News
Fall/2020
W.C. Bamberger reviews Harry Mathews’ Collected Poems: 1946-2016 in Rain Taxi #99.
6/17/2020
Arlo Haskell presents The Jews of Key West in a virtual lecture for the Florida Humanities Council.
2/27/2020
Arlo Haskell presents The Jews of Key West at the Key West Public Library for the Florida Humanities Council.
2/27/2020
Harry Mathews’ last, unfinished, poem, “The Politicians’ Antic Spoil,” appears in BOMB, with an introduction by Arlo Haskell.
2/18/2020
Daniel Levin Becker introduces Harry Mathews’ collected poems in The Paris Review: “Harry Mathews’ Drifts and Returns.”
2/14/2020
Happy birthday to the late, great Harry Mathews. And happy pub day to Harry’s Collected Poems: 1946-2016, edited by Arlo Haskell and with an introduction by Daniel Levin Becker.
2/13/2020
Editor and Publisher Arlo Haskell remembers Harry Mathews in LitHub, on the occasion of the release of Mathews’ Collected Poems: 1946-2016.
2/4/2020
Harry Mathews’s Collected Poems: 1946-2016 appears in Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s Feb 2020 preview.
2/3/2020
Arlo Haskell in conversation with Florida Keys Audubon Society director Mark Hedden at Friends of the Key West Library Lecture Series: “’Like herons got up as angels’: Elizabeth Bishop among the Birds of Key West.”
2/3/2020
Harry Mathews’s Collected Poems: 1946-2016 is one of “12 Books to Read this February,” per Chicago Review of Books.
10/30/2019
At long last, Harry Mathews’s Collected Poems: 1946-2016 is at the printer. Release date: February 14, 2020. Advance copies available now.
9/22/2019
Arlo Haskell lectures at the Jewish Museum of Florida, Florida International University, on The Jews of Key West.
8/15/2019
South Florida PBS station WPBT features Arlo Haskell and The Jews of Key West on Art Loft.
6/5/2019
Arlo Haskell is named Poet Laureate of Key West.
4/3/2019
Arlo Haskell at VIP Lecture Series, Florida Keys Community College: “Invisible Island: Key West and the K.K.K., 1921-1926.”
2/1/2019
Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West is a Sundial Book Club Selection, WLRN Public Radio and Television.
12/26/2018
Tablet features an excerpt from Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West: “Smuggling Jewish Refugees in Key West.”
11/1/2018
In The American Jewish Archives Journal, Henry Green says Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West “has opened new doors for researchers and for those who visit Key West. It is a valuable template for all who seek to learn about local Jewish history and mine the materials around them with a forensic eye to bring to life the experiences and stories of those who forged American Jewish life.”
11/1/2018
Writing for Southern Jewish History, Raymond Arsenault says Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West “reveals a unique saga of Jewish community life that no previous historian has chronicled.”
10/1/2018
Writing for American Jewish History, T.D. Allman calls Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West a “charming, important, beautifully-produced book… This book tells the truth, and tells it beautifully.”
9/28/2018
Arlo Haskell remembers Key West icon David Wolkowsky (1919-2018), “Call Me David” — How David Wolkowsky Showed me the World.
4/5/2018
Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West remains near the top of Small Press Distribution’s bestseller list (nonfiction) for the first quarter of 2018.
4/5/2018
ReformJudaism.org reviews Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West: “Shows us another dimension of America’s southernmost island city … a lively history of a small Jewish community that has played an outsized role on the world stage.”
3/23/2018
Arlo Haskell will appear at the 92nd Street Y to discuss his award-winning book, The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969).
3/13/2018
Arlo Haskell wins the Florida Book Award (Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction) for The Jews of Key West. “The Florida Book Awards, coordinated by the Florida State University Libraries, is the nation’s most comprehensive state book awards program.”
1/15/2018
With 1700 copies sold, Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West is now in its second printing.
1/8/2018
Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West is Small Press Distribution’s #1 bestseller (nonfiction) for the final quarter of 2017.
12/19/2017
The Jewish Book Council reviews Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West: “Fascinating story … skillfully told… This excellent book will appeal to readers who want to better understand the richness and diversity of the American Jewish experience.”
12/1/2017
Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West is a #1 New Release in Judaism on Amazon.com.
7/15/2017
Arlo Haskell’s The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) will be released by the Press on November 15, 2017.
1/30/2017
An appreciation of Harry Mathews by Daniel Levin Becker in the San Francisco Chronicle.
1/25/2017
Farewell, dear friend: Harry Mathews, R.I.P. (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017)
“Where are we going?
That at last is decided.
Thunder and lightning.”
8/3/2015
Geraldine Kim reviews Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón’s Belleza y Felicidad for Weird Sister. “Reading Belleza y Felicidad is like listening to a funny/sexy/serious/gorgeous phone conversation between best friends.”
4/6/2015
Michaela Mullin reviews Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón’s Belleza y Felicidad for Nomadic Press: “A remarkable reminder that the dirty places may just be ours to uncover and discover.”
1/26/2015
Issue 300 of Flash Art features Stuart Krimko and Arlo Haskell in conversation with Claudio Iglesias about Belleza y Felicidad: Selected Writings of Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón.
12/15/2014
SculptureCenter announces Now Showing: Belleza y Felicidad, a retrospective of poetry booklets by the Buenos Aires literature and art collective, to be held in New York January 25–March 30, 2015.
12/10/2014
Belleza y Felicidad: Selected Writings of Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón will be released by the Press on February 23, 2015.
9/10/2014
Sand Paper Press is named among David Kordansky’s Top Ten Cultural Influences in T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
6/10/2014
Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America (Copper Canyon, eds. Forrest Gander and Raul Zurita) includes an excerpt from Héctor Viel Temperley’s “Hospital Britanico,” originally translated by Stuart Krimko for The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley.
6/1/2014
The Spring/Summer issue of Fence includes three poems by Cecilia Pavón, translated by Stuart Krimko.
10/1/2013
Stuart Krimko’s “Studio Visit” is published in Issue No.1 of The Third Rail
8/1/2013
Arlo Haskell’s “Freddy Cabanas” is published in Jai-Alai Magazine #7.
5/1/2013
Animal Shelter #3 includes work by Fernanda Laguna, translated by Stuart Krimko.
3/4/2013
Issue 4 of the Miami Rail includes reviews by Arlo Haskell and Stuart Krimko.
2/26/2013
Shawn Vandor’s “The Story of Michelle,” originally published in Fire at the End of the Rainbow, is now available as an ebook from Thought Catalog.
12/15/2012
Arlo Haskell’s “Dog” is published in Maggy Issue 4.
12/3/2012
Casey McAlduff reviews The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley for the International Poetry Library of San Francsico.
11/8/2012
Cecilia Pavón’s “A Post-Marxist Theory of Unhappiness,” translated by Stuart Krimko, appears in Night Papers III (Night Gallery, Los Angeles).
10/1/2012
John Beer reviews The New Tourism for the Harry Mathews Symposium in the Quarterly Conversation.
09/1/2012
Fernanda Laguna’s Control o no control: Poemas 1999-2011 is available from Editorial Mansalva (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
8/24/2012
Stuart Krimko returns from Buenos Aires, where he has been working on the manuscript of Belleza y Felicidad: Selected Writings of Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón, forthcoming from Sand Paper.
8/16/2012
Arlo Haskell interviews Robert D. Richardson for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
6/1/2012
The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley is an “Editor’s Choice” in the summer issue of BOMB Magazine. Lila Zemborain’s review says Stuart Krimko’s translation “beautifully reproduces [Viel Temperley’s] rhythmic reverberations … and maintains, with an awe-inspiring precision, the lyric potency of the Spanish originals.”
3/12/2012
Zoland Poetry correspondent P. Scott Cunningham interviews translator Stuart Krimko and publisher Arlo Haskell for an in-depth look at The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley
2/24/2012
Ian Dreiblatt reviews The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley for Sink Review, saying “It’s rare to read anything that so totally perceives the book and body as recipes for each other, the connection between the serial and the infinite as so intimate.”
2/9/2012
The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley is reviewed in the Hey Small Press! February book list.
2/4/2012
Harry Mathews’ The New Tourism is reviewed by David Seed in the Dalkey Archive Press Review of Contemporary Fiction Volume XXXI.
2/2/2012
The Press has received a gift from the Fund for Poetry to support future projects.
1/1/2012
Harry Mathews discusses The New Tourism and other things with Laird Hunt in The Believer.
12/6/2011
PROSUR, Translation Support Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Argentina, has granted funding support for Belleza y Felicidad, by Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón, translated by Stuart Krimko. Publication is forthcoming.
12/2/2011
Harry Mathews’s The New Tourism has been chosen as a “Book of the Year” by the Times Literary Supplement (London).
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