In Service of the Avant Garde: On the Unlikely Success of Siglio Press

Featured image from Sophie Calle’s The Hotel. The Siglio origin story famously begins with founder Lisa Pearson in Prague in the days before with Velvet Revolution being slipped a samizdat copy of exiled novelist Milan Kundera’s incendiary novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Which is to say, in commission of a crime. Because anyone found […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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