American Book Review
| Editor | Jeffrey R. Di Leo |
|---|---|
| Categories | Book review |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Publisher | Jeffrey R. Di Leo |
| Founder | Ronald Sukenick |
| Year founded | 1977 |
| Company | University of Houston–Victoria |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Victoria, Texas |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0149-9408 |
The American Book Review is a nonprofit, internationally distributed publication that appears six times a year. ABR specializes in reviews of frequently neglected published works of fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism from small, regional, university, ethnic, avant-garde, and women's presses. ABR as a literary journal aims to project the sense of engagement that writers feel about what is being published. It is edited and produced by writers for writers and the general public and is housed at the University of Houston–Victoria. The online content of ABR is distributed by Project MUSE.
Ronald Sukenick founded the American Book Review in 1977. ABR was one of the first literary journals entirely devoted to reviewing works from independent presses and continues to follow that tradition today.
The American Book Review was designed to offer a unique model for reviewing books, one edited by writers themselves in an effort to reproduce the interest they took in their peers’ works of fiction, poetry, and criticism. This collective approach remained intact while responsibility for producing the journal was assumed by the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1987, then by Illinois State University in 1995, and now by the University of Houston–Victoria.
In November 2006, the editorial aspects of ABR moved from Illinois State University to the University of Houston–Victoria (UHV) under the editorship of Dr. Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Editor and Publisher of ABR and UHV's Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The production elements of ABR were also transferred in September 2007, making UHV the American Book Review’s single host.
Founder: Ronald Sukenick
Publisher: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Editor: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Managing Editor: Jeffrey A. Sartain
Assistant Editor: Lauren A. Pirosko
Publisher Emeritus: Charles B. Harris
Associate Editors: Mark Amerika, R.M. Berry, C. S. Giscombe, Dinda L. Gorlée, Charles R. Johnson, Cris Mazza, Larry McCaffery, Christina Milletti, Doug Nufer, Kevin Prufer, John Tytell, Barry Wallenstein, Tom Williams, Eric Miles Williamson
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