Bruce McPherson, Publisher / by Sharon Israel

(Photo Miriam Berkely)

LISTEN to my August 13th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring Bruce McPherson, the founding Director of the award-winning McPherson & Co.- a Literary and Arts Publishing Company, who will present and read from his compelling and award-winning catalog of books.  Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-at-Large, is also featured on the show. Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com.  Visit McPherson & Co  Visit: Pamela Manche Pearce

 Here’s some information about Bruce McPherson and McPherson & Co.In 1974, Bruce McPherson founded McPherson & Company, an independent literary and arts publishing house in Providence, Rhode Island.  He relocated the press three years later to Kingston, N.Y. in the Hudson Valley.  McPherson & Company has been a full-time project since 1984, and has issued roughly 150 editions of more than 100 titles by authors from around the country and around the world. The press specializes in four areas: contemporary fiction (mostly American authors), great “lost” literary works from the Twentieth Century (our Recovered Classics series), non-fiction books dealing with contemporary art, film, aesthetics, and related cultural issues (often presented under the Documentext imprint), and, finally, translations of distinguished works by authors of Italian, Spanish, French, and German fiction and non-fiction. 

 McPherson & Co. was named ForeWord Reviews’ 2010 Independent Publisher of the Year. The press has won numerous other awards including Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Lord Nose Award 2017; NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Fiction 2010: Lord of Misrule; the Bronze IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) Visionary Fiction Prize 2023: Headless World; the Bronze IPPY Literary Fiction Prize 2017: Renato After Alba; Ohioana Prize Finalist 2016: This Earth You'll Come Back To; And, for the novel Sea of Hooks  - the Gold IPPY Literary Fiction Prize 2015 and the PEN CENTER USA Fiction Award 2014.  Sea of Hooks was also CHAUTAUQUA Prize Finalist 2014 and was listed as one of the top 10 books of the year in New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly).