Nicole Aragi’s list of clients reads like a who’s who of contemporary literature: Anne Carson, Edwidge Danticat, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Safran Foer, Denis Johnson, Min Jin Lee, Rebecca Makkai, Tommy Orange, Tracy K. Smith, Chris Ware, Colson Whitehead, and on and on. No doubt Aragi has had an enviable career of publishing boundary-pushing literary stars, but before all the success, it took her some time to break into the publishing world. {read}