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Bellevue Literary Press Spring 2007 Books


Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment by Gerald Weissmann. These reflections on the historical roots of the current culture wars in science and medicine again reveal Weissmann to be “by any standard, one of the major essayists of our time.” – Eric Kandel "The most brilliant and humorous manifesto ever written by a scientist against the current cult of unreason: a must for the educated layman!"- -Jean Pierre Changeux

April/ 978-1-934137-00-0/ TC $25.

 

 

 

Awkward: A Detour by Mary Cappello. A work of creative nonfiction about a very particular if common and much maligned state of being. “At once comforting and startling, Awkward: A Detour is a new kind of memoir, each sentence more of a discovery than a reporting back. The fluent subtlety of Cappello's adventurous meditation makes memory seem like something worth re-making, and not the casual currency it has become. It is a remarkable achievement.” --Adam Phillips

June/ 978-1-934137-01-7/ TP $16.95

 

Doctored Drawings by Mark Podwal. Fine artist, filmmaker, and physician, Podwal has illustrated several books, including Passover Haggadah as Commented Upon by Elie Wiesel. Over the past two decades, his work has appeared frequently on the New York Times op-ed page. “Doctored Drawings is plain brilliant! Podwal is like no one else that I know of, and his work will withstand the test of time.”-- David McCullough

May/ 978-1-934137-02-4/ TC $22.

 

The Cure by Varley O’Connor. A novel set in mid-twentieth century America, about a family bound together and almost torn apart by a young son’s polio. “ In this poignant and well-told novel, Varley O'Connor inhabits the fragile lives that unravel in the face of illness and disease.  But, as with all wonderful writers, this is just the beginning for this tale ripples into one of race and class.  The Cure is a particularly American story and an achingly beautiful one at that."

--Mary Morris

May/ 978-934137-03-1/ TC $25

 

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