Letters
Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude
- Hardcover$24.95
- Ebook$9.99
Ideas travel further here
We turn great
ideas into beautiful books.
Exile Press publishes books full of art, humor, humanity, curiosity, and truth. Our books are made to be beautiful to read, hold, and keep.
Open the books ↓A few pages can change your mind
The beauty is inside.
A poem in two languages. A letter turned into art. A bear taking his first step away from home. Open a book.
From “An A in Art”
Take a triangle and triple it. Then line it with color bit by bit, with sharpened tips like sailing ships, then flattened sides and jagged divides. Adventure awaits on the angled edge of A, an active letter lined with hues to play.
An alphabet built as a sequence of poems, shapes, color systems and visual jokes. These spreads show how the writing and artwork operate together.
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- Ebook$9.99
Keep looking
Learn Korean. Meet the culture.
There’s Korean for class. And Korean for everything else.
The joke you didn’t catch. The insult you probably shouldn’t repeat. The words for someone you want to know better. Our Korean-language books put expressions back in the conversations they belong to.
Explore Korean-language books
Little Bear Books · Read together
A whole day of first discoveries.
Sunbeams at the window. A small adventure in the everyday. Open Teddy’s Day.
Explore Teddy’s Day →The curiosity engine
What are you curious about?
- Learning KoreanSlang, love, insults and the Korean nobody prints in a textbook.
- English that sounds like EnglishThe Idiom Attack series, in seven languages.
- Poetry in translationKorean poets in Korean and English, on the same page.
- North Korea, up closeHistory, graphic nonfiction and satire about a closed country.
- Books for kidsRead-aloud stories chosen for the tenth reading, not the first.
- Getting through collegePractical books for the part of school nobody teaches.
The list
Browse the catalog
40 books and digital editions across our imprints.
Baek Seok
Poems of the North 백석 시 모음집 – 북에서온시들 (한글+영문)
- Hardcover$28.95
- Ebooksold out
The Great Successor
Kim Jong-Un | A North Korea Graphic Novel
- Paperback$15.95
- Ebook$9.99
Teddy's Camp
On a Bearish Adventure into the Woods
- Paperback$10.95
- Ebook$9.99
Korean Slang
As much as a Rat's Tail | 한국 비속어: 쥐꼬리만큼 (Insiders Guide)
- Paperback$19.95
- Ebook$9.99
How to Get the Most Out of College
127 Ways to Make Connections, Make it Work for You, and Make a Difference
Quick & Dirty Korean for Lovers (Korean/English Guide)
- Hardcover$15.95
- Ebook$9.99
Idiom Attack, Vol. 1 - Everyday Living (Spanish Edition)
Ataque de Modismos 1 - La vida diaria
- Paperback$19.95
- Ebook$9.99
Our imprints
Five distinct lists, one editorial standard
The flagship list. Language, translation, poetry and culture for readers who want to see a familiar thing from somewhere else.
Study, learning and practical nonfiction. Clear, grounded and specific, with no motivational filler.
Political satire, history and graphic nonfiction. Sharp, dry and irreverent where it earns it.
Grounded, compassionate books about survival, self-understanding and reclaiming a sense of self.
Picture books and early readers with warmth, humor and real craft. Stories that hold up on the two hundredth read.
The name
Why we publish what we publish
Exile Press began with a poet living between languages and cultures.
Peter N. Liptak lived in Korea as a poet and a translator of poetry. That perspective still shapes what we publish: books that look closely, question assumptions, find humor in strange places, and make the world feel larger.
Essays and translation notes
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Behind the book
Sleigh What?! Give the holiday table a story of its own.
A twelve-day illustrated activity book in development, a free Christmas Crisis Simulator to play now, and a reason to make something ridiculous together.
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