Streetprint Bratislava: Contemporary Slovak Print Culture

Streetprint Bratislava presents and describes a variety of print artifacts that people were buying and reading in Bratislava, Slovakia during the summer of 2009. These artifacts cover a range of categories, from news to romance, periodicals to novels, in a variety of languages including Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, German, and English. The site enables readers, students, teachers, and researchers interested in contemporary popular print, European or Slovak print culture, and the history of literature, publishing, and reading more generally, to search an extensive archive. The narrative section describes aspects of the production and reception of these artifacts using images of the artifacts, photography of the city and points of sale, interviews with publishers, sellers, authors, and readers, as well as in-the-field observation.