Brooklyn Book Festival OnePage
Week of 15-Jun-2012
Bellevue Literary Press (BLP), housed in historic Bellevue Hospital, is a project of the New York University School of Medicine. BLP has been a publisher of prize-winning books since 2007 and is the first and only nonprofit press dedicated to literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the sciences and the arts. We believe that science and literature are natural companions for understanding the human experience. Our ultimate goal is to promote science literacy in unaccustomed ways and offer new tools for thinking about our world. By bringing together medicine, science, and humanism through literature we strive to inspire lively discussion and debate.
Among the six novels BLP has published to date, three have received major literary prizes: The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and 2012 Chautauqua Prize winner, The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the New York Times best seller Tinkers, by Paul Harding, received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Our recent nonfiction includes The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America by Jonathan D. Moreno, which has sparked a spirited national conversation about the role that politics plays in scientific progress and Gerald Weissmann’s Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science, which Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel called “a joy for the heart and instructive for the mind.”
BLP’s many “Cinderella stories” have been lauded by the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Crain’s New York Business, Poets & Writers, and other outlets, including Library Journal, which simply stated, “This is a press that knows good books.”
In December 2011, BLP was chosen by Boris Kachka for New York magazine’s annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue:
http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2011/bellevue-publishers/
Twitter: @bellevuepress
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bellevue.literary.press
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Among the six novels BLP has published to date, three have received major literary prizes: The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak was a 2011 National Book Award finalist and 2012 Chautauqua Prize winner, The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner won the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and the New York Times best seller Tinkers, by Paul Harding, received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Our recent nonfiction includes The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America by Jonathan D. Moreno, which has sparked a spirited national conversation about the role that politics plays in scientific progress and Gerald Weissmann’s Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science, which Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel called “a joy for the heart and instructive for the mind.”
BLP’s many “Cinderella stories” have been lauded by the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Crain’s New York Business, Poets & Writers, and other outlets, including Library Journal, which simply stated, “This is a press that knows good books.”
In December 2011, BLP was chosen by Boris Kachka for New York magazine’s annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue:
http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2011/bellevue-publishers/
Twitter: @bellevuepress
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bellevue.literary.press
