Mr. Laswell, I am writing with the hopes of making an email contact with you or your booking agent. I am the co-founder of a literary press in Seattle, WA. We have recently negotiated the rights to a book called Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol. The novel was written in 1938 in Slovene, but it has been translated into many different languages and used as one of the most important works dedicated to the Rock of Alamut and the historical lore associated with the esoteric sect of assassins who fought there against the social order in the 11th and 12th centuries. I want to chat with Mr. Laswell or a booking agent because we are arranging a Slovenian Event with music, art, literature and film, with special emphasis on Alamut and its inspirations and Mr. Laswell is responsible for one of the greatest Alamut inspired creations to date, Hashisheen. Please contact me ASAP as we have meetings with co-sponsors and the Slovenian Embassy at the end of June. I'd like to talk to you before I talk to all of them. -Tony Martinelli

-- Tony Martinelli (martinap75@attbi.com), June 04, 2003

Answers

Any further information should be directed to the new email as listed. Please send inquiries about Alamut by Vladimir Bartol english publication date and availability to this email as well. Thank you.

-- Tony Martinelli (martinap98@hotmail.com), November 07, 2003.

Please direct all inquiries about the English release of Alamut by Vladimir Bartol to tony@scalahousepress.com. The book will be available Fall of 2004 through Scala House Press, Seattle, WA (www.scalahousepress.com). Scala House Press is planning a Slovenia inspired event, focused on art, literature, film and music. Do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested in Alamut, Vladimir Bartol, Vlado Kreslin, Charlie Krafft (Charles Krafft), Laibach, The Walkabouts, or Miha Mazzini. -Tony Martinelli

-- Tony Martinelli (tony@scalahousepress.com), February 10, 2004.

Alamut by Vladimir Bartol is available in the first-ever English translation through Scala House Press. Pre-orders are being taken at Amazon.com and ScalaHousePress.com. The book will be available em masse through local/national bookstores on November 1, 2004. In addition, there is a large, international event entitled "State of Art: The New Slovene Avant Garde" taking place Nov. 19-24 to celebrate Alamut's first-ever English publication. Check www.nwflimforum.org/slovenia for details. For more information please do not hesitate to contact me.

-- Tony Martinelli (tony@scalahousepress.com), October 08, 2004.