Agate Publishing
Chicago-based indie publisher of food and lifestyle books; leadership and business books; and literature for all ages from African-American voices.
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That "Night of the Iguana" feeling 🦎 (opens the original)
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August, in the publishing industry, is famously slow. Power brokers and superagents retreat to Montauk and the South of France. Authors find themselves unable to string two sentences together. Editors forget the basic rules of grammar. Marketing emails rot unread. A languid, knife-edge Tennessee Williams air pervades the offices. Anything could happen during these sultry days, anything at all. You could embark on an ill-fated romance. You could commit a crime of passion. You could even add a “st
Our authors on TV, in the news, and on the podium 🏅 (opens the original)
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July! The days are long, and the sun is intense. Some fire up the grill, some spend all day on the move, and some relax in the sun with a lengthy novel (like me, I’m reading Lonesome Dove). However you choose to spend your summer, we’ve got books (and a TV show) to inspire you and keep you company: Kyle Gonzalez’s guide to conscious movement, Martin Sorge’s Midwest baking extravaganza, Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson’s majestic volume of Chicago vernacular architecture, and more, below!Anupy Singl
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