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Alex Green discusses A Perfect Turmoil with the Waltham Times, North of Oxford, and Publishers Weekly, and writes about Dr. Walter E. Fernald’s legacy at WBUR and in Harvard Magazine.
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.
From Our Authors
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
A classic of contemporary nature writing, Water, Ice & Stone is Bill Green’s John Burroughs Medal Award-winning account of Antarctica, which addresses the ecological importance of the continent within the context of the global warming/climate change crisis.