The launch of Nottinghilleditions.com coincides with the imprint’s launch on 5th May 2011. Designed to be a rich hub for all Notting Hill Editions’ activity, visitors buying books from the site will be given access to the online Essay Journal and Essay Library, as well as advanced news of author events, box sets and limited signed editions. The site will drive awareness for the imprint and develop a community around great essay writing.
The imprint’s found Tom Kremer comments: ‘We want our readers to consider nottinghilleditions.com as the home of the essay, celebrating and encouraging intellectual debate, as well as the development and growth of ideas. An online community is the perfect place for discussion to flourish and develop around the essays themselves, and it will be a huge strength of the new imprint.’
The author, Daily Telegraph columnist and blogger Harry Mount will be the editor of the Essay Journal, which will be updated weekly with newly commissioned short essays as well as news and opinions on essay writing. Harry Mount comments: ‘Each week, the NHE journal will publish a new essay, ranging from 1,500 to 10,000 words in length. George Orwell wrote his weekly essays in Tribune under the banner, “I write what I please." In the same way, there are no set criteria for these new weekly essays - other than that they should be well-written and original, in the tradition of the best essay-writing, that has fallen into abeyance in recent years.’
The site will also feature the Essay Library; a collection compiled by Ophelia Field with 100 of the world's greatest essays. The imprint will invite public comment on the list and suggestions for future inclusions, allowing the collection to grow and change over time. The library will create an interactive experience for users, and inspire a collection that is influenced by public opinion, emphasising once again the vital role the essay play in our literary, artistic, philosophical and political cultures.
Notting Hill editions is a new publishing imprint launching in May, which is dedicated to revitalising and celebrating the essay.
The essays will present a wide range of stimulating subjects by some of the best and most prominent thinkers, commentators, and authors of our time and of the past. From Richard Sennett on exile to philosophical riffs from Georges Perec, the works will range from new, specially commissioned essays both by established and by emerging writers, to those translated for the first time, posthumously published works and rediscovered classics.
The first titles to be published on 5th May, priced £12.00, are:- Thoughts of Sorts by Georges Perec, with an introduction by Margaret Drabble
- The Foreigner: Two Essays on Exile by Richard Sennett
- The Portable
- Questions of Travel: William Morris in
- Mourning Diary by Roland Barthes, introduced by Michael Wood
- Cataract by John Berger, illustrated by Selçuk Demirel
- Table-Talk and Recollections by Samuel Rogers, introduced by Christopher Rick
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