Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:27:07 +0200https://english.radio.cz/howard-sidenberg-and-beginnings-twisted-spoon-press-8084202© 2026 Radio Prague International My guest in this week's One on One is Howard Sidenberg from Twisted Spoon Press, an independent publisher that offers a wide spectrum of literature from Central and Eastern Europe in English. Howard is one of three men who founded Twisted Spoon in Prague in 1992, along with late writer Lukas Tomin from a well-known Czech dissident family, and Kevin Blahut from Massachusetts. Today, however, it is primarily Howard Sidenberg from Richmond, Virginia who keeps the small operation alive and well. Though it had humble beginnings, Twisted Spoon today plays a major role in giving people abroad access to the work of contemporary writers from Central Europe, as well giving non-Czech writers living here a chance to get their work published - the small press recently started an expatriate series. Based in Prague, Twisted Spoon Press also has distributors in Hungary, Poland and North America. I sat with Howard in the café/bookstore Shakespeare and Sons, where there is a wide selection of books in English. You can tell which books are produced by Twisted Spoon because of their unusual and imaginative graphic design. I asked Howard, a one-time doctorate student of Soviet foreign policy, what attracted him to Prague?encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/twisted_spoon.jpg?timestamp=1590289335 https://english.radio.cz/howard-sidenberg-and-beginnings-twisted-spoon-press-8084202 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9