Books that live between disciplines

Trellis Parchment exists to publish books that cannot find a home in any single section of a bookstore. Not because they are difficult — though some of them are — but because they take seriously the idea that important questions do not respect departmental boundaries. The books we publish require the reader to hold more than one field of knowledge in mind at once. They are written for a reader who wants to think rather than be told what to think.

We are small and slow on purpose. One to three titles a year, each chosen for its quality and its willingness to do work the larger publishing houses are not willing to do. The books that interest us are the ones where a practitioner from one discipline looks hard at a problem in another and notices something that the specialists missed — not because the specialists weren't looking, but because they were looking from inside.

The name Trellis Parchment is a small theory of what publishing is for: structure that supports organic growth, and a substrate that holds things down in permanent form. The trellis does not grow; it enables the vine. The parchment does not think; it preserves the thought. We are here to get out of the way of the books we believe in.