Bloomsbury Review, The


The Bloomsbury Review® is a 27-year-old "Book Magazine" published six times a year in Denver, Colorado, by Owaissa Communications Company, Inc. and distributed nationally and internationally with a total circulation of over 35,000. Focusing on small, regional, national, university, and international presses, it has gained a reputation among literary circles and readers for featuring up-and-coming and little-known authors from a variety of backgrounds. Reviewers from around the world--from United Arab Emirates to Hollywood--bring their particular areas of expertise to bear on the pleasures to be found in new books on art, politics, fiction, poetry, film, and on every other conceivable topic that the mainstream review media may have missed.

The discovery of a new book can pave the way to a literate future for children and young adults as well. The Bloomsbury Review® always features reviews of books to nurture the youthful imagination.

Interviews with established authors as well as those on the rise, round out the appeal of The Bloomsbury Review® making it a must-read for anyone in the literary know. Gene Luen Yang, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Dalai Lama, Alice Walker, Thomas McGuane, Jane Hirshfield, Charles Simic, Barry Lopez, Linda Hogan, Edwidge Danticat, Bill Moyers, Kinky Friedman, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ana Castillo, Sherman Alexie, Bebe Moore Campbell, Chris Abani, Isabel Allende, J.P. Donleavy, Robert Bly, Mary Oliver, Walter Mosley, Barbara Kingsolver, Noam Chomsky, and T.C. Boyle are among the writers who have shared their wisdom and humor with the magazine's readers.

In 2006, The Bloomsbury Review® celebrated 25 years of publishing. Independent, eclectic, and fresh, The Bloomsbury Review® reviews the often overlooked books from major publishers as well as those from small, university, and new presses beginning to make their mark on the literary scene.

The quality and longevity of The Bloomsbury Review® prompted Pat Schroeder, President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, to remark:“The 25th Anniversary of The Bloomsbury Review® is cause for celebration by anyone who cares about books and literature. At a time when newspapers and magazines across the country are cutting back on their book review pages, The Bloomsbury Review® is a national treasure.”

Tom Auer (who died in 2001) is the publisher and editor-in-chief in absentia. Tom's sister, Marilyn Auer, carries on Tom's dream as the current publisher and editor-in-chief. Tom launched the idea of a review magazine that would focus on those many quality titles lost in the bustle of mainstream buzz and budgets--a place where fine authors and fine books would receive the attention they so richly deserve. Readers turn to The Bloomsbury Review® for those hidden publishing gems they know they won’t find reviewed elsewhere, as well as for clever, entertaining, and thoughtful critical writing.