NewPages.com
June 2008 |
"No human thing is more universal than illness, in all its permutations, and no literary publication holds more credibility on the subject than The Bellevue Literary Review." read more |
Poetry Foundation.org
July 2006 |
Toxic sock syndrome. That’s the first thing we noticed when we entered the hospital room. For those gentle readers who are not familiar with such sensory assault, toxic sock syndrome is the clinical term for the rank odor that accompanies damp, fetid feet that have seen more street time than shower time...read more |
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Washington
Post
August 2003
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Bedlam is breaking out once again at Bellevue Hospital's afternoon
clinic, as the late-shows, the unscheduled and the emergency
room's overflows come in search of cures. Crisp-coated interns
and residents try to jump-start the examining room computers
as patients begin to recite their ailments…read more.
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New
York Times
October 2002
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"Just tell me a story," Dr. Danielle Ofri admonishes her medical
students and interns at morning rounds. To Dr. Ofri, an attending
physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, a part-time writer and
the editor in chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, every patient's
history is a mystery story, a narrative that unfolds full of
surprises…read more.
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Poets
& Writers
May 2001
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In September, New York University will debut a new literary
journal-but it won't be from the folks in the literature department.
The Bellevue Literary Review will be published by New York University's
Department of Medicine and the physicians who staff Manhattan's
Bellevue Hospital Center, the oldest public hospital in the
country. And this is just the latest incarnation of what seems
to be a trend: the marriage of medicine and literary arts…read
more.
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MagSampler.com
April 2006 |
The newest literary publication in the MagSampler.com newsstand is a little bit different. It's the Bellevue Literary Review, from New York's famous Bellevue Hospital, and its stories, essays and poetry usually deal in some fashion with mental or physical trauma or disease...read more |
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New
Pages.com
Spring 2004
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The Bellevue Literary Review explores the connective tissue
between the practice of medicine and literature in a way that
is sensitive, surprising, and compassionate. I routinely read
and love the work of this journal, in part because the subject
matter is so intensely personal, the vulnerabilities of illness
and injury, the uncertainties of working with the ill and injured...
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Poets & Writers
May 2004
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Literary journal editors, those underpaid, overworked masters
of small-circulation poetry and fiction magazines, are often
the first to publish a writer who goes on to become the Next
Big Thing in contemporary American literature. In this survey
14 editors [including the Bellevue Literary Review] tell their
stories from the front lines.and offer advice on how to stand
out amid the flux of their overflowing in-boxes. (full text
not online, please see Poets & Writers Magazine.)
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Nursing
Spectrum
May 2004
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Bellevue Hospital in New York City, chartered in 1731, is
the oldest public hospital in the U.S. In 2001, it also became
the first and only hospital to sponsor a literary journal,
the Bellevue Literary Review (BLR). According to its editor,
Dr. Danielle Ofri, the BLR "straddles the world of literature
and medicine, with the implicit assumption that literature…read
more.
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