that I use for the books that I publish. The books published by William & Park are the ones that I feel best about, the “comforting presence,” as the great Nabokov put it, whose “pilot light is steadily burning somewhere in the basement … a quiet little explosion of familiar warmth.” I hope and plan to add more lights here over the coming years.

The imprint is named in honour of my maternal grandfather, "Billy," William A. Park, 1909–1996. The photo of the dories was taken in 2024 along the main road in Cox’s Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, where Billy was born.