When the most formidably marketable books published in a calendar year are also so formidably dull that one must invent a bracket tournament to pretend that something is actually at stake in the world of literature.
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March 12 – 27: Special price St Patrick’s Day
Mercier Press is looking for a Senior Editor: The successful candidate will have experience in editing and typesetting history and current affairs, have an understanding of the current challenges facing the publishing business and have strong attention to detail and commitment to excellence. Finally, the successful candidate will thrive on the excitement of working with a values driven team, building a legacy for Irish cultural life.
Duties & Responsibilities
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Overseeing manuscript and content development for all new titles
Controlling incoming manuscripts and managing author relationships
Editing and/or proof reading all books, both copy edit and structural edit as necessary
Contracting new titles and managing the backlist
Managing freelancers
General Administration
Essential Skills
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Demonstrated copy editing and proofreading skills
Mastery of English grammar and punctuation; strong writing skills
Computer skills: Adobe Creative Suite 2, 3 or 4, Microsoft Office, both Mac and PC proficient
Meticulous attention to detail, commitment to producing quality product, conscious of tight deadlines
Ability to multitask and maintain multiple similar projects
Bachelor’s degree with concentration in English and/or History (Master’s preferable)
For further details or to apply, please email clodagh.feehan@mercierpress.ie, including a cover letter stating why you are interested in the role along with your CV and salary expectation.
Mercier Press
Cork based Mercier Press is the longest established independent publisher in Ireland. The Company publishes books of Irish interest and its core strengths are in the areas of History, Biography and Memoir, Politics, Business, Sport, Folklore and Heritage, MBS, Children and Literature. For over 65 years, Mercier’s commitment to excellence and innovation has kept the Company at the forefront of Irish publishing. Mercier is the only Irish publisher to be awarded the national HR standard, Excellence Through People, demonstrating our commitment to the personal and professional development of our people.
Mercier Press is an equal opportunities employer
HOUYHNHNM PRESS LIMITED
www.houyhnhnmpress.com
You can get your hands on the standard edition for €300 or the special edition for €900.
From Houyhnhnm Press:
This new, critically emended edition of Finnegans Wake, welcomed by Seamus Deane as ‘astonishing and pleasing beyond measure’, is now delivered to its reading public seventy years after the novel’s first publication by Faber & Faber on the 4th of May 1939. Finnegans Wake is the most bookish of all books.
John Bishop has described it as ‘the single most intentionally crafted literary artefact that our culture has produced’. In its original format, however, the book has been beset by numerous imperfections occasioned by the confusion of its seventeen-year composition. Only today, by restoring to our view the author’s intentions in a physical book designed, printed and bound to the highest standards of the printers’ art, can the editors reveal in true detail James Joyce’s fourth, and last, masterwork.
This edition is the summation of thirty years’ intense engagement by textual scholars Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon verifying, codifying, collating and clarifying the 20,000 pages of notes, drafts, typescripts and proofs comprising James Joyce’s ‘litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of whirlwords’ (fw2, 14.16-17). The new reading text of Finnegans Wake, typographically re-set for the first time in its publishing history, incorporates some 9000 minor yet crucial corrections and amendments, covering punctuation marks, font choice, spacing, misspellings, misplaced phrases and ruptured syntax. Although individually minor, these changes are nonetheless crucial in facilitating a smooth reading of the book.
Here are two original manuscript pages:
You know what I fucking mean?
April 23, 1942 – March 1, 2010
Participants in the current Creative Writing 3 course will be reading short excerpts of their best work. The venue is the Joinery, Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7. Doors open at 19.00. The readings will take place shortly after that. Free wine, as always, is on hand. Everyone is invited.
The readers are:
Orla McGowan
Jean Hanney
Pete Harpur
Niamh Dunphy
Maurice Devitt
Deirdre Kelly
I invite you to read over the details and line-ups for the three Reading Series events this summer, which take place Friday, April 23, Saturday, July 3, and Friday, September 3.
More details to follow, but information is available about becoming a reader for the July and September events.
