Bellevue Literary Press has moved from its longtime home in Bellevue Hospital in New York City to new offices in lower Manhattan, in the same building that houses the National Book Foundation and Poets & Writers. The move marks the press's transition from a "project of the New York University School of Medicine to full independence as a nonprofit literary publisher."
"We're looking forward to the nimbleness independence affords us and we remain fully committed to our mission of publishing books that enrich, engage, and provoke lively discussion and debate," said publisher and editorial director Erika Goldman.
BLP was established in 2005 at the NYU School of Medicine, and began publishing titles in 2007. Its aim has been to publish literary fiction and nonfiction "at the intersection of the arts and sciences."
In 2009, the press published Paul Harding's debut novel Tinkers, which went on to win the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was the first independently published Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction since A Confederacy of Dunces in 1981. Next January, BLP will publish a 10th-anniversary edition of Tinkers, featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson.