In the description of this column, I evoke Makoto Fujimura’s notion of “culture care” as a way of conceiving the role that publishing can play in sustaining literary communities. This month, I want to return to that notion to think about the kinds of alternatives this sort of publishing presents to traditional, big-five publishing, both in terms of business practices and in terms of the types of objects writers can create and publishers can produce and distribute. At its heart, culture care grows out of the notion that “a well-nurtured culture becomes an environment in which people and creativity thrive” (22). It is, simply put, “care for our culture’s ‘soul’” that “seeks to restore beauty as a seed of invigoration into the ecosystem of culture” (22).
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