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. |
