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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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“Tinkers Turns 10—And Stays Remarkable” Publishers Weekly celebrates the 10^th anniversary edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Tinkers.
Congratulations to Eduardo Halfon, whose novel Mourning is the winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize; to Bessora and Barroux, whose graphic novel Alpha: Abidjan to Paris is shortlisted for the GLLI Translated YA Book Prize; and to Helen Benedict, whose novel Wolf Season has been selected as a “Great Group Read” by the Women’s National Book Association.
Looking for the best books of the year? William E. Glassley’s A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; Eduardo Halfon’s novel Mourning is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, Smithsonian magazine Favorite Book of the Year, and more!; Diane DeSanders’ debut novel Hap and Hazard and the End of the World is a Lone Star Literary Life Top Twenty Texas Book of the Year; and Bessora and Barroux’s graphic novel Alpha: Abidjan to Paris is a Library Journal Best Book of the Year, School Library Journal Best Adult Book 4 Teens, and Comics Journal Best Comic of the Year!
“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.

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From our Authors

Andrew Krivak

My mother was a great fence for books. She always had something she’d read and wanted me to read and so, when I’d visit, she would hold up her latest at the kitchen table over tea and say, “Read this yet?” like some guy with a coat full of watches. Everything from Augustine to Marilynne Robinson. And then, at that same table at another time, we would talk about what we’d read like a couple of wide-ranging literary critics. When I wrote The Sojourn I dedicated it to her. Without her I would never have made sense of the stories my grandmother told of the old country in her beautiful but impenetrable Slovak, which my mother translated for me.

Recently, in her days of decline, my mother and I often talked more about writing than about reading. She seemed happy that I had made that step to becoming a writer, and I let her know it was because of all those books she had foisted on me, and let me love. One thing I won’t forget was a letter she wrote after she had read The Sojourn in manuscript form and knew that I was having a hard time selling it. “Don’t give up,” she said, as any mother would to her son, of course. But then she wrote: “There is a publisher out there who will find this as beautiful as it is true. There has to be. Because that’s how stories survive.”

My mother and friend passed away in her sleep, but not without first having laid hands on The Sojourn published by Bellevue Literary Press. “I told you,” she said when she saw it. “It’s beautiful. They love books there, don’t they?” I told her they did. “Good,” she said. “Then we’ll survive.” Please help support Bellevue Literary Press. Thank you.

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