Chorus Press: handmade books and literature

Chorus Press is devoted to publishing new voices in contemporary literature as well as re-invoking works from the public domain that we hear yearning for audiences in the present.

Our name is inspired by the plural chorus of ancient Greek drama, commenting on and propelling narrative. We love the perspectives of many-voicedness, the possibilities for resonance and tension afforded by paradoxes and entertaining conflicting ideas.

We believe in books as vessels of reverberation: places where thought and text meet, shift frequency, and merge into something new every time you enter them.

All Chorus Press publications are released in carefully designed hand-bound editions.

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Chorus Press Team

Simon Voigt
Founder, Bookmaker

Orian Assayag
Co-Founder, Writer, Ambassador

Golem Productions comprises both a live performance inspired by Jewish folklore and history and the publication journey of two new texts whose protagonists struggle with the materiality of character and the embodiment of relationship.

Golem Productions explores the legend of the Golem alongside the historical figure Dolce of Worms, a Jewish scribe of the elevenths century. Drawing on the critical thought of Walter Benjamin, the project examines the (hi)stories of the Golem in order to understand how oral storytelling and the modern traditions of fiction, writing, and authorship offer distinct modes of narrative and identity formation.

We ask: What is a story? What kind of artifact is a book? What becomes of a story when it is fixed on paper? What is a book without words? Is a storyteller an author and is an author a storyteller?

Project Golem is a collaboration of artists Orian Assayag and Simon Voigt.