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Small Press Spotlight: Grove Atlantic
Jul. 21st, 2021 03:06 amWho are they?
In their own words: "An independent literary publisher since 1917."
Usually I use the first snippet of a publisher's 'About' section, but the 'Our Story' is a timeline, and the 'Our Imprints' section isn't the overview I usually use for this part, so. The tagline it is!
Grove Atlantic is a literary publisher with a lot of notable authors and books in its catalogue. It has six imprints: Grove Press, which publishes literature, poetry, drama, translated fiction, and nonfiction; Atlantic Monthly Press, which...also publishes literature?; Black Cat, which publishes mass market paperback versions of classics; Grove Press UK, for UK publishing; The Mysterious Press, now defunct; and Roxanne Gay Press, announced in May 2021, which will publish a limited number of titles handled by Roxanne Gay.
Website and Store
The website is pretty clean looking, with spotlights on different authors and books. You can browse by category, imprint, and theme, which is pretty cool.
The store has links to buy the books in hardback, paperback, and ebook versions, all through third-party sellers rather than through the publisher itself. It's easy to navigate, though, with the cover, title, and author all visible as you go through the massive catalogue.
Have I heard of/read any of their books?
Boy, howdy. Just going to throw out a few: Earthlings and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; The Human Zoo by Sabina Murray; Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W Montiz; Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson; The Bird King by G Willow Wilson; and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. And all that is just in the past few years.
Anything else?
They have a lot going on! Definitely one of the bigger 'small presses' on here.
In their own words: "An independent literary publisher since 1917."
Usually I use the first snippet of a publisher's 'About' section, but the 'Our Story' is a timeline, and the 'Our Imprints' section isn't the overview I usually use for this part, so. The tagline it is!
Grove Atlantic is a literary publisher with a lot of notable authors and books in its catalogue. It has six imprints: Grove Press, which publishes literature, poetry, drama, translated fiction, and nonfiction; Atlantic Monthly Press, which...also publishes literature?; Black Cat, which publishes mass market paperback versions of classics; Grove Press UK, for UK publishing; The Mysterious Press, now defunct; and Roxanne Gay Press, announced in May 2021, which will publish a limited number of titles handled by Roxanne Gay.
Website and Store
The website is pretty clean looking, with spotlights on different authors and books. You can browse by category, imprint, and theme, which is pretty cool.
The store has links to buy the books in hardback, paperback, and ebook versions, all through third-party sellers rather than through the publisher itself. It's easy to navigate, though, with the cover, title, and author all visible as you go through the massive catalogue.
Have I heard of/read any of their books?
Boy, howdy. Just going to throw out a few: Earthlings and Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; The Human Zoo by Sabina Murray; Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W Montiz; Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson; The Bird King by G Willow Wilson; and Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. And all that is just in the past few years.
Anything else?
They have a lot going on! Definitely one of the bigger 'small presses' on here.
