Roberta Kalechofsky is not only an acclaimed novelist, an accomplished lecturer, a prizewinning short-story writer, an essayist, an editor, and a translator, but she is also a publisher and an active spokesperson for the small presses. She was contributing editor to Margins, a review of small-press books, and dedicated her first book to the small-press movement. She made the decision to found her own press after she received her one hundred first rejection slip on 11 May 1975, which happened to be her forty-fourth birthday. She justified the decision by pointing to a distinguished list of predecessors who had printed their own works: Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Crane, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, and Mary Baker Eddy. She at first intended to call her press Hogarth II after Virginia Woolf's publishing house, but decided instead, since she specializes in Jewish fiction, to name it after the Hebrew...