Archipelago!
I'm a big fan of the great work done by Archipelago Books , one of the few publishers in the U.S. specializing in literature in translation. I first discovered them around the time I read Büchner's Lenz in the beautiful edition they released a few years back. Since then, they've released a bunch of marvelous books that might otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers (while I'm making recommendations, Mandarins is a magnificent collection of stories. Oh, and any fan of weird fiction should take a look at Palafox . And you can't go wrong with Breyten Breytenbach . And-- Well, take your pick ...) Archipelago recently sent out an email saying that the current economic environment has hit them pretty hard. All of their basic sources of funding -- book sales, grants, donations -- have suddenly been reduced, causing Archipelago to have to scramble to stay alive. Basically, they need some help to get through this. If you don't want to...