North Atlantic Books

North Atlantic Books is the publisher of the first installment of the New York Times bestselling children's book Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, with a 10th anniversary edition of the book published in August 2011.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=86256&page=1|title='Farting Dog' Hits Best-Seller List|last=Chen|first=Barbara|publisher=ABC News|date=2 October 2010|access-date=2013-08-24}} The publisher is also credited with publishing the complete thirteen-volume series of short stories from Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon.{{cite web|url=http://www.theodoresturgeontrust.com/writings.html |title=Writings |publisher=The Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust |access-date=2013-08-24}} Other notable works from North Atlantic include Jon Klimos's Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources (1998), described by Newsweek as "the sacred text on channeling,"{{cite web|url=http://www.jonklimo.com/Channeling.htm |title=Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources |publisher=JonKlimo.com |access-date=2013-08-24}} and Patrick Doud's The Winnitok Tales, a series the Midwest Book Review praised for "memorable characters, poetic language, and driving narrative to these timeless tales that recall the classic epic adventure stories."{{cite web|url=http://blogs.buffalonews.com/gusto/2011/07/fantasy-author-patrick-doud-at-clarence-barnes-nobel-saturday.html |title=Fantasy author Patrick Doud at Clarence Barnes & Noble Saturday |last=Pohl |first=R.D. |publisher=The Buffalo News |date=15 July 2011 |access-date=2013-08-24}} North Atlantic has published all four volumes of poetry by Pushcart Prize-winner BJ Ward. Additionally, North Atlantic books has published a series of five major volumes on teaching yoga and yoga therapy by Mark Stephens, including four textbooks, Teaching Yoga, Yoga Sequencing, Yoga Adjustments, and Yoga Therapy, and Yoga for Better Sleep. {{cite web|title=Contact Us|url=http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/store/contact.html|access-date=2015-02-14|publisher=North Atlantic Books}}

A major motion picture adaptation of When the Game Stands Tall (2003), starring Jim Caviezel, Laura Dern, Michael Chiklis and Alexander Ludwig was scheduled to be released in fall 2014.{{clarify|date=December 2018|reason=Is this based on a related book? Relevance is unclear.}}

Many notable personalities such as Mariel Hemingway,{{cite book|last=Stephens|first=Mark; foreword by Mariel Hemingway|title=Teaching Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide for Yoga Teachers and Trainers, second edition|year=2024|publisher=North Atlantic Books|isbn=9781623178819}} Oliver Sacks,{{cite book|last=Sacks|first=Mike Jay; foreword by Oliver|title=A visionary madness : the case of James Tilly Matthews and the influencing machine|year=2014|publisher=North Atlantic Books|isbn=978-1583947173}} Henry Louis Gates Jr.,{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Cecil Jr.|title=The life & loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger: a novel|year=2008|publisher=Frog Books|location=Berkeley, Calif.|isbn=978-1583942109}} Sally Kempton,{{cite book|last=Stephens|first=Mark; foreword by Sally Kempton|title=Yoga for Better Sleep: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science|year=2019|publisher=North Atlantic Books|isbn=978-1623173630

}} and Nancy Pelosi{{cite book|editor=Saul Bloom|title=Hidden casualties : environmental, health and political consequences of the Persian Gulf War|year=1994|publisher=North Atlantic Books|location=San Francisco, CA|isbn=978-1556431630|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hiddencasualties0000unse}} have contributed forewords to North Atlantic titles, and the publisher counts Thich Nhat Hanh,{{cite book|last=Holiday|first=Linda|title=Journey to the heart of aikido : the teachings of Motomichi Anno sensei|isbn=978-1583946596|year=2013|publisher=North Atlantic Books }} Noam Chomsky,{{cite book|last=Reed|first=David Matlin |others=foreword by Ishmael|title=Prisons : inside the new America : from Vernooykill Creek to Abu Ghraib|year=2004|publisher=North Atlantic Books|location=Berkeley, Calif.|isbn=978-1556435492|edition=2.}} and Howard Zinn among those who have endorsed titles.

