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My name is Rob Buchert.
I own Tryst Press. It's a letterpress publishing company,
and our purpose is to make beautiful books.
Great, thank you.
It's a blessing to work with your wife and enjoy it.
So many times we hear, "Oh, I couldn't do that.
We'd drive each other crazy. We'd fight like cats and dogs."
And that doesn't really happen here.
You'll get lipstick on your face.
I spend lots of quiet time in my studio.
I can turn off the radio and the iPod, and I can
focus on other things while my hands are working.
It's a matter of getting my body to do things it should,
and I can send my brain off somewhere else.
Letters are almost holy because you can recognize
quickly the sounds most used by a particular author,
the shapes of words—all these create a relationship
with text that you can't get just by reading
or entering the text on a keyboard.
Books are one of man's supreme achievements.
If we lost all our literature, where'd we be as a culture?
They're the one real, close connection that
we have to pass to people, to pass to the ages.
I spend a lot of time creating,
and it's interesting that creating isn't really
making something from nothing.
Creating is organizing. It's bringing things together.
It's seeing virtues in things
and bringing them into a harmonious relationship.
I think that's the way God works.
He has all this stuff— things, people—
each with inherent virtues about themselves.
And He has the ability
to bring those into position to make something good—
if those materials let Him.
My name is Rob Buchert. I make books, and I'm a Mormon.