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Congratulations to Leah Hager Cohen, whose novel To & Fro is the winner of the Julia Ward Howe Book Award from the Boston Authors Club and longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and to Melissa Pritchard, author of Flight of the Wild Swan and the finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Award.
BLP brings readers amazing books that defy easy categorization or mass marketing. If you want a good read, many publishers can offer that. If you want an amazing, transformative read that will settle down in your memory and open a dialogue with the best books you’ve read, a book that will challenge you to new levels of emotional and intellectual perception, a reading experience that might blow your heart open or change your worldview, go to the Bellevue Literary Press website and pick any book.
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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

Comedy and tragedy collide in Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire—stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience.