From the basement to the New York Times best-seller list
by Jonathan Messinger
Chicago's literary scene seems to be in perpetual start-up mode—a constant stream of newly launched reading series, websites, and presses means there's always some fresh blood. Back in 2003, Doug Seibold started Agate Publishing in just this vein, working out of his basement with, as he told the Reader in 2012, "a cell phone, a laptop, and a DSL line" and beginning with African-American fiction and business titles, both fields he'd worked in during his 15 years in local publishing.…
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