According to filmmaker, author, and performer Miranda July, Grossinger and Hough's daughter, she and her brother were part of the company's early operations, which included "packing Jiffy bags with books for shipment."{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 | work=The New York Times | first=Katrina | last=Onstad | title=Miranda July, The Make-Believer | date=14 July 2011}} July claims her upbringing, North Atlantic Books' presence specifically, instilled in her a love of writing "that is at the basis of all the things that I do."{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/08/17/me-and-you-and-miranda-july-and-berkeley/ |title=Me and You and Miranda July and Berkeley |last=Dinkelspiel |first=Frances |author-link=Frances Dinkelspiel |publisher=Berkeleyside |date=17 August 2011 |access-date=2013-08-24}}

Bestselling author and writer Jonathan Lethem has also been tied to North Atlantic Books as the publisher's first paid employee, and later provided an introduction for Theodore Sturgeon's book The Man Who Lost the Sea.{{cite web|url=http://www.jonathanlethem.com/bibliography.html |title=Bibliography |publisher=JonathanLethem.com |access-date=2013-08-24}}

• 2004: BJ Ward was awarded the Pushcart Prize for his poem "Roy Orbison's Last Three Notes."{{cite book|editor=Bill Henderson|title=The Pushcart prize 2004 XXVIII : best of the small presses|year=2004|publisher=Pushcart Press|location=Wainscott, N.Y.|isbn=978-1888889376|edition=28th|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/pushcartprizexxv00push_1}}
• 2008: The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award was given to Cecil Brown for Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department?: The Disappearance of Black Americans from Our Universities.{{cite web|title=PEN Oakland Awards|url=http://www.penoakland.com/PEN-Oakland-Awards.html|access-date=19 December 2013|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702223047/http://www.penoakland.com/PEN-Oakland-Awards.html|archive-date=2 July 2014}}
• 2008: Phoebe Gloeckner, author of A Child's Life and Other Stories and Diary of a Teenage Girl, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation http://www.gf.org/fellows/5443-phoebe-gloeckner
• 2011: Publishers Weekly listed North Atlantic Books as a "Top 10 Fastest Growing Indie Publisher."{{cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/46361-go-your-own-way.html |title=Go Your Own Way |publisher=Publishers Weekly |date=7 March 2011 |access-date=2013-08-24}}
• 2011: Endless Path by Rafe Martin received a Storytelling World Resource Award in the Storytelling Collection category.{{cite web|url=http://www.storytellingworld.com/2011/ |title=2011 Storytelling World Resource Awards |publisher=Storytelling World |access-date=2013-08-24}}
• 2011: Noach Dzmura, editor of Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, received the Lambda Literary Award for the best nonfiction piece in the Transgender category.{{cite web|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/05/27/23rd-annual-lambda-literary-award-winners/ |title=23rd Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners |publisher=Lambda Literary |date=27 May 2011 |access-date=2013-08-24}}
• 2011: Keep Your Wives Away From Them, an anthology edited by Miryam Kabakov, received a Golden Crown Literary Award in the Anthology category.{{cite web|url=http://goldencrown.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1159337 |title=Award Winners of 2011 |publisher=Golden Crown Literary Society |access-date=2013-08-24}}2012: Publishers Weekly featured North Atlantic Books in its annual "Mind, Body, Spirit" issue, noting, "As NAB approaches its 40th anniversary,... it continues to evolve within the body, mind, and spirit segment,... keep pace with changing tastes,... expand the reach of its established authors through new formats," and engage its audience through "the new NAB Communities interactive social network and web journal."{{cite news|last=Werris|first=Wendy|date=Sep 28, 2012|title=North Atlantic Books Transforms with the Times|newspaper=Publishers Weekly|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/54169-north-atlantic-books-transforms-with-the-times.html|access-date=16 October 2012}}
• 2013: The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award was given to Christopher Wagstaff for A Poet's Mind: Collected Interviews of Robert Duncan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.penoakland.com/PEN-Oakland-Awards.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702223047/http://www.penoakland.com/PEN-Oakland-Awards.html|url-status=usurped|title=Pen Oakland awards|archivedate=July 2, 2014}}

Launched in 2011, Evolver Editions is an imprint of North Atlantic Books presenting voices of the transformation movement of "psychic evolution," a spiritual counterculture that explores the concept of consciousness. The imprint is a collaboration between North Atlantic Books and Evolver LLC, which publishes the online magazine Reality Sandwich and online social network Evolver.net.{{cite web|url = http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/north-atlantic-books-forms-evolver-books-imprint_b12563/|title = North Atlantic Books Forms Evolver Books Imprint|publisher = Mediabistro.com|last = Yin|first = Maryann|date = 3 September 2010|access-date = 2013-08-24|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111015045931/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/north-atlantic-books-forms-evolver-books-imprint_b12563|archive-date = 2011-10-15}} Topics covered by Evolver Editions' authors include shamanism, environmental design, theories in cosmology, and strategies for political organizing.{{cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/44350-north-atlantic-books-launches-evolver-editions.html |title=North Atlantic Books Launches Evolver Editions |publisher=Publishers Weekly |last=Andriani |first=Lynn |date=2 September 2010 |access-date=2013-08-24}} Key authors include Daniel Pinchbeck, José Argüelles (organizer of the 1987 Harmonic Convergence),{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=José Argüelles, New Ager Focused on Time, Dies at 72|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/us/03arguelles.html?_r=0|access-date=22 October 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 2, 2011}} Tom Atlee, and Charles Eisenstein.{{cite news|last=Trachten|first=Rachel|title=Uncommon Exchange: Doug Reil serves up a radical idea in food sharing|url=http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/fall-2012/uncommon-exchange.htm|access-date=16 October 2012|newspaper=Edible Magazine (East Bay)|date=Fall 2012}}

