“Fitzcarraldo” is a legend in the history of film production — its infamous five-year production was arguably the most ambitious, troubled, and controversial ever recorded. Among many ludicrous feats, ...

For nearly a year after Jennifer Croft, a translator, sent a submission to Jacques Testard, a publisher in London, in the summer of 2015, the manuscript languished unread. Testard had launched ...

“You want to know the story of Fitzcarraldo? It's a strange story, a little bit Sisyphus-like. A story of the challenge of the impossible.” – Werner Herzog German director Werner Herzog spent several ...

Matthew is a features writer for Collider currently based in Manchester. In his spare time he likes to read, write, obsess over Batman and complain about his Wordle score. There are few films more ...

With its swathe of award-winning writers and distinctive blue covers, the independent press takes risks on boundary-pushing writing – and it’s paying off It was several hours after the Nobel prize for ...

Saturday, a sunny afternoon in August on the Sunset Strip — before the cruisers started to prowl, when you could still get lucky finding parking on a block that isn't permit only — was a good time for ...

Fitzcarraldo Editions has hired Kristina Kearns as operations director amid a number of promotions at the independent publisher. Meanwhile, associate publisher Tamara Sampey-Jawad has been made a ...

MANILA, Philippines - You must have heard of Fitzcarraldo, the 1982 film of German filmmaker Werner Herzog who won the Cannes Best Director trophy for the said film. It is about an opera-obsessed man ...

Fitzcarraldo Editions is not yet 10 years old and has only six full-time staff members. Since its founding, three of its authors have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. By Alex Marshall ...

Fitzcarraldo Editions has acquired Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton, a "landmark" work of non-fiction interrogating the truth about porn through recorded conversations. The synopsis reads: "How ...