About

Staff

Jerome Lowenstein, M.D., is Publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press and Nonfiction Editor for the Bellevue Literary Review. He has been Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine since 1977 and a practicing physician for over four decades. In 1979 he initiated the Program for Humanistic Aspects of Medical Education at New York University School of Medicine, which has become the model for many other similar programs at medical schools across the country. He is the author of Henderson's Equation (Gadd Books, 2008), The Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Acid and Basics: A Guide to Understanding Acid-Base Physiology (1993, Oxford University Press).

Erika Goldman has been an editor of fiction and nonfiction for over twenty years at several major publishing houses in New York City, including Scribner, Simon & Schuster and W. H. Freeman. She has edited books ranging from literary fiction to popular science including works by Marguerite Duras, Isaiah Berlin, the New York Times Science Times writer, Claudia Dreifus, and best-selling author/physicist James Trefil, among others. A recipient of the Jerusalem International Book Fair Editorial fellowship, she has taught at New York University's Center for Publishing and in the Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program.

Leslie Hodgkins has an MA in English from the University of Buffalo where he took courses in both the Poetics Program and the Center for Psychoanalysis and the Study of Culture. He is an advocate of independent publishing and has worked for RE/Search Publications in San Francisco and interned at Archipelago Books in Brooklyn.

Bellevue Literary Press Opens its Doors in September 2005.

The Bellevue Literary Review and New York University School of Medicine are pleased to announce the creation of the Bellevue Literary Press, a new trade book publishing house. The Bellevue Literary Press publishes books of the greatest artistic and intellectual merit from the larger community, both medical and non-medical, while reflecting NYU's excellence in scholarship, humanistic medicine, and science.

The new press is featuring original authoritative and literary works, both fiction and nonfiction, in the sciences, social sciences and arts. It is the natural outgrowth of the Bellevue Literary Review, founded in 2000 as a "a journal of humanity and human experience… a well-regarded magazine featuring fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Bellevue's doctors and well-established writers." (Washington Post) The BLR has published work by Rick Moody, Abraham Verghese, Julia Alvarez, Philip Levine, Rafael Campo, Sharon Olds, and David Lehman.

As with the Bellevue Literary Review, the Press's authors focus on relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing. The first books will be published in Spring 2007.

Jerome Lowenstein, M.D., the Nonfiction Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, is Publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press. Erika Goldman, a veteran of the mainstream publishing industry, is Editorial Director.

"The Bellevue Literary Review opened an important door for us," Lowenstein notes, "and demonstrated that there are many readers who seek serious fiction and nonfiction about health-related issues and the growing role that science plays in medicine today. The intended audience for Bellevue Literary Press books is the general public, as well as medical and science professionals and academics interested in literate, jargon-free presentations of issues in their own and other disciplines."

"This is a remarkable opportunity to publish imaginative and challenging books that will make a real contribution," adds Goldman, "one that couldn't be rarer in today's marketplace. We can't wait to make the most of it."

The Bellevue Literary Press is being distributed to bookstores and other outlets by Consortium.

The Bellevue Literary Press is a program of the NYU School of Medicine, a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, and depends on generous gifts from individuals and foundations for its operations.

We wish to thank our donors for their generous support:

With a special thanks for our founding donor, The Arnold Simon Family Trust.