MedSpeak Illuminated author François I. Luks speaks on the origins of medical illustration, its relationship to comics, and “the ninth art.”
Enter the ninth art. The term originated in the 1960s in France, where it is still used to describe the world of comics and graphic novels (the six classical arts, according to Hegel’s Aesthetics, were architecture, sculpture, painting, […]

Go To Health media interviews Kathleen O’Shea, author of So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine Through Literature.
“Her collection of essays are profoundly helpful for sufferers of migraine, those who love and care for them, and even the medical doctors who specialize in neurology and headaches.  Literature puts into words what many migraineurs have […]

Green Linden Press gives us this informative interview with Farnaz Fatemi author of Sister Tongueزبان خواهر, Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.
“There is a wonderful formal balance to Sister Tongue زبان خواهر. The majority of the poems are short lyrics, but throughout the book are longer, essay-like vignettes or prose poems—imagistic […]

Here’s a nice review from Emerging Civil War for Slavery: Interpreting The Civil War edited by Aaron Astor and Thomas C. Buchanan.
“… an impressive volume that succinctly explores the changing interpretations of slavery. This is not so much a history of American slavery as it is a history of how it has been written about.”—Emerging Civil War
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Congratulations to George R. Dekle Sr.! His book, The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare, has been selected as finalist in the 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards in Regional Non-Fiction: Northeast category.
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We’re pleased to see a starred review in Publishers Weekly Poetry Review for Farnaz Fatemi’s beautiful book, Sister Tongue, the Wick Poetry Center’s First Book Award winner for 2021! Well done Farnaz!

“Fatemi makes language think aloud and sing in these ruminative, beautiful poems.”—Publishers Weekly
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Congratulations to Anneliese Abbott. Her book Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Freinds of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture was named finalist in the 2022 Ohioana Book Awards. She’s competing in the About Ohio or an Ohioan category.
“The Ohioana Library is pleased to announce the finalists for the 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards. First […]

We’re pleased to learn that Peter Grybauskas has been nominated for a Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies for his book A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas. Congratulations and good luck Peter!
“Your first glance at this essential book will make you wonder how you managed without it for so […]

Don’t miss Cold War Secrets author Eileen Welsome in this riveting interview on the True Crime Reporter podcast. “Was it a case of cloak and dagger among spies? Or was it a plain old case of murder driven by lust and the desire for money?”
https://www.truecrimereporter.com/episodes/cold-war-secrets-a-cyanide-murder-mystery-involving-the-fbi-and-cia/

Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association looks at Amber Lehning’s “The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien’s Myth of Wilderness.”

Through insightful close readings of Tolkien’s texts, Lehning’s work complements existing inquiries in ecocritical Tolkien studies and bolsters the general critical agreement that Tolkien’s work presents positive environmental themes and a harmonious, inspiring vision.

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