981, a short story sequence about a Maine boatyard, and a new translation of Antigone with a 60-page introduction.
"Among the small American houses, Your Business has the soundest taste and the most patient editors. The books last."
"A first novel of unusual self-possession. Okonkwo writes the way the best older writers do — without hurry."
"Reyes's essays read like field-notes from a country no one else thought to map. Their reissue is the season's gift."
"Hawes's stories have the patience and slow accumulation of weather. A first book that doesn't read like a first book."
"Berger's Antigone is a translation that seems to have been made under the assumption you can read Greek too. A great gift."
Adaeze reads from her debut novel, The Apartment at the Top of the Stairs, in conversation with Maren Vasquez, host of The Long Walk Home. Q&A and book signing to follow. Wine and seltzer poured by the publisher's eight-year-old, with mixed results.
Eleven of us, all in one parlor floor in Brooklyn. We acquire, edit, design, set type, sew, and ship out of the same building. We answer our own mail.
