Arcade Publishing
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| Parent company | Skyhorse Publishing |
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| Founded | 1988 |
| Founder | Richard Seaver and Jeannette Seaver |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www.arcadepub.com |
Arcade Publishing is an independent trade publishing company that started in 1988 in New York, USA. They are publishers of American and world fiction and non-fiction. Their list of authors has included Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Ismail Kadare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Octavio Paz, Nuruddin Farah, Natalia Ginzburg, John Irving, Andreï Makine, Robert Nye, Jon Papernick, David Adams Richards, Mo Yan, Robert McLiam Wilson, E. M. Cioran, Ingmar Bergman, Alistair Cooke, Len Fisher, Simone de Beauvoir, Tim Parks, Leo Tolstoy, Shashi Tharoor, Jean Hélion, and Malcolm X. Notable titles have included Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed, The Black Dahlia Avenger, The Monkey Grammarian, and the Marquis de Sade's The Mystified Magistrate.
The company was started and run by Richard Seaver and his wife Jeannette. [1] The company declared bankruptcy shortly after Seaver's death in 2009, and was acquired by Skyhorse Publishing in 2010. [2]
In 2011, Arcade was relaunched as an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, where it continues to acquire and publish literary fiction and non-fiction. In addition to its main list, Arcade now also issues Arcade Artists & Art, a series featuring books by and about artists, particularly of the modern period. Jeannette Seaver currently serves as a consulting editor in the acquisition and curation of upcoming lists.
Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli, became a New York Times bestseller in 2011. [1]
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- ^ a b Weber, Bruce (January 7, 2009). "Richard Seaver, Publisher, Dies at 82". New York Times.
- ^ Publishers Weekly (July 27, 2010). "Skyhorse Takes Arcade". Publishers Weekly.
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