Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed,
not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1952, p. 67
At some point during the proceedings that constituted the launch of Mattering Press at Conway Hall[1] I found myself looking at pictures of friends. Projected onto the screen in front of which an illustrious panel had gathered were the five absent present editors, Uli Beisel, Endre Dányi, Natalie Gill, Julien McHardy, and Michaela Spencer who together with the present present Joe Deville make up the press’s editorial team.… Continue reading