Happy University Press Week! The university press community amplifies voices, disciplines, and communities. University presses publish authors from around the world and right at home, writing on subjects that are broad, niche, and every level of inquiry in between. Without university … Continue reading University Press Week: The Neighborhood
Happy University Press Week! The university press community amplifies voices, disciplines, and communities. University presses publish authors from around the world and right at home, writing on subjects that are broad, niche, and every level of inquiry in between. Without university … Continue reading University Press Week: Politics
Happy University Press Week! The university press community amplifies voices, disciplines, and communities. University presses publish authors from around the world and right at home, writing on subjects that are broad, niche, and every level of inquiry in between. Without … Continue reading University Press Week: Arts and Culture
Books A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir Sandra Gail Lambert Review in Lambda Literary: “Lambert writes with a studied aloofness and matter-of-fact tone about a body that constantly generates conflict with itself and the world around it. There is a rich practicality … Continue reading News and Reviews
Books Standing Up To Colonial Power: The Livers of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud Renya K. Ramirez Review in Publishers Weekly: “Ramirez (Gender, Belonging, and Native American Women) employs her professional skills as an anthropologist to tell the story … Continue reading News and Reviews
The 1968 Mexico City Olympics came at a moment of unparalleled cultural change in the United States and many Black athletes were placed in a situation that still resonates today: whether or not to use their platform to protest or … Continue reading 50 Years Later: Protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
Books Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing Roger Gilles Feature in the Guardian: “Gilles’s book is a window into a virtually unknown time in women’s sports, and it’s important because it adds to the history of female … Continue reading News and Reviews
Rosemary Sekora is the publicity manager at UNP and not a poet. The New York Times Magazine featured Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. poet laureate and her mission to bring poems to the masses as an antidote to the current toxic … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Poets Supporting Poets
The Heartland Fall Forum is the premiere gathering place for those interested in independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. Hosted jointly by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, the conference represents 12 states and nearly 350 independent bookstores, … Continue reading 2018 Heartland Fall Forum Preview
Awards Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories Venita Blackburn Winner of the 2018 PEN Los Angeles Literary Award in Fiction Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning Julija Šukys Shortlisted for the 2018 Vine Awards for Canadian … Continue reading News and Reviews
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