“True crime historian Rob Sberna first heard about Cleveland police officer Jim Simone when he was researching the Ariel Castro case in 2013. Castro had kidnapped three Cleveland girls and held them hostage in is house for years. Simone pulled Castro over for a traffic stop shortly…
Hidden Hemingway author Rob Elder is interviewed on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight”
Watch the interview here.
Roses in December by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers (Kent State University Press, 2015) is a finalist for the 2016 Ohioana Awards in the Fiction category.
The Ohioana Library has announced the 30 finalists for the 2016 Ohioana Book Awards.
The awards, established in 1942, honor Ohio authors in…
Vivian Goodman interviews author Paul Gaston about his new book, Ohio’s Craft Beers, and Ohio’s craft beer boom on WKSU’s Quick Bites.
On May 4, 2016, the Kent State University Bookstore hosted a book signing with authors Greg Wilson (left) and Craig Simpson for their new book Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Simpson and Wilson joined several authors of other May 4th–themed…
Two Kent State University Press books by author Tom Batiuk are nominees for 2016 Eisner awards. Roses in December: A tale of Love and Alzheimers (with Chuck Ayers) and The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 4, are nominees in the “Best Graphic Album—Reprint” and “Best Archival…
Cortney Davis’s memoir of illness and healing, When the Nurse Becomes a Patient, has won the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Gold Medal in the Body, Mind & Spirit category.
The IBPA Awards recognize excellence in book editorial and design and are regarded as one of the…
