The Bellevue Literary Press
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Bellevue Literary Press profiled in the New York Times.
New Publisher of Books
on Medicine, the Sciences and the Arts
The Bellevue Literary Review and New York University School of Medicine are pleased to announce the creation of the Bellevue Literary Press, a new trade book publishing house.
See the Spring 2007 Books
The Bellevue Literary Press intends to publish books of the greatest artistic and intellectual merit from the larger community, both medical and non-medical, while reflecting NYU’s excellence in scholarship, humanistic medicine, and science.
The Bellevue Literary Press will feature original authoritative literary works--both fiction and nonfiction--in the sciences, social sciences and arts. It is the natural outgrowth of the Bellevue Literary Review, founded in 2000 as a “a journal of humanity and human experience… a well-regarded magazine featuring fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Bellevue’s doctors and well-established writers.”(Washington Post) The BLR has published work by Rick Moody, Abraham Verghese, Julia Alvarez, Philip Levine, Rafael Campo, Sharon Olds, and David Lehman.
As with the Bellevue Literary Review, the press’s authors will focus on relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing. The first books will be published in Fall 2006.
Jerome Lowenstein, M.D., the Nonfiction Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, is the Publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press. Erika Goldman, a veteran of the mainstream publishing industry, is the Editorial Director.
“The Bellevue Literary Review has opened an important door for us,” Lowenstein notes, “and demonstrated that there are many readers who seek serious fiction and nonfiction about health-related issues and the growing role that science plays in medicine today. The intended audience for the Bellevue Literary Press books is the general public, as well as medical and science professionals and academics interested in literate, jargon-free presentations of issues in their own and other disciplines.”
“ This is a remarkable opportunity to publish imaginative and challenging books that will make a real contribution,” adds Goldman, “ one that couldn't be rarer in today's marketplace. We can't wait to make the most of it."
The Bellevue Literary Press will be distributed to bookstores and other outlets by Consortium.
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Jerome Lowenstein, M.D., is Publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press and Nonfiction Editor for the Bellevue Literary Review. He has been Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine since 1977 and a practicing physician for over four decades. In 1979 he initiated the Program for Humanistic Aspects of Medical Education at New York University School of Medicine, which has become the model for many other similar programs at medical schools across the country. He is the author of The Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine ( University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Acid and Basics: A Guide to Understanding Acid-Base Physiology (1993, Oxford University Press).
Erika Goldman has been an editor of fiction and nonfiction for over twenty years at several major publishing houses in New York City, including Scribner, Simon & Schuster and W. H. Freeman . She has edited books ranging from literary fiction to popular science including works by Marguerite Duras, Isaiah Berlin, the New York Times Science Times writer, Claudia Dreifus, and best-selling author/physicist James Trefil, among others. A recipient of the Jerusalem International Book Fair Editorial fellowship, she has taught at New York University’s Center for Publishing and in the Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program.
Contact: Lottchen Shivers, 845-876-8791
lottchen@earthlink.net
Erika Goldman, 212-263-7802
egoldman@BLReview.org
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