James Atlas
Amid Financial Turmoil, Atlas & Co. Postponing All Books on Spring '09 List Until Fall
Due to prohibitive financial circumstances, the independent publishing house Atlas & Co. will not be able to publish the books scheduled for its spring 2009 list as planned, and will aim instead to release them the following fall.
Founded just last year by veteran New York editor James Atlas, the house has inspired affection and respect among members of the city's literary community and has published a number of critically acclaimed titles—among them Louis Begley's study of Franz Kafka, The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, and Wojciech Tochman's Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia, which earned a rave review in this coming Sunday's New York Times Book Review. read more »
Atlas Navigates Publishing World by Branding His House
"It's as if the publishing house was an author in its own right," James Atlas told the Observer's Leon Neyfakh for today's article on Atlas & Co.'s quest to brand their books. Doree Shafrir told you, branding is everywhere. read more »
Atlas Plugged! Indy Publisher Takes On Spineless Giants
Inspired by European publishers, renegade hopes to sell books on his house's good name. read more »
The Critic as Pugilist, Champion of High Art
Mr. Bellow's Planet: Amis, McEwan Snatch Saul's Herring Soul
Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
Poor, Fractured Atlas Shoulders Failure and Envy
Abbreviated Span of 'Penguin Lives': Viking Pulls Out
Bellow, Marvelous, Monstrous, Scores the Right Biographer
He Who Wears Failure Shoes Succeeds
Even Brill and Carl Icahn Can't Ruin My Summer
