NY Observer > James Atlas http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/31938/feed Articles from Observer.com en Amid Financial Turmoil, Atlas & Co. Postponing All Books on Spring '09 List Until Fall http://www.observer.com/2008/media/amid-financial-turmoil-atlas-co-postponing-all-books-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 »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/media/amid-financial-turmoil-atlas-co-postponing-all-books-spring-09-list-until-fall#comments Media James Atlas Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:16:29 -0400 Leon Neyfakh 76423 at http://www.observer.com Atlas Navigates Publishing World by Branding His House http://www.observer.com/2007/atlas-navigates-publishing-world-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 »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/atlas-navigates-publishing-world-branding-his-house#comments Arts & Culture James Atlas Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:07:36 -0500 Gillian Reagan 60138 at http://www.observer.com Atlas Plugged! Indy Publisher Takes On Spineless Giants http://www.observer.com/2007/brand-new-independent-publisher-challenges-conventional-wisdom-how-sell-books

Inspired by European publishers, renegade hopes to sell books on his house's good name.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2007/brand-new-independent-publisher-challenges-conventional-wisdom-how-sell-books#comments Media James Atlas Jonathan Galassi Knopf Penguin Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:12:28 -0500 Leon Neyfakh 60118 at http://www.observer.com The Critic as Pugilist, Champion of High Art http://www.observer.com/node/36462 The cultural critic Lee Siegel is known as something of a terror for his slashing, razor-sharp essay  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/36462#comments Arts & Culture James Atlas Lee Siegel Richard Yates Saul Bellow Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500 Matthew Price 36462 at http://www.observer.com Mr. Bellow's Planet: Amis, McEwan Snatch Saul's Herring Soul http://www.observer.com/node/50665 One opened The New York Times expectantly, two days after Saul Bellow's death, ready for the Op-Ed t  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/50665#comments Media Ian McEwan James Atlas Martin Amis Saul Bellow Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:00:00 -0400 James Kaplan 50665 at http://www.observer.com Saul Bellow (1915-2005) http://www.observer.com/2005/saul-bellow-1915-2005 Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/2005/saul-bellow-1915-2005#comments Media James Atlas Joe Serrins Lindsay Lohan Saul Bellow Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:00 -0400 I-Huei Go, Raquel Hecker, Rebecca Dana, Ben Smith and Marcus Baram 50631 at http://www.observer.com Poor, Fractured Atlas Shoulders Failure and Envy http://www.observer.com/node/50458 My Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale, by James Atlas. HarperCollins, 240 pages, $25.95.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/50458#comments Arts & Culture James Atlas Manhattan The New York Times Company Tina Brown Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:00:00 -0500 Alexandra Jacobs 50458 at http://www.observer.com Abbreviated Span of 'Penguin Lives': Viking Pulls Out http://www.observer.com/node/46189 The Penguin Lives boutique biography series-a collaboration between Viking publishing, former New Yo  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/46189#comments Media Greg Kinnear James Atlas Mike Miller Stephen Glass Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:00:00 -0400 Sridhar Pappu 46189 at http://www.observer.com Bellow, Marvelous, Monstrous, Scores the Right Biographer http://www.observer.com/node/43543 Bellow: A Biography , by James Atlas.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/43543#comments Arts & Culture Chicago James Atlas Moses Herzog Saul Bellow Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:00:00 -0400 James Kaplan 43543 at http://www.observer.com He Who Wears Failure Shoes Succeeds http://www.observer.com/node/40682 The excerpt from Jonathan Franzen's forthcoming third novel that appears in the spring issue of Conj  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/40682#comments Francine Prose James Atlas James Wilcox Jonathan Franzen Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:00:00 -0400 David Bowman 40682 at http://www.observer.com