Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Making My Pitch: A … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Making My Pitch!
Books The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic Averell “Ace” Smith Article on the author and book in the Los Angeles Times: “While baseball is at the heart of the book, The Pitcher and the … Continue reading News and Reviews
Robertson Allen is an independent scholar and ethnographer who researches digital games, war and violence, and food cultures. His book America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War (Nebraska, 2017) is an ethnographic study based on his years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within … Continue reading America’s Offerings to the Gun Deity
Ross Chambers, author and member of the Friends of the Press, died late last year in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the age of eighty-four. He was a renowned and prolific scholar of modern literature, and a much-loved teacher and mentor. He … Continue reading Remembering Ross Chambers
Books When History is Personal Mimi Schwartz Praise from Kirkus: “Expressive, intimate snapshots of one woman’s life set atop the backdrop of global history.” American Colossus Allen M. Hornblum Review in the Telegraph: “…[an] excellent new biography . … Continue reading News and Reviews
February Staff Reading List UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books where our noses have been buried. The Sense of an … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Golf writer and author Bill Kilpatrick died on Saturday, February 17 at the age of ninety-two according to the Charlotte County Florida Weekly. Kilpatrick wrote articles for magazines such as Parade, Popular Mechanics, Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping, Field & Stream, Esquire, Fly Fishing, and True. Before … Continue reading Remembering Bill Kilpatrick
The Hedgehog & the Fox is a new podcast showcasing interviews with university press authors from around the world. Podcast host George Miller recently spoke with author Rosalyn LaPier about her book Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World … Continue reading Interview with Rosalyn LaPier
Books The Zoo at Night Susan Gubernat Praise from Kenyon Review: “Rising out of experience—painful, beautiful, disruptive—The Zoo at Night offers an unflinching look at an imperfect world underlain with a conviction to hope.” Our Lady of the Artichokes Katherine … Continue reading News and Reviews
The 2018 Winter Olympics is underway in Pyeongchang County, South Korea! A full schedule of events can be found here and some Olympic-inspired reading can be found below. Olympic Collision: The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd by Kyle Keiderling … Continue reading Reading List: Winter Olympics
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