Industry Book publishing Products Books Website www.coralpress.com Founded 2001 Type Privately held company | Genre Musical fiction Services Publishing Founder Robert Dunn Number of employees 3 | |
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Headquarters New York City, New York, United States | ||
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 Independent Publishers Group (IPG).
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
Coral Press books have also been featured on many literary review websites, such as Kirkus Reviews, Foreword Reviews, and Book List Online.
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.
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.