The Atlantic, a literary vacation spot since its founding 165 years in the past as {a magazine} of “Literature, Artwork, and Politics,” is right now unveiling a dramatically expanded Books part dedicated to essays, criticism, reporting, authentic fiction, poetry, and ebook suggestions, and asserting a first-of-its-kind ebook imprint referred to as Atlantic Editions in partnership with the unbiased writer Zando. Atlantic Editions will publish a collection of books by Atlantic writers, every on a single and well timed subject.
Main the Books relaunch right now is “Chasing Joan Didion,” the June cowl story, by employees author Caitlin Flanagan, who sought to know Didion’s writerly powers by visiting a few of the homes in California the place she lived. Flanagan and deputy editor Jane Yong Kim will discuss concerning the cowl story throughout a digital occasion Thursday, Could 19, at 12 p.m. ET. (Register right here.) That is the primary in a brand new collection of digital Ebook occasions referred to as The Atlantic Reads. The Atlantic’s Summer season Studying Information, additionally revealed right now, matches readers with our writers’ and editors’ suggestions for what to learn this summer time, primarily based in your temper.
“The Atlantic is a writers’ collective, and for 165 years we now have been {a magazine} for anybody who loves studying and literature,” stated Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic’s government editor. “Particularly in a second of super world upheaval, we’d like books to know ourselves and each other. We’d like books to assist promote the free and open trade of concepts. And we’d like them as a result of they put extra magnificence into the world.”
The Atlantic Editions imprint with Zando attracts from this wealthy literary historical past and represents a brand new venue for publishing Atlantic writers. The books underneath the imprint will characteristic long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, every dedicated to a single subject, and can draw from up to date articles or traditional storytelling from the journal’s wealthy archive. The primary books––set to publish in January 2023––are from employees writers Megan Garber, On Misdirection; Sophie Gilbert (a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism), On Womanhood; and senior editor Lenika Cruz, On BTS. They may supply their definitive writing on, respectively, our fractured consideration, feminism, and the cultural affect of the world’s largest band. Workers author Kaitlyn Tiffany and contributing author Lizzie Plaugic, who collectively write the favored publication Well-known Folks, may also launch a set for Atlantic Editions. The books are being designed by The Atlantic’s artwork director Oliver Munday.
“This thrilling partnership permits us to do what all of us love a lot: share vital concepts, arguments, and tales with readers in all places. As a brand new writer on the scene, it’s a privilege for us at Zando to workforce up with this unparalleled American literary establishment to create Atlantic Editions and help the proficient Atlantic writers and their work wherever books are bought,” stated Molly Stern, Zando’s founder and chief government.
By means of this partnership, Zando and The Atlantic search to convey these tales to a wider viewers by pricing the books at an reasonably priced price and making them accessible as particular person, definitive works. The partnership was originated by Atlantic Ventures, a business-development group that works to foster cultural tasks rooted within the journal’s most consequential journalism.
Zando was created by Stern to attach inspiring authors to the audiences they deserve, and to assist readers discover new books to like. Zando is publishing its first three titles this spring––All of the Secrets and techniques of the World, by Steve Almond; The Odyssey, by Lara Williams; and Patricia Desires to Cuddle, by Samantha Allen––and has introduced publishing partnerships with Gillian Flynn, Lena Waithe, John Legend, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Books and literature are foundational to The Atlantic’s mission, courting again to its founding by a collective of America’s best celebrated transcendentalist writers in Boston in 1857. Right this moment, protection is led by Kim, working alongside Ann Hulbert, the literary editor of the print journal, and senior editor Gal Beckerman, who joined The Atlantic this yr from The New York Occasions Ebook Assessment.
In an editor’s be aware introducing the expanded Books part, Kim writes: “Studying can present us, anew, the forces that form our establishments, our beliefs, and our sense of self. It will probably develop the way in which we have a look at the world round us. At The Atlantic, our intention has been, and will probably be, to introduce readers to such books, previous and new, and to interact with the concepts in them critically and inquisitively.”
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