Blue Snake Books was founded in 2005 as a dedicated martial arts imprint of North Atlantic Books,{{cite web |url=http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/store/profile.html |title=Company Profile |publisher=North Atlantic Books |access-date=2013-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130915050656/http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/store/profile.html |archive-date=2013-09-15 }} though the company has been publishing martial arts titles for more than 25 years.{{cite web|url=http://www.martialedge.net/definition/organisation/blue-snake-books/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724033417/http://www.martialedge.net/definition/organisation/blue-snake-books/ |archive-date=24 July 2010 |title=Blue Snake Books |access-date=2013-08-24}} Disciplines of martial arts featured include capoeira, karate, muay thai, tai chi, bagua, judo, and jujutsu.{{cite web|url=http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/bluesnake/|title=Blue Snake Books|publisher=North Atlantic Books|access-date=2013-08-24}} Blue Snake Books authors include tai chi master Bruce Frantzis.

While Grossinger was a student at Amherst College and Hough was at Smith College in Massachusetts, they founded North Atlantic Books' progenitor Io Magazine,{{cite web|title=Io Magazine|url=http://www.lindyhough.com/writing/io-magazine|access-date=2013-08-24|publisher=LindyHough.com}} an alternative college literary magazine in 1964, featuring work from Robert Kelly, Charles Stein, and Nels Richardson, among others. Over the next decade, Io became a counter-cultural journal mixing literature, science, and history, as it came out of Michigan, Maine, and Vermont with issues such as "Alchemy", "Doctrine of Signatures", "Ethnoastronomy", "Oecology", "Dreams", "Earth Geography", and "The Olson-Melville Sourcebooks". Io is credited with publishing early works by Stephen King (his poem, "Brooklyn August," was featured in Io Issue #10{{cite web|title=Io Magazine #10: Baseball Issue w/ Brooklyn August (poem) by Stephen King|website=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/Io-Magazine-10-Baseball-Brooklyn/dp/B000UQS8JE|access-date=2013-08-24}}), Jayne Anne Phillips, poets Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Ed Sanders, Diane di Prima, as well as the work of writers including David Wilk, Rob Brezsny, and Phoebe Gloeckner.

In 2009, North Atlantic books created the Io Poetry Series,{{cite web|last=Karp|first=Evan|date=29 March 2011|title=Lindy Hough: Wild Horses Lassoing Wild Dreams|url=http://litseen.com/?p=2134|access-date=2013-08-24|publisher=Litseen.com}} featuring collections from under-recognized voices in American poetry. Featured poets include Gerrit Lansing, Kenneth Irby, Lindy Hough, and Lenore Kandel.{{cite web|last=Dinkelspiel|first=Frances|date=11 July 2011|title=Berkeley poet draws on life and locale for inspiration|url=http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/07/11/berkeley-poets-draws-on-life-and-locale-for-inspiration/|access-date=2013-08-24|publisher=Berkeleyside}}{{cite web|last=Karp|first=Evan|date=12 April 2011|title=Veteran Publisher and Writer Lindy Hough Pursues Artistic Vision After More than 40 Years|url=http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/04/veteran_publisher_and_writer_l.php|access-date=2013-08-24|publisher=SF Weekly}} In 2010, Kenneth Irby's Io Poetry Series book The Intent On received the Poetry Society of America's 2010 Shelley Memorial Award.{{cite web|title=Shelley Winners|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/shelley_winners/|access-date=2013-08-24|publisher=Poetry Society of America}} In 2012, North Atlantic Books published Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel, which included several never-before-published poems by the Beat Generation writer and an introduction by poet Diane di Prima. In 2013, it released Catching Light, a collection featuring many never-before published poems by Joanna McClure and a foreword by Michael McClure.{{cite book|last=McClure|first=Joanna|title=Catching light : collected poems of Joanna McClure|publisher=North Atlantic Books|others=Christopher Wagstaff (introduction)|year=2013|isbn=9781583946138|location=Berkeley, California}}

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