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The Cordis Letters, from the editorial office.
Letters, essays, reading lists, and conversations on the working family and the books that get made for them. Written by Ron Smith and the editorial board.
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The founding letter.
RSWhy we started Cordis House.
By Ron Smith · Founder & Editorial Director
The publishing industry has never quite known what to do with the working family. The novel about the dying town gets reviewed; the dad with the rough hands becomes a metaphor. Cordis House exists to publish those books, for those families, and to publish them well.
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By Ron Smith
The trade-family library, briefly assembled.
The Editorial Board
On the making of Hands Like Daddy's.
Ron Smith × Cordis Studio
On succession and what gets passed down.
By Ron Smith
On working hands and the books they're missing.
By Ron Smith
What a publishing house is for.
By Ron Smith
From the archive
Issues I–X.
The founding issues of The Cordis Letters, from the early years of the editorial office. They are being prepared for the public archive. Members of The Cordis Reader read them first.
Issue X · On the long shelf
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Issue VII · The kitchen-table company
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Issue IV · What a trade is worth
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Issue I · The first letter
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