The
American Book Review was founded in 1977 by
Ronald Sukenick. According to the novelist
Raymond Federman, in his series reading with
American Book Review in 2007, Sukenick founded the
American Book Review because
The New York Times had stopped reviewing books by "that group labeled experimental writers", and Sukenick wanted to start a "journal where we can review books that everyone is ignoring." Federman and Sukenick both funded the beginning of
American Book Review, with the "American" in the title suggesting that the journal would review books from all across American and not primarily focus on books from New York. Rochelle Ratner served as the publication's longtime executive editor. In 2006, the publication then moved to the University of Houston-Victoria. In 2009, an agreement between
American Book Review and Johns Hopkins University Press allowed online editions of its past issues to be available through the database ProjectMuse. Currently, the
American Book Review is published and distributed by the
University of Nebraska Press. The editorial staff of
ABR includes
Jeffrey R. Di Leo as editor-in-chief and Jake Snyder as managing editor among others. In 2024, the
American Book Review was presented with the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. ==References==