Panamerica

Panamerica is a home for the American voice in the genres of literary fiction and reportage. We publish books that highlight what is most distinctive about American writing, including the mix of high and low subject matter and voices; deadpan and absurdist humor; the tragedies and triumphs of ordinary people living alongside their neighbors; and the ability to invent and inhabit new worlds.

In fiction, Panamerica works with authors who draw on the range and depth of the American literary tradition to be read by present and future generations of Americans. The company’s literary editor is Gary Fisketjon, who has edited and published a wide range of America’s favorite authors, including Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, and Richard Ford.

In nonfiction, Panamerica writers combine the reportorial aims and methods of newspaper and magazine reporting with the techniques of modern fiction in order to produce lasting books. Using the best work of Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Janet Malcolm, Neil Sheehan, and David Foster Wallace as models, Panamerica encourages authors to forge new language and new ways of telling stories that are adequate to describing the wild new America that is currently being born.