Publishing is Personal: Relegation Books

Inspired by an introduction to a screening of Eric Rohmer's An Autumn Tale at BAM that fiction writer and longtime Ditmas Park resident Jonathan Baumbach gave, in that,

"We are trained to think that personal matters are less important than the global, but in fact the world tends to be too much with us and only of the moment. The personal, which is where we begin and end, is about everything."

This new occasional series intends to learn the personal stories that motivate people to enter and navigate the world of literature professionally, hosted in the intimate environs of the Urbane Arts Club's front parlor rooms. In the first edition, hosted by Lauren Cerand, DC-based Relegation Books founder Dallas Hudgens will discuss what led him to start the press as a vehicle for overlooked voices and a chance to build meaningful community in the Nation's Capital, known as much for…