BRONX RIVER PRESS
Bronx River Press is a new
publisher whose mission is to publish
high-quality trade paperback editions of challenging
but readable contemporary fiction.
A SHORT MANIFESTO
We believe that readers of serious fiction are
underserved by the current publishing climate. They
seemingly have only two choices: (a) tired traditional
narratives driven primarily by character psychology or
(b) experimental work that abandons all notions of
plot, character and setting in favor of lingual
pyrotechnics. In the former type of book, nothing much
happens, but you really become intimate (perhaps
too intimate) with a character's inner desires.
As for the latter, when have you truly enjoyed
reading stream-of-consciousness spew (be honest)?
We believe that there is a third way that rejects
each style's dominant premise. We firmly believe:
It should be possible to read a well-told
story containing intellectually satisfying subject
matter.
There ought to be characters who engage the
world rather than merely gaze at their navels.
There can be formal invention without
obscuring essential story elements.
We believe our books will address the demand for a
different kind of fiction than what is currently being
published. And we believe there will be immense reader
interest in what we do.
ABOUT OUR NAME
We are a press based in the Bronx, New York. For
those unfamiliar with our borough, the Bronx is a study
in contrasts. On one hand, the Bronx is an industrial
center that defines in many people's minds what the
"inner city" looks like. On the other hand, the Bronx
contains more park land and green space than any other
borough in New York City. Bronx River Press aims to
publish fiction that similarly contains multitudes (to
paraphrase Walt Whitman, though he was based in
Brooklyn). Authors who have called the Bronx home
include Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser,
Herman Wouk, E.L. Doctorow, Don Delillo and Richard
Price, all of whom would have made ideal Bronx River
Press authors.
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