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Congratulations to Andrew Krivak, recipient of the University of Scranton’s Royden B. Davis, S.J., Distinguished Author Award “for his luminous contributions to American letters and his enduring witness to the immigrant and working-class heritage of Northeastern Pennsylvania.”
Recent & Forthcoming Titles
With smaller print runs and often an intimate relationship with readers, these smaller houses are able to take bigger risks than their larger counterparts and are finding truly excellent writers outside the mainstream. Don’t miss works from Open Letter, Deep Vellum, Bellevue Literary Press, Catapult, Restless Books, Two Dollar Radio and Los Angeles’ Unnamed Press; like more established independents Graywolf and McSweeney’s, they are delivering so much genuinely exciting fiction that they make it look easy.
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It is no accident that [Bellevue Literary Press] was founded a few steps down the hall in Bellevue Hospital [from] where Lewis Thomas wrote Lives of a Cell, a book that turned the attention of the literary world to the world of science. That slim volume of essays made inhabitants of both worlds realize that imagination, pluck and skill can bring them together by the sheer power of good writing. . . . Alas! The days are over when Lewis Thomas was sought out by the likes of Viking (publisher) and Elizabeth Sifton (editor) as one or another of the major houses has been captured by consortia. Small presses—with BLP at the forefront—are all that remain of that sensibility. . . . The usual university presses essentially publish nonfiction and doctoral theses while, as a rule, smaller independent presses devote themselves to works of the existential moment. The only vehicle now available to bridge the gap between these two styles of publication is the Bellevue Literary Press.
Award Winning Titles
Full of speculative daring though firmly anchored in the tradition of realism, Tim Horvath’s Understories explores hypothetical cities, shadow puppeteers, and the imaginary travels of a library book—blending the everyday and wondrous to contend with age-old themes of loss, identity, and the search for human connection.