Coral Press

Coral Press is a small, New York City-based independent publisher of musical fiction. Founded in 2001 by Robert Dunn, it has a very specific author clientele and deals solely in books of musical fiction. Coral Press has been written up in Publishers Weekly as the preeminent publisher of musical fiction, and its efforts to create mus-fi as a new literary genre are bearing fruit. Books are distributed by Thomson Shore Distribution.

Coral Press
TypePrivate
IndustryBook publishing
GenreMusical fiction
Founded2001
FounderRobert Dunn
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, United States
ProductsBooks
ServicesPublishing
Number of employees
3
Websitewww.coralpress.com

Novels include:

Many of the books have received their due share of critical praise, including:

"Pink Cadillac brings both of its milieus, the present world of record collecting and its 1950s Memphis setting, to brilliantly vivid life. Dunn has a remarkable ear for the nuances of dialogue, and he never misses a note. His astonishing portrayal of Thomas "Bearcat" Jackson, as a brilliant, flawed, larger-than-life tragic hero is achingly real." —Karen McCullough, Scribes World[4]

Coral Press books have also been featured on many literary review websites, such as Kirkus Reviews,[5][6][7] Foreword Reviews,[8][9] and Book List Online.[10][11]

In 2011, Coral Press established Coral Press Arts, to publish photobooks. The first book was Robert Dunn's OWS, about Occupy Wall Street. Photos from that book were in an International Center of Photography show in 2012. Later books include Dunn's ongoing series exploring the zone between the real and the imagined, Angel Parade #1 and #2, and Angel Parade #3 and #4. David Fratkin's WHYDON'TYOUBEMYF*CKINGVALENTINE came out in 2012, as well as Dunn's Meeting Robert Frank. All Coral Press Arts photobooks are in the permanent collection of the International Center of Photography library.[12]

Coral Press, blending writing and music, is also an innovator in transmedia. The book trailer for its novel Meet the Annas is the Squidoo example book trailer. A project is under way to produce an album of recordings celebrating Dyson Burnette, the singer-songwriter at the heart of the novel Stations of the Cross.

References
  1. "Coral Press | LibraryThing for Publishers". Librarything.com. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  2. "Our Books". Coral Press. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  3. Archived October 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Dunn, Robert (2012-09-26). "Pink Cadillac". ReadingGroupGuides.com. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  5. Dunn, Robert (2001-09-15). "PINK CADILLAC by Robert Dunn | Kirkus". Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  6. Dunn, Robert (2003-09-01). "CUTTING TIME by Robert Dunn | Kirkus". Kirkusreviews.com. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  7. "LONE STAR ICE AND FIRE by L.E. Brady | Kirkus". Kirkusreviews.com. 2004-06-15. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  8. "Book Review: Cutting Time (9780970829320) — Foreword Reviews". Forewordreviews.com. 2003-12-16. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  9. "Book Review: Meet the Annas (9780970829351) — Foreword Reviews". Forewordreviews.com. 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  10. "Cutting Time: A Novel of the Blues, by Robert Dunn". Booklist Online. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  11. "Stations of the Cross, by Robert Dunn". Booklist Online. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  12. "Coral Press Arts". Coral Press Arts. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
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