The Sapling Interview

The Sapling Interview

Back in November, Galileo’s editorial director, Barrett Warner, was interviewed by Kit Frick for The Sapling. Here’s how it begins: SAPLING: Galileo Press was founded in 1979 and has been publishing books for over forty years. Can you tell us a bit...
The 2025 Finalists

The 2025 Finalists

Editors who love love love to read manuscripts often make the worst publishers. Which is why we’re so awful. We’re thrilled by talking ourselves into liking something enough to bring it out. That whole ‘panic of discussion’ thing. And if the lines seem a little messy?...
The Truth Will Out

The Truth Will Out

I went to visit my ancient mother for a few days last week. She made an elaborate fuss over preparing two hard boiled eggs. “I’ve been making them for 89 years,” she said. Acted like there were dozen of steps required. Like a poem about nothing with...
The Coachella Review and Emily May

The Coachella Review and Emily May

The Coachella Review recently interviewed Emily May. In her debut essay collection, Some Girls, Emily May scrutinizes the lies girls are force-fed in adolescence. She explores the time period when girls still called their parents from payphones at the mall,...
THE GALILEO PRESS 2024 SHORT LIST

THE GALILEO PRESS 2024 SHORT LIST

Most are blind street years—quiet enough, and the only traffic in your ear is someone watering a balcony hibiscus three stories up—and you read a page or two and send a manuscript away. This year I could not let go of them. I clutched and clutched and read and admired...