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Our Mission: Bellevue Literary Press is devoted to publishing literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences because we believe that science and the humanities are natural companions for understanding the human experience.

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“Who Gets to Use Black English?” John McWhorter, author of Talking Back, Talking Black, writes about African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the Atlantic and discusses his op-ed on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show.
Read an excerpt from Jerome Charyn’s In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song at the Literary Hub and find interviews with him about the collection in Publishers Weekly and Stay Thirsty Magazine.
Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Eduardo Halfon shares family photographs and an annotated excerpt from Mourning in “A Yom Kippur Scene (With Footnotes)” on the Jewish Book Council’s “ProsenPeople” blog.
Read an excerpt from Bessora and Barroux’s graphic novel Alpha in PEN America’s “Illustrated PEN” series and view a gallery of images in the Guardian.
Norman Lock discusses The Wreckage of Eden with Publishers Weekly.

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From our Authors

Meredith Tax

I have been writing for many years and have been published both by presses that were part of large conglomerates (William Morrow, Atlantic Little Brown), and by small left-wing publishers (Monthly Review Press, Feminist Press). Working with the people at Bellevue Literary Press on A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State was one of the best publishing experiences I have had. The Publisher and Editorial Director, Erika Goldman, was the one who had the idea for the book, and she was always on call when I needed to talk to her. Although the BLP staff is small and on a tight budget, they are unfailingly professional and supportive, and work to a very high standard. They always got back to me promptly, usually the same day. Erika and I had many frank discussions about subrights, the prospects of the book, etc. Crystal Sikma met with me to go over copyediting issues twice. Their publicity person, Molly Mikolowski, is a marvel, well-prepared, diligent, and creative; she accomplished far more working from Minneapolis than the freelance publicist I hired for one of my novels and the big in-house publicists I worked with on the other. I would unreservedly recommend them to my writer friends and, in fact, already have.

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