Join us for the first US screening of Pushan Kripalani’s documentary about the legendary publisher Seagull Books, a pre-eminent publisher of translated literature in the world and a major champion of German-language writers in all genres.
Of the Book and Other Stories 120 mins | Color | English and Hindi

In this visual memoir celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Seagull Books, authors, booksellers, and artists in India and abroad reflect on their role in this theatre of publishing, where hesitant and unconventional ideas find their place on the page. It features interviews with the Seagull team, especially Naveen Kishore, who shares fragments of his extraordinary journey from theatre-lighting designer to publisher, as well as Gayatri Spivak, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Peter Maravelis of City Lights Booksellers, Jeff Deutsch, the director of Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and Rick Simonson, veteran bookseller and literary impresario at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle.

Of the Book and Other Stories explores how Seagull Books remains proudly at home in Calcutta but is truly a publisher for and of the world.

The screening will be followed by a conversation about Seagull Books’ place in the international literary landscape with the publisher, writer, theater practitioner and photographer Naveen Kishore, Colin Robinson, the co-founder of the alternative publisher Or Books, bookseller Rick Simonson, and translator and editor Tess Lewis.

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