New Yorker editor Ben Greenman invites readers to participate in this highly-crafted, limited edition letterpress.

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Akashic imprint Hotel St. George Press launches a limited-edition series with the hand-crafted letterpress accordion collection, Correspondences, by New Yorker editor Ben Greenman. Beautiful, intimate, and mysterious, this latest work cements Greenman's reputation as one of Brooklyn's most beloved and gifted authors.

Correspondences provides a bittersweet glimpse at the lost art of letter-writing, and the manner and means by which emotions are conveyed in that form. The collection contains seven stories, all of which, in one way or another, speak to the disintegrating relationship between people--men and women, parents and children, authors and readers.

But the literal subject of the work is only the beginning of the discussion: Each hand-crafted, signed copy is composed of an unfolding chip-board casing built by letter-press maven Brandon Mise, which contains pockets for three accordion books bearing two stories each. The seventh story, which is written by Mr. Greenman with intentional gaps in the narrative, is printed on the casing and does something unprecedented: It invites the reader to contribute to the collection.

The fourth pocket in the casing contains a postcard that the reader can use to fill in the gaps in Greenman's narrative and send to Hotel St. George Press for possible publication in future online and paperback editions of the book. This experiment, code-named "The Postcard Project," will incorporate work by authors and non-authors alike, resulting in an ever-shifting, community-created story. Learn more about the Postcard Project, overseen by Postmaster Greenman, by visiting the Hotel St. George Mail Room.

In a changing publishing world, small presses are surviving--and flourishing--by embracing alternative models of publication. Correspondences treats the book as art object and the reader as community, all in the service of writing's ultimate goal, whether through personal missives or full-blown fantasy--communication.

Hotel St. George is an online literary and arts quarterly featuring original fiction, artwork, short films, music, soundscapes, spoken word and secret histories, all occupying carefully designed rooms in an ever-expanding virtual hotel. Our imprint is dedicated to publishing work that playfully fuse the formal craftsmanship of art books with the substantive content of dynamic, modern prose.

Praise for Hotel St. George Press:

"It's hard not to be impressed with the fully imagined architecture and intricately designed rooms of Hotel St. George Press, which is both the website for a press . . . and a brilliantly conceived online journal that recreates the floor plan for a hotel."
--Poets & Writers