Bellevue Literary Press (BLP) is an American publisher. It was founded in 2007 as a sister organization of
Bellevue Literary Review, located at
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue Hospital (officially NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and formerly known as Bellevue Hospital Center) is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States. One of the largest hospitals in the United States ...
in New York City. It became an independent nonprofit in 2018.
According to their website, "
ellevue Literary Pressis the first and only nonprofit press dedicated to literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences." Despite being a small press that publishes only a handful of titles per year, BLP garnered a
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...
in 2010 for ''
Tinkers Tinkers may refer to:
* An alternate (and often pejorative) name for the itinerant groups in Europe, including Irish Travellers, Scottish Travellers, and Romani people
* The plural of tinker, an archaic term for an itinerant tinsmith who mends hous ...
'' by
Paul Harding. ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...
'' abashedly admitted that it failed to review the novel when it was first published, noting that ''Tinkers'' was the first novel from a small press to win a Pulitzer since ''
A Confederacy of Dunces
''A Confederacy of Dunces'' is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) ...
'' in
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...
.
BLP gained more attention in 2011 when ''
The Sojourn'' by Andrew Krivak became a finalist for the
National Book Award for Fiction
The National Book Award for Fiction is one of five annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens. Since 1987, the awards have been administered and presented by the National Book Foundation, bu ...
.
Andrew Krivak, ''The Sojourn'', 2011 National Book Award Fiction Finalist
, The National Book Foundation BLP has published books written by the likes of Eduardo Halfon
Eduardo Halfon (born 1971) is a Guatemalan writer.
Career
Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City, moved to the United States at the age of ten, went to school in South Florida, studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University, ...
, Jonathan D. Moreno
Jonathan D. Moreno (born June 11, 1952) is an American philosopher and historian who specializes in the intersection of bioethics, culture, science, and national security, and has published seminal works on the history, sociology and politics of b ...
, Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an American writer. With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span, Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in multiple ge ...
, Paul Lockhart
Paul Scott "Paco" Lockhart (born April 28, 1956) is an American aerospace engineer, retired United States Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut, a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
Early life and education
Lockhart, born April 28, 1956, and ...
, and Melissa Pritchard, among others.
See also
*List of English-language book publishing companies
This is a list of English-language book publishers. It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book ...
* List of English-language small presses
*List of English-language literary presses
Literary presses are publishing companies that publish books with a literary or artistic emphasis. This is a list of publishing companies and imprints whose primary emphasis is on literature and the arts. It does not include exclusively online publ ...
References
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External links
Official Website
Small press publishing companies
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Literary publishing companies
2007 establishments in New